The Miracle Worker - William Gibson
cast: 7M /7W Samuel French

This stirring dramatization of the story of Helen Keller is one of the most successful and warmly admired plays of the modern stage. Being blind and mute, nobody knows what Helen's fate might have been had she not come under the tutelage of Annie Sullivan, an Irish girl who had been born blind. The Miracle Worker is principally concerned with the emotional relationship between the lonely teacher and her blind charge.
Little Helen, trapped in her secret world, is bitter, violent, spoiled and almost animal like. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind waiting to be rescued from that dark, tortured silence. Annie's success with Helen comes only after some of the most turbulent, violent, and emotion packed scenes ever presented on the stage.

February 20 - March 15
dir: Kevin Wm Meyers

AUDITIONS WILL BE DEC 6&8, 2008

Moonlight & Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
cast: 3M / 1W Dramatist Publishing

1939 Hollywood is abuzz. Legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic, Gone with the Wind, a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel. The screenplay, you see, just doesn’t work. So what’s an all-powerful movie mogul to do? While fending off the film’s stars, gossip columnists and his own father-in-law, Selznick sends a car for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of The Wizard of Oz. Summoning both to his office, he locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days to fashion a screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time.

April 24 - May 17
dir: Lennon Smith

AUDITIONS WILL BE FEB. 21, 2009 • appointment only

Rumors - Neil Simon
cast: 5M / 5W Samuel French

America's premier comic playwright delighted audiences with this out and out funny offering. Four couples are at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. The party never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (it's only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer's cover up gets progressively more difficult to sustain as the other guests arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what about whom. Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more crazed.

June 26 - July 19
dir: John Hull

AUDITIONS WILL BE APRIL 25&26, 2009 • Noon - 3pm

Guys and Dolls
Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser • Book: Abe Burrows
cast: 11M / 10W TMI

Nathan Detroit is desperate to find a venue for his crap game, but is continually being thwarted by Lieutenant Brannigan. If he can raise $1000 he can hold it in someone's garage, but he hasn't got the dough. To raise the dough, he bets Sky Masterson that he can't get Sargeant Sarah Brown to have dinner with him in Havana. And just why would a "mission doll" go to Havana with a strange man? Because the mission is going under, and Sky promises her "one dozen genuine sinners". But, predictably, this arrangement goes awry when Sky and Sarah develop feelings for each other,
and Sky refuses to cash in on his bet with Nathan.

September 4 - 27
dir: Dave Sikula

AUDITIONS WILL BE JUNE 13&14, 2009 • 10am - 3pm

A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley
Israel Horovitz, adaptated from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Casting flexible, minimum of 22 players: 20 total
Dramatists Publishing

Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strengthen its timeless virtues. The end result is a theatre piece of unique eloquence, which will delight audiences of all ages, and draw forth the best efforts of all engaged in its presentation.

November 6 - 29
dir: Craig Cummins

AUDITIONS WILL BE SEPT. 5&6, 2009 • 10am - 3pm

AND STAY TUNED FOR SPECIALS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR