As we approach a new year, Middletown Lyric Theatre is preparing for our first production, MAYTAG VIRGIN.
Dan Maloney, will be returning to the MLT stage not only has an actor but also as the director of the production and we could not be more excited. We are equally excited to welcome, in her MLT debut, Brieanne Sheehan to work with Dan on this intimate, captivating, love story.
Performances run March 8-16.
For more information visit www.middletownlyric.org.
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NUNCRACKERS: The Nunsense Christmas Musical
Middletown Lyric Theatre
Dec. 1-9
[Middletown]
Directed by Charley Shafor
Musical Director/Pianist: Mary Ellen Clinard
Cast: Peggy Allen as Sister Mary Luke, Robert Brumberg as Father Virgil Manly Trott, Summer Evans as Sister Mary Paul, Grace Gould as Sister Mary Celeste, Mary Grace Griffith as Sister Mary Leo, Melodie Lanicca as Reverend Mother Mary Regina, Joey Mason as Brother Brendan Joseph, Abbie Miller as Sister Robert Anne, Mary Nunnery as Sister Mary Hubert & Karen Oehler as Sister Mary Wilhelm
Nuncrakers: The Nunsence Christmas Musical is the first “TV Special” taped by the sisters in their convent basement studio for Cable Access. It stars the nuns you love plus Father Virgil and some of Mt. Saint Helen’s most talented students. It features all new songs including: Twelve Days Prior to Christmas, Santa Ain’t Comin’ To Our House, We Three Kings of Orient Are Us, and It’s Better to Give Than To Receive. This show is filled with “Nunsense” humor, some of your favorite carols, a “Secret Santa,” and an uproarious take on Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet. Nuncrackers will make you laugh and maybe tug at your heartstrings. It’s the perfect way to insure your holiday season is merry and bright.
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MAYTAG VIRGIN
March 8-16
Join us as we follow Alabama school teacher Lizzy Nash and her new neighbor, Jack Key, over the year following the tragic death of Lizzy’s husband. The play explores the ideas of inertia and self-enlightenment, and the bridge between the two.
STRING OF PEARLS
May 3-11
Spanning more than 35 years, our play explores the possibilities that open up in the lives of an array of women as they come into contact with a certain strand of pearls. While the pearls have been stolen, bought, bestowed, unstrung and nearly lost follow their story as the pearls touch the lives of mothers and daughters, sisters and friends, even husbands and wives as they weave a deeply affecting story of love and loss.
BOSTON MARRIAGE
June 21-29
Meet two “women of fashion” who have lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna is the mistress of a wealthy man while Claire is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Anna’s help for an assignation. All while exchanging barbs and taking turns at taunting Anna’s hapless Scottish parlor maid. A wickedly, funny comedy.
INTO THE WOODS
Aug. 9-17
The story follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch’s curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone’s wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Sept. 20-28
Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who now lives in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura, who has a physical handicap and debilitating shyness. When Amanda convinces Tom to bring home from his workplace a “gentleman caller” for Laura, the illusions that Tom, Amanda, and Laura have each created in order to make life bearable collapse about them.
THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
Nov. 9-16
Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in this wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally “woke” teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.
For more information visit www.middletownlyric.org.
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The cast includes:
Directed by Charley Shafor
Music direction by Mary Ellen Clinard
Performances run Dec. 1-9.
For more information visit www.middletownlyric.org
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CALENDAR GIRLS
Middletown Lyric Theatre
Sept. 8-16
[Middletown]
Directed by Karen Oehler & Charley Shafor
Cast: Kathleen Muddiman Abrams, Peggy McDonald-Allen, Tim Breithaupt, Betty Coulter, Ginny Baker Johnson, Claudia Kasvin, Angie Markham, Mary Beth Benken Risenberg, Erin Marie Schwartz & Robert Willison
When Annie’s husband John dies of leukemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women’s Institute members to pose nude with them for an “alternative” calendar. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie’s friendship is put to the test under the strain of their newfound fame. Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund.
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