Roles:

Almost every character as some solo singing work

Roles:

9 men, ages 30’s to 80’s

9 women, ages 10 to 70’s

REVEREND SAMUEL PARRIS  (male, age 40-50)  Salem’s minister, a widower, insecure, severe, paranoid.

BETTY PARRIS (female, age 10)  Reverend Parris’ ten year old daughter.  Frightened of being punished for dancing in the woods with the other girls, Betty feigns illness and pretends to see spirits.

TITUBA (female, age can vary). Reverend Parris’ Jamaican slave, Knows “voodoo” and spirits, and teaches this to the girls.

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS (female, age 17)  Reverend Parris’ seventeen year old niece, in love with John Proctor. Crafty and vengeful, she leads the girls in the accusations.

THOMAS PUTNAM (male, age 45-50)  A well to do landowner, angry and bitter, he uses the hysteria to get even with rival enemies and neighbors.

MRS. ANN PUTNAM (female, age 40-50). Thomas Putnam’s wife, a haunted, miserable woman who believes that devils and witches are responsible for the deaths of her seven infant children.

JOHN PROCTOR (male, mid-thirties). The play’s protagonist.  A hard working, respected farmer, a husband with a heavy load on his conscience… his former affair with Abigail.

ELIZABETH PROCTOR (female, 30’s). John’s wife, knows about John’s affair with Abigail, and is accused by Abigail of witchcraft.  John says of Elizabeth that she is incapable  of telling a lie.

Production Details:

Rehearsals will be based around availability of cast and the week of the performance.

Production Run: January 4 – 6, 2019

Directed by Jake Schaefer

Music Directed by Henry McNulty

In Follies, the time is 1971, and theatrical impresario, Dimitri Weissmann, hosts a reunion of ex-Follies performers in his crumbling theatre, setting the stage for a parade of brilliant pastiche numbers, including “Losing My Mind,” “I’m Still Here” and “Broadway Baby.” Amid the reminiscing, two middle-aged couples confront some unpleasant truths about their past and present, coming face-to-face with the future.

Production Details:

Rehearsals Start: Two rehearsals the week of November 12 (cast availability dependent). Regular rehearsals to begin week of November 26. Please note, there will be no rehearsals the week of December 24.

Production Run: January 18 – February 10, 2019

Directed by Dawn Taylor Reinhardt

Three sisters gather for their mother’s funeral. Each has her own memories of her childhood and this creates conflict, which is, by turns, angry, desperate, poignant, and wildly funny.

The situation is deepened by the recurring presence of Vi, their mother, a ghostly vision in flowing taffeta. While visible only to one of the sisters, her influence and demand to be understood rather than buried and forgotten drives the other sisters as well. An evening, provocative and hilarious is promised.

Production Details:

Rehearsals Start: November 19, 2018 (Subject to change)

Production Run: January 25 – February 17, 2019

Directed by David Baker

This celebrated comedy revolves around the family of Martin Vanderhof who live “just around the corner from Columbia University – but don’t go looking for it.” Grandpa, as Martin is more commonly known, is the paterfamilias of a large and extended family: his daughter, Penny, who fancies herself a romance novelist; her husband, Paul, an amateur fireworks expert; their daughter, Alice, an attractive and loving girl who is still embarrassed by her family’s eccentricities—which include a xylophone player/leftist leaflet printer, an untalented ballerina, and ballet master exiled from Soviet Russia. When Alice falls for her boss, Tony, a handsome scion of Wall Street, she fears that their two families – so unlike in manner, politics, and finances – will never come together.

During a disastrous dinner party, Alice’s worst fears are confirmed. Her prospective in-laws are humiliated in a party game, fireworks explode in the basement and the house is raided by the FBI. Frustrated and upset, Alice intends to run away, until Grandpa manages to not only bring the happy couple together, but to set Tony’s father straight about the true priorities in life. After all, why be obsessed by money? You can’t take it with you.

Production Details:

Rehearsals will be based around availability of cast.

Studio Theatre Workshop Start: March 25, 2019 (Subject to change)

Workshop Presentation: April 5-6, 2019

Book and Lyrics by Ed Bryan

Music by Willam Berry

Directed by Jean Hardie

Moby Dick is a captivating story embedded in our culture; even those who have not read it are familiar with the tale of Ahab’s obsession, just as Ishmael, Ahab and Moby Dick ​are household names for the general public.

This emblematic conflict within the man and against the elements cries out to be told in a fashion which will reach theater audiences on the scale and scope of epic dramas such as Les Misérables. This story speaks to generation upon generation because Ahab’s conflict with the whale is symbolic of the primal conflict humans have against the elements and fate. The thrill, the devastation, and the eventual death can only be justly told on a scale and scope of an epic drama.

Production Details:

Rehearsals Start: January 14, 2019 (Subject to change)

Production Run: March 22 – April 14, 2019

Directed by Melody Deatherage

15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain. He is exceptionally intelligent but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion for killing his neighbor’s dog, he sets out to identify the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery and a journey that will change his life forever.

Production Details:

Rehearsals Start: January 21, 2019 (Subject to change)

Production Run: March 1 – 24, 2019

Directed by Andrew Start

In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen.

Production Details:

Rehearsals Start: February 4, 2019- Monday and Tuesday rehearsals (Subject to change)

Production Run: February 22 – 24, 2018

Directed by Jake Schaefer

Music Directed by Henry McNulty

Come celebrate the spirit of musical theatre with a collection of local performers. Broadway, Beat by Beat is a high energy collection of the best music Broadway has to offer with song selections throughout the decades.

Production Details:

Rehearsals Start: March 4, 2019 (Subject to change)

Production Run: May 3 – 26, 2019

Directed by Heather McHenry-Kroetch

Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory and the lead character of this delicious black comedy. Toiling by day as a zookeeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, where he lives with his wife, Bananas, much to the chagrin of Artie’s downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus, who refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie’s son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix. Also arriving are Artie’s old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy Einhorn, and his starlet girlfriend who holds the key to Artie’s dreams of getting out and away from the life he so despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives.

Production Details:

Rehearsals Start: March 25, 2019 (Subject to change)

Production Run: May 17 – June 16, 2019

Directed by Jake Schaefer

Music Directed by Henry McNulty

Choreographed by Cara Cooley

Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced “Fronk-en-steen”) inherits his family’s estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. “It’s alive!” he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather’s. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.