Brieabi productions is pleased to announce upcoming shows through March of 2016
December 2014 Music of the Night: Holiday Edition. A celebration of Brieabi’s five year anniversary, along with spreading holiday cheer. FREE to the community. $10 presale includes hors d’oeuvres one hour before the show and reserved seating.
March 2015 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, music and lyrics by William Finn, directed by Joey Schnell. Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE has charmed audiences across the country with its effortless charm and humor. Featuring a fast-paced wildly funny and touching book by Rachel Sheinkin and a truly fresh and vibrant score by William Finn, this bee is one unforgettable experience. An eclectic group of six mid-pubescent’s vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home life, the tweens spell their way through a series of [potentially made-up] words hoping to never hear the soul crushing, pout inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box. A riotous ride complete with audience participation, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is delightful den of comedic genius. The small cast and unit set make this a perfect option for high schools or community theatres. THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a fast-paced crowd pleaser and an instant theatre patron favorite.
August 2015 The Last Five Years, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, directed by Shawn Toadvine. Starring Megan Ainsley Callahan and Zachary Huffman. This modern musical ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, form meeting to break-up and from break-up to meeting. Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk winner THE LAST FIVE YEARS has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of Time Magazine’s 10 best shows of 2001. A testament to the show’s longevity and spurred by the show’s regional popularity, THE LAST FIVE YEARS enjoyed an Off-Broadway revival at Second Stage in 2013. A film adaptation is being released in 2014 starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan. An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.
December 2015 Children of Eden, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, directed by Matthew Wilson. Based on the story of Genesis, the age-old conflict of parents and children takes the stage in this epic, heartfelt Stephen Schwartz musical. From musical theatre greats Stephen Schwartz and John Caird comes a joyous and inspirational musical about parents, children and faith… not to mention centuries of unresolved family business! An expansive and ambitious musical, the original production used a cast of sixty. Adam, Eve, Noah and the “Father” who created them deal with the headstrong, cataclysmic actions of their respective children. The show ultimately delivers a bittersweet but inspiring message: that “the hardest part of love… is letting go.”
March 2016 Barefoot in the Park, by Neil Simon, directed by Brent Alan Burington. Nominated! 1964 Tony Award for Best Play. Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He’s a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she’s a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie’s loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic Velasco, where everything that can go wrong, does. Paul just doesn’t understand Corie, as she sees it. He’s too staid, too boring and she just wants him to be a little more spontaneous, running “barefoot in the park” would be a start…
In the Neil Simon classic comedy, divorced sloven Oscar Madison allows his suddenly separated, meticulous and tense long-time friend Felix Ungar to move into Oscar’s eight-room apartment. Quickly the slob and the neat-freak fall back into the patterns of their own disastrous marriages with hilarious results.
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