2012 Season

Theatre Café

January 13-14

Come have a hysterical evening at the theatre while raising funds for our 75th Season Fund Drive. Short comedic plays that push the envelope! Bring a beverage of your choice and be prepared to laugh until it hurts!

Theatre Cafe is an edgy, alternative short comedic piece that includes strong language and sexual situations. For mature audiences only.

Company Project
Fundraising Event for 75th Season
Co-Produced by the Not So Fine Arts Society
For mature audiences only

$15 per ticket

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Broadway Musical

February 2-5

Mark Twain’s classic story comes to exuberant musical life in this Broadway adaptation of America’s favorite book. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the irresistible story of a fourteen-year-old boy growing up in the heartland of America.

As this fun-filled musical unfolds, we share with Tom and his friends all of the rollicking and heart-stopping adventures that we find in Twain’s masterpiece, whether it’s Tom tricking his friends into white-washing the fence, crossing swords with the schoolmaster, getting lost in McDougal’s Cave, or taking on the Reverend Sprague in church.
Filled with foot-stomping, toe-tapping songs by country music’s Don Schiltz (The Gambler), and a warm, funny book by Ken Ludwig (Crazy for You, Lend Me a Tenor), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a tale of thrilling escapes, comedy and inspiration for the whole family.

Family/Student Theatre
$12 per ticket

The Boy Friend

March 8-11, 15-18

This lively, romantic spoof of 1920’s musical comedy tells the story of Polly, a wealthy English heiress attending Mme. Dubonnet’s finishing school on the French Riviera. Although her father, wary of fortune seekers, forbids Polly to have a boyfriend, Polly falls in love with Tony, a delivery boy. Remembering her father’s warning, Polly disguises herself as a working girl at the school — completely unaware that Tony is actually the missing son of the wealthy Lord Brockhurst! Things get complicated with the unexpected arrival in Nice of Polly’s parents and Lord and Lady Brockhurst — but not to worry, a happy ending is in store for all.

Mainstage Musical
$20 per ticket

Let Freedom Ring

March 30th

Pushcart Players presents Let Freedom Ring! Is a musical celebration of our nation’s birth and development-and fills a lovely groove of learning about America’s beginnings. From the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 to the era of industrialization at the turn of the 20th Century, this riveting and ultimately true story is about ordinary people who accomplish extraordinary goals. Let Freedom Ring conveys a sense of “what it was like” to be in that time and place in history. In the process of bringing history and social studies to life with effortless charm and dazzling images, Let Freedom Ring! Puts human value issues squarely on the agenda in a way that even the youngest of viewers can grasp and consider. Great for the whole family!

Touring Production
Adults: $12 per ticket
Students: $10 per ticket

Call QCT at 222-3209 for information about a school preview of this performance on March 30th.

Enchanted April

April 26-29, May 3-6

It’s the Roaring Twenties and two frustrated London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages, they recruit two very different English women to share the cost and the experience. There, among the wisteria blossoms and Mediterranean sunshine, all four bloom again—rediscovering themselves in ways that they—and we—could never have expected.

Mainstage Play
$18 per ticket

Twelfth Night

June 14-17 in the Laboratory Theatre

An excellent introduction for young audiences to the Shakespearean comedy. The Duke is in love with Olivia, who falls in love with Viola when she visits her dressed as a boy while pretending to be a servant of the Duke, with whom she falls in love, all to the displeasure of Malvolio, who works for Olivia. The pot stirs and boils until Shakespeare finally makes everything right again.

Family/Student Theatre
$9 per ticket

Oklahoma!

July 19-22, 25-29

Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love’s journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA! Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today.

Mainstage Summer Musical
$22 per ticket

Cactus Flower

Sept 13-15, 20-23

In this hysterical comedy set in the 1960’s, a philandering dentist keeps his many affairs at bay by claiming to be married with children. When the ruse threatens to catch up with him, he drafts his prickly nurse to pose as his “wife”. She blossoms and he finds himself falling in love with the lovely “cactus flower” right under his very nose. This Broadway hit later became a successful film starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn.

Mainstage Play
$18 per ticket

Radio Play

Oct 12-13

The Gothic terror myth of the creature of the night and his craving for human blood. This is the journal of Jonathan Harker as he comes to grips with losing his life to Vlad the Impalor! Watch as a sound effects person recreates the era of live radio right before your eyes! A spooky holiday treat for the whole family!

Company Project
Fundraising Event for 75th Season

Adults: $12 per ticket
Students: $10 per ticket

Ramona Quimby

Oct 25-28

Unpredictable. Exasperating. Boisterous and independent. That’s Ramona Quimby for you. Always aggravating her older sister, Beezus, constantly getting into trouble and sometimes “making a big, noisy fuss” when things don’t go her way. As narrator, Beezus introduces the Quimby family and friends and thereby sets the scene for the collection of vignettes that trace Ramona’s tumultuous passage through third grade and through her family relationships. At school, she throws a tantrum when provoked by a classmate and is sent home in disgrace. The teacher’s wrath, an important family wedding, persistent sibling bickering and Mr. Quimby’s attempts to give up smoking are part of the fabric that shape a humorous, loving family portrait. The characters and the material, adapted by Obie Award-winning playwright Len Jenkin, are as “today” as the morning newspaper.

Family/Student Theatre
$9 per ticket

Tea for Three

Nov 2-3

Lady Bird, Pat & Betty: Tea for Three reveals a gallery of intimate portraits of three remarkable, radically different First Ladies. We discover each at a threshold moment in her life, and learn the personal cost of what Pat Nixon called “the hardest unpaid job in the world.”

Particularly apt in a time of heightened politics, this one-woman show is both funny and deeply moving, a thought-provoking exploration of these fascinating women and what they faced in this most unusual job.

Emmy Award–winning actress Elaine Bromka, with 30 years in film, television, Broadway and Off-Broadway, starred opposite Rich Little in the P.B.S. show “The Presidents” and impersonated the last eight First Ladies. Intrigued by their stories, she went on to collaborate with playwright Eric H. Weinberger, focusing on Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford.

Touring Production
$20 per ticket

The Santaland Diaries

Dec 14-15

Written by the great American humorist David Sedaris, The Santaland Diaries follows one out – of – work actor who decides to become a Macy’s elf to pay the holiday bills. During this tour of duty as the Elf Crumpet, he learns what it takes to juggle tots and tottering Santas during a painfully festive time of the year. A laugh ‘til you cry evening of merrily subversive entertainment to delight adult audiences.

Company project
Fundraising event for 75th Season
For mature audiences only