September 12 - October 10, 2009
Fridays/Saturdays at 8pm  $21
October only - Saturdays at 2pm $21
Sundays at 2pm $21
NO PERFORMANCES 9/18-9/19
9/27 PERFORMANCE BEGINS AT 1PM

Book by Rupert Holmes
Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Music by John Kander
Directed by Steve Bell

It’s curtains up for Curtains, a fantastically entertaining musical comedy nominated for eight Tony Awards in 2007. Featuring one of the last scores by the legendary song writing team of Kander & Ebb, Curtains is set in 1959 and unfolds backstage at Boston’s Colonial Theatre. When the star dies on opening night, Lt. Frank Cioffi arrives to conduct an investigation. But the lure of the theater proves irresistible and after an unexpected romance blooms for the stagestruck detective, he finds himself just as drawn toward making the show a hit as he is in solving the murder.  Contains some language that might be inappropriate for pre-teens.

Playwright Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, “Pina Colada Song”) has personally
worked with BCP on this production to rewrite it so that it fits on a community theater stage.
We are grateful for his hands-on participation!

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October 24 - November 14, 2009
Friday/Saturdays at 8pm $19
Sundays at 2pm $16

Written by George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann
Directed by Peter Colletto

America in the 1950s. General Products is a giant manufacturing conglomerate, and members of its Board of Directors earn enormous salaries in return for very little work. Then mild-mannered Laura Partridge shows up at a stockholders meeting and starts asking questions. Lots of questions. Resonating with today’s headlines, it will have you laughing and cheering in your seats as good triumphs over greed. George S. Kaufman (You Can’t Take It With You, The Man Who Came to Dinner) has written “...another big hit, with riotously funny roles” (New York Mirror). “Hey, somebody’s gotta keep an eye on those geniuses...” Sound familiar?

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SECOND STAGE SHOW

Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2pm
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7pm
ALL SEATS  $10
Please note, this is a "Second Stage" Production
 with only 2 performances

Dawn: by Joe Pintauro
Day: by Lanford Wilson
Dusk: by Terrence McNally
Directed by Frank Osmers

Much like another of our productions this season, a single New York location (a stretch of beach on Long Island) is the locale for three short one-act plays, this time taking place over the course of a single day. Dawn is by Joe Pintauro (a Long Island native), followed by Day by Lanford Wilson (The Hot L Baltimore, Talley’s Folly) and then Dusk by Terrence McNally (Master Class, The Full Monty).

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November 28 - December 20, 2009
Fridays at 8pm  $13
Saturdays and Sundays at 1 pm and 3:30 pm $13

A new musical by June Rachelson-Ospa and Daniel Neiden
Directed by Frank Avellino

Presenting a brand new musical tale spun from the familiar threads of Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Snow White in which they are actually triplets cast off into their own separate stories by one very angry witch. Herschel, the adorable Fairy Tailor, weaves together their sad plights, but our favorite fairy tale Princesses reunite as sisters when each finds her true Prince Charming...and true love. “Happily Ever After” may never have seemed so far off, but fear not...as in all fairy tales, happiness and love prevail and the wicked see the error of their ways!

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Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Jerry Pettinati

A long-married couple celebrates an anniversary with a return trip to their honeymoon suite. A Hollywood producer, famous for both his films and his womanizing, arranges a rendezvous with his old high school flame, now a starstruck New Jersey housewife. And a manic couple hosting an expensive wedding reception for their daughter faces one basic problem--the bride refuses to come out of the bathroom.

These three fall-down-funny scenes have two things in common...they’re all set in New York’s spectacular Plaza Hotel, and they’re all written by the Bard of Broadway, Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Brighton Beach Memoirs). Nominated for three Tony Awards in 1968 (winning for Mike Nichols as Best Director) and then turned into a highly successful film starring Walter Matthau, Plaza Suite ran for over 1,000 performances and is still one of Simon’s most enduring (and endearing) plays.

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February 13 - March 6, 2010
Friday/Saturdays at 8pm $19
Sundays at 2pm $16

Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Jacqueline McElroy Poquette

Big Daddy. Big Mama. Brick. And of course, Maggie “the Cat”. Iconic characters in a timeless drama where repressed desires beset a wealthy Southern family whose lives are stripped of pretense in a shattering moment of revelation. This classic by Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie) won both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1955. And now, more than 50 years later, it still packs the same emotional punch that transcends time and region, as Williams uses his craft to entertain, enlighten and bare men’s souls.

Written by Anthony Shaffer
Directed by Bunny Mateosian

It was a dark and stormy night...six diverse strangers (and a very odd butler) have gathered in a gloomy, old English manor for a formal dinner party. Blackmail is on the menu, and you can depend on murder for the main course!

Playwright Anthony Shaffer is no stranger to the comic mystery-thriller genre, as proven by his 1971 Tony Award-winning Sleuth. In this amusingly clever play, reality and illusion run rings around truth and fiction in which no one is who he or she seems to be. Makeup, wigs, and phony accents are employed with quick-change artistry as the mystery of who did what to whom spirals deeper and deeper. The plot has more twists than a corkscrew, and you’ll be at the edge of your seat throughout as you try to figure out...Whodunnit.

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May 1 - 23, 2010
Friday/Saturdays at 8pm $19
Sundays at 2pm $16

Written by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Ray Yucis

In the not-too-distant future, when actors and robotic “actoids” are really indistinguishable, an aspiring screenwriter gets more than he bargained for when he finds himself smitten with his almost human leading lady. Equal parts riotous farce, romantic comedy, and stinging satire, Comic Potential has something to tickle everyone’s funnybone. Complete with double-takes, pies in the face, clever wordplay, chase scenes, and the requisite happy ending, this is a play that will leave you laughing—and thinking—long after you leave the theater.

Sir Alan Ayckbourn (The Norman Conquests, Absurd Person Singular) is often called “the Neil Simon of London’s West End”, and more than a dozen of his finely tuned comedies have ended up on Broadway. His plays have been translated into 35 languages while winning seven London Evening Standard Awards.  Contains occasional strong language and adult themes.

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SECOND STAGE SHOW

Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 2pm
Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 7pm
All seats $10
Please note, this is a "Second Stage" Production with only 2 performances

Written by Christopher Durang
Directed by Carol Fisher

Sister Mary, a nun who is parochial in every sense of the word, educates, indoctrinates, and inculcates in this hilariously dark comedy that could only come from the pen of the bitingly funny Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy, The Marriage of Bette and Boo). Even when confronted with the lasting psychological trauma she has inflicted upon her former students, Sister Mary is unable to bend her fervent beliefs in the religious dogma upon which she has built her entire existence in this bold theatrical piece that was nearly banned in several cities.  Contains mature language/content.

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