2009 Season

Holiday Snap, by Michael Pertwee & John Chapman

Comedy/Farce: Two couples are double booked into a Portuguese time-share. Both have planned a weekend away from the worries of the world and their respective spouses. Unaware of the booking error is Commander Chittenden, the company representative, who cannot see past his nose and cannot pass up a drink. Both couples mistake the other for the servants. Add an uninvited mother-in-law, a suspicious husband who keeps calling from England, and a wife who unexpectedly arrives and you have the recipe for farce. If you enjoyed Look, No Hans! written by the same writers, you will really like this show.

Wake Up, Darling, by Alex Gottlieb

Comedy: Polly Emerson wants to be an actress. Her husband, Don, yearns to be a playwright, although he has a shelf of unproduced plays.  Don is not too happy when Polly comes home
with Deerfield Prescott, who believes he's written Broadway’s next hit musical.  He wants Polly to star in the show.  He moves into the apartment to put the finishing touches on the play.  At the same time Gloria, a friend of Polly’s, just divorced, arrives for a visit.  Add to the mixture their interfering maid, Juliet, who is always present, and Martha, Don’s secretary, who’s disillusioned with life and men. Each of these characters wreaks havoc with Polly’s and Don’s life.

The Fantasticks, by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones

Musical: Adapted from Edmond Rostand’s 1884 play Les Romanesque’s, it tells an age-old tale. It is a very simple story: a boy, a girl, two fathers, and a wall. The fathers put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know that children always do what their parents forbid. It is a musical that brings to life a funny and quite touching story of innocence—and knowledge. 

The Uninvited, by Tim Kelly, adapted from the novel by Dorothy Macardle

Thriller: Roddy Fitzgerald, an aspiring playwright, and his sister, discover and purchase a charming house in west England overlooking the Irish Sea, for a very suspiciously low price.  It has been empty since the murder, fifteen years earlier, of Mary Meredith, who once lived in the house. The Fitzgeralds begin to sense the evil spirit that inhabits the house, announcing its presence with the sound of a woman crying, sudden bone-chilling cold, and the strange scent of an exotic perfume called mimosa that comes and goes.  This is a play that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
 

Natalie Needs a Nightie, by Neil & Caroline Shaffner

Comedy: In an apartment house Tommy Briggs has his mail and visitors frequently misdirected to a girl’s apartment whose pen name is also Tommy Briggs. Tommy’s boss who expects his young executives to be married, is coming for a visit; Tommy tries to have someone pose as his wife.  He also, in order to get a large bonus, said he is a new father.  Confusion abounds when he ends up with too many wives and babies.  Adding to the confusion is a chambermaid who snitches drinks, and takes all the clothing found on a particular chair to the cleaners, including
the boss’s, while he is showering.

Don't Dress for Dinner, Comedy/Farce, by Marc Camolletti

Bernard, who is married to Jacqueline is looking forward to her visiting her mother for the weekend. He has made plans for his mistress, Suzanne, to come for a romantic catered dinner and perhaps more. Complications arise and just when one believes it could not get any more complicatedit does!

Time Out for Ginger, Comedy, by Ronald Alexander

Ginger, a freshman in high school, hears her father give a lecture to students on the need for self fulfillment, she decides that she wants to be part of the boy’s football team. Life becomes very complicated for the family. Ginger's older sisters oppose her joining the team; her father thinks it's great.  Ginger will now be the son that he never had and drama ensues.

Rumors, Farce, by Neil Simon

Four couples are at a deputy New York mayor’s townhouse to celebrate his 10th wedding anniversary.  The party never begins because the host has shot himself (it's only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing.  The cover-up grows progressively more difficult to sustain as more guests arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what.

House on the Cliff, Mystery/Comedy, by George Batson

A house, rumored to be the last stop on the Underground Railroad, on one of the Great Lakes is said to be haunted. The house’s occupants include a young, lovely heiress confined to a wheelchair since the car accident that killed her father, her beautiful stepmother, and an austere housekeeper. Someone is murdered. The climax is both chilling and surprising.

Kiss or Make Up, Comedy, by Jack Sharkey

Architect Morgiana Kendrick has found true lovea city planner for whom she has designed the zoo’s new crocodile house. The problem is that, to forestall incessant queries as to why she’s not married she has over the years created an imaginary husband and daughter. Now Treasury Department is investigating why her husband has never paid taxes. Hilarity is the rule of the play.

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