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Our Season
Empty Nest
Genre
Gwen and Jake were siblings traveling in different directions. Gwen has a stable career and an exciting future in New York City. Jake, a law school dropout, has moved in with their parents. But when Gwen loses her job and lies her way into moving home as well, sibling rivalry takes on a whole new meaning. Empty Nest is an original play written by PJ Gassman specifically for our stage. It is a heartfelt comedy exploring how parents and children deal with failure, and how the bonds of love are ultimately what matter most.
Written by PJ Gassman
Heart Problems
Genre
Alisa Briggs has always run from one adventure to the next, the next this time being a teaching position in Kosova. Plans are cut short, however, when a medical check-up reveals that Briggs has a heart condition that will not allow her to travel. Without the insurance or money needed for medical treatment, Briggs is desperate for solutions. In steps Wally, her infinitely practical best friend. Wally has an idea that just might work, but, in the process, will challenge the foundations of their friendship. "Heart Problems" is an exploration of what it means to love, and how to accept love in all the unexpected ways it comes to us.
Written by Danielle Zaborski Gassman
Nightmare In Suburbia
Genre
Tom and Alice are a regular couple dealing with regular things couples deal with when living in suburbia: boring in-laws, appliance failures, and insane uncles. However, when Tom wakes up from a nap, he finds that everything about his “normal” life has changed. For Tom, this comes as a great shock but the audience will get one heck of a laugh out of it!
By Richard Farmer
The Music Man
Genre
By turns wicked, funny, warm, romantic and touching, The Music Man is family entertainment at its best. Meredith Willson's six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy has been entertaining audiences since 1957 and is a family-friendly story to be shared with every generation.
The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain's fall.
Perfect for professional theatres, community groups, summer stock and schools alike, this award-winning, critically acclaimed Broadway classic is an all-American institution, thanks to is quirky characters, charmingly predictable dramatic situations and one-of-a-kind, nostalgic score of rousing marches, barbershop quartets and sentimental ballads, which have become popular standards. The cast features a soaring soprano ingenue, parts for young performers and children, and one of the musical theatre's treasures, a tour de force leading role for a charismatic actor who doesn't need to be a trained singer.
By Meredith Willson