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| Tickets On Sale Now Show runs July 7 - August 2, 2008 |
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2008 - 2009 Season
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Ella The Story: It's 1966. At a concert hall in Nice, France, “the nice one,” Ella Fitzgerald rehearses for a performance. For once, the great lady of jazz is not sure she'll be able to live up to her promise. She's just returned from her sister's funeral and she may have lost the last bit of family she ever had. But the music has healing power, and the queen of scat was never one to leave her audiences wanting. The Experience: Hot music and a cool band spotlight the first lady of jazz in a sizzling production that serves up over a dozen of Ella Fitzgerald's greatest hits. The Buzz The Fine Print: Recommended for middle school and older. Frost/Nixon The Story: 1974. Watergate has rocked the nation. Richard Nixon has resigned in disgrace and every major news agency in the world has attempted to score an interview with him. So who finally pulls it off? A celebrity interviewer best known for his party-hopping and his features on movie stars and sports figures. Would the most-anticipated interview in American television be a work of journalistic integrity or a feat of showmanship? Based on actual events. The Experience: In 2008, the convergence of politics and entertainment is all-too-familiar territory, but in 1974, David Frost made history and discovered a brave new world of infotainment. . . . The Buzz The Fine Print: Recommended for high school and older. A Christmas Story The Story: Ralphie wants one thing and one thing only for Christmas: an official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle - a BB gun! But when even his own mother counters with “You'll shoot your eye out,” what's a boy to do? The Experience: Even if you're not familiar with the story or the mega-hit movie, we can all remember a time when there was such a thing as the one perfect Christmas gift . . . the gift that just might change your life. The Buzz The Fine Print: Recommended for the entire family! (Please remember that children under five are not permitted in the theatre.) The House in Hydesville The Story: In the winter of 1848, the Fox family moved from Rochester to a small cottage among the farm fields of Hydesville, southeast of the city. Soon after the move, they began to hear strange sounds - rapping in the walls - and to hear tales of a long-ago murder in the house. Where was the knocking coming from? What secrets did the house hold within its walls? Sometimes the most intense hauntings come from within our own houses. . . . The Experience: The Fox Sisters became huge celebrities of the Spiritualist movement at a time of great religious fervor in America. Were they the products of their time, or the prophets of it? A dark tale of a new American landscape. The Buzz The Fine Print: Adult subject matter. Mature themes. Sweeney Todd The Story: In 19th century London, master barber Benjamin Barker was arrested and sent into exile on false pretenses: so that the evil Judge Turpin could have his way with Barker's wife. When Barker returns to London years later as Sweeney Todd, he vows to take his revenge, no matter how vast and no matter how bloody. The Experience: One of B'way's most powerful musical scores by the most celebrated composer of the last half century. Darkly humorous and heartbreakingly lush, a highly theatrical and richly textured musical masterpiece. The Buzz The Fine Print: Recommended for high school and older. The Ladies Man The Story: It's Paris - the city of love - in the late 19th century. Dr. Hercule Molineaux finds himself unable to fulfill his marital duties to his beautiful young wife, Yvonne. To avoid confessing this embarrassing fact, the Doctor lies - and from one single untruth tumbles a cascade of convoluted deceptions and misunderstandings. Add to the mix a flirtatious female patient, her violently jealous husband, a gorgon of a mother-in-law, a conniving pair of servants, a brothel masquerading as a dress shop, a revolving bed with a mind of its own, and more slamming doors than realistic architecture could ever accommodate. The Experience: A hilariously zany ride of mistaken identities, near misses, wild coincidences and happy endings. Joyously racy and infectiously charming. The Buzz The Fine Print: Recommended for high school and up. Some profanity. Fences The Story: Troy Maxon could have been a baseball star. He once played for the Negro League, but too early to cross the color line. Now, in 1957 Pittsburgh, he has a solid family and a decent job. He drinks with his best friend on Friday nights and turns over the rest of his paycheck to his wife Rose. But Troy still yearns for something beyond his own backyard, and he believes he's found it in the arms of another woman. The Experience: August Wilson's most popular play, Fences explores the conflict across generations over the vision of black man-hood and the terrible cost of a dream deferred. The Buzz The Fine Print: Recommended for high school and older. Some racial epithets. The Nextstage Season Rooms The Story: Monica is a self-described Scottish-Jewish princess, with dreams of musical stardom and talent to match. Ian is a hard-drinking Catholic rock-and-roller. They meet, sparks fly and what begins as a partnership leads to passion as they travel the road to success from Glasgow to London to New York. But when they blow their big break at CBGB's in New York, their careers and their love are both on the line. The Experience: An energetic and tuneful new musical that captures the exuberance and drive of two young musicians in love. The Buzz The Clean House The Story: Mathilde works as a maid but would rather spend her days coming up with the perfect joke. Lane wants her (and husband Charles') house tidy, but doesn't want to clean it herself. Virginia loves to clean - even her sister Lane's house. Charles falls out of love with Lane, and makes their lives a big mess. Just how much can they sweep under the rug? The Experience: Seemingly disconnected events converge in this whimsical, magical, very funny tale about stripping life clean to its essentials. How tidy is your house? The Buzz Evie's Waltz The Story: When Danny is beat up one-too-many times at school, he and his girlfriend Evie cheer themselves up by buying a gun on the internet. And drawing maps of the school. And talking about how they would attack. They don't really plan to do it; it's just their way of rebelling against the “American conspiracy” to destroy their happiness. . . . The Experience: A taut drama of an American family suspended between the possibilities of violence and wisdom, of American society balanced on the narrow fulcrum between adolescence and maturity. 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