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Rope by Patrick Hamilton
Directed By Rick Bergmann
Assistant Directed By Stacey Saunders
Auditions: December 10 and 12, 2024 at 7 pm
For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the “fun of the thing,” Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth’s father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table.
Show Dates: February 21-23 and February 28-March 2, 2025
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner By Todd Kreidler
Directed By John Cusumano
Auditions: February 25 and 27, 2025 at 7 pm
A progressive white couple's proud liberal sensibilities are put to the test when their daughter brings her black fiance home to meet them in this fresh and relevant stage adaptation of the iconic film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Blindsided by their daughter's whirlwind romance and fearful for her future, Matt and Christina Drayton quickly come to realize the difference between supporting a mixed-race couple in your newspaper and welcoming one into your family--especially in 1967. But they're surprised to find they aren't the only ones with concerns about the match, and it's not long before a multi-family clash of racial and generational difference sweeps across the Draytons' idyllic San Francisco terrace. At the end of the day, will the love between young Joanna and John prevail? With humor and insight, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner begins a conversation sure to continue at dinner tables long after the curtain comes down.
Show Dates: April 25-27 and May 2-4, 2025
The Adventures of A Comic Book Artist The Musical by Wendy Woolf, Books and lyrics by Pat Lyderson
Directed By John Cusumano
*This is our annual children's show. All auditioners will be children, ages TBA.
Auditions: May 17, 2025 at 10 am and 18, 2025 at 1 pm
Stanley Leonardo Sappovitz wants nothing more than to become a comic book artist and create heroes and villains for the comic books he loves so much. As the janitor at Wonder Comics, he anxiously awaits the day that his boss, D.C. Wunderman, will see his drawings and give him the chance to have his superheroes come alive on the printed page. Stanley’s heroes come alive, all right — but not on the printed page! In an effort to revive his faltering company, Wunderman had ordered a set of magical pens guaranteed to bring to life any character drawn. When plans go awry and his staff of artists unwittingly create the dreaded super-villain Doctor Shock Clock, it is up to Stanley to save the day with his own superheroes — charismatic but egotistical Star Guy, speedy Triple Time, environmentally correct Blossom, and cranky little Wombat Woman! Stanley’s heroes battle Shock Clock and his henchmen, the Minutos, only to be saved in the end by the greatest superhero of them all — Eraser Man (aka Stanley Leonardo Sappovitz)!
Show Dates: July 25-27 and August 1-3, 2025
Kong's Night Out By Jack Neary
Directed By Rick Bergmann
Auditions: August 5 and 6, 2025 at 7 pm
The tale of what happened in the hotel room next to the hotel room where Ann was whisked out of the bed and into the Manhattan night by King Kong because there's always a backstory. Myron Siegel is a low-end Broadway producer who desperately wants to be high end. The trouble is, he has, for his entire career, been sabotaged by his arch-rival, who is ultra-famous for making movies about scary jungle creatures. That producer's father and Myron's father were also rivals back in the day and the rivalry has lived on. As the play opens, Myron has just learned that the rival producer has booked a theatre directly across from the theatre where Myron's potential bonanza Foxy Felicia is about to open. Nobody on the Rialto knows what he's up to, but it's big, really, really big! Myron gathers his entourage - his sassy mother, his gangster henchman, his Hungarian backer and his wide-eyed niece straight off the bus from Buffalo - and concocts a plan to find out what the mystery show is all about. He discovers the show is about a monkey, a very large monkey. As the story unfolds, the seven doors on the set fly open and slam shut constantly, there’s mistaken identity, pies in the face, deceit, underhandedness, and even a couple of romances along the way. You have all the ingredients of a crazy, fast-paced farce, where every moment is cleverly and meticulously coordinated with the events depicted in the 1933 movie.
Show Dates: October 10-12 and 17-19, 2025
