2010-2011 Season
 

Life, Light, Love, Laughter!
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The Foreigner A Madcap Comedy by Larry Shue
directed by F. Scott Regan
September 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 30 and October 1, 2, 3, 2010
Auditions: June 26 & 27, 2010
Charlie lets everyone believe he’s from a foreign country and speaks no English – but then he hears more than he should, starting a hilarious chain of events in this rollicking farce that won two Obie awards.

A Body Of Water by Lee Blessing
EdgyRepReading directed by Thea Grabiec
A middle-aged couple wake up one morning in an isolated waterside summer house. There’s only one problem – neither of them can remember who they are, and the more information they get from a visitor, the more deeply they, and we, are drawn into their mysterious predicament.
When: Saturday, October 23, 2010
Where: 10th Street Stage

Chapter Two Neil Simon’s Romantic Comedy/Drama
directed by Jeffrey Albright
November 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 2010
Auditions: August 28, 2010
Widower George and divorcee Jennie are both starting over in mid-life – and the romance that starts Chapter Two of both their lives is “lovely, whimsical and touching and always funny ... most of the time downright hilarious.” – New York Post

Holiday Production at the Stranahan Theater
A Christmas Carol The Musical, Adapted from the Charles Dickens Classic
directed by Debra Ross Calabrese
December 4, 2010; 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Auditions: Adults, September 18, 2010
December 5, 2010; 2:00 p.m. Children, September 19, 2010
(at Toledo School for the Arts)
The classic tale of curmudgeonly miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who learns to love more than his money. Beautiful sets, lavish costumes, music and dancing give timeless appeal to Dickens’ beloved tale.

Light Up The Sky A 1940s Broadway Comedy by Moss Hart
directed by David DeChristopher
January 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 2011
Auditions: October 2, 2010
The opening-night cast members of a Broadway play turn hilariously on each other as they wait for the reviews to come in. Then their “flop” turns out to be a hit, and the playwright has some tricks of his own up his sleeve!

Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher
EdgyRepReading directed by Kate Abu-Absi
A trio of comic/dramatic monologues, set in a midwestern funeral parlor over a three-day Christmas weekend, resurrect the past and, with it, love and trust thought lost forever.
When: Saturday, February 5, 2011
Where: Venue To Be Announced

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal
EdgyRepReading directed by Matthew Kizaur
A certain familiar gang of classic cartoon characters is all grown up … and their teenage years harbor all-too-modern problems.
When: Saturday, March 5, 2011
Where: Owens Community College Center for the Fine and Performing Arts

Marvin's Room
by Scott McPherson
directed by Amy Spaulding-Heuring
The comic and moving story of Bessie, who lovingly supports her ailing father and odd family through her own illness, is staged in the same manner as our EdgyRep series. This program is not only an engaging theatre experience, but also offers three units of Continuing Education credit (CEUs) for health care professionals in cooperation with Mercy College of Northwest Ohio.
When: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Where: 10th Street Stage
Post-performance talk-back panel moderated by Lee Krähenbühl
Auditions: August 28, 2010

The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute
EdgyRepReading directed by J. Judson Lohman
Ben works at the World Trade Center but is away from the office during the 9/11 attack – in a tryst with his mistress Abby, who is also his boss. Expecting that Ben’s wife and family believe him to have died in the towers’ collapse, they debate the opportunity to disappear into a new life as his cell phone rings with increasing urgency.
When: Saturday, April 2, 2011
Where: 10th Street Stage

Inventing Van Gogh A Mind-Bending Artistic Mystery by Steven Dietz
directed by Barbara Barkan
April 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 and May 1, 2011
Auditions: January 8, 2011
A contemporary painter is hired to forge Vincent van Gogh’s final masterpiece as a hoax – and finds himself squaring off, across the years, with the mad genius himself, in this compelling puzzler about creative obsession and the fine line that separates truth from myth.

The Secret Garden The Tony Award-Winning Musical, music by Lucy Simon
directed by Matthew D. Bowland
June 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2011
Auditions: March 26; Callbacks: March 27, 2011
Orphaned in India, an 11-year-old girl returns to Yorkshire to live with an embittered, reclusive uncle and his invalid son at their estate with its magic locked garden. Some of the most beautiful music ever written for Broadway dramatizes this compelling, Tony Award-winning treasure for children and adults. Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson, with book and lyrics by Marsha Norman.