| 2004 - 2005 Season |
Hedda Gabler
September 29 - October 2 |
Featuring one of dramatic literature¿s most beguiling antiheroine's, Hedda Gabler, opens our season in this new adaptation by Jon Robin Baitz. Having just returned from a six month honeymoon and now ensconced in her dream home, Hedda has everything anyone could want...everything but the freedom to make her own choices and live her own life.
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Epic Proportions
November 17 - 20 |
Set in the 1930's, Epic Proportions tells the story of two brothers, Phil and Benny, who go to the Arizona desert to be extras in a huge Biblical epic. Things move very quickly in this riotous comedy; before you know it, one brother is directing the film, the other is starring in it and they both fall in love with the same woman, Louise, assistant director in charge of the extras who are called on to do everything.
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Guys and Dolls
February 23 - 26 |
Nathan Detroit has got to find a place for the big crap game, and Salvation Army "doll" Sarah Brown has to reform evildoers and save her mission in this brassy, bouncy Damon Runyon tale of Times Square. Considered by many critics to be the perfect Broadway musical, Guys and Dolls features such standards as A Bushel and a Peck, Luck Be a Lady, If I Were a Bell and the show's title song. EKU's Department of Music joins us again this year to produce this great musical that the whole family will enjoy.
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Shivaree
April 20 - 23 |
Chandler is a young hemophiliac, who is kept by his mother in a padded apartment to protect him from the outside world. Chandler is desperate for a normal live. Although he is intelligent, he is supremely naïve in the ways of the world. He pays a neighbor to bring him a woman but he can't go through with his plans to have sex with her. Then he meets Shivaree, an itinerant belly dancer who awakens Chandler to the idea of love.
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| 2003 - 2004 Season |
Merchant of Venice
October 1-4 |
FShakespeare's classic tale of friendship, mercy and understanding opens with the merchant Antonio loaning his friend Bassanio a large sum of money, and then matters go awry. Known for immortal characters such as Shylock and Portia and some of the Bard's most masterful language. The Merchant of Venice will remind us all that indeed "the quality of mercy is not strain'd" and is within all of us.
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Proof
November 19-22 |
The winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for best play, Proof focuses on Catherine, a troubled young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Following his death, Catherine must deal with her emotions, but what follows is part romance, part mystery and great story-telling.
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How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
February 25 - 28 |
One of the most delightfully irreverent musicals of all time, How to Succeed... is a satire of big business in the 1960's. J. Pierpont Finch, a lowly window-washer, climbs the corporate ladder to become a top executive and meets every kind of "company man" (and his future wife) along the way. The EKU Department of Music joins us again this year to bring this bright, brassy show to life.
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How The Other Half Lives
April 14-17 |
Three married couples are involved in this mad-cap farce by Alan Ayckbourn, England's Neil Simon. All three of the men work for the same company, and when one of the husbands start an affair with another wife, the third hapless couple gets drawn into the fray. "Fast paced, silly and ingenious," the action shifts between two households on stage at the same time ... and the audience is in on all the fun.
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| 2002- 2003 Season |
Antigone
October 2-5 |
Antigone has just lost both of her brothers fighting for opposing sides in the battle for Thebes. King Creon announces that the brother who fought for Thebes will be given a hero's funeral, but the traitorous brother will not. Antigone cannot accept this and defies the law to give her brother a proper burial. One of the world's lasting arguments for civil disobedience and following a higher law, Antigone remains a dramatic treasure after 2500 years.
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Scrooge
December 3-7 |
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has been turned into a stage musical for the entire family! As everyone knows, Ebenezer Scrooge believes Christmas is all "humbug," but his former partner and three persuasive ghosts do their magic and change his mind. Brimming with songs and holiday cheer, Scrooge! is EKU Theatre's and the Department of Music's Christmas gift to the University and the Richmond community.
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
February 26 - March 1 |
This autobiographical comedy revolves around Eugene (the young Neil Simon) as he fantasizes about baseball and girls amid the everyday miseries of sibling resentments and guild-ridden parent-child relationships. Described as "simultaneously poignant and funny," this hilarious comedy is ultimately about love, dignity and growing up.
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Oleanna
April 16-19 |
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| 2001 - 2002 Season |
Songs For A New World
September 26-29 |
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The Basset Table
November 14-17 |
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Baby
February 19 - March 1 |
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The Laramie Project
April 8-19 |
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| 2000 - 2001 Season |
Lend Me A Tenor
Septempber 18-29 |
Sweethearts Max and Maggie are holed up in a Cleveland, Ohio, hotel suite anxiously awaiting the arrival of world-famous Italian tenor Signor Tito Merelli, known to legions of fans as Il Stupendo. The appearance of the opera star in the evening's performance of "Otello" will be the highlight of the Cleveland Grand Opera Co.'s most important fundraiser for the 1934 season. When a tiff between Tito and his hot-headed wife, Maria, appears to have driven the slumbering star to snuff it. Maria's "Dear John" letter is mistaken for Tito's suicide note the company stands to lose. $50,000 in ticket sales. That is unless they can find a way for the dead singer to deliver the performance of his life!
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Diary of Anna Frank
November 6-17 |
The original play, The Diary of Anne Frank, written in 1955 by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, was a dramatization of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the version of the diary that was released in the United States in 1952. This production is based on newly discovered writings from the diary of Anne Frank as well as survivor accounts. This new adaption was done by Wendy Kesselman in 1997.
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South Pacific
February 19 - March 1 |
"A show of rare enchantment." "Rhapsodically enjoyable." Such were the raves for Rodgers and Hammerstein's fourth collaboration, South Pacific, when it opened on April 7, 1949. South Pacitic seemed blessed from its inception. Leland Hayward suggested to Joshua Logan, the director of Mister Roberts, that he read Tales of the South Pacific - James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of short stories about American servicemen and locals on a South Pacific island before and during World War II. Logan showed the book to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein and elements of four stories were expertly woven by Logan and Hammerstein into the three storylines of South Pacific: the story of the dashing middle-aged Frenchman Emile de Becque and the naive young nurse Nellie Forbush; the doomed love of Lt. Joe Cable and the Tonkinese Liat; and the comic shenanigans of Luther Billis. The unforgettable score, with such standards as "Younger Than Springtime", "Some Enchanted Evening," and "Bali Ha'i", also included Hammerstein's condemnation of racism, "Carefully Taught". The dramatic content of South Pacific was such that it not only swept the Tony Awards, but also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama - the second of only seven musicals so honoured since 1932. South Pacific ran for 1,925 performances on Broadway - the second longest run for a musical at that time.
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The Cripple of Inishmaan
April 8-19 |
Excitement hits the island of Inishmore and the sleepy village of Inishmaan when the local gossip, Johnnypateeenmike, announces that a Hollywood film crew is coming to film a movie on a nearby island. No one wants to go more than the orphaned Cripple Billy. After a life of teasing from his neighbors like the tempestuous Slippy Helen and her brother Bartley, Cripple Billy longs to escape the island and his life with his well-meaning but crazy foster aunts. When he sets sail for the film set to chase his dreams, he finds answers to questions he never could have found in Inishmaan, but finds that those same answers lead him home.
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