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New for 2008!  All Summer Season shows will rehearse six days a week, with Wednesday off!  The weekly rehearsal schedule is Monday-Tuesday-Thursday-Friday from 7pm to 10:30pm and Saturday-Sunday from 1pm to 5pm.  All shows--with the exception of Mockingbird--begin rehearsals on a Friday.  Mockingbird begins rehearsals on a Thursday, due to the Independence Day Holiday.

Performance curtain for all Summer Season shows is 8pm.  Half-hour call for casts is usually between 6:30pm and 7:15pm.  Below are descriptions of each show, the parts available, the rehearsal commitment, and the performance commitment.

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Nunsense
MUSICAL COMEDY
Music, Lyrics & Book:  Dan Goggin

CAST:  1 man, 4 women

ROLES:
Sister Mary Regina, Mother Superior - feisty, overweight, outrageous and quick-witted, she knows how to get a laugh and can't resist the spotlight

Sister Mary Hubert, Mistress of Novices - second in command, always competing with the Reverend Mother, a kind person, understanding and diplomatic, but ready to kick up her heels with the slightest bit of encouragement

Sister Robert Anne - streetwise and tough with a heart of gold, a constant source of aggravation for the Mother Superior

Sister Mary Amnesia - lost her memory after a crucifix fell on her head, she is the picture of innocence, very sweet, and since she can't remember her past she looks at each new day with a childlike joy

Sister Mary Leo - the youngest, impressionable and easily led astray, a novice who was a professional dancer and wants to become the first nun-ballerina

20 REHEARSAL DAYS:  May 2-6, May 8-13, May 15-20, and May 22-24

TECH1 & TECH2:  May 25-26
DRESS REHEARSAL:  May 27

14 PERFORMANCES:  May 28-31, June 3-7, and June 10-14

Nunsense follows the musically hilarious misadventures of the Little Sisters of Hoboken at Mount Saint Helen's School in Hoboken, New Jersey.  Originally founded as a missionary order, they started out running a leper colony on an island south of France.  Forced to leave the island when they lost control to a group of Protestant competitors, they returned to Hoboken.  They went unnoticed until one day their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, unwittingly served some tainted vichyssoise soup and 52 sisters died of botulism.  Fortunately a few of the sisters were off playing bingo with some Maryknolls and so were spared.  Upon discovering the disaster, Mother Superior had a vision -- it was either Saint Catherine of Siena or Saint Thomas Aquinas in drag (she's not sure) -- in which she was told to start a greeting card company to raise funds for the burials of the 52.  The greeting cards were an enormous success and thinking there was plenty of money, Reverend Mother bought a VCR for the convent.  When she realized there was only enough money left to bury 48, she decided to stage a talent show to raise the money to bury the last four sisters who were put on ice in the convent deep freeze.  The fun is only just beginning when these crazy nuns take over!

Bell, Book and Candle
COMEDY
by John van Druten

CAST:  3 Men, 2 Women, 1 cat

ROLES:
Gillian Holroyd - 20's, attractive, a witch
Shepherd Henderson - 30's, attractive, a book publisher
Miss Holroyd - Gillian's Aunt Queenie, eccentric, also a witch
Nicky Holroyd - Gillian's younger brother, impish and impertinent
Sidney Redlitch - 50's, an author of books on magic and witchcraft
Pyewacket - Gillian's cat

14 REHEARSAL DAYS:  May 30-June 3, June 5-10, and June 12-14

TECH1 & TECH2:  June 15-16
DRESS REHEARSAL:  June 17

9 PERFORMANCES:  June 18-21, and June 24-28

Gillian Holroyd, a bonafide witch, falls in love with publisher Sheperd Henderson.  Gillian casts a spell on him, obliging him to dump his fiancée and rush to her side.  But witches, unfortunately, cannot fall in love, which leads to a number of hilarious difficulties, where Gillian loses her witch's powers, her cat, Pywacket, deserts her, and her aunt and warlock brother don’t quite know how to relate to Gillian as a human.  Alas, the course of true love – with or without supernatural assistance – does not run smoothly in this timeless and funny classic which became a blockbuster movie starring Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart.

West Side Story
MUSICAL DRAMA
Music:  Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics:  Stephen Sondheim
Book:  Arthur Laurents

ROLES:
The Jets:  Riff, Tony, Action, A-rab, Baby John, Snowboy, Big Deal, Diesel, Tiger
Their Girls:  Graziella, Velma, Minnie, Clarice, Pauline, Trixie, Anybodys
The Sharks:  Bernardo, Maria, Anita, Chino, Pepe, Indio, Luis, Anxious, Juano, Toro
Their Girls:  Rosalia, Consuelo, Teresita, Francisca, Estella, Margarita, Carmen, Ingrid
The Adults:  Doc, Schrank, Krupke, Glad Hand
Chorus will include children (age 6-12) as well as teens

20 REHEARSAL DAYS:  June 6-10, June 12-17, June 19-24, and June 26-28

TECH1 & TECH2:  June 29-30
DRESS REHEARSAL:  July 1

14 PERFORMANCES:  July 2-3, July 5-6, July 8-12, and July 15-19

Set in Manhattan's Upper West Side, the musical explores the rivalry between two teenage gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.  The young protagonist, Anton (Tony), who belongs to the white gang, falls in love with Maria, the sister of the leader of the rival Puerto Rican gang.  The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre.  Bernstein's score for the musical has become extremely popular, including the songs Something's Coming, Maria, America, Somewhere, Tonight, Jet Song, I Feel Pretty, One Hand, One Heart, and Cool.

To Kill a Mockingbird
DRAMA
Dramatized by Christopher Sergel
from the novel by Harper Lee

CAST:  11 men, 6 women

ROLES:
Jean Louis Finch (Scout) - a young girl (8-11)
Jeremy Finch (Jem) - her older brother (10-13)
Atticus Finch - their father (middle age)
Calpurnia - the housekeeper (African American)
Maudie Atkinson - neighbor (around middle age)
Stephanie Crawford - neighbor (around middle age)
Mrs. DuBose - elderly neighbor
Arthur Radley (Boo) - neighbor (middle age)
Charles Baker Harris (Dill) - a young boy (8-11)
Heck Tate - the sherriff
Judge Taylor - the judge
Reverend Sykes - a minister (African American)
Mayella Ewell - a young woman
Bob Ewell - her father
Walter Cunningham - a farmer
Mr. Gilmer - the public prosecutor
Tom Robinson - a young man (African American)
4 extras for congregation and courtroom scene (African American)
4 extras for mob scene and courtroom scene

14 REHEARSAL DAYS:  July 3, July 5-8, July 10-15, and July 17-19

TECH1 & TECH2:  July 20-21
DRESS REHEARSAL:  July 22

9 PERFORMANCES:  July 23-26, and July 29-August 2

Scout, a young girl in a quiet southern town, is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life.  She and brother Jem are being raised by their widower father Atticus and by a strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia.  Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively revealed people of her small town but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface of the life here.  The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why.  A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either.  Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father.  Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime.  Since this is causing such an upset, Scout wants to know why he's doing it.  "Because if I didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up."  When she asks why take on such a hopeless fight—the time of the play is 1935—he tells her, "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason not to try."  He goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come.  "We're fighting our friends.  But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends."  Things do get bitter—to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob.  Horrified Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity.  Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph.  As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, "Stand up. Your father's passing!"  This play is a meaningful work of art.

The Full Monty
MUSICAL COMEDY
Music and Lyrics:  David Yazbek
Book:  Terrence McNally

CAST:  13 men, 12 women

ROLES:
Jerry Lukowski - an unemployed mill worker
Nathan Lukowski - Jerry's young son
Pam Lukowski - Jerry's estranged wife
Teddy Slaughter - Pam's live-in boyfriend
Dave Bukatinsky - an unemployed mill worker, Jerry's best friend
Georgie Bukatinsky - Dave's wife
Harold Nichols - an unemployed supervisor at the same mill
Vicki Nichols - Harold's wife
Malcolm MacGregor - an unemployed mill worker
Molly MacGregor - Malcolm's ailing mom
Ethan Girard - an unemployed mill worker
Noah "Horse" T. Simmons - a retired mill worker (African American)
Jeanette Burmeister - a piano player of indeterminate years
Buddy "Keno" Walsh - a male stripper
Reg Willoughby - an unemployed mill worker
Tony Giordano - a Buffalo club owner
Estelle Genovese - Jerry's occasional girl friend
Susan Hershey - a friend of Pam and Georgie's
Joanie Lish - a friend of Pam and Georgie's
Police Sergeant
Minister

20 REHEARSAL DAYS:  July 11-15, July 17-22, July 24-29, and July 31-August 2

TECH1 & TECH2:  August 3-4
DRESS REHEARSAL:  August 5

14 PERFORMANCES:  August 6-9, August 12-16, August 19-23

Seeing how much their wives enjoy watching male strippers during their "Girls' Night Out," unemployed steelworkers in Buffalo, New York come up with a bold way to make some quick cash.  In the process they find renewed self-esteem, the importance of friendship and the ability to have fun.  As the guys work through their fears, self-consciousness, feelings of worthlessness and anxieties (over everything from being overweight to child custody, bigotry to being gay), they come to discover that not only are they stronger as a group, but that the strength they find in each other gives them the individual courage to face their demons and overcome them.  There is great heart to The Full Monty, and the ultimate themes expressed in the show, about taking charge of one’s life and following one’s dreams are great lessons for all of us.