Announcing Our 2014-15 Season

by Tom Varner | Feb 19, 2014 | Announcements, Shows

We are proud to announce our 2014-15 season! We are still in the process of arranging audition and specific performance dates. Therefore, that information will be officially announced at a later time.

Youth Summer Musical #1:

Wendy Darling loves to tell stories to her brothers, Michael and John. But when her father announces she must move out of the nursery, Peter Pan comes to visit the children and whisks them away to Never Land. Their adventure introduces them to the Lost Boys, Mermaids, Indians and even the infamous pirate, Captain Hook!Based on the Disney film and J.M. Barrie’s enchanting play, Disney’s Peter Pan JR. is a modern version of the timeless tale about a boy who wouldn’t grow up with no flying required! The score includes new arrangements of classic Disney songs, such as “Following the Leader,” “You Can Fly,” “The Second Star to the Right” and “Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life for Me.” Directed by Gentry Nessel.

Youth Summer Musical #2

Set during the last years of New York City’s celebrated High School for the Performing Arts on 46th  Street in 1980-1984, before its merger with LaGuardia High School,  FAME JR. is the bittersweet but ultimately  inspiring story of a diverse group of students who commit to four years  of grueling artistic and academic work. With candor, humor, and insight, the show explores the issues that confront many young people today.  With its topical subject manner, multi-ethnic cast of actors, singers,  dancers and instrumentalists and high-energy, contemporary pop score  (which includes the hit title song), FAME JR. is an ideal musical for young performers. Directed by David Whitacre.

Summer Musical:

9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL features a brand-new score by seven-time Grammy Award® winner DOLLY PARTON that includes the blockbuster title song. The show revolves around three female leads.  Violet Newstead, the super-efficient office manager who joins her fellow co-workers – frazzled divorcée Judy Bernly and sexy secretary Doralee Rhodes– to turn the tables on their “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical, bigot” of a boss, Franklin Hart Jr. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy, and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy – giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains “otherwise engaged,” the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Directed by Evan Fifer.

Winter Play:

Accusations, mistaken identities, and romances run wild in this traditional, laugh-out-loud farce. In DRINKING HABITS, two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been secretly making wine to keep the convent’s doors open, but Paul and Sally, reporters and former fiancees, are hot on their trail. They go undercover as a nun and priest, but their presence, combined with the addition of a new nun, spurs paranoia throughout the convent that spies have been sent from Rome to shut them down. Wine and secrets are inevitably spilled as everyone tries to preserve the convent and reconnect with lost loves. Directed by Tom Varner.