| The Western Stage 2010 Season
To Kill a Mockingbird
a family play
Adapted by Christopher Sergel
From the novel by Harper Lee
June 4-27, 2010
Millions have read this wonderful novel and
millions more have seen the Academy Award
winning movie which starred Gregory Peck.
Now, America's most beloved novel comes to
life in this faithful stage adaptation of the story
of a father's love for his children as seen through the eyes of a lovable tomboy named Scout, who is fascinated with all the people that live in her small southern town. To Kill a Mockingbird is a beautiful American story of dignity, of tolerance and of the difficulties growing up in a rural
community during the great depression.
The Music Man
the all-American musical comedy
By Meredith Willson and
Franklin Lacey
July 24-August 14, 2010
Sometime traveling salesman and full-time con man Harold Hill cooks up a delicious musical soup when he convinces the residents of River City that the only way to save their children is to create a marching band - and it just so happens that he can supply the instruments and uniforms at a reasonable price. He plans to take the money and split, only this time he falls in love. And you will, too - with songs like: Ya Got Trouble, Seventy Six Trombones, Gary Indiana, Marian the Librarian, the Wells Fargo Wagon and many, many more happy tunes. Who could forget the classic movie with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. See it live.the way it was intended.
Rock 'n' Roll
love, revolution and loud music
By Tom Stoppard
July 30-August 22, 2010
An English educated Czech student leaves Cambridge to return to Prague while the city is occupied by Soviet tanks in 1968 and the only thing he takes with him is his beloved collection
of rock and roll records. A story of colliding values, philosophies and passions, filled with harsh arguments and ambiguous acts of betrayal among people who truly love one another.
Real Women Have Curves
an amusing look at gender politics
By Josefina Lopez
Sept 10-Oct 3, 2010
Poor Latina women reveal their lives, loves and deepest desires in this stage version of the successful movie of the same name that introduced America Ferrera, known to television audiences as Ugly Betty. An ambitious and bright young woman yearns to go to college but doesn't have the money. She spends the hot summer toiling in a Los Angeles sweat shop. In sharing their stories, the women find hope and inspiration.
Footloose
Stage adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobby
Sept 25-Oct 16, 2010
Based on the 1984 hit movie, this high energy musical is the story of the big city kid who moves to a small town where dancing and rock 'n' roll are forbidden and shakes up the statu quo.
The Foreigner
a wacky and laugh filled farce
By Larry Shue
Oct 22-Nov 14, 2010
How do you transform a bland boring personality into a lovable charmer? Answer: You pass him off as a visiting foreigner who neither speaks nor understands one word of English. This broad comedy is filled with non-stop, highly charged hilarity. A red-necked villain, a bogus preacher and a crazy demolition expert who thinks of himself as a modern Doctor Frankenstein, make this farce broad enough to rival many a Saturday Night Live skit.
A Mexican Christmas Carol
a world premiere of a legendary masterpiece
By Juan Antonio Ramos
December 4-18, 2010
Doña Avaricia is the richest woman in town. She is also the greediest and the cruelest. Yet, on this Christmas Eve, she is about to learn the most profound lesson of her life as three spirits take her on a journey to rediscover the tragic family events that define her past, confront the misery that surrounds her present, and peer into a dark and undesirable future.
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