The 1995-96 Season
The 1995-96 Season
October 26 - November 11, 1995
January 18 - February 3, 1996
March 7 - 23, 1996
May
2 - 18 , 1996
July 18 - August 3, 1996
October 26 -
November 11, 1995
This season marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Broadway opening of Company ; it became the most honored production of the season, earning fourteen nominations and six Tony awards, including Best Music, Best Lyrics, Best Book, and Best Musical. We are very excited to be kicking off our season with this outstanding American musical. As we meet the variously matched and mis-matched couples in Bobby's social circle, we see through his eyes a kaleidoscopic view of the many shapes and forms of love, marriage, passion, commitment, avoidance, and acceptance. Some of Sondheim's finest music and one of the musical theatre's best scripts combine in a perfect blend in Company.
January 18 -
February 3, 1996
One of the most significant and successful playwrights of his generation, Edward Albee has received three Pulitzer prizes and a host of other awards. A Delicate Balance, one of his most powerful works, examines the nature of friendship and family ties and the obligations that each present. It is also a searing exploration of our capacity for self-delusion; if drama does "hold the mirror up to nature," then can we bear to look back at the image, without flinching, and see ourselves as we really are? One of the true jewels of the modern American theatre, A Delicate Balance is a deeply moving and thought-provoking play.
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March 7 - 23, 1996
Most plays revolve around a central problem that drives the plot; the solution of that problem is the end of the play. Chekhov once wrote, "Life is an insoluble problem." This belief informs all of his work. In Uncle Vanya, as in all of his plays, there are no easy answers - only painful, at times painfully funny questions. Vanya is pure Chekhov; written when he was at the height of his creative prowess, the play is filled with the all-too human and all-too fallible characters for which the author is known. Their complexity and their humanity are the reasons that they have held such fascination for audiences all over the world.
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May 2 - 18,
1996
A shining example of modern American madcap farce, The House of Blue Leaves was the winner of both the New York Drama Circle's and "Obie" awards for 1970-71. A frustrated songwriter, his wife, his mistress, his AWOL son, MPs, nuns, and the Pope all converge on one apartment in Queens with explosively comical results. Writing for The New York Times, Walter Kerr said, "Mr. Guare has an exceptional gift for the bizarre phrase, antic gesture, improbable stage picture that will turn with a slight twist ... into plausible and sometimes distressing reality."
July 18 - August
3, 1996
One of the most riotously funny of all comedies, The Rivals is the kind of all-out fun that defines the word "classic." As merry an assortment of comical characters as any playwright has ever assembled meet in the English playground city of Bath, where disguise and masquerade are the order of the day. The young lady finds the dashing ensign enchanting, but who is he really? Which lady is hiding her identity behind the mysterious nom d'amour "Delia"? And how much trouble could one little mis-delivered love note cause? All these romantic entanglements and misadventures, plus the zany supporting cast, including the hilarious Mrs. Malaprop, make The Rivals a wonderfully silly confection of an evening.
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