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October 10 – October 26, 2008
Moonlight and Magnolias
A Play by Ron Hutchinson
The year is 1939 and MGM has just started shooting the film version of America's favorite novel,
GONE WITH THE WIND. All America feels personally involved. Actresses across the country have tried-out for
the role of Scarlett O'Hara and movie-goers can't wait to see Clark Gable play Rhett Butler:
the role he was "born to play!" But suddenly David O. Seiznick shuts down the production...
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October 20 - October 28, 2008
Heart and Soul
The Music of Frank Loesser
From the first songs he wrote with Hoagy Carmichael to the patriotic anthems
he penned during World War II to the glorious score he composed for Danny
Kaye's HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN to his classic Broadway hits GUYS AND DOLLS, HOW TO
SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, Frank Loesser contributed some of the
most beautiful and memorable songs ever written...
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December 5 – December 21, 2008
It runs in the Family
A Comedy by Ray Cooney
This smash-hit takes place in the unlikely setting of a hospital
Emergency Room. As the Staff cheerfully decorates the Emergency Room for the
upcoming Christmas holidays, a successful London surgeon is in the midst of
preparing a career-making speech...
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December 15 - December 30, 2008
It Was A very Good Year!
Broadway's Hot Tickets of 1959
Every generation of Broadway musical fans inevitably hears one of their elders lamenting that "Today's
shows can't hold a candle to the shows of my generation" So this year we're conducting a comparison of
our own by looking at the shows that were playing on Broadway exactly 50 years ago...
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February 6 - February 22, 2009
Millions of Miles
A Play by Elliott Taubenslog
Should a senior citizen ever have to ask his children's permission
to be happy? That is just one of the questions posed by the most
life-affirming comedy of the past decade! Walter is a successful businessman
who always did everything that was expected of him. He married, had a son
and worked hard all his life...
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April 6 - April 15, 2009
The Song is You
Jerome Kern on Broadway
From 1903 to his untimely death in 1945, Jerome kern had a greater influence
on the development of the Broadway Musical than any other single composer.
It was Kern's "They Didn't Believe Me" that inspired a young George Gershwin
to write his first song. Richard Rodgers credited Kern with giving the
American Musical its unique "voice..."
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March 27 - April 12, 2009
Changes
A New Musical by Stephen Fabian
John and Amy Bradley have been happily married for 18 years. At least, John assumes that
Amy has happy...until the eve of their 18th Anniversary when she suddenly announces that she wants
to go back to school and get her degree. In other words, she wants to achieve the goals she had set for
herself 18 years ago...
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June 1 - June 9, 2009
To Life!
The Musicals of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Hamick
When FIDDLER ON THE ROOF broke the Box Office records of OKLAHOMA and MY FAIR LADY to become the longest running
musical of its time, no one was more surprised than the two men who wrote it. Jerry Bock and Sheldon
Hamick. They could hardly find backers for their show...
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May 22 – June 7, 2009
The Underpants
A Comedy by Steve Martin
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE'S original "Wild and CRARRAAZZZY GUY" is not
only a great stand-up comedian and actor. He is also a brilliant playwright,
as he demonstrates in this wickedly clever play about a pompous bureaucrat
named Theo who is mortified when his beautiful young wife's underpants
accidentally loosen and drop in the presence of the King...
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