2009-2010 Season

OCTOBER 1-4, 2009

The Man Who Came To Dinner

A comedy

By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

There is a very good reason to keep your steps free of anything slippery. In this case it would have prevented Sheridan Whiteside’s post dinner fall and subsequent six week convalescence at the home of the Stanleys. Whiteside takes over their home. A bevy of strange friends and even stranger gifts begin arriving along with massive phone bills. After six weeks of turmoil, Whiteside plans his departure, but did the Stanleys learn their lesson about slippery steps?

Director: Wayne H. Claeren

NOVEMBER 19-22, 2009

CONQUISTADORS

A drama

By Barry Bradford

Winner of 2009’s Southern Playwright’s Competition

Conquistadors, winning play of the 2009 Southern Playwright’s Competition, reveals, through both fact and fantasy, the hopes, passions, and frustrations of a young graduate student who discovers amazing parallels between Hernando De Soto’s exploration of Alabama in the sixteenth century and his own exploration of personal relationships in the present. This is a tense, powerful drama which deals frankly with issues of sex and violence, not in order to shock or pander, but in order to discover and understand.

Director: Wayne H. Claeren

FEBRUARY 18-21 AND 25-28, 2010

Disney’s

Beauty and the Beast

A musical with

Music by Alan Menken

Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice

Boo by Linda Woolverton

Once upon a time there lived a young prince who had everything, but was spoiled and selfish. In his selfishness he turned away an old beggar woman who had requested shelter in his castle. In exchange for shelter, she would give him a beautiful rose! His refusal began his curse—he must learn to love before the rose loses its last petal. And, so begins the “Tale As Old As Time.”

Director: Eric Traynor

APRIL 8-11, 2010

THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO

A comedy

By Alfred Uhry

It’s December, 1939, in Atlanta, Georgia. “Gone With The Wind” is having it’s world premier, Hitler is invading Poland, and Atlanta’s social event of the season is about to occur. Atlanta’s elitist Jews are much more concerned with Ballyhoo! It’s very important to see and be seen. No one is more concerned with appearances than the Freitag family. Will prejudices get in the way of romance? Will everyone get to attend Ballyhoo? Situations take unexpected twists and turns that force characters to realize who they truly are.

Senior Production—Director to be Announced

MAY 13-16, 2010

Eurydice

A drama

By Sarah Ruhl

In a contemporary retelling of the classic myth, we see the story through the eyes of the young heroine. Eurydice dies too young, and on her wedding day. She is forced to travel to the underworld where she meets her father and attempts to remember her lost love.

Director: Susan McCain

JUNE 24-27, 2010

Relatively Speaking

A farce

By Alan Ayckbourn

Ginny’s parents are in Australia, so who is she going to visit? Greg, her prospective fiancé, thinks the people he is meeting are her parents. It’s all a royal case of concealed identities, cover-ups, and compromising situations. Reviews of Ayckbourn's hit described it as “deliciously heady,” “a near miracle,” and provoking “the proverbial gales of laughter.”

Director: Wayne H. Claeren