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| | Lizzie, The Musical
February 1 - March 3, 2019
by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Alan Stevens Hewitt, and Tim Maner
Directed by Jocelyn A. Brown
Musical Direction by Robyn Manion
Choreographed by Hazel Clarke
Our 21st Season kicks off with a punk-rock opera that explores the bloody legend of America’s favorite axe-wielding sweetheart-diva-heroine-enigma-psychopath, Lizzie Borden. Accused of brutally killing her father and stepmother in 1892, Lizzie was eventually acquitted by a jury of her peers, leaving the horrific crime unsolved. What really happened on the fateful night of the dual killings? Journey into a wondrous exploration of this mysterious tale, inspired by the raucous and revolutionary rock spectacles of the ‘70s, and iconic women rockers like Patti Smith and Joan Jett.
Executive Producer
Guy W. Marr
Associate Producers: Susan Bowman & Freddie Greenfield and Rachelle Menaker & Eddie Schuller
Season Producers
Bette & Wylie Aitken
Associate Season Producer: Laurie Smits Staude
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| | James and the Giant Peach
February 15 — March 3, 2019
Words & Music by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
Book by Timothy Allen McDonald
Directed by Darryl B. Hovis
Musical Direction by Bill Strongin
Choreographed by Christine Hinchee
Associate Director & Choreography by Miguel Cardenas
James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags — his odious aunts — and he’s a very lonely little boy indeed. One day, something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden, a peach starts to grow and grow … and grow. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects, all waiting to take James on a magical adventure of enormous proportions. We invite you to crawl inside the giant peach and take a peek. Based on Roald Dahl’s beloved book and featuring music by the Tony and Academy Award-winning songwriting team behind Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight, and La La Land, this family musical takes you on an amazing voyage across the ocean.
Based on the book "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
Executive Producer
Elizabeth Jones
Season Producers
Bette & Wylie Aitken
Associate Season Producer: Laurie Smits Staude
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Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying
March 6, 2019
by Jessica Huang
Directed by Jennifer Chang
Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying explores global warming through the lens of grief. Supported by four years of research, Transmissions merges mixed-race identity politics, science, and economics to tell a story that spans 300 million years.
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| | Chance-a-thon 2019
(on the Cripe Stage)
Saturday, March 23, 2019 — 12pm-9pm
Sunday, March 24, 2019 — 12pm-9pm
Since 2012, the Chance-a-thon has squeezed 24 hours of various performances from our local community into one weekend immersed in theater. This fun and unique fundraising event brings community members together to showcase their work and raise money for Chance Theater.
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| | 24hr Chance-a-thon 2019
(on the Fyda-Mar Stage)
Saturday, March 23, 2019 — 12:15pm-9:15pm
Sunday, March 24, 2019 — 12:15pm-9:15pm
Since 2012, the 24hr Chance-a-thon has squeezed 24 hours of various performances from our local community into one weekend immersed in theater. This fun and unique fundraising event brings community members together to showcase their work and raise money for Chance Theater. | Buy tickets |
| | Skylight
April 19 - May 19, 2019
by David Hare
Directed by Oanh Nguyen
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.
NOTE: This show contains adult language.
Executive Producers
Linda & Tod White
Season Producers
Bette & Wylie Aitken
Associate Season Producer: Laurie Smits Staude
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| | Tigers Be Still
May 3 - June 2, 2019
by Kim Rosenstock
Directed by Marya Mazor
Tigers Be Still -- a ferociously funny play from New Girl writer Kim Rosenstock -- centers around the infinitely-trying-to-be-optimistic Sherry Wickman, who has earned her art therapy degree and promptly moved back in with her family. Matters take a turn for the better once she gets hired as a substitute art teacher. Now if only her mother would stop hiding upstairs, her sister would stop watching Top Gun from the couch, her petulant patient would do one of his assignments, her boss would leave his gun at home, and someone would catch the tiger that escaped from the local zoo, everything would be just perfect.
NOTE: This show contains adult language.
Executive Producers
The Family of Mary Kay Fyda-Mar
Season Producers
Bette & Wylie Aitken
Associate Season Producer: Laurie Smits Staude
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| | Goosebumps, The Musical:
Phantom of the Auditorium
October 4 - 27, 2019
Book by John Maclay
Music by Danny Abosch
Lyrics by John Maclay & Danny Abosch
Directed by Darryl B. Hovis
Choreographed by Monika Peña
Brooke and Zeke are thrilled to learn that they’ve won the starring roles in the new school musical — a mysterious production called The Phantom. But when strange, seemingly supernatural events begin interrupting rehearsals, the friends begin to wonder whether the show they’re acting in might be cursed. In the slightly spooky, family-friendly world of Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Brooke and Zeke must race to find out whether they’re being haunted by ghosts or hoodwinked by pranksters.
Executive Producer
Robert Berman
Season Producers
Bette & Wylie Aitken
Associate Season Producer: Laurie Smits Staude
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