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Saint Joan
by George Bernard Shaw
Joan, a teenage country girl, shows up at the castle of Vaucouleurs. She's determined to kick the English out of France and to crown the Dauphin), Charles, as King. Joan has heard voices from God telling her that this is her destiny. Through sheer confidence and natural charisma, she manages to sway the skeptical Captain Robert de Baudricourt. He gives her soldier's clothes, armor, and other supplies to assist in getting to the Dauphin.
Cast: 16M, 1 F
Saint Joan of
the Stockyards
by Bertolt Brecht
Brecht's Saint Joan is a Salvation Army lieutenant who challeges the power of Pierpont Mauler, the Meat King.
The play is full of pastiche and parody and stems from the time of world economic crisis around 1929-32, a crucial period of creativity and political experiment for Brecht.
Cast: 21 M, 3 F
Scapino
by Frank Dunlop
and Jim Dale
With the first line of the play, we plunge into the situation as Octavio cries, "I am lost! I am ruined! What am I to do? My world is crumbling around me. Disaster after disaster!" Into this comes Scapino who states, "The good Lord has blessed me with quite a genius for clever ideas and inspired inventions which the less talented, in their jealousies, call deceits and trickery!"
Cast: 10 M, 4 F
Scrooge, the Musical
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by Leslie Bricusse
In 1970, renowned writer/composer/lyricist Leslie Bricusse adapted the classic Charles Dickens tale A Christmas Carol into the hit screen musical Scrooge. Now available as a charming stage musical, Scrooge has enjoyed a hugely successful tour of England and a season at London’s Dominion Theatre starring the late Anthony Newley. Included are six new songs not performed in the film.
Cast: Lots
Separate Tables
by Terrence Rattigan
In Table by the Window, a journalist, is confronted by his ex-wife, a former model who provoked him to the violent act that sent him to prison, destroying his future. It is the hotel manager, Miss Cooper, who helps repair their broken lives. In Table Number Seven, a 'self-made' army colonel without any true background and education to which he lays claim, finds solace with a spinster over the objections of her ruthless, domineering mother. When a sordid scandal threatens to drive them apart, Miss Cooper again comes to the rescue.
Cast: 3 M, 8 F
Sex Lives of Superheroes
by Stephen Gregg
Michael is so obsessed with his old girlfriend, Lisa, that he allows her weekly visits to his apartment which she strips, piece by piece, of his possessions. Elenor, Michael's date for the evening, is appalled to find that he copes with his frustrations by giving fantasy lectures about the sexual habits of comic book heroes. The two seem a complete mismatch until Michael discovers that Elenor has her own obsession.
Cast: 1 M, 2 F
She Stoops
to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
A shy young man, on his way to meet his intended bride for the first time, is misdirected. He takes his betrothed's house for an inn, her father for the innkeeper, and herself for a maid. Needless to say, all is happily resolved.
Cast: 8 M, 4 F
Show Boat
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by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd
Taking place over fifty years, this is the story of a family of performers living on a show boat, and their struggles with gambling, race, infidelity, and poverty. Captain Andy runs performances aboard his ship, called The Cotton Blossom. After it is discovered that his leading lady, Julie, has African-American heritage, she and her leading-man boyfriend are forced to quit the show. As a replacement, Captain Andy employs his daughter, Magnolia, and a young gambler, Gaylord Ravenal as the new stars.
Cast: 16 M, 12 F, + ensemble
Shrek, the Musical
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, Shrek The Musical is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure, featuring all new songs from Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie; Caroline, or Change) and a sidesplitting book by David Lindsay-Abaire. Shrek brings all the beloved characters you know from the film to life on stage and proves there's more to the story than meets the ears.
Cast: 4 M, 3 F, + ensemble
Singin' in the Rain
by Betty Comden
and Adof Green
Singin' in the Rain has all the makings of a Tinseltown tabloid headline – the starlet, the leading man and a love affair that could change lives and make or break careers! In silent movies, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a hot item but, behind the scenes, things aren't always as they appear on the big screen! Meanwhile, Lina's squeaky voice might be the end of her career in "talking pictures" without the help of a talented young actress to do the talking and singing for her.
Cast: 6 M, 4 F, + ensemble
Sister Act
by Cheri Steinkellner
and Bill Steinkellner
When disco diva, Deloris Van Cartier, witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won't be a found: a convent! Disguised as a nun, she finds herself at odds with both the rigid lifestyle and uptight Mother Superior. Using her unique disco moves and singing talent to inspire the choir, Deloris breathes new life into the church and community but, in doing so, blows her cover. Soon, the gang is giving chase, only to find them up against Deloris and the power of her newly found sisterhood.
Cast: 7M, 9 F, + ensemble
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it all for You
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by Christopher Durang
Sister Mary Ignatius, a teaching nun who is much concerned with sin in all of its various forms, delivers a cautionary lecture to her charges. But when several of her former students turn up the picture darkens, along with Sister Mary's indignation. Their stories are disturbing—but also very funny—and it is quickly apparent that one thing they all have in common is their loathing for Sister Mary and the unyielding dogma which she forced on them in their formative years.
Cast: 3 M, 3 F
Slow Dance on
the Killing Ground
by William Hanley
As the curtain rises, a storekeeper is taking inventory. The door is flung open, letting in a lithe young black man, weirdly gotten up in a soft, high-crowned hat, sunglasses, a cape, short slacks and sneakers. The young man is obviously a hunted man. Rosie, an eigh-teen-year old from Riverdale, has wandered into the shop after losing her way while looking for the address of an abortionist. Rosie has no illusions about her homeliness or about the encounter that has led to her troubles.
Cast: 2 M, 1 F
Spamalot
by Eric Idle
Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful showgirls?
Cast: 6 M, 1 F, + ensemble
Splendor in
the Grass
by William Inge
Bud Stamper is the prize catch in his high-school class, and Deanie Loomis is the girl lucky enough to get him. But both Bud and Deanie are disturbed by the powerful feelings that have grown between them, which are turned into torture by the restraints of proper conduct. Mindful of the bad example of his own debauched sister, Bud wants to marry Deanie immediately and go to agricultural school—a hope that is destroyed by his father's ambitions to put Bud through Yale and into the family oil business.
Cast: 10 M, 9 F
Spoils of War
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by Michael Weller
Witness the desperate attempts of a 16 year-old boy to reconcile his divorced parents, a somber chronicle about disillusionment of people whose hopes and dreams are tainted by the prism of time. The events of the 1950's are explored through the eyes of Martin's parents, radicals who have chosen very different ways to cope with the changed and changing times.
Cast: 3 M, 3 F
Squaring the Circle
by Valentine Kataev
A hilarious Comedy from Soviet Russia about two mismated couples who are obliged to live in a single room because of the acute housing shortage. Each of the girls turns her half of the room into a symbol of her own mind. On one side is the Spartan bareness of an earnest Communist; on the other, the comforts of the bourgeois. But the husbands do not feel at ease in their halves, each hankering for the woman and atmosphere on the other side. The young people discuss and apply in action Soviet notions about relations between the sexes.
Cast: 7 M, 5 F
Starting Monday
by Anne Commire
The story is about friendship and about dying. It centers on the relationship between Ellis, a film maker whose career is just beginning to take off when she learns she has terminal cancer, and her best friend Lynne. Lynne puts her own life and career on hold to care for Ellis, as she struggles valiantly to accept the inevitable reality of her death and to die with dignity. Fans of Ms. Commire's other fine plays Shay and Put Them All Together know what to expect from an author who isn't afraid to write out and out drama.
Cast: 2 M, 6 F
Steel Magnolias
by Robert Harling
The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle, the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town's rich curmudgeon, Ouiser,; an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby, is about to marry a "good ole boy." Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby risks pregnancy and forfeits her life.
Cast: 6 F
Stephen Vincent Benet's Stories of America
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by F. Andrew Leslie
The substance of the program ranges from the Colonial years and the Revolutionary War to the opening of the West and the burgeoning of the American heartland. Using creative theatre concepts to bring the stories alive on stage, with short poems and simple musical interpolations to enhance and heighten the flow of action, it not only captures the vitality and humor of Benét's imaginative creations, but also makes the lesson of their wit and wisdom powerfully relevant to our own troubled times.
Cast: 3 M, 3 F
Sticks and Bones
by David Rabe
A savagely comic portrait of an archetypal, middle class family, Ozzie, Harriet, David and Rick, falling apart. When David comes back from the war blinded, he is pursued by furies that haunt him. Wanting to return their son to normal, Ozzie offers camaraderie, while Harriet cooks and bakes the foods he once loved, and shares her faith in her beloved religion. But David grows even more vengeful. Ozzie feels the foundation of his world crumbling.
Cast: 5 M, 2 F
Strange Snow
by Steve Metcalfe
It is 5 am. on the first day of the fishing season and Megs is determined to get his buddy up, but David has a terrible hang over that is not entirely from last night's drinking. Megs and David served together in Vietnam, and David still blames himself for the death of their pal Bobby. David lives with his sister Martha, a high school teacher who is enjoying a budding romance with the delightful Megs. Together, they endeavor to convince David he has to get past the war and get on with life.
Cast: 2 M, 1 F
Street Scene
by Elmer Rice
This is a panorama of the comedy and tragedy of daily life played to the accompaniment of rumbling elevated trains and the tooting of whistles. Though this remarkable play is primarily a slice of life in a poor neighborhood, it is held together by a strikingly dramatic plot which has to do with a theatrical scene shifter whose wife has been having a sordid affair with the milkman. The husband returns unexpectedly and kills them both. The incident serves chiefly to crystalize the viewpoint and very human reactions of the entire neighborhood. This modern classic that catches the varying moods of daily life as it is lived by millions in a large metropolis.
Cast: 16 M, 11 F
String of Pearls
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by Michael Lowe
This 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 are stolen, bought, bestowed, unstrung and nearly lost, four actresses play 27 characters in this deeply moving drama that is as fresh as it is funny. On the eve of her granddaughter Amy's wedding, Beth asks to see the pearls she gave Amy's mother long ago. When Amy cannot produce them, Beth determines to find the pearls.
Cast: 4 F
Suds
by Melinda Gilb and more
Cindy works in a Laundromat. It's her birthday and everything seems just swell until Mr. Postman arrives and gives her all sorts of bad news . Among other things, she has been dumped by her pen-pal boyfriend for someone with better penmanship. She becomes depressed and tries 'suicide by laundry' using various laundry items. Just as she has created a noose with a pair of petal pushers and attached it to a washing machine, Marge and Dee Dee enter with laundry baskets. As Cindy is being sucked into a washer, Marge and Dee Dee think she's doing a new dance and join in.
Cast: 1 M, 3 F
Sunset Blvd
by Andrew Lloyd Webber
In her mansion on Sunset Boulevard, faded, silent-screen goddess, Norma Desmond, lives in a fantasy world. Impoverished screenwriter, Joe Gillis, on the run from debt collectors, stumbles into her reclusive domain. Persuaded to work on Norma’s “masterpiece,” a film script that she believes will put her back in front of the cameras, he is seduced by her and her luxurious lifestyle. Joe becomes entrapped in a claustrophobic existence until his love for another woman leads him to try and break free with dramatic consequences.
Cast: 6 M, 2 F, + ensemble
Sweeney Todd
by Stephen Sondheim
An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun!
Cast: 6 M, 3 F, + ensemble
Sylvia
by A.R. Gurney
Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife.
Cast: 2 M, 2 F
Sweeny Todd
the Barber
by Brian J Burton
The story of the demon barber of Fleet Street has been a classic since 1847 and was the feature of Queen Victoria's first command performance. Mr. Burton's version is laced with both song and humor in the best of old fashioned melodramatic styles. "This is real theatre, exciting and fast."
Cast: 11 M, 5 F