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THEATRE ON THE BAY'S 43rd SEASON
Footloose
Stage Adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie
Music by Tom Snow; Lyrics by Dean Pitchford with additional music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins and Jim Steinman
Directed by Amanda Rhines
July 9 - 12 and 16 - 19, 2009
7:30 PM
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One of the most explosive movie musicals in recent memory bursts onto the live stag with exhilarating results. When Ren and his mother move from Chicago to a small farming town, Ren is prepared for the inevitable adjustment period at his new high school. What he isn't prepared for are the rigorous local editcs, including a ban on dancing instituted by the local preacher, determined to exercise the control over the town's youth that he cannot command in his own home. The heartfelt story that emerges is of a father longing for the son he lost and of a young man aching for the father who walked out on him. To the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated top 40 score (the soundtrack album reached number one on the Billboard charts and has sold over 15 million copies!) and augmented with dynamic new songs for the stage musical, Footloose celebrates the wisdom of listening to young people, and guiding them with a warm heart and an open mind.
Willy Wonka Jr.
A Continuing Education Children's Theatre Production
The Glass Menagerie
Presented by Hansen-Onion-Martell Funeral Home, Inc.
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Simon Jon Provan
November 6 - 8 and 13 - 15, 2009
7:30 PM
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"The Glass Menagrie is a poignant and lovely play, a rueful mood piece that represents the author in a spirit of reminiscent sadness at once lyric and tormented. This early work remains one of his finest and most sensitive creations. The play is based virtually on a single incident and it has to do with the reminiscence of the breat-up of a family: a foolishly dominating mother, a hopelessly inhibitd daughter and a son who flees home rather ignominiously. Nor is its treatment of the material in any way idealized or softened. Yet, because it is written with such warmth, deftness and understanding, it becomes moving and beautiful."
Richard Watts Jr., New York Post
Lobby Hero
by Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by Simon Jon Provan
March 5 - 7 and 12 - 14, 2010
7:30 pm
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When Jeff, a luckless young security guard, is drawninto a local murder investigtion, loyalties are strained to the breaking point. As Jeff's tightly wound supervisor is called to bear witness against his troubled brother, and an attractivbe rookie cop finds she must stand up to her seasoned partner, truth becomes elusive and justice proves costly.
"...Kenneth Lonergan delights us with his irrepressible Lobby Hero, confirming him as a comic wizard." —NY Magazine
"A Masterpiece. The best drama, the best comedy and the best romance of the year, all rolled into one." —Time Out.