Our 2005-2006 Season

Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Performances:
Fridays and Saturdays, October 7-15, 2005 at 7:30pm
Sunday matinees, October 9 and October 16, 2005 at 2:00pm

Based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, this story is really about Momma Rose, her aggressive stage mother. Join Rose and her daughters June and Louise as they take their vaudeville act across the United States during the 1920's, a time when vaudeville was already dying.

Music book and lyrics by Rupert Holmes
Based on the book by Charles Dickens

Performances:
Fridays and Saturdays, March 10-18, 2006 at 7:30pm
Sunday matinees, March 12 and March 19, 2006 at 2:00pm

This wildly warm-hearted theatrical experience kicks off when the Music Hall Royale (a loony Victorian musical troupe) presents its flamboyant rendition of an unfinished Dickens mystery. The story itself deals with John Jasper, a Jekyll-and-Hyde choirmaster who is quite madly in love with his music student, the fair Miss Rosa Bud. Miss Bud is, in turn, engaged to Jasper's nephew, young Edwin Drood. Our title character disappears mysteriously one stormy Christmas Eve - but has Edwin Drood been murdered? And if so, then whodunnit?

Drood's most talked-about feature is that it allows the audience to vote on the solution as prelude to the most unusual and hilarious finale! Musical numbers include The Wage of Sin, Perfect Strangers, Both Sides of the Coin, Don't Quit While You're Ahead and Moonfall. Drood received five Tony awards in 1985, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score.