The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation, diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York’s theater scene when Jerry’s play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It’s a young playwright’s dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of.

CAST AND CREW

JERRY PRZPEZNIAK – Jared Stephens
ARLENE WYNIARSKI – Linda Dee Rossi
MIKE POLICZEK – Barry Goettl
CURT LOGAN – James Augustine
BEATRICE POMEROY – Gretchen Randall
LOUIS SHAW – Andrew Stoner

Director – Keisha McFerrin
Ass‘t Dir / Stage Manager – Dara Hinshaw
Light/Sound Operator – David Clingan

COMEDY

Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony Award winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie JR. features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure.

With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

CAST AND CREW

A black farce masterpiece, LOOT follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal’s home to hide-out with the loot. Hal’s mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the thickened plot turns topsy-turvy.

Playing with all the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail English attitudes of the mid 20th century. The play has been called a Freudian nightmare, which sports with superstitions about death – and life.

First produced in London in 1966, LOOT was hailed as “the most genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by a new, young British playwright for a decade” (Sunday Telegraph).

CAST AND CREW

Hal…John Varella
Dennis … Dwayne Shaw
Inspector Truscott… Barry Goettl
Fay… Talitha Muehlbrad
Mr. McLeavy…Ben Heller
Meadows…Andrew Stoner

Director… Jerry Watson
Asst Director… Denise Fortenberry
Stage Manager… Andrew Stoner
Asst Stage Manager…Paul Peterson
Light and Sound…Kendall Poole

Farce

Lou has wrestled with a big ball of tangled Christmas lights for the last time! He is grabbing the sunblock, his Elvis in Paradise album and his wife Carol, and hopping on the Pineapple Express to Hawaii! Escaping New Jersey, the freezing cold, his nutty family and most of all, The Holidays, is exactly what Lou plans to do. However, a freak snowstorm leaves the couple stranded in the airport and their dream of sipping Pina Coladas on the beach is in peril. Will a couple of unexpected characters help restore Lou’s Christmas Spirit in the St. Nick of time?

CAST AND CREW

LOU – James Augustine
CAROL – Rebecca Vidal
MONA – Dorothy Lin Imrie
PIA – Ellen Fontenot
RUDY – Jessica Mewborne
NICK – Paul Peterson

Director – Martin Vidal
Assistant Director – Caron West
Stage Manager – TBD
Light/Sound Operator – TBD

Holiday Comedy