The Footlighter’s, Inc. is pleased to announce our expanded 2012/2013 Season. We will now offer SIX shows in our Full Subscription.
We will continue our tradition of song and dance by offering a Musical Series, consisting of three blockbuster musical theater productions — THE PRODUCERS, THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL, and SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK LIVE!
AND we will expand our programming by adding a three-show Play Series to satisfy your desire for dramatic and comedic straight plays. The Play Series will consist of OUR TOWN, TUESDAY’S WITH MORRIE, and Neil Simon’s classic comedy BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS.
Tickets are On Sale NOW
Season tickets are on sale now by calling 859.652.3849 or via the website. Choose just the musicals, just the plays, mix-n-match to build your own subscription, our join us for the complete theater package.
- Full Six Show Subscription – $90, a 10% savings off of our regular subscription price!
- Any 4 Shows for $65.
- Any 3 Shows for $50.
- Single Tickets are $20.
All performances are at the Stained Glass Theatre at the corner of 8th and York Streets in Newport, Kentucky. Wednesday – Saturday shows are at 8PM, matinees are at 2PM.
THE PRODUCERS
Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Directed by Mary Haas
New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he’s visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there’s no accounting for taste…
Performance Dates: September 20 – October 6, 2012
OUR TOWN
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Jay Woffington
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town has been called “the greatest American play ever written” and was the 1938 winner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama yet has never been seen on the Footlighter’s stage. The story follows the citizens of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire in the early 1900’s though their daily life, their triumphs and their sorrows, their casual conversations and their formal traditions. But through this simple story about small town life in times past, Our Town tackles universal themes of humanity relevant to every generation in every town.
Performance Dates: November 8-18, 2012
THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL
Music & Lyrics by David Nehls, book by Betsy Kelso
Directed by Jim Curtis
There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres-and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband-the storms begin to brew.
Performance Dates: January 31 – February 16, 2013
TUESDAY’S WITH MORRIE
By Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom
Based on the book by Mitch Albom
Directed by Dennis Murphy
Tuesdays with Morrie is the comedic and touching autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie’s appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and what starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of life.
Performance Dates: March 7-17, 2013
SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK, LIVE!
Book by Scott Ferguson, Kyle Hal, and George Keating
Music by Lynn Ahrens, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, George Newall, and Tom Yohe
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, Kathy Mandry, George Newall, and Tom Yohe
Directed by John Langley
A pop culture phenomenon comes to the musical stage! The Emmy Award-winning 1970’s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science and politics through clever, tuneful songs is not only making a small-screen comeback, instructing a whole new generation to “Unpack Your Adjectives” and “Do The Circulations,” it’s set to light up the Footlighters stage next spring. Tom, a nerve-wracked school teacher nervous about his first day of teaching, tries to relax by watching TV when various characters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music, through such songs as “Just A Bill,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly” and “Conjunction Junction.” Children just discovering the TV series to “Generation X-ers” seeking a taste of nostalgia will delight in this sure-fire entertainment that’s simply good, clean – and educational – fun. Twenty years, 41 songs, and four Emmy Awards later, those of us who grew up with “Multiplication Rock”, “America Rock”, “Science Rock” and “Grammar Rock” can still sing the “Preamble to the U.S. Constitution” and know that “and,” “but,” and “or” all belong in “Conjunction Junction”.
Performance Dates: April 18 – May 4, 2013
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
By Neil Simon
Directed by Jay Woffington
Neil Simon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is widely regarded as one of America’s funniest stage authors. Brighton Beach Memoirs, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story, has been called “his funniest, richest and consequently the most affecting of his plays” by the New York Daily News. It’s 1937 and 15-year old Eugene Morris Jerome lives with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche and her two young (but rapidly developing) daughters and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. “Simultaneously poignant and funny!” – Variety Magazine
Production Dates: June 6-16, 2013
For more information on the show line-up, please visit our website at http://www.footlighters.org. To purchase your subscriptions now, please visit https://www.ticketturtle.com/index.php?subscription=foot
The Footlighters, Inc.
The Footlighters, Inc. has presented performances in the Greater Cincinnati area for 49 years. The group is noted for producing quality community theatre productions of primarily musical comedies and bought its own facility in 1987. The Stained Glass Theatre, a former church, is on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated a Kentucky landmark.
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Footlighters Inc. has announced the cast of their 2012-2013 season opener, THE PRODUCERS.
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