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The Hallelujah Girls
By Jones, Hope, Wooden
When the Hallelujah girls in Eden Falls, Georgia decide to open SPA-DEE-DAH in an abandoned church, they change their lives and pursue their dreams. Carlene has buried three husbands. Nita can’t keep her son out of trouble with his probation officer and Mavis is trying to think of a way to fake her own death to get out of her marriage. All the while, sweet Crystal perks everyone up with her hilarious lyrics to Christmas carols. An old boyfriend shows up, Sugar Lee’s rival tries to steal the spa and an unexpected marriage proposal shocks the lot of them. By the end of the evening, even the audience will shout Hallelujah!
Our Town
By Thornton Wilder
American playwright Edward Albee described Our Town as “the finest play ever written in America.” The play follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through daily life, love and marriage and death and eternity. Narrated by a stage manager, the audience follows the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry and eventually – in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre – die. The New York Post describes the play as “Beautiful and remarkable – one of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre…A spiritual experience.”
"Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None"
Agatha Christie builds a spellbinding mystery comedy from a series of statuettes on the mantle of a house off the coast of Devon in England that fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the household succumb to a diabolical avenger. A simple nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten soldiers met his death until there were none. Eight houseguests who have never met each other are lured to the island, and along with two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead from poison. One down and nine to go.
A Flea in Her Ear
By Georges Feydeau
George Feydeau’s wild and hilarious comedy of mistaken identity, motive and action growing out of a wife’s suspicion of an adulterous affair is a delightful farce. Wife plots to catch husband in the act and hasn’t a clue that he is actually a good and faithful man. The entire cast ends up in a hotel famous for sexual escapades and with doors slamming and beds spinning, the accusations and misunderstandings unravel themselves hysterically. In the end the spouses promise to be better mates to each other.
Sweeney Todd
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Music by Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Based on a version of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd, was recently played in the film version by Johnny Depp with Angela Lansbury as the memorable Mrs. Lovett in the original production in New York in 1979. Benjamin Barker, alias Sweeney Todd, returns to London after fifteen years of banishment on false charges. Mrs. Lovett, his former landlady, informs him of his wife’s suicide after having been raped by the judge who wrongly sentenced him to his banishment. He begins a campaign of revenge and his victims end up in Mrs. Lovett’s lovely meat pies.