Wednesday, February 08, 2012

 
   
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THE SUNSHINE BOYS

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A Comedy by Neil Simon
Directed by Andrea Campfield

The play focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time vaudevillian team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-stage throughout the final year of their act. The stubborn Clark, who was not ready for retirement, resented the wiser Lewis for breaking up the act when he opted to leave show business. It is now 1972 and CBS is inviting the team to reunite for a special on the history of comedy, with the pair representing the vaudeville era at its best. Clark is convinced by his nephew Ben to revive one of the old routines one last time. Much of the humor is derived from efforts to get the two cantankerous actors into the same room for a rehearsal, their differences of opinion once they reunite, and their shenanigans on the actual broadcast.
  

CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP READER'S THEATRE: CHRISTMAS CRACK-UPS

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Written by Andrea Campfield
Directed by Jen Burke
  

WHO WILL SING FOR LENA

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Written by Janice L. Lidell
Guest performance starring Vanessa Adams-Harris

Who Will Sing for Lena? is a one-woman 75-minute play that gives a voice to Lena Baker and provides insight into the background of Ms. Baker and her tragic story. Using actual trial transcripts, the play provides motivations for Ms Baker’s actions—as a poor, black, woman in the rural south in the 1940s and dramatically tells the story of her abuse, the killing, the trial and the execution. Because the details of her life outside the transcript are virtually unknown, the playwright has used creative license to fill in the gaps of Ms. Baker’s story.
  

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

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Written by Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Andrea Campfield

We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously "acceptable" roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the activities of the other brother—these require no further description or amplification here. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is a must for all nonprofessionals, a ready-made comedy hit.
  
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