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Our 2011 - 2012 Season
(Main Stage and Second Stage Productions)
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September 10 - October 2, 2011
Fridays/Saturdays at 8pm $21
Sundays at 2pm $21
ADDITIONAL SPECIAL PERFORMANCES:
Sunday 9/25 at 7pm
Friday 9/30 at 11pm (Adults Only Performance!)
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Directed by Larry Landsman
Nominated for six Tony Awards, this unlikely hit musical is about the
unlikeliest group of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for
whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at
the same time. Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by
grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that
winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a
loser. And at every performance, four audience members will join the Bee on
stage for their chance at immortality (just come 45 minutes early to sign up)!
"The word is weltanschauung."
May I have a definition? "One's personal perspective, your philosophy, the way you look at the world."
Please use in a sentence. "The weltanschauung revealed in composer-lyricist William Finn and book writer Rachel Sheinkin's winsome and winning new musical is so generously warm-hearted, only the most bitter misanthrope could resist its charms."
-David Rooney, Variety.
Some content is not appropriate for pre-teens.
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October 22 - November 12, 2011
Friday/Saturdays at 8pm $19
Sundays at 2pm $16
By Edward Albee
Directed by Jacqueline McElroy-Poquette
Winner of three Tony Awards (including Best Play of 1963) and later turned into a landmark film with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, playwright Edward Albee's smash drams is set on the campus of a small New England college.
George, an Associate Professor of History and his wife Martha, daughter of the College's president, invite a new professor and his wife home for a nightcap. As the cocktails flow, the young couple find themselves caught in the crossfire of a savage marital war where the combatants attack the self deceptions they forged for their own survival.
"...while "Virginia Woolf" may be the most vicious portrait of a marriage this side of Strindberg, it is also - deeply and truly - a love story."
-Ben Brantley, NY Times
Contains Adult Content.
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 SECOND STAGE SHOW
Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 2pm
Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 7pm
ALL SEATS $10
Please note, this is a "Second Stage" Production
with only 2 performances
Based on a story by Kurt Vonnegut
Adapted by Christopher Sergel
Directed by Dottie Fischer
Our Second Stage season kicks off with a story that centers on Harry Nash, an extremely shy and bland small-town man. However, whenever he takes a part in the local, amateur theater production he becomes his character to an overwhelming extent. Soon Helene Shaw, a recent addition to the town, falls in love with Nash - but only with his character in the play.
And no, this show is in no way based on any members of the Bergen County Players!
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November 26 - December 18, 2011
Fridays at 8pm $13
Saturdays and Sundays at 1 pm and 3:30 pm $13
Prince Street Players' Version
Book and Lyrics by Jim Eiler
Music by Jim Eiler and Jeanne Bargy
Based on the Fairy Tale by Charles Perrault
Directed by Lynne Lupfer
This Prince Street Players version of the classic fairy tale follows a young princess who is cursed by a wicked fairy to die after pricking her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle. But the curse is partially abated when a Fairy Godmother proclaims the princess will sleep for 100 years until awakened by a prince.
Lively tunes, wonderful choreography and inventive sets and costumes will have children age 3 through 10 mesmerized for a solid hour. And then following the performance you can take them downstairs to our lounge to meet the cast and get autographs!
Please note that while children under age 3 are welcome, EVERYONE must have a ticket to enter the theatre, and we ask that you be sensitive to the needs of your fellow theatergoers.
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January 14 - February 4, 2012
Friday/Saturdays at 8pm $19
Sundays at 2pm $16
Written by Daniel Goldfarb
Directed by Steve Bell
Hilarious and often poignant, Modern Orthodox is about a young Jewish couple living on the Upper West Side who are provoked to question not only their commitment to each other but also the depth of their religious feeling when a stranger from another sect arrives at their door with a most unusual marital problem.
“Modern Orthodox is accessible to everyone... full of risky, sharp-edged comedy” -Talkin’Broadway.com
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February 18 - March 10, 2012
Friday/Saturdays at 8pm $19
Sundays at 2pm $16
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Jerry Pettinati
Wanting to spice up his staid life by sharing in the sexual freedom of the '60s, yet hoping for something memorable and romantic, Barney Cashman, a happily married fish restaurateur, decides he’d like to try some of the other fish in the sea after being married to his high school sweetheart for almost 30 years.
Enjoy one of Neil Simon's funniest plays, which was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Play of 1970.
(Longtime wives are urged to bring their longtime husbands, who may well see how smart they've been to not humiliate themselves like Barney!)
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March 24 - April 21, 2012
Friday/Saturdays at 8pm $19
Sundays at 2pm $16
Written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by Bunny Mateosian
Sheridan Whiteside, a witty but acerbic theater critic and host of a national radio program, visits small-town Ohio and after breaking his leg is forced to encamp at the residence of a rich factory owner. This high-maintenance “diva” proceeds to wreak havoc throughout the house in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1939 classic (revived on Broadway in both 1980 and 2000).
Featuring the perfect blend of high comedy and low farce, and populated by an extravagant army of eccentric characters, this is “one of the greatest American stage comedies of the giddy, comedy-hungry 1930s”
-Entertainment Weekly
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 May
5 - June 3, 2012
Friday/Saturdays at 8pm $21
Sundays at 2pm $21
Music and Lyrics by Craig Carnelia
Book by Jeffrey Kindley
Directed by Carol Fisher
Is There Life After High School? If there is, what are its lingering effects on our lives? Join this group of “alumni” as they explore this theme through music, dance and monologues when they look back on their high school years with a mixture of nostalgia, horror, humor and emotions.
Both hilariously awkward and heartbreakingly painful, this tuneful pastiche reflects upon the momentously traumatic high school moments that last a lifetime. Remember your first kiss? That time you took first place? How about the kids who were your best friends…and the ones who weren’t?
Reserve your spot early as this "class" will fill up quickly!
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SECOND STAGE SHOW
Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 2pm
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 7pm
ALL SEATS $10
Please note, this is a "Second Stage" Production
with only 2 performances
Written by Moisés Kaufman
Directed by Alyson Cohn
An intense one-act drama described by Time Magazine as “a pioneering and powerful stage event” about the gay-bashing murder of Matthew Shepard on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming.
An award-winning play that was turned into both a powerful film and TV movie, this dramatic 90 minute production draws on the hundreds of interviews conducted by the Tectonic Theater Project following this highly-publicized 1998 hate crime.
Please be prepared for mature content and language.
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