2011-2012 Season
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2011-2012 Season
Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, Jr.
September 16-October 2, 2011
Book adapted and additional lyrics by David Simpatico
Music Adapted and Arranged and Additional Music and Lyrics by Bryan Louiselle
Based on the 1951 Disney film
Join Alice's madcap adventures in Wonderland as she chases the White Rabbit, races the Dodo Bird, gets tied up with the Tweedles, raps with a bubble-blowing Caterpillar, and beats the Queen of Hearts at her own game! This fast-paced stage adaptation of Alice in Wonderland features new arrangements of such classic Disney songs as "I'm Late," "The Un-birthday Song" and "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah."
A Christmas Carol
December 8-18, 2011
By Charles Dickens
Adapted by Romulus Linney
An adaptation of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge's journey from an embittered, ungenerous creature into a giving, caring human being at the hands of three spirits, who, one Christmas Eve, show him what life means. Of his new stage version of the story Linney writes, "When the Milwaukee Repertory asked me about adapting its new A CHRISTMAS CAROL for them, I did not remember actually reading the book, nor had I seen any of its numerous stage versions. I was only acquainted with the film starring Alastair Sim, done in England years ago, which I had liked, but only dimly remembered. So when I read A CHRISTMAS CAROL, I was able to pretend I had never heard of the great story before. I was of course amazed not only at its beauty and durability, but at its blazing theatricality. It is part Hamelt …part Everyman…and part Charlie Chaplin. I vowed to stick to the bones of the story as closely as I could to take the evolution of Scrooge seriously, and to try and find, as he goes, the child within him that slowly emerges from his ordeal to such bountiful happiness." This richly textured play brings the full spirit of the book, as well as those of Christmases Past, Present and Yet To Come, to life on the stage.
The King and I
February 17-March 4, 2012Music by Richard Rodgers
Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on Anna and the King by Margaret Landon
Original Choreography by Jerome Robbins
East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifting tale of enormous fascination. It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son arrive at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West, and he seeks Anna's assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and the King grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another, in a truly unique love story. Along with the dazzling score, the incomparable Jerome Robbins ballet, "The Small House of Uncle Thomas," is one of the all-time marvels of the musical stage.
Snow White
April 27-May 6, 2012This loose adaptation of this Grimm Brothers Fairy Tale has all the characters you love: Snow White, the seven funny little men, the absent-minded king, his new wife who is part queen and part witch (but more funny than frightening), her servant, the frantic Maid Dim Witty, and the handsome and conceited Prince.
There are some new characters, too, created for this dramatic version -- Snow White's animal friends and the fascinating Miss Time, whose father, Father Time, started the whole Once Upon a Time business.
So although many of the character names are different, the story line is still about the evil queen's desire to get rid of Snow White because she is "fairer". The Queen is still evil, Snow White is still innocent, and the dwarfs are still little people. In this production, however, Snow White's father is an absent-minded old man forgetful of the most memorable things. Snow White's neighbor is Prince Good-Hearted and her "crush", and her closest friends are a group of animals that protect her from her own innocence. And although the names and actions of the dwarfs are most different, they are very loveable.
This two-act play is directed by Debra Leopard.
The Miss Firecracker Contest
June 7-17, 2012by Beth Henley
The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (known locally as "Miss Hot Tamale") is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest—hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory. The unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner, (who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children) complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain's eccentric brother, Delmount, (recently released from a mental institution) to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans. But, aided by a touchingly awkward seamstress named Popeye (who is hopelessly smitten by Delmount) and several other cheerfully nutty characters, Carnelle perseveres—leading to a denouement of unparalleled hilarity, compassion and moving lyricism as all concerned finally escape their unhappy pasts and turn hopefully toward what must surely be a better future.
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