CINCINNATI, OH – February 10, 2014 —Sunset Players is pleased to announce its 35th season of performances at the Arts Center at Dunham.
“For our 35th season, we will feature a mix of shows, including a musical, comedy and mystery to entertain our audience,” said John Wesseling, president of Sunset Players. “Sunset Players will continue its special summer production with the award-winning dark comedy, Clybourne Park.”
The 2014-2015 Sunset Players season line-up is:
Addams Family – A New Musical, book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, music/lyrics by Andrew Lippa. Performances in October 2014.
In its regional community theater premiere, the musical is a creepy, spooky and kooky love story—Addams Family style. As Wednesday Addams is all grown up and falls in love with a normal young man from a respectable family. Chaos ensues as the Addams Family tries to host a normal dinner for the young man’s family. Join Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester and the whole Addams Family in this hilarious, finger snapping good show.
Aladdin, by William Glennon. Performances in December 2014.
The annual holiday children’s show goes to a faraway land in the East where we meet Aladdin and his friends, all of whom have an eye for adventure. Filled with spells, potions and reversals of fortune, Aladdin discovers the magic of the lamp and his love for the Princess!
A Nice Family Gathering, by Phil Olson. Performances in February 2015.
Funny and touching, A Nice Family Gathering is a ghostly love story about a man who loved his wife so much, he almost told her before he died. Now he’s a ghost on a mission, and his son Carl is the unlikely messenger on Thanksgiving Day. When a date for Mom arrives for dinner, bombshell announcements are made, hormones are out of whack, and hilarity ensues.
Wait Until Dark, by Frederick Knott. Performances in May 2015.
Three sinister con men meet their match as they search for a mysterious doll, in the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and his blind wife, Susy. Sam unknowingly transported the doll across the Canadian border, not knowing what was sewn inside. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues with Susy turning to her one advantage, the darkness, to outmaneuver everyone until the game ends.
Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris. Performances in July 2015.
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award, Clybourne Park is a satirical play about race, real estate and communication set in two acts that are fifty years apart. Act one takes place in 1959 with nervous community leaders trying to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day in a now predominantly African-American neighborhood that is battling to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
Tickets remain on sale for the remaining 2013-2014 season. Performance include:
– The Hallelujah Girls by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. Show Dates: February 21, 22, 28, March 1, 2, 6, 7 & 8.
When the feisty women friends of Eden Falls, Georgia, decide to shake up their lives after the loss of a dear friend, comedy ensues.
– The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow and John Buchan. Show dates: May 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16 & 17.
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel and a dash of Monty Python and you have the hysterical thriller that will keep you in your seat and in stitches.
– Next to Normal by Tom Kitt, Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Show dates: July 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25 & 26.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical explores how one suburban family copes with crisis and mental illness.
All shows begin at 8pm except Sunday performances that begin at 2pm.
To learn more or reserve tickets, call 513-588-4988 or visit www.sunsetplayers.org.
Sunset Players, Inc. is a community theater group located on the west side of Cincinnati. Founded in 1979, the group performs at the Arts Center at Dunham and has produced more than 120 plays. Its mission is to bring a smile, and its plays include comedies, farces, dramatic comedies and musical comedies—as long as there is some “comedy” in the performance somewhere. For more information, visit our website at www.sunsetplayers.org or like us on Facebook.
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