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2024 Season
Annie
December 6, 7, 12, 13, & 14
7:30 PM
December 8 & 15
2:00 PM
Main Stage
Directed By: Brady Flamino
With a perfect combination of street-smarts and optimism, Annie warms the hearts of the audience as we witness her rise from next to nothing in New York City. She is determined to find her parents, who left her at the orphanage years ago. Though things don’t quite work out the way she has planned, she does manage to thwart the plans of the evil Miss Hannigan and find a new family with billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his secretary Grace Farrell, and her lovable pooch, Sandy.
Shining Stars of Tomorrow
January 6, 2024
2:00 PM
Main Stage
Directed By: Amee Boughter
Join us for an afternoon of singing, dancing, acting and much more! Shining Stars of Tomorrow is a talent show case featuring our youth performers ranging from kindergarten through grade 8.
Stars of Tomorrow
January 6, 2024
7:30 PM
Main Stage
Directed By: Amee Boughter
Join us for an evening of singing, dancing, acting and much more! Stars of Tomorrow is a talent show case featuring our youth performers ranging from grade 8 through grade 12.
Love Letters
February 9, 10, 15, 16, & 17
7:30 PM
February 11 & 18
2:00 PM
The Annex
Directed By: Michael Cavalier
Black Comedy
April 5, 6, 11, 12, & 13
7:30 PM
April 7 & 14
2:00 PM
The Annex
Directed By: Paula Ferguson
Youth Theater Musical: High School Musical
May 3, 4, 10, & 11
7:30 PM
May 5 & 12
2:00 PM
Main Stage
Directed By: Brady Flamino
Disney’s High School Musical on Stage! centers on the blossoming relationship between Troy, a high school jock, and Gabriella, the new smart girl at school. They meet on a family vacation and become attracted to each other while singing in a karaoke competition. Rediscovering each other at school, their relationship and their surprise decision to audition together for the school show are thwarted by the school’s current leading lady, Sharpay, and Troy and Gabriella’s well-meaning friends. Finally, Gabriella and Troy find a way to be themselves and are rewarded with the lead roles in the school show. Full of catchy songs and exciting dance routines, Disney’s High School Musical on Stage! explores issues of friendship, first love, and acceptance.
Once On This Island
June 14 & 15
7:30 PM
June 16
2:00 PM
Main Stage
Directed By: Sindy Hanna
Once On This Island is a captivating legend of romance between a peasant girl and a rich city boy whom she saves from death. This calypso-flavoured re-telling of The Little Mermaid opens on a Caribbean island where villagers comfort a little girl with the story of the orphan Ti Moune, destined to love too much for the human heart to bear. Once On This Island delivers melody, love and joy in tropical abundance.
Rising Stars Youth Theater Camp
July 17 – 22
Program Director: Justin Bryan
This week-long theater experience, tailored for ages 7-18, includes instruction in vocal, dance, and general theater. Concluding the week, participants will showcase their talents in a performance on June 22, 2024.
The SpongeBob Musical
July 12, 13, 18, 19, & 20
7:30 PM
July 14 & 21
2:00 PM
Main Stage
Directed By: Brent Rodgers
SpongeBob SquarePants is the musical adaptation of Nickelodeon’s long-running animated children’s sitcom of the same name. We find ourselves in the undersea city of Bikini Bottom, inhabited by happy-go-lucky and ever-optimistic yellow sea sponge SpongeBob SquarePants and his equally quirky circle of friends and neighbors. SpongeBob’s pleasant existence is abruptly interrupted when it is discovered that Mt. Humongous, a nearby volcano, will erupt within the next 48 hours and completely obliterate Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob, trying to prove to himself and the world that he is not “just a simple sponge,” resolves to save the day when everybody else has given up all hope.
Youth Theater Play: The Enchanted Bookshop
August 9, 10, 15, 16, & 17
7:30 PM
August 11 & 18
2:00 PM
The Annex
Directed By: Kali Davies-Anderson
During the day, A Likely Story may look like any other used bookstore. But at night, it’s a place where magic happens. That’s when the characters inside the books come alive. Six of those characters — Dorothy Gale, Robin Hood, Pollyanna, Sherlock Holmes, Heidi, and Tom Sawyer — long to help Margie, the scatterbrained owner, save her struggling store. But they’re not allowed to leave the building or be seen by human eyes. So when a pair of smugglers comes looking for a stolen necklace hidden inside one of the books, the characters are torn. Should they warn Margie and risk disappearing forever? Or can they find a way to defeat the crooks without being seen?
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
September 13, 14, 19, 20, & 21
7:30 PM
September 15 & 22
2:00 PM
Main Stage
Directed By: Michael Cavalier
An eclectic group of sixth-graders arrives at the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, each eager to win for very different reasons. Sweet and shy Olive brings only her best friend (the dictionary) with her to the bee; bold and hyperallergic speller William Barfee uses his “magic foot” to propel him to greatness; former champion Chip is struggling with his burgeoning puberty; easily distracted Leaf is unconvinced that he’s smart enough to be a challenger; overachiever Marcy is disappointed by her consistent success; and politically aware Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre only wants to impress her gay dads. In hilarious, touching, and catchy songs, each speller reveals his/her hopes, struggles, and passions as they make their way through the competition. With an engaging, tuneful score by William Finn and a sweet, funny book by Rachel Sheinkin, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee causes audiences to fall in love, both with the show itself and its “perspicacious,” “jocular,” and “effervescent” spellers.
Youth Halloween Special Production: The Walking Dwarves
October 24, 25, 26 & 27
7:30 PM
October 27
2:00 PM
The Annex
Directed By: Peggy Hanna & LeeAnn Fulena
Walking dwarves… as in the walking dead? That’s right! What could be more fun for all ages than a zombie fractured fairy tale?!
Thanks to some prompting from a conniving Magic Mirror, the vain queen poisons apples with a “special ingredient” (that just happens to be plutonium), leading to a kingdom-wide plague of zombie dwarves! Snow White and the Huntsman narrowly escape the dwarves, making Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters the first zombie fodder, blindsided as they’re dress shopping for the big ball. And Little Red Riding Hood never reaches Granny’s house, instead falling victim, too! It’s no surprise when the Three Little Pigs, who can’t even protect themselves from Big Bad Wolf, become meaty breakfast treats for the swarm of hungry undead. Even Cinderella’s cheery animal friends (portrayed with puppets) can’t escape!
As the zombie horde grows, the kingdom’s dwindling band of survivors — including Old MacDonald, Candy Witch, Hansel, and Gretel — convene at the castle. The queen realizes with horror what she has done, but she still wants the royal ball to continue so she can win the heart of the hunky Prince Brawny.
Will there be a happily ever after in this fairy tale?