2009~2010 Season

Miss Saigon

Biloxi Blues

Sanders Family Christmas

Exit The Body

Our Town

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

*All posters except the place holder poster were created by B.K. Meyer


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Miss Saigon

(Musical)
Music by Claude-Michel Schonberg
Lyrics by Alain Boubil and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Directed by: Marty Craig

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Performances
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00 pm
Aug. 14 -15, 21-22, 28-29, Sept.  4-5
Sunday Matinees @ 2pm
Aug.  23, 30, Sept. 6
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Nominated for 11 Tony Awards, ‘Miss Saigon’ tells the poignant tale of star crossed romance between Asian woman and an American GI at the time of the Vietnam War.

“Raw and uncompromising, ‘Miss Saigon’ is an intensely personal story of the losses we suffer and the sacrifices we make in a world gone mad.” – Music Theatre International

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Biloxi Blues

(Comedy Drama)
Written by: Neil Simon
Directed by: Joe Viser
Auditions: August 16-17

Performances

Friday-Saturday @ 8:00 pm Sept. 25-26, Oct. 2-3, 16-17, 23-24

Sunday Matinees @ 2pm
Oct. 4, 18, 25
(NO PERFORMANCES OCT. 9-11)

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This multiple Tony, Theatre World, and Drama Desk Award winning play by Neil Simon is a hilarious semi-autobiographical play about a young man’s introduction to life, love and the U.S. Army in less than ideal circumstances.

“Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding” – New York Times “A play that rings with a newer, deeper, sweeter truth” – NY Magazine Samuel French Plays

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Sanders300x463Sanders Family Christmas

(Christmas Musical)
Written by: Connie Ray
Conceived by: Alan Bailey
Musical Arrangements by: John Foley and Gary Fagin
Directed by: Jim Walker

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Auditions: September 27-28
Performances
Friday – Saturday @ 8:00 pm
Nov. 20-21, 27-28, Dec. 4-5, 11-12

Sunday Matinees @ 2pm

Nov. 29, Dec. 6, 13
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From the creators of Smoke on the Mountain, this great family show for the holidays is filled with infectious bluegrass music and yuletide cheer as the Sanders family returns to the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church for a very special Christmas Eve.

“Richly entertaining, this wildly infectious musical brings cheer to audiences eager to see how their friends from ‘Smoke On The Mountain’ have been getting along.” – Samuel French Plays

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Exit The Body

(Comedy)
Written by: Fred Carmichael
Directed by: Michael Hayes

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Auditions: November 22-23

Performances
Friday- Saturday @ 8:00 pm
Jan. 22-23, 29-30, Feb. 5-6, 12-13
Sunday Matinees @ 2pm
Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 14
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A hilarious who-done-it, “Exit the Body” is a madcap adventure of a mystery writer in New England whose closet is the rendevous point for stolen jewels, dead bodies and comedic entrances and exits.

“Hilarious, delicious, uproarious, hysterical…” – Bennington Banner “Never have tears of laughter flowed so freely” – Rutland Hearld Samuel French Plays

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(Drama)
Written by: Thorton Wilder
Directed by: Grace Thompson
Auditions: January 17-18
Performances
Friday – Saturday @ 8:00 pm March 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, 26-27
Sunday Matinees @ 2pm
March 14, 21, 28
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An American classic, Thorton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is a rich, engaging story exploring the lives of people living in a quintessetial American small town at the turn of the 20th Century

“Beautiful and remarkable... A spiritual experience” – NY Post

“No American play describes more powerfully how we imagine ourselves…” – New York Daily News

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(Musical)
Music and Lyrics by: Carol Hall Book by: Larry L. King and Peter Masterson
Directed by: Marty Craig

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Auditions: March 7-8
Performances
Friday – Saturday @ 8:00 pm
May 14-15, 21-22, 28-29, June 4-5
Sunday Matinees @ 2pm
May 23, 30, June 6
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A rolicking, bawdy musical, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” tells the true-to-life tale of a crusading television reporter’s efforts to close down a brothel and the sheriff caught in the middle,

“Utterly charming, lively and genial” – New York Daily News

“Humerous and good natured” – NY Post

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CUCKOOS NESTOne Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

(Comedy/Drama)
Written by: Ken Kesey
Directed by: Don Hampton

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Auditions: May 16-17

Performances

Friday – Saturday @ 8:00 pm July 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 23-24
Sunday Matinees @ 2pm
July 11, 18, 25

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Boisterous, ribald and ulitmately shattering, Ken Kesey’s tale is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants which pits the brawling, fun-loving Randle P. McMurphry against the tyrannical martinet, Nurse Rached.

 

“Cuckoo is Captivating” – NY Post

“One of the finest, most meaningful, and most moving plays of recent times” – WPIX TV

Samuel French Plays

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