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Playhouse South Announces 2012-2013 Season

A LITTLE PRINCESS
Book by Michael Hjort
Music by Camille N. Curtis
Lyrics by Michael Hjort and Camille N. Curtis
Adapted from “A Little Princess” by Francis Hodgson Burnett

A Theatre Under the Stars Production
Performed at the Northpark Ampitheatre in Springboro, OH
Directed by Becki Norgaard
August 10. 11. 12, 17, 18 & 19 at 7:30 PM
Admission for this show is free. Donations of at least $5 are greatly appreciated.

LEGALLY BLONDE
Music and Lyrics by Book by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin Heather Hach
Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture
November 2, 3, 9, 10. 16 & 17 at 8:00 PM and November 4 & 11 at 2:00 PM

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Book and Lyrics by Music by Howard Ashman Alan Menken
Based on the film by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles Griffith
Originally produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, Producing Director)
Originally produced at the Orpheum Theatre, New York City by the WPA
Theatre, David Geffen, Cameron Mackintosh and the Shubert Organization

Directed by Jenni Cypher
February 22, 23, March 1, 2, 8 & 9 at 8:00 PM and February 24 at 2:00 PM

JEKYLL & HYDE
Conceived for the stage by Steve Cuden & Frank Wildhorn
Book and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Music By Frank Wildhorn
Orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg
Arrangements by Jason Howland

Directed by Jen Skudlarek
May 10, 11, 17, 18 24 & 25 at 8:00 PM and May 12 at 2:00 PM

Watch for special events throughout the season

LEGALLY BLONDE, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and JEKYLL & HYDE (B’WAY) are presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
http://www.MTIShows.com

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Brieabi Productions Announces 2012 Season

Brieabi Productions is excited to announce their 2012 season:

  • Pump Boys and Dinettes, March 23 – March 31, 2012. Auditions are Nov. 9th and 10th. Directed by Arlene Borock, Produced by Teresa Johns, Conducted by Rick Elliott, Vocal Directed by Gloria Murray.
  • The Boys Next Door, August 23 – August 26, 2012. Directed by Shawn Toadvine, Produced by Teresa Johns
  • Legally Blonde, The Musical, November 30 – December 9, 2012. Directed by David Radtke, Choreographed by Arlene Borock

 

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The Showboat Announces the 2012 All-American Season To Celebrate its 90th Anniversary

Come aboard the Showboat Majestic as she celebrates the 90th season in her legendary career! The summer will feature an All-American slate of musicals and comedies to please every patron – aboard America’s last showboat – a genuine National Historic Landmark!  The 2012 season line-up features:  Hollywood icons, murderously charming old ladies, a giant of the American musical theater, a couple of little league coaches teaching big league lessons and the fastest-talking traveling salesman ever to hit River City, Iowa!  Come join us for a great summer on the River!                                                                                                                                             

The Showboat Majestic 2012 Subscription Season:

  • Babes In Hollywood           May 16 – June 3, 2012
  • Arsenic and Old Lace           June 13 – July 1, 2012
  • George M!                        July 11 – July 29, 2012
  • Rounding Third                   August 8 – August 26, 2012
  • Music Man                        September 12 – 30, 2012

Subscriptions are just $75.00 for the entire Five Show Season!  Showboat Subscription performances run Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2 pm.  (The 2nd Sunday of the run there is also a 7pm performance).  Each show title runs for three weeks.  Subscribers get the best seats at the best price.

For more information on the Showboat Majestic’s 2012 Subscription Season, contact the Box Office at 513.241.6550.  Or check us out on the web at http://www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com

BABES IN HOLLYWOOD – The Music of Garland and Rooney
May 16 – June 3, 2012
Created by David Grapes

Get ready to swing, sway and swoon to over 30 of the most glorious songs of the Twentieth Century.Babes in Hollywood salutes the legendary musical careers of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. You’ll thrill to such American classics as “Over the Rainbow,” “You Made me Love You,” “Easter Parade,” “But Not for Me,” “The Man Who Got Away,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” “Meet Me in St. Louis,” “That’s Entertainment,” “Where or When,” “Born in a Trunk,” “Yankee Doodle Boy,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Strike up the Band,” and many more!  Come join us for a great summer on the River!

Arsenic and Old Lace
June 13 – July 1, 2012
By Joseph Kesselring 

We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously “acceptable” roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; the murderous activities of the other brother while younger brother Mortimer is trying to get married to a regular girl! ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is the all-time American comedy classic!

George M!
July 11 – July 29, 2012
Music and Lyrics by George M. Cohan

GEORGE M! tells the life story of George M. Cohan, a giant of the American musical theater who gave us such songs as Yankee Doodle DandyOver ThereYou’re A Grand Old Flag, and Give My Regards to Broadway, and who transformed the Broadway variety show into a book-driven musical where song and dance advance plot. We follow him over a 60-year period from his childhood in Rhode Island on the vaudeville circuit with his parents and sister as “The Four Cohans,” to New York, where he starts his 25-year absolute reign of the Broadway stage.

Rounding Third
August 8 – August 26, 2012
By Richard Dresser

Rounding Third introduces us to two coaches — one a veteran, the other a new recruit — and their markedly different personal circumstances and philosophies about the game. Their clash of styles and wills drives this funny, acerbic and touching play through the bumpy terrain of fatherhood and baseball.

And Our 2012 Season Closer…
THE MUSIC MAN
September 12 – September 30, 2012
Book by  Meredith Willson Music by  Meredith Willson Lyrics by  Meredith Willson

Based on a story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey An affectionate paean to Smalltown, U.S.A. of a bygone era, Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band he vows to organize – this despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.

Please Note:  Show titles can be subject to change due to availability.

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Mad Anthony Theatre Company Announces 2011-2012 Season

Mad Anthony Theatre Company, the resident company at the Fitton Center for the Performing Arts in Hamilton, announce their upcoming season.

October 19-23, 2011
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
By Sarah Ruhl
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins this wildly imaginative comedy about how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering changes us. It is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

“Beguiling new comedy. . .” New York Times
“Satire is her oxygen…In her new oddball comedy Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.” The Washington Post
“Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in.” Variety Magazine

December 7-11, 2011
The Last Five Years
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
A contemporary song-cycle  musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage from meeting to break-up, or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.

The Last Five Years is an enjoyable, tuneful pastiche.” Curtain Up
“Brimming with persistent melodies, lyrics and a heartfelt, compelling story.” Associated Press
“Unpredictably heartfelt insights, energized by a seductive, rhythmic drive.” Newsday

February 22-26, 2012
Good Boys and True
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
The privileged life of a brilliant, athletic, popular and charming prep-school senior threatens to collapse when a disturbing videotape is found on campus. As the resulting scandal takes unexpected turns, his mother must sort fact from fiction and confront unsettling truths about her son, herself and their life.

“…a suspenseful mystery, compassionate character study and moving love story rolled into one.” The Chicago Reader
“The play goes down easy but its aftertaste is sharp.” The New York Sun
“…a craftily constructed, psychologically astute, absorbing play that harbors claws the fiercest feline could envy.” Bloomberg.com
“Be prepared for an engrossing drama that heightens suspense as it moves along and wherein not everything is what it seems.” SteadystyleChicago.com 

May 9-13, 2012
Elephant Sighs
By Ed Simpson
Not long after moving to a small town, an uptight lawyer named Joel is invited to join a group of townsmen who meet in a ramshackle room at the edge of town. Joel has been chosen to replace a recently deceased and much beloved member. Joel accepts the invitation without ever asking just what exactly it is the group actually does. As an anxious Joel is swept up in the strange lives of the guys, the more apparent it becomes that each of them is just as lost as Joel. As the evening progresses the regulars finally reveal the mysterious reason for their gathering.

“Ed Simpson’s riotous new male bonding comedy is deceptively unassuming.” Los Angeles Times
“…unexpected, often hilarious…” The New York Times
“…a warm funny and life-affirming tale…” Backstage West

Tickets for the upcoming season will be on sale in August. Also, publicist Jodi Fritsch is excited to announce an online ticketing system coming this season.

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Titles of the Season

Of the season announcements I have collected to date, below is the list of production titles announced with performances beginning in July.

In the upcoming months you can choose from two productions of fourteen shows: ALMOST MAINE, AS YOU LIKE IT, BECKY’S NEW CAR, THE BOYS NEXT DOOR, A CHRISTMAS CAROL,  THE DINING ROOM, THE FANTASTICKS, GOD OF CARNAGE, INTO THE WOODS, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, MOON OVER BUFFALO, NOISES OFF, RED and WICKED.

Not surprisingly, it’s The Bard himself who tops the duplicates with three productions of AS YOU LIKE IT now joined by THE CRUCIBLE.

The complete list (so far):

The 25th Annual Putnam County (3)

The 39 Steps

42nd Street

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Addams Family

Adaptation 

All My Sons

Almost Maine (2)

Always…Patsy Cline

Angel Street

Arcadia

Art of Murder

As You Like It (2)

Avenue Q

Band Geeks!

Beauty and the Beast

Becky’s New Car (2)

Bedroom Farce

Better Living

The Big Picture

Big the Musical

Billy Elliott

Blood Brothers 

Blythe Spirit

The Blue Moon Dancing

The Boys Next Door (2)

Caine Mutiny Court Martial

Caroline, Or Change

A Catered Affair

Cats

Chicago

Children of Eden

A Christmas Carol (2)

Cole

Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

The Complete History of America…

The Complete Works of William

Coram Boy

Crazy For You

The Crucible (3)

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dead Accounts

Deadly Murder

The Dining Room (2)

Dividing the Estate

The Dixie Swim Club

Do Patent Leather Shoes…

Dearly Beloved

Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical

Disney’s My Son Pinocchio Jr.

Duty

Edgar: A Mesmeric Passage…

Eeyore’s Christmas

Elephant Sighs

Evil Dead the Musical

Fame

The Fantasticks (2)

Footloose

For Colored Girls Who Have

The Foreigner

Forever Plaid

Frozen

Gem of the Ocean

Ghost-Writer

The Glass Menagerie

God of Carnage (2)

Going to St. Ives

Good Boys and True

The Grapes of Wrath

Grease

Groucho: A Life in Revue

Hairspray

Harvey

The Haunting of Hill House

Heroes

Henry VIII All is True 

Hit the Deck

Holiday Follies

I Love a Piano

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now

In My Blood

In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play

An Inspector Calls

Into the Woods (2)

It’s a Wonderful Life (2)

Jersey Boys

Jesus Christ Superstar

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor

Julius Caesar

Keely & Du

The King and I

The Laramie Project

The Last Five Years

Les Miserables

Life Could Be a Dream

The Light in the Piazza

The Little Prince

Little Women

Looking Glass Land

Lost in Yonkers

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Macbeth 

Make Me a Song

Mamma Mia!

A Man For All Seasons

Menopause the Musical Merrily We Roll Along

The Merchant of Venice

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3)

The Mikado

Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting

Moon Over Buffalo (2)

Much Ado About Nothing

Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre

Next

Next to Normal

A Nice Family Gathering

Nixon’s Nixon

Noises Off (2)

The Oldest Profession

Oklahoma!

Oleanna

Our Town

Over the River and Through…

Pippin

Prelude to a Kiss

The Producers

Pump Boys & Dinettes

Pump Up the Volume

The Rape

Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy 

Ravencroft

Red (2)

Rent

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern…

Run For Your Wife

Same Time, Next Year

The Second City 2: Less Pride…More

A Second Helping

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden (Musical)

Sense and Sensibility

Seussical the Musical

Sleeping Beauty

Smoke on the Mountain

Snow White

Souvenir

Speaking in Tongues 

Spring Awakening

Steel Magnolias

The Story of My Life

A Streetcar Named Desire

Swamp Opera

Talley & Son

Tenderly: the Rosemary Clooney

Thunder Knocking on the Door

Tigers Be Still

Time Stands Still

Titanic

Traces

Transmigration

Ulysses

The Uninvited

West Side Story

The Whipping Man

White Christmas

Wicked (2)

Willy Wonka the Musical

Wishful Drinking

Wittenberg

The Wizard of Oz

You Can’t Take it With You

Young Frankenstein

Updated 6/20/11

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