2007-2008
Slate of Shows
(All titles, like life, are subject to change.)
(All titles, like life, are subject to change.)
‘Lend
Me a Tenor’ by Ken Ludwig
November 15, 16, 17, 2007 -
7 PM
Cast: 4M, 4W
World famous tenor, Tito Morelli, is to perform OTHELLO for the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. Saunders, the general manager, hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map, Morelli is late, and when he arrives it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious set of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed, and he passes out. His pulse is so low Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli’s Othello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he is Tito. Max succeeds admirably, but Tito comes in and gets into his other costume. Now TWO Othellos are running around in costume and two women are running round in nightwear, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo, while the Bellhop continues to try to meet Il Stupendo.
' The Revenge of the Space Pandas or Binkey Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock'
by David Mamet with music by Alaric Jans.
Feb. 28, 2008 - 7PM, March 1, 2008 - TBA
Cast: 3M, 3W plus extrasby David Mamet with music by Alaric Jans.
Feb. 28, 2008 - 7PM, March 1, 2008 - TBA
Binky Rudich, his friend Viv, and his almost human sheep Bob tinker with a two-speed clock with the idea that, as Binky says, "Time on Earth moves at the same speed all the time, but there is another speed, a slower speed, and if we could find it, everything would stand still on Earth and we would spin off." And they do! To Crestview, Fourth World in the Goolagong System, ruled by George Topax and guarded by the Great Space Pandas. The excitement really begins when the Supreme Ruler commands that Bob be brought to him, never again to leave Goolagong, and he steals the two-speed clock just to make sure. Only a very serious playwright could produce such an insane comedy!
'A
Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine'
Book by Dick Vosburgh; Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh; Music by Frank LazarusMay 8, 9, 10 2008 -
Cast: 4M, 4W plus ensembleBook by Dick Vosburgh; Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh; Music by Frank Lazarus
May 8, 9, 10 2008 - 7PM
The first act, "A Day in Hollywood", set in the lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theater, features an energetic and tongue-in-cheek song and dance revue featuring some of the best music from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen performed by "ushers and usherettes". Act II, "A Night in the Ukraine" is the Marx Brothers movie that was never made, featuring performances by Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx, set in the morning room of the Pavlenko residence in the Ukraine before the Revolution (loosely based on "The Bear" by Anton Chekhov). For EDUCATIONAL purposes only, LISTEN to the music from this show.
