2010 Season
2010 20th Anniversary Season - a season of firsts!
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Noises Off
by Michael Frayn
February 18 – March 21, 2010
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Called the funniest farce ever written, NOISES OFF returned to Broadway with Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher and a manic menagerie that sent reviewers searching for new accolades for this hilarious show.
Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He's desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, and Lady Luck. We follow the production from final rehearsals, through opening night, and onto the tour. As with any group of actors forced to work closely together for any great length of time, romances and arguments are bound to break out. Quite often, what's happening on stage is nothing compared to what's happening backstage...
- “The funniest farce ever written ... Never before has side-splitting taken on a meaning dangerously close to the non-metaphorically medical.” - New York Post
- “As side-splitting a farce as I have seen. Ever? Ever.” - New York Magazine
A Season of Firsts - Noises Off was the first production held at Theatre at the Center in 1991
I Do! I Do!
A Musical About Marriage
Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by: Harvey Schmidt
April 22 – May 23, 2010
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The story of a marriage is at the center of this intimate and nostalgic work by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, the authors of “The Fantasticks.” The show begins with Michael and Agnes on their wedding day and traces their life together over a period of 50 years, until the day they leave their house to the next pair of newlyweds. In that time we watch them go through their wedding night jitters, raise a family, negotiate mid-life crises, quarrel, separate, reconcile and grow old together, all lovingly to the strains of a tuneful, charming score which includes the standard "My Cup Runneth Over."
- "At once amusing, astonishingly touching and truly endearing" - New York Post
- "A love duet to a happy marriage." - Life Magazine
A Season of Firsts - I Do! I Do! was the first production in our fourth season starring our first Artistic Director
Jesus Christ Superstar
Lyrics by Time Rice
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
July 8 – August 8, 2010
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Tony Award nominated Jesus Christ Superstar, the first rock opera, created as a concept album at the end of the turbulent '60s, has at its center a social and political rebel. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice created a new kind of Jesus a prophet / rock star whose appeal stems as much from the crowd’s energy as from his own inspirational message. Jesus' meteor-like rise in renown provides, as the title suggests, a parallel to contemporary celebrity worship. As his radical teachings are evermore embraced, Judas increasingly questions the enlightened motives of this new prophet, resulting in betrayal. Christ's final days are dramatized with emotional intensity, thought-provoking edge and explosive theatricality. Propelled by a stirring score, by turns driving and majestic, satirical and tender, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR illuminates the transcendent power of the human spirit with a passion that goes straight to the heart.
- "A triumph...Andrew Lloyd Webber’s score is vibrant, richly varied and always dramatically right and much the same things can be said of Tim Rice’s lyrics." – Daily News
- "Powerful and Poignant." – Miami Herald
- "JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR rocks!" – Akron Beacon
A Season of Firsts - A Theatre at the Center first!
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Book by Jeffrey Lane
Music & Lyrics by David Yazbek
Based on the film “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” written by Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro & Paul Henning
September 9 – October 10, 2010
Based on the popular 1988 film, Tony Award winning 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!
- “A crowd-pleaser of the first order: mightily musical and terribly funny.” – Variety
- “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels knocks the audience back on its heels with its brilliant production numbers and powerful solo escapades. Hang on tight and enjoy the ride!” – Hollywood Reporter
A Season of Firsts - This is a 1st Area Premiere Production!
Meredith Wilson's
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
November 11 – December 19, 2010
Kris Kringle takes on the cynics among us in this musical adaptation of the popular holiday favorite. In his inimitable style, Meredith Willson, the author of The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, tells us the classic story of the year. A white-bearded gentleman claiming to be the real Santa Claus brings about a genuine Miracle on 34th Street, spreading a wave of love throughout New York City, fostering camaraderie between Macy's and Gimbel's Department Stores, and convincing a divorced, cynical single mother, her somber daughter and the entire state of New York that Santa Claus is no myth.
- "...one of Broadway's most Christmas-y shows..." - theatremania.com
- "It is a real holiday musical for both adults and children alike..." - talkinbroadway.com
A Season of Firsts - Do you remember your first letter to Santa Claus?