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THE FALL REPERTORY
september 24 – november 1, 2009
Performed at the Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
THE TONY AWARD-WINNING SOLVE-IT-YOURSELF MUSICAL
Who’s responsible for the mysterious murder of Edwin Drood? You decide! Join the Music Hall Royale, a hilariously loony Victorian musical troupe, as they present their outrageous rendition of Charles Dickens’ final unfinished novel. When the dashing Edwin Drood disappears during one stormy Christmas Eve, murder is alleged and everyone is a suspect. The fate of the characters hangs in the balance until an audience vote determines the guilty party and the ending! A winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, this joyful, whodunit romp will keep you on the edge of your seat.
AN ENCHANTING COMEDY
After a shipwreck on an unfriendly shore and the loss of her twin brother Sebastian, young Viola must pose as a man to survive. Shakespeare’s sophisticated comedy of gender-bending mistaken identity is full of passionate longing and bittersweet romance. Twelfth Night is an irresistible and poignant comedy that is one of the Bard’s most luminous plays.
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THE HOLIDAY TRADITION
december 4 – december 23, 2009
Performed at the Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
NORTHEAST OHIO’S FAVORITE HOLIDAY TRADTION
Open your heart to Charles Dickens’ classic tale of one man’s ultimate redemption. One of Northeast Ohio’s favorite holiday traditions, A Christmas Carol is a perfect gift of theater for children and adults of all ages. Celebrate the season with the ones you love.
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THE SPRING REPERTORY
april 8 – may 16, 2010
Performed at the Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
THE OUTRAGEOUS OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL WITH BITE
Ripped from the hilarious headlines of the supermarket tabloid The Weekly World News, Bat Boy is a classic love story with serious bite. This delightfully delicious twist on the modern day musical comedy tells the amazing story of a strange boy with pointy ears, his struggle to find a place in a world that shuns him, and the love that creates both miracles and madness. Armed with an exuberant score that integrates the best of rock, Broadway, gospel, and country music, this Off-Broadway Musical of the Year award-winner is a witty comical confection that keeps both tongue and fang firmly in cheek.
SHAKESPEARE’S MAGICAL MASTERPIECE
An exhilarating night of midsummer madness, this magical comedy brims with mistaken identity, mismatched lovers and mischief-making fairies. Boldly inspired by the marvelously mod influences of a rock ‘n’ roll infused 1960s London, this production of Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece ensnares two pairs of lovers and a rustic troupe of would-be actors in a magical-mystery tour de force. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a joyful celebration of love lost, transformed and restored that casts a powerfully pleasing spell on audiences of all ages.
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THE FALL REPERTORY
september 24 – october 31, 2010
Performed at the Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
september 24 - october 31, 2010
A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER OF SHAKESPEAREAN PROPORTIONS
Shakespeare’s supreme villain meets literature’s most tragic hero in one of the greatest dramas of all time. After being passed over for a military promotion and suspecting his wife’s infidelity with the man responsible for his slight, vengeance drives the duplicitous Iago to plant potent seeds of doubt in the mind of the Moor. Will Othello fall into Iago’s evil trap and forsake his wife, the innocent Desdemona? Culminating in Shakespeare’s most powerful scene, Othello weaves a tragic tapestry of jealousy, trust and betrayal.
october 1 - 30, 2010
WILDE’S WITTIEST COMIC RIDE
Romantic, clever and marvelously convoluted, this Oscar Wilde comedy of manners insightfully examines the crossroads where money, power and ethics collide. Sir Robert Chiltern, a rising political star and a pillar of virtue, is an ideal husband for the charming Lady Chiltern. But when the enchanting and conniving Mrs. Cheveley returns from abroad threatening to reveal a dark secret from Sir Chiltern’s past, a brewing scandal impends to destroy both his career and marriage. Wilde’s wit takes center stage, rambunctiously holding a mirror up to nature while wreaking havoc on its occupants, in a deliciously decadent comedy that disarms and delights.
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THE HOLIDAY TRADITION
december 3 - 23, 2010
Performed at the Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
NORTHEAST OHIO’S FAVORITE HOLIDAY TRADTION
Open your heart to Charles Dickens’ classic tale of one man’s ultimate redemption. One of northeast Ohio’s favorite holiday traditions, A Christmas Carol is a perfect gift of theater for children and adults of all ages. Celebrate the season with the ones you love.
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THE SPRING REPERTORY
march 11 - april 23, 2011
Performed at the Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
march 11 - 27, 2011
A RIOTOUSLY IRREVERENT ROMP
Three ambitious actors, clad in classic Converse tennis shoes and armed with an outrageous assortment of outerwear and props, cram the Bard’s entire canon of plays (and sonnets!) into two hours of sheer Elizabethan-esque ecstasy. Need we say more? Buckle your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. One of London’s longest running comedies, this endearingly irreverent and lightning-paced romp through the greatest plays of all time will have you rolling with laughter and jumping in the aisles. Perhaps The Today Show captured its spirit best when they said, “If you like Shakespeare, you’ll like this show. If you hate Shakespeare, you’ll love this show!”
april 8 - 23, 2011
SHAKESPEARE’S DOUBLY-DELIGHTFUL ROMANTIC COMEDY
Bosom buddies Valentine and Proteus are Verona’s closest comrades, but their friendship is put to the ultimate test when Proteus forsakes his beloved Julia and competes for the affections of Valentine’s newfound love, the strong-willed Silvia. Teeming with high comic scenes and rich, romantic language, Two Gents displays Shakespeare’s copious comic powers at their hilarious height. And in Proteus, the role for which Tom Hanks won the Cleveland Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actor, the Bard gives us one of his most memorable theatrical creations.
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