2008-2009 Shows
There are six shows included in our Season Ticket Package

Leading Ladies
Comedy by Ken Ludwig
Auditions: August 3 & 4
Performances: Sept. 12, 13, & 14* and Sept. 18, 19, 20, & 21*

n this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, two English Shakespearean actors find themselves so down on their luck they are performing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Moose Lodge circuit in PA. When they hear that an old lady in a nearly town is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews she has never seen, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives for the inheritance. Guess what happens when they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces! It’s a wild time as they masquerade as Maxine and Stephanie.

his show combines laughter, suspense, intriguing characters, and irresistible mystery. A successful, married mystery writing team’s creativity has dried up so their agent gives them an anniversary present of a weekend in an old mansion movie set and hires characters to act out a murder plot. But soon there is a real murder and further hilarious plot twists. A sophisticated, laugh filled mystery evening!

Out of Order
Comedy by Ray Cooney
Auditions: Nov. 30 & Dec. 1
Performances: Jan. 9, 10, & 11* and Jan. 15, 16, 17, & 18*

hen English Conservative Member of Parliament, Richard Willey, attempts to have an affair with one of the secretaries of the leader of the Opposition Party in a top London hotel, complications develop. First he opens the curtain and finds a dead body stuck in the window! What to do?  It’s one laugh after another as he tries to hide the body from a conniving waiter, a suspicious hotel manager, an alert private detective, an angry wife, a furious husband, a bungling secretary, and an unconscious nurse. The laughs never stop!

on’t miss this musical celebration of the life of one of the great songwriting masters of this century as it traces his career from Indiana to the stages of the world through his marriage, his friendships with the greats of his age and the tragic riding accident that crippled him in mid-career, physically, but not artistically. The show features over 25 Cole Porter standards, including “Night And Day,” “I Love Paris,” “Anything Goes,” “Let's Do It,” “Miss Otis Regrets,” “Just One Of Those Things,” “In The Still Of The Night,” “My Heart Belongs To Daddy” and many more! You’ll be singing and dancing your way out of the theater.

Driving Miss Daisy
Drama by Alfred Uhry
Performances: April 17, 18, & 19* and April 23, 24, 25, & 26*

his Pulitzer Prize and Oscar winning American classic takes place in Atlanta and spans the twenty-five years before, during, and after the civil rights movement. It tells the bittersweet story of an elderly white southern Jewish lady and her black chauffeur. At first Miss Daisy resents all that hiring a driver represents: getting older, losing her independence and privacy, and putting on airs. As the years pass, an unspoken friendship between this unlikely pair develops and they discover they are not so different.

And the Winner Is
Comedy by Mitch Albom
Auditions: April 5 & 6
Performances: May 22, 23, & 24* and May 28, 29, 30 & 31*

n this hilarious comedy by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Tyler Johnes, a self-obsessed movie star, is finally nominated for an Oscar, but he dies the night before the awards. Outraged at his bad luck and determined to know if he wins (even though he’s dead), he bargains with a heavenly Irish gatekeeper to return to earth for the big night. Along the way, he drags his agent, his acting rival, his bombshell girlfriend and his ex-wife into the journey, in a wildly twisting tale of Hollywood, the afterlife, and how we are judged.