The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee By William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin
September 11-12, 17-19, 24-26, 2010
Six kids face off in the battle of their lives. The competition is intense. The words are outrageous. Let the spelling (and singing) begin! Three adults adjudicate the proceedings: a nostalgic former spelling bee winner, a mildly insance Vice Principal and The Official Comfort Counselor completing his community service to the State of New York. Both tender and sardonic, this hilarious Tony Award-winning musical of overachievers' angst brings you inside the spelling championship to end them all. Directed by Barbara Downer.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. on Sundays). Free post-show reception opening night, Sept. 11.
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My Three Angels, By Samuel Spewack and Bella Spewack,
November 6-7, 12-14, 19-21, 2010
The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas day the temperature has graciously dropped to 104 degrees. Three convicts are employed as roofers by a family who are in desperate need of maintenance. On the way from France is an evil-minded cousin to oust the father of the family from his business, and his cold-blooded nephew, who is jilting the father's daughter to an heiress. The three convicts--two of them murderers, the third a swindler--take the visitors on. All three have warm hearts and are passionate believers in true justice. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters right and in doing so redeem themselves as real life angels to the grateful family. Directed by Greg Stratton.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. on Sundays). Free post-show reception opening night, Nov. 6.
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The Diviners, Revised Edition Jim Leonard, Jr.
March 5-6, 11-13, 18-20, 2011.
Winner of the American College Thetre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southen Indiana in the early 1930's. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The women of the town try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake this scene for a baptism. Directed by James Johnson.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. on Sundays). Free post-show reception opening night, March 5.
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Moon for the Misbegotten, By Eugene O'Neill
June 4-5, 10-12, 17-19, 2011
This classic play brings James "Jamie" Tyrone, Jr., to the home of his tenant farmer, Mike Hogan, a salty Irish geezer and encounters after years, his voluptuous, amazon-like daughter, Josie. During one moonlit night, as the lovestruck Josie seems to claim him as her own, the truculent, drunken Jamie drowns in a wash of self-pity and remorse. When dawn comes, the moon is gone and so is the man, leaving Josie with a new challenge to her dauntless spirit. Directed by Jo Ann Rigney.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. on Sundays). Free post-show reception opening night, June 4.
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