Summer Season 2009



Brighton Beach Memoirs

by Neil Simon
June 11-14, 16-21
Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other - with laughter, tears, and love. It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-yearold Eugene lives in Brighton Beach with his family. He is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees.

The Sugar Bean Sisters

by Nathan Sanders
June 25-28, 30-July 5
In this Southern Gothic comedy of romance, murder and alien abduction, the Nettle sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood—Willie Mae by going to Salt Lake and finding a good Mormon husband and Faye by hopping on the spaceship when the "space people" return for another visit. Featuring Marcia Wallace from the Bob Newhart show and the voice of Edna Krabappel on the Simpsons.

SUDS

by created and written by Melinda Gilb, Steve Gunderson and Bryan Scott
musical and vocal arrangements by Steve Gunderson (musical)
July 9-12, 14-19
Suds is a delightful story of a young teenage girl and the guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. It takes place in a Laundromat during the sensational 60's. SUDS is loaded with good clean fun, bubbling energy and over 50 well-known songs that topped the charts of that decade.

You're a Good Man CHARLIE BROWN

by Charles M. Schultz book
music and lyrics by Clark Gesner (musical)
July 23-26, 28-August 2
Based on Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown comic strips, this show is bright, fun, and adorable. You are shown glimpses of each of the characters- the old favorites: Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Sally, Linus, and Schroeder.

Sweet Metigoshe

by David Hasselfield (original musical)
August 6-9, 11-16
David Hasselfield was able to beautifully translate his childhood memories of summers at the lake into a live show that will leave even the most reserved begging for more.



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