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1970’s
Year Month Production 1970 February Write Me a Murder (#93) April Everyone Loves Opal (#94) May When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet November Cactus Flower (#95) 1971 Under the Yum Yum Tree (#96) Spring Wait Until Dark (#97) Fall Camelot (#98) 1972 March Invitation to a March (#99) April Auntie Mame (100th Show) October Don’t Drink the Water (#101) 1973 March Oliver (#102) November Kiss Me Kate (#103) 1974 May Forty Carats (#104) December The Music Man (#105) 1975 April Mrs. McThing June An Endless Line of Splendor (pageant) September Curse You, Jack Dalton (Gay 90s Revue) November Our Town 1976 April Arsenic and Old Lace August Broadway (revue) November Broadway Revisited (revue, #109) 1977 May Sorry, Wrong Number/The Spiral Staircase August Ladies Night at the Theater (revue) 1978 January Bits from Hollywood Hits (revue) 1979 Early summer Lil Abner -
1960’s
Year Month Production 1960 French With an Accent (Show #70) 1961 The Potting Shed (#71) November Golden Fleecing 1962 March Midas and the Golden Touch (children’s play) April/May Design for Murder Send Me No Flowers 1963 February The Emperor’s New Clothes (children’s play) April Teahouse of the August Moon (#75) November Picnic (#76) 1964 April Critic’s Choice (#77) November John Brown’s Body (#78) 1965 February/March Snow White and Rose Read (children’s play) April A Shot in the Dark (#79) October The Elves and the Shoemaker (children’s play) November Diary of Anne Frank (#80) 1966 March Mary, Mary (#81) April Angel Street (#82) November Never Too Late (#83) 1967 February The Bat (#84) April King of Hearts (#85) April Sky High (Youth Theater) November A Thousand Clowns (#86) 1968 February Bell, Book and Candle (#87) April Barefoot in the Park (#88) November The Odd Couple (#89) 1969 February Any Wednesday (#90) April The Chalk Garden (#91) November Come Blow Your Horn (#92) -
1950’s
Year Month Production 1950 April Little Foxes Hansel and Gretel (fundraiser) October The Torch Bearers 1951 January Bell for Adano April Ten Little Indians May Jack and the Bean Stalk (fundraiser) October The Velvet Glove (show #42) 1952 January The Petrified Forest (#43) April Life With Mother (#44) May Rumplestiltskin (fundraiser) November Ladies of the Jury 1953 February The Corn is Green (Kerosene Circuit) April Born Yesterday November The Silver Whistle 1954 February The Hasty Heart April The Happy time (#50) November Harvey (#51) Cinderella (Fundraiser) 1955 February Stalag 17 May My Three Angels The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker Sabrina Fair 1956 January Dial M for Murder (#55) #56? October The Tender Trap November The Desperate Hours December Nativity Scene 1957 April You Can’t Take It With You (#59) Gentleman Prefer Blondes 1958 March Come Back, Little Sheba Witness for the Prosecution Monique 1959 May 27-29 Visit to a Small Planet (by Gore Vidal, directed by Maybelle Tarr) -
30’s and 40’s
Year Month Production 1938 Arms and the Man 1939 April The Late Christopher Bean September The School for Scandal 1940 February The Cap’n Alden Place May The Royal Family October The Bat 1941 January Smiling Through April Hay Fever May The Prince of Liars November George Washington Slept Here 1942 February Aaron Slick of Pumpkin Crick March The Bishop Misbehaves May Icebound October Arsenic and Old Lace 1943 January First Lady May Papa is All July Pure as the Driven Snow (A Working Girls Secret) September Ladies in Retirement December First Year 1944 March Bundy Pulls the Strings June It Pays to Advertise October Junior Miss 1945 February The Woman June Angel Street (Gaslight) November SNAFU 1946 March Blithe Spirit May Night Must Fall Summer Oh Promise Me (Kerosene Circuit) 1947 January I Remember Mama April Pygmalion Summer Sweetwater Train October State of The Union 1948 January The Barretts of Wimpole Street April Skylark September Volunteer Bride (Kerosene Circuit) November Trial of Mary Dugan 1949 Jan Joan of Lorraine April French With an Accent May The Emperors New Coat (fundraiser) Oct Three Man on a Horse -
Noises Off
- by Michael Frayn
- directed by Linda Duarte
Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off presents a manic menagerie as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing’s On. Doors slamming, on and offstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious and classically comic play.
The New York Times called Noises Off “…the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy. A spectacularly funny, peerless backstage farce. … a festival of delirium.”
Each of the three acts of Noises Off contains a performance of the first act of a play within a play, a poor farce called Nothing On — the type of play in which young girls run about in their underwear, old men drop their trousers, and many doors continually bang open and shut. Preparing for the opening performance, the cast are hopelessly unready, and baffled by entrances and exits, missed cues, missed lines, and bothersome props, including several plates of sardines.
In Act Two, the play is seen from backstage, providing a view that emphasises the deteriorating relationships between the cast that lead to offstage shenanigans and onstage bedlam. The play falls into disorder before the curtain falls.
By Act Three, though the actors remain determined at all costs to cover up the mounting series of mishaps, it is not long before the plot has to be abandoned entirely and the more coherent characters are obliged to take a lead in ad-libbing somehow towards some sort of end.
Production Dates:
- Friday and Saturday, June 16th and 17th, 7:30 pm
- Sunday June 18th, 2:00 pm matinee
- Friday and Saturday, June 23rd and 24th, 7:30 pm
- Sunday. June 25th, 2:00 pm matinee