Once On This Island
Book & Lyrics by: Lynn Ahrens
Music by: Stephen Flaherty
Directed & Choreographed by: Brian Swasey
Music Director: Stephen Haines
July 11th - August 3rd, 2008
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 5pm
This highly original and theatrical Caribbean adaptation of the
popular fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” sings and dances
the story of Ti Moune, the black peasant girl who rescues, nurses
and falls in love with Daniel, a mulatto from a wealthy family.
When Daniel is returned to his people, the gods who rule the island
guide Ti Moune on a quest to test the strength of her love against
the powerful forces of prejudice, hatred and death.
Cast Includes:
as LITTLE TI MOUNE
as TI MOUNE/PEASANT GIRL
as DANIEL BEAUZHOMME
as MAMA EURALIE
as TONTON JULIAN
as ERZULIE (Goddess of Love)
as AGWE (God of Water)
as PAPA GE (Demon of Death)
as ASAKA (Mother of the Earth)
as ANDREA/MADAME ARMAND
as ARMAND
Blithe
Spirit
Written by: Noel Coward
Directed by: Kristi Scott
November 9th - November 25th, 2007
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 5pm
Blithe Spirit
(1941) is a comic play written by Noel Coward which takes its title
from Percy Bysshe Shelly’s poem To a Skylark. The ingenious
plot tells how novelist Charles Condomine invites into his placid
country home an eccentric, breezy lady medium in order to learn
the language of the occult. Little does Charles or his lovely second
wife, Ruth, dream that the seance staged by the medium will summon
back Charles' first wife, now "passed over" for seven
years. But the lady from beyond, still handsome, still mischievous,
appears and torments Charles by reminding him of their days and
nights together. Only Charles can see or hear her. How Charles manages
to extricate himself from the blithe spirit makes a hilarious conclusion
to this very unusual farce. Hilariously funny, brilliant, clever
and about as cockeyed as a play can be.
Cast Includes:
Barbara Sedano as Edith
Nora Burns as Ruth Condomine
Joe Spangler as Charles Condomine
Paul Janes-Brown as Dr. Bradman
Marilynn Hirashima as Mrs. Bradman
Jennifer Rose as Madame Arcati
Sharleen Lagattuta as Elvira
The
Foreigner
Written by: Larry Shue
Directed by: Jennifer Rose
February 8th thru February 24th, 2008
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 5pm
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy"
LeSueur, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training
sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has
brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie
who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation
with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all
assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks
no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears
more than he should—the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced
minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's
pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations
made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being
said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets
up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry
for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge
triumphant.
Cast Includes:
Lou Young as "Froggy"
LeSueur
Joe Spangler as Charlie Baker
Carole Levoy as Betty Meeks
Derek Nakagawa as Rev. David Marshall Lee
Courtney Minton as Catherine Simms
Justin Ove as Owen Musser
Kai Spence as Ellard Simms
The
King and I
Music by: Richard Rodgers
Book & Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on "Anna & the King of Siam" by Margaret Landon
Directed by: Alexis Dascoulias
Assistant Director: Jennifer Rose
Choreographer: Alexander Cardinalli
April 4th - April 27th, 2008
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 5pm
East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately
uplifiting tale of enormous fascination. It is 1862 in Siam when
an English widow, Anna Leonowens, with her young son, arrives at
the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to
serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely
considered to be a barbarian by those in the West and he seeks Anna's
assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping
a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and
the King grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another,
in a truly unique love story. Along with the dazzling score, the
incomparable Jerome Robbins ballet, "The Small House of Uncle
Thomas," is one of the all-time marvels of the musical stage.
Cast Includes: (in order of appearance)
Joel William Agnew as Captain Orton
Jonathan Sifton as Louis Leonowens
Lisa Paulson as Anna Leonowens
Joe C. Tolbe as The Kralahome
Steven Michaels as The King
Dane Owen as Phra Alack
Kepa Cabanilla-Aricayos & Jeremy Cohen as Lun
Tha
Ashlie Welte as Tuptim
Vania Lee Jerome as Lady Thiang
Joshua Franco as Prince Chululongkorn
Russ Taft as Sir Edward Ramsay
Tehani Cabanilla-Aricayos as Princess
Ying Yaowlak
Niko Conmy, Marissa Godinez, Anna Gustafson, Sarah
Ikioka, Jonathan Jerome, Comny Niko, Elisabeth
Parrish, Gary Parrish, Joy Parrish, Skylar Parrish, Hannah Patrick,
Cheyanna Simmons, Kellan Welch, Larissa Yee as the Royal
Children
Lauren Burgess, Larry Noa Kawai III, Julie
Kawamura, Sarah Loney, Leah Moens, Lauren
Olsen, Dane Owen, Audrey Parrish, Larissa Yee as
the Royal Dancers
Rueben Carrion, Allen Cohen, Noa Kawai as the Priests
and Guards of Siam
Journey Aitken, Kendall Benoit, Lauren Burgess, Amy Kamikawa,
Julie Kawamura, Claudia Lara, Ariel
Lynch, Leah Moens, Samantha Osborne, Audrey Parrish as
the Royal Wives
Katie Tolman as the Royal Attendant
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