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The Western Stage 2010 Season
To Kill a Mockingbird The greatest coming of age story in American literature. Atticus Finch may not seem like much of a hero to his children, Scout and Jen, but they’re about to learn otherwise. When a young black man named Tom Robinson is accused of raping a poor white woman on the outskirts of town, Atticus Finch is called upon to defend him in court, much to the displeasure of his fellow residents in Maycomb, Alabama. Yet, as the children watch their father face the hatred of the town, threats from a lynch mob, and the prospect of arguing a court case that was lost before it even began, he becomes an example to them and all of us about what it truly means to be courageous. > Buy Tickets! The Music Man He’s a menace. He’s a con-man. He’s Harry Hill — a fast-talking traveling salesman who is an expert as seducing people with empty promises. River City, Iowa may not be his territory, but he still knows how to get the residents to shell out money. Don’t let your young boys get lured to the wrong side of the tacks by the new pool table in town. Make them join a boy’s band with me as band leader. The only problem — Harry Hill doesn’t know how to teach music much less lead a band. Yet when he falls for Marian, the town music teacher and librarian, will he be able to continue his con job or will he have a change of heart? You’ll be seduced too by this wholesome romantic comedy featuring the songs “Goodnight My Someone”, “Shipoopi”, and “’Til There Was You”. > Buy Tickets! Rock 'n' Roll In his most personal play to date, Tom Stoppard chronicles the oppressive later years of Communism in Czechoslovakia through the relationship of Max, an irascible old school Communist lion teaching at Cambridge, England, and Jan, his dissident Czech student obsessed with Western Rock and Roll. Spanning the turbulent period of the Prague Spring in 1968 to the aftermath of the Violet Revolution in 1990, this intellectually nimble drama tackles everything from the debates about the virtues of old school Communism versus modern Capitalism, Sapphic poetry, and how best to rebel against an oppressive government — through intellectual letters of protest or through subversive actions like wearing long hair and playing rock and roll. With a soundtrack that includes The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylon, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, and The Plastic People of the Universe, this ambitious and thought provoking play shows Stoppard in top form as our greatest living playwright. > Buy Tickets! Real Women Have Curves It’s a real pressure cooker of a week for Estela Garcia. Not only does the small garment factory she owns have to produce over a hundred new dresses for an abusive client, but she is also living in constant fear that the immigration service will catch her any minute and deport her before this important order can be complete. If this weren’t enough, she also has to deal with disgruntled workers who haven’t been paid in weeks, a potential boyfriend with less than desirable motivations, and the suffocating heat of a Los Angeles summer. Loosely based on her experiences working in her sister’s garment factory as a teenager, Josefina Lopez’s inspiring comedy gives a much needed human face to the plight of undocumented workers in America. > Buy Tickets!
Footloose Kick off your Sunday shoes with this electrifying musical based on the classic 1984 movie. When Ren moves from Chicago to the rural town of Belmont with his single mother to start a new life, he discovers adjusting to their new home isn’t as easy as he hoped. Instead of open arms, he’s met with suspicion, bullies, and insults from just about everybody. Things turn from bad to worse when he attracts the attention of Ariel, the rebellious daughter of Rev. Shaw Moore —a puritanical evangelist whose made it his crusade to suppress all sinful activities in town, especially dancing. Finding Belmont a suffocating and pent up place to live since nobody in town can blow off steam, Ren rallies his classmates to challenge Rev. Moore and the town council to overturn the law banning dancing. But in order to get Rev. Moore to listen, Ren must first make the reverend confront how his own pain from his own loss in now suffocating the entire community. Featuring classic 80’s songs “Holding Out for a Hero”, “Let’s Hear it for the Boy”, and, of course, “Footloose”, this high-octane musical will have audiences singing and dancing in the aisles. > Buy Tickets!
The Foreigner Appearances aren’t always what they seem in this frenetic farce from the author of The Nerd. When a boring and socially awkward Englishman named Charlie Baker joins his friend Sgt. Froggy LeSuer on a trip to his favorite hunting lodge in the deep, backwoods of Georgia, his crippling shyness leads him to pretend to be a foreigner who speaks absolutely no English just so that he doesn’t have to interact with any of the other residents. Yet, this brilliant plan quickly backfires. Not only does he end up becoming privy to everyone’s secrets, but also is recruited as the confidant to a beautiful debutante, the ESL student for her seemingly dim witted younger brother, and the foil to the schemes of an ambitious Klu Klux Klan member hell bent on taking over the lodge so he can start a new white supremacy movement. > Buy Tickets!
A Mexican Christmas Carol Set in a small Mexican village in the late 1800s, this new and terrifyingly gothic rendering of Charles Dickens’ classic offers a uniquely Hispanic flavor of this tale of greed, redemption, and the power of the Christmas spirit. Dona Avarcia is not only the richest woman in town, she is also the greediest and, dare one say it, 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 defined her past, confront the misery that surrounds her in the present, and peer into a most dark and undesirable future. Featuring ghosts and creatures from ancient Mexican legends, this new Christmas drama promises to be as chilling as it is heartwarming. > Buy Tickets!
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