2007-2008
Season
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The Complete History of America (abridged)
By Adam Long, Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor
September 7 - 23, 2007
"... The Complete History of America interprets the past as a breathlessly paced sequence of silly vaudeville sketches, word-association games, puns and crude parodies of movie and television genres. Nothing is sacred, and many of the facts have been skewed to suggest the paranoid ravings of a particularly loony tabloid ...."
- Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"Not only do they know how to give American history an irreverent boost, they actually turn it into something accessible and alive."
- Pamela Sommers, The Washington Post
"History has never been this much fun."
- Bill Brownstein, The Gazette (Montreal)
Tickets: $18
To Kill a Mockingbird
Based on the novel by Harper Lee
Dramatized by Christopher Sergel
November 2 - 18, 2007
Scout is a young girl in a quiet southern town in 1935. The black people of the community have a special feeling about her father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and she doesn't understand that, either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. He explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. "Because if I didn't," he says, "I couldn't hold my head up."
Tickets: $18
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
December 14 - 16, 2007
Stranahan Theater
The classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the curmudgeonly miser in Victorian England who learns to love more than his money. Beautiful sets, lavish costumes, music and dancing give our traditional holiday performance timeless appeal.
Tickets: $25 adults, $15 children, available from the Stranahan Theatre box office, 419-381-8851.
Harvey
By Mary Chase
January 11 - 27, 2008
When Elwood P Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also!
Tickets: $18
Master Class
By Terrence McNally
Featuring current Artistic Director, Gloria Moulopoulos
February 9, 2008 - Special Benefit Performance, One Night Only!
Performing Arts Center at Owens Community College
(Reception at 7 p.m., performance at 8 p.m., dessert following)
Opera legend Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience (the play-goers in attendance). Focusing on one hopeful student at a time, she's glamorous, commanding, larger than life - and drop-dead funny. What starts as a class becomes a platform for Callas. She glories in her own career, dabbles in opera diss and flat-out seduces the audience. Her roller coaster of emotions includes a beautiful speech about the sacrifices we must make in the name of art.
Reception, Performance, Dessert $75
Performance and Dessert $25
Tickets available from the Owens box office, 567-661-2787.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By Edward Albee
Featuring former Rep Artistic Director, Paul Causman
March 21 - April 6, 2008
George and Martha care deeply for each other, but events have turned their marriage into a nasty battle between two disenchanted, cynical enemies. If that weren't bad enough, they drag another couple, Honey and Nick, into their sordid dispute. They become pawns in the battle, transformed into an audience to witness humiliation, into levers for creating jealousy, and into a means for expressing their own sides of their mutual story - and eventually no secret is safe.
Tickets: $18
Cabaret
By John Kander and Fred Ebb
June 6-22, 2008
The scene is a nightclub in Berlin, as the 1920's are drawing to a close. The Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience to the show and assures them that, whatever their troubles, they will forget them at the Cabaret. Musical numbers include It Couldn't Please Me More, Willkommen, Cabaret, Don't Tell Mama and Two Ladies.
Tickets: $20
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