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The 2005-6 Season |
 Enthralling Sondheim Musical Oct 27-Nov 19, 2005 |
 Snappy Comedy May 4-20, 2006 |
 Brilliant Drama March 2-18, 2006 |
 Arthur Miller's Classic July 20-Aug 5, 2006 |
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October 27 - November 19, 2005 |
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The authors of the landmark Company reunite to turn the traditional showbiz musical on its head in this thrilling and compelling Broadway fable about friendship, compromise and the high price of success. Based on the Kaufman & Hart play with the same name, Merrily We Roll Along begins in the present and moves backwards, tracing the lives of wealthy, jaded composer Franklin Shepard and his two estranged friends through each milestone of their personal and professional lives (good and bad). The show ends with a touch of rueful irony, as the three best friends at the start of their careers face a bright future: young, talented and enthusiastic about the worlds waiting to be conquered. Stephen Sondheim and George Furth expertly blend the excitement and energy of a backstage musical with a poignant and emotional contemporary story about the importance of staying true to one's ideals. Merrily We Roll Along crackles with the wit, humor and intensity that embody the spirit of New York City. With a brilliant "Broadway-style" score and that deep insight one expects from any Sondheim endeavor, this show is a spirited and moving cautionary tale for anyone who has ever pursued a dream. The Vokes production uses the 1994 revised script from the smash-hit York Theatre Company revival directed by Susan H. Schulman. 
Listen to
Song Excerpts
courtesy of the
MTI web-page.
Cast List and Production Credits
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March 2-18, 2006 |
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Winner of the 1981 Tony® Award for Best Play, a 1984 Oscar® for Best Movie, and triumphant in recent revivals in the West End and on Broadway, this provocative work weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power. In the court of the Austrian Emperor, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter the greatest musical genius of all time: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri has given himself to God so that he might realize his sole ambition to be a great composer. Mozart is a foul-mouthed, graceless libertine who has achieved that which is beyond Salieri's grasp. Full of envy and hatred, the mediocre composer sets out to destroy this child who effortlessly hears the music of the spheres. "A total iridescent triumph ... of complexity of thought, emotion and dramatic power." -- New York Post "Brilliant and excellent." -- WABC TV "Season's best.... Snag[s] the soul and live[s], in some way, forever.... Vast and glorious." -- London Free Press
Read more about
Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.
Cast List and Production Credits
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May 4-20, 2006 |
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Nothing will prepare you for the dirty little secret Cass discovers in her husband's sweater drawer. It is so shocking that our heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she missed out on. It's a wild ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel of laughs as Cass embarks on a journey of self-discovery that has her crossing paths with a blithely suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, a pair of bickering private detectives and a strange caper involving a gargantuan jar of peanut butter, all of which pushes her perilously close to the water's edge. "Hefty laughter. David Lindsay-Abaire's Wonder of the World is exceedingly whimsical and playfully wicked. Winning and genial. A top-drawer production." -- NY Times "Full frontal lunacy is on display. A most assuredly fresh and hilarious tragicomedy of marital discord run amok. Lindsay-Abaire's flair for the absurd combines nicely with an ability to pull laughs out of any situation. Absolutely hysterical." -- Variety "People in psychic pain have never agonized so hilariously as in David Lindsay-Abaire's revved-up, joyously zany play." -- Washington Post "Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, whose Fuddy Meers became one of the most acclaimed comedies in recent seasons, should cement his reputation with his newest effort, a wonderfully daffy, surreal extravaganza. Wonder of the World is a hilarious confection. Lindsay-Abaire further establishes himself here as a writer with a terrific gift for absurdist humor, leavened with just enough doses of seriousness to provide emotional resonance." -- Hollywood Reporter "Wild and crazy. David Lindsay-Abaire delights in the demented." -- A.P.
Read the
Curtain Up
review of the original production. Cast List and Production Credits |
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July 20-Aug 5, 2006 |
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Winner of the 1953 Tony® Award for Best Play, The Crucible is Arthur Miller's exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem: a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our contemporary society. The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie—and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others. "A powerful drama." -- NY Times "Strongly written." -- NY Daily News
Read more about
The Crucible
and the
Salem Witch Trials.
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