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The Wiz
Feb 13 - March 1, 2009
Winner of 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical!
Based on The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The musical is an all black adaptation of the tale we all know by heart. Dorothy is blown by a tornado into munskinland where she meets the Scarecrow, the Tinman, and the Cowardly Lion. They all go off to see the Wizard of Oz, who turns out to be a phoney, but she starts believing and they all live happily ever after.
Music/Lyrics: Charlie Smalls
Book: William F. Brown
Director: Kirk Mouser
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110 in the Shade
June 19 - June 28, 2009
Nominated for 5 Tony Awards, including Best Revival!
Based on Nash's 1954 play The Rainmaker, it focuses on Lizzie Curry, a spinster living on a ranch in the American southwest and charismatic con man Bill Starbuck, posing as a rainmaker who promises the locals he can bring relief to the drought-stricken area.
Music: Harvey Schmidt
Lyrics: Tom Jones
Book: N. Richard Nash
Director: Tobias Andersen
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Gypsy
Dates TBA
Featuring Julianne Johnson as Mama Rose
GYPSY is a musical comedy adaptation of the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, who has become famous in burlesque as a striptease artist. With her sister, June, she had had a rich career in the theatre, always driven on to ever-greater successes by an over-ambitious and persevering mother.
Music: Jule Styne
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book: Arthur Laurents
Director: Kirk Mouser
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