Dec 31, 2007Directed by MATT DiCARLO, JESSICA PFEIFFER and HOWARD WHITMORE |
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Month: May 2007
What The Bellhop Saw
Sept 19 – Oct 4, 2009 By Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore Directed by Jeff Dworkin A nice fellow checks into an expensive suite in New York City’s finest hotel, precipitating a fantastic nightmare involving a Salman Rushdie type author, an Iranian terrorist, a vile wife from hell, a conniving bellboy, … Read more
Damn Yankees – 2009
Peter Pan – 2009
January 29 – February 14, 2010A musical fantasy based on the play by J.M. Barrie
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Come fly away with Peter, Tinker Bell, Wendy, John and Michael to Never Land for a magical musical adventure with pirates, lost boys and Indians. First produced on Broadway in 1954 this is one of the world’s most celebrated musicals with an unforgettable score featuring with show-stopping songs, “Never Never Land”, “I Won’t Grow Up” and “I’m Flying”.
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A Few Good Men – 2009
New Years Eve 2009
13 THE MUSICAL
July 30 – August 15, 2010
Produced by Barbara Gianotto and Howard Gross
Directed by Corey Rubel
Musical Directed by Donna Zdan
Choreographed by Jillian Kimberlin
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PRODUCTION STAFF
Executive Producer
ProducersDirector Musical Director Choreographer Stage Manager Costume Coordinator Set Design/Construction Light & Sound Design Properties |
Donna N. Kimberlin
Barbara Gianotto Howard Gross Corey Rubel Donna Zdan Jillian Kimberlin Nicole Reich Pam Christian JC Gibriano Scott Kuker
Ty Jacobs
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The Boor
The Browning Version
The Browning Versionby Terence Rattigan |
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The play is about the last few days in the career of Andrew Crocker-Harris, an aging classics teacher at a British public school. The man’s academic life is fading away following illness and he feels that he has become obsolete. The headmaster informs him that the school will not give him his pension because of his early retirement, though he was depending on it, and wishes him to relinquish his place in the end-of-term speech-giving to a popular sports master. When Taplow, a pupil who needs Crocker-Harris to pass him so he can go up to the next year, comes to him for help with his Greek, Crocker-Harris begins to show his true feelings through his love for literature. Mr. Gilbert, Crocker-Harris’s successor at his teaching post, arrives to view the Crocker-Harrises’ home. He seeks advice on the lower fifth, the year Crocker-Harris teaches, and how to control them. Crocker-Harris begins to relate to Gilbert his own sad experiences after Gilbert tells Crocker-Harris that the headmaster had referred to Crocker-Harris as the ‘Himmler of the lower fifth’. Crocker-Harris, who did not realize he was feared by the boys, is very disturbed by this title. Crocker-Harris’s wife, Millie, is being unfaithful to him with a younger master named Frank Hunter, something that Crocker-Harris has been aware of, but has been ignoring. After Taplow moves him by giving him an inscribed version of the Browning translation of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, he breaks down crying. Millie, his wife, shows her callousness at Crocker-Harris’s emotional state, and Hunter breaks off the affair with her, instead turning his sympathies to Crocker-Harris. Crocker-Harris informs him that he knew of Millie’s affair with Hunter, as well as her previous ones, but despite this he does not wish to divorce her. As the play ends, Hunter makes plans with a reluctant Crocker-Harris to meet him at his new place of work, and an uplifted Crocker-Harris telephones the headmaster saying that he will make his speech after sports master, as is his right. The “Browning Version” of the title is the reference within the story of Robert Browning’s translation of the Greek tragedy Agamemnon. In the tragedy, Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, aided by her lover. Although the name of the school is not given in the play, it is clearly Harrow School (which Terence Rattigan attended), something evident from the idiosyncrasies of the timetable that Crocker-Harris is in charge of writing[ |