FALL 2010

Squabbles

By Marshall Karp

Directed by Robert Scrimm

August 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, & 28

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Love, Sex, and the I.R.S.

By Billy VanZandt and Jane Milmore

Directed by Curtis J. D. Shaw

October 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, & 16

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Here is a wild farce with twists of fate, sight gags, mistaken identities and hilarious comic lines. Jon Trachtman and Leslie Arthur are out of work musicians who room together in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as a married couple. The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the "couple" they're going to be investigated by a Mr. Spinner. Leslie masquerades as a housewife, aided by Jon's fiancee, Kate. Complicating matters further Leslie and Kate are having an affair behind Jon's back, Jon's mother drops in unexpectedly to meet her son's fiancee, and Leslie's ex girlfriend shows up demanding to know why Leslie has changed and won't see her anymore.

Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Drood (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)

Musical by Rupert Holmes

Directed by Christopher J. Murphy

November 26, 27 and

December 3, 4, 10, 11, 12*, 17, & 18

*Matinee at 2:00PM

Audition Dates: October 3 & 4 (requires 13 Men  & 9 Women)

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This wildly warm-hearted theatrical experience kicks off when the Music Hall Royale (a hilariously loony Victorian musical troupe) "puts on" its flamboyant rendition of an unfinished Charles Dickens mystery. The story itself deals with John Jasper, a Jekyll-and-Hyde choirmaster who is quite madly in love with his music student, the fair Miss Rosa Bud. Now, Miss Bud is, in turn, engaged to Jasper's nephew, young Edwin Drood. Our title character disappears mysteriously one stormy Christmas Eve-but has Edwin Drood been murdered? And if so, then whodunnit? Musical numbers include The Wage of Sin, Perfect Strangers, Both Sides of the Coin, Don't Quit While You're Ahead and Moonfall. The giddy playfullness of this play-within-a-play draws the audience toward one of DROOD'S most talked-about features, which allows the audience to vote on the solution as prelude to the most unusual and hilarious finale!                                                                                         

Produced through special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.

SPRING 2011

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

By Neil Simon

January 21, 22, 28, 29 and February 4 & 5

Audition Dates: November 28 & 29 (requires 2 Men & 4 Women)

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Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives things can't seem to get any worse...then he's robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and it's the best thing that ever happened to him...

Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Any Wednesday

By Muriel Resnik

March 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, & 26

Audition Dates: January 23 & 24 (requires 2 Men & 2 Women)

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The president of a large corporation is using the executive suite to house his young mistress, whom he sees once a week A young man who has sold his factory to the middle-aged romancer is upset to find it about to be closed for tax advantages. Directed to the suite by a new secretary, he comes upon the girl, then the wife and finally the president. But the plot takes nice little turns. When the young man meets the mistress she tells him that he was misdirected, that his is not the executive suite but 'a special arrangement - like a scholarship.' Eyeing the diamond necklace she received for a birthday gift, he remarks, 'You must have made dean's list.' When the wife finds them she assumes they are a nice young married couple and between the playful pretence of the two and the older woman's romantic concern for them, Miss Resnik builds a delightful scene . . . With the completion of the mixed-up quartet by the husband's return, the fun bubbles happily along - it is a happy comedy with the giddy bubble of champagne.

Produced through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Social Security

By Andrew Bergman

April 29, 30 and May 6, 7, 13, & 14

Audition Dates: March 13 & 14 (requires 3 Men & 3 Women)

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This hit Broadway comedy involves a married couple who are art dealers. Their domestic tranquility is shattered upon the arrival of the wife's goody goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband and her Archetypal Jewish Mother. They are there to try to save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother hits it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is the art dealer's best client!

Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Musical)

Book by Jeffrey Lane • Music and Lyrics David Yazbek

June 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, & 25

Audition Dates: May 1 & 2 (requires 10 Men & 10 Women)

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Based on the popular 1988 film, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS centers on two con men living on the French Riviera. The first is the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money. The other, a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother's failing health. After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn't big enough for the two of them. They agree on a settlement: the first one to extract $50,000 from a young female target, heiress Christine Colgate, wins and the other must leave town. A hilarious battle of cons ensues that will keep audiences laughing, humming and guessing to the end!

Produced through special arrangement with Music Theatre International