The 2003-4 Season
The 2003-4 Season
 Musical Comedy Farce Oct. 30 - November 22, 2003 |
 2001 Pulitzer for Drama May 6 - 22, 2004 |
 Steve Martin's Comedy March 11 - 27, 2004 |
 A Farce for the Dark Ages July 15 - 31, 2004 |
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October 30 - November 22, 2003 |
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It's 1931 and The Twentieth Century, the pride of the
New York Central Railroad is ready to whisk us
from Chicago to New York in just sixteen hours.
But, as the Comden & Green title
song tells us: "Anything can happen in those sixteen hours."
Especially when the
passengers include an egotistical but desperate Broadway producer,
his estranged paramour and movie star protege,
her new boyfriend and the nutty Mrs. Primrose, a zany evangelist.
Put them all together
in a cramped
drawing room car, and we may have a farce on our hands. And a
1978 Tony Award-winning musical comedy by the composer of City of Angels
and Sweet Charity.
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March 11-27, 2004 |
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Comedian/actor Steve Martin won the
1996 New York Outer Critics' Circle Awards for "Best Play"
and "Best Playwright," for his first full-length play,
a comedy set
in 1904 in a bohemian Paris bistro, the Lapin Agile.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile is
an imaginary meeting between a
passionate Pablo Picasso and a fiery
Albert Einstein. The two young men on the
threshold of fame vie for the attentions of a
young lady and for each others' respect in an
hilarious battle of ideas about painting,
probability, lust, and the future of the world.
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May 6-22, 2004 |
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Catherine is alone on her 25th birthday. She’s set aside her own
promising work to care for her father, a brilliant mathematician
sinking into madness. In a room upstairs are his private
notebooks: 103 volumes filled with two decades of theories,
lists, scribblings – and an astounding mathematical proof.
Now Hal, her father’s student, asks permission to read them.
The truth, elusive and surprising, shows the fine line
between madness and genius, the bond between father and
daughter, the trust between teacher and student, and the
spark between lovers.
"An exhilarating and assured new play…as accessible and compelling as a detective story." – New York Times Cast List and Production Credits
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July 15-31, 2004 |
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A "Dark Comedy About the Dark Ages" Incorruptible mixes
a bit of hilarious farce with elements of romance, faith, and some
healthy cynicism.
In a monastery in 13th-century France live a ragtag assortment of monks
who have a few small problems.
The river flooded again last week. The chandler’s
shop just burned to the ground. Nobody’s heard of
the wheelbarrow yet. And Ste. Foy, the patron of
the local monastery, hasn’t worked a miracle in
thirteen years.
The brothers' desperation leads them to extreme
measures to improve their financial situation and
perhaps to elicit a visit from the Pope.
Playwright Michael Hollinger
explores questions about faith
while satirizing professional ambition and the
little equivocations that lead to the slippery slope of perdition,
in this rollicking comedy full of memorable one-liners and biting dialogues.
"Everything fits snugly in this funny, endearing black comedy. Hollinger understands how to balance verbal and physical humor, how to sketch personality in a few deft strokes, and how to write dialogue that’s an artful blend of the mock-formal and the anachronistically breezy. A piece of remarkably dexterous craftsmanship." --Philadelphia Inquirer. Cast List and Production Credits
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