 Is There LIFE After High School?
Book by Jeffrey Kindley
Music & Lyrics by Craig Carnelia
Suggested by Ralph Keyes'
novel of the same name
Directed by Ed Kelley & Mike WrightReynolds
March 6 - 8 & 12 - 15, 2009
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Loosely inspired by Ralph Keyes' best-selling
book with the same title, this delightful musical uses songs and
monologues to take a nostalgic look back at the emotional roller
coaster known as high school. With an insightful book by Jeffrey
Kindley and exquisitely crafted songs by Craig Carnelia, it
offers a kaleidoscopic parade of adolescent memories, recalling
the joys, terrors, envies, hates and loves that make high school
the time of life so many of us "could not forget if we tried."
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Wait Until Dark
By Frederick Knott
Directed by Nancy Kruzek
June 5 - 7 & 12 - 14, 2009
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Veteran director
Nancy Kruzek
steps up to explore the blackness of the soul figuratively and
literally in our second show of 2009, the thrilling
Wait
Until Dark.
Frederick
Knott’s classic pits a young housewife, Suzy, recently blinded
in an accident and still adjusting to her sightlessness, against
a gang of ruthless criminals. Led by Harry, a charming yet
ruthless killer, the thugs are desperate to get their hands on a
heroin-filled doll that has wound up in the housewife’s
apartment. The trio tries to convince Suzy that her
husband has been implicated in a murder, and that the only way
to protect him is to surrender the doll. They underestimate
their prey, however, and when Suzy levels the playing field by
plunging the entire apartment in complete darkness, the tension
soars.
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 The Seven Year Itch
By George Axelrod
Directed by Joe Perna
August 14 - 16 & 21 - 23, 2009
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Audience favorite
Joe Perna
premieres as a Stage Crafter director with the sexy comedy
The Seven Year Itch,
the third offering of the 2009 season.
George
Axelrod’s story concerns the foibles and fantasies of a 38 year
old publisher, Richard. After sending his wife and son to the
shore to escape the heat of a sweltering New York City summer,
Richard has his marriage vows put to the test when he meets a
22-year-old model, known only as "The Girl," who has just moved
into the apartment upstairs. He starts fantasizing about her,
recalling something he read at work about a "seven-year itch"
(an idiom for the so-called moment of truth in a marriage when a
man is driven by a primitive urge to stray). This gives Richard
all the rationale he needs to cheat, believing he can blame his
lack of self-control on an irresistible biological imperative!
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1776
Book by Peter Stone
Music & lyrics by Sherman Edwards
Directed by Jean Starkey & John Beschler
November 6 - 8 & 12 - 15, 2009
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Set in May, June and July of the pivotal year
1776, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s classic musical allows
the audience to witness the haggling, angry discourse and
happenstance which leads to the creation of both a new nation
and the document which proclaims its birth. In the days leading
up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and
Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the
declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to
persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on
independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages
describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen,
landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of
the Declaration, and a single "nay" vote will forever end the
question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung
dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the
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