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Escanaba In Da Moonlight
by Jeff Daniels
When the Soady clan reunites for the opening day of
deer season at the family's Upper Peninsula camp, thirty-five-year-old Reuben
Soady brings with him the infamous reputation of being the oldest Soady in the
history of the Soadys never to bag a buck. In a hunting story to beat all
hunting stories, ESCANABA IN DA MOONLIGHT spins a hilarious tale of humor,
horror and heart as Reuben goes to any and all lengths to remove himself from
the wrong end of the family record book.
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
This play moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant
estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in
transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque
Gothic gardens, complete with a hermitage, thirteen year old Lady Thomasina and
her tutor delve into intellectual and romantic issues. Present day scenes depict
the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars who are researching a
possible scandal at the estate in 1809 involving Lord Byron. This brilliant play
moves smoothly between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time,
the difference between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive
influence of sex on our life orbits the attraction Newton left out.
King O' The Moon (Over The Tavern II)
by Tom Dudzick
“King o’ the Moon” transports the Pazinskis from the
conservative ‘50s to the rebellious ‘60s. Rudy, now 22, is a seminary
student honoring his father’s deathbed wish that his son should become a
priest, Brother Eddie is married, on the brink of fatherhood, and about to ship
out for Vietnam. As the play opens on July 18, 1969, Apollo 11 is about to land
on the moon; Rudy has gone AWOL from the seminary to participate in his first
anti-war protest; Sister Annie
is contemplating divorce; and romance is blooming for Rudy’s widowed mom,
Ellen. The new play--like the decade in which it is set--has a greater
urgency and sharper realism than its predecessor, as the adult Pazinskis tackle
grown-up issues like divorce, remarriage, war and draft-evasion. Dudzick is well
on his way to becoming the Neil Simon of the Catholic, Polish-American working
class; he has already started work on a third play that will take the Pazinskis
into the 1970’s. “I think I’ve struck a nerve,” he says. - ALICE T.
CARTER, INTHEATER MAGAZINE
Chain Of Circumstances
by Conrad Sutton Smith
Keith Fox, a struggling young American playwright in
Paris, has just completed his new play but is very secretive about it, even with
his two closest friends—Bonnie Lenox, a charming and resourceful girl who
loves Keith deeply despite his all-consuming ambition—and Basil Worthing, a
young Englishman, an ex-actor now semi-beatnik. Into this picture comes a
successful Broadway playwright, Robin Meredith, who needs someone to type his
new play and accepts Bonnie's suggestion of Keith. But when he starts to type
Robin's play, Keith is horrified to realize that it deals with the same
historical subject as his own. It drives him to a desperate decision—to do
away with Robin—and further, to appropriate Robin's play as his own. So he
evolves an elaborate "perfect crime" (with Basil's unwitting
assistance). But Robin's dying words throw him into a turmoil: The handwritten
script which Robin had given him for typing is not the only copy, and now Keith
will never know when or where the other carbon copy may appear to condemn him.
The chain of circumstances tightens even more around him when the crafty Basil
begins to piece together many curious little discrepancies, with a view to a fat
blackmail income. From this point on, the action takes swift and startling
turns. The dramatic irony of the last five minutes can't be revealed here, but
it's designed to hold an audience breathless until literally the last line.
Chicago
book/music & lyrics by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob
Fosse
Based on a 1926 play by
Chicago Tribune reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, Chicago tells the story of
Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who murders her unfaithful husband, then manages not
only to avoid prison with the help of razzle-dazzle lawyer Billy Flynn, but uses
the trial to propel herself to showbiz stardom along with another murderous
chorus girl, Velma Kelly. A dark parable of American justice, Chicago is a sexy
musical extravaganza that includes several show-stopping numbers such as
"All That Jazz," "Razzle Dazzle" and "Class."
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