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Theatre Productions
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| Androcles & the Lion
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October 15 - 31
By Aurand Harris
This is one of the most popular children’s plays ever written and has been produced in twenty countries. Presented in Commedia del arte tradition, using authentic staging and characters, Aesop’s fable becomes a colorful theatrical experience and glows with the warmth of “Friendship.” Androcles and the Lion is a prize winning play, applauded around the world, again, and again!
Schedule A •
Children’s Center
for the Arts
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| Sugar Plum Fairy
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December 3–19, 2008
By Lyn Adams
It’s almost the Holiday season and the Sugar Plum Fairy has to prepare for her famous dance in the ballet the “The Nutcracker”…oh no… she can’t fit into her costume, she’s eaten too many of those delicious yummies sent to her by a secret admirer! Who will she choose to take her place of honor on the grand stage and dance the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy? What a dilemma for all the fairies and magical Nutcracker folk.
Schedule A • Children’s Center for the Arts
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| A Christmas Carol
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December 4–14, 2008
Co-Production with TheatreOCU
By D. Lance Marsh
IBack by popular demand this holiday tradition, Co-produced with TheatreOCU, highlights all the scary, humorous and touching moments from the Dickens novel. The play tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, who loves nothing but money, and thinks that Christmas, and the spirit of generosity attached to it, are a “humbug!” The ghost of his former business partner and three spirits visit him, with visions of Christmas past, present and future. By the plays end, Scrooge is a changed man, having discovered the Christmas spirit that lives in us all.
Schedule to be announced • Burg Theatre
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| The Diary of Anne Frank
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February 25 – March 1, 2009
Co-Production with TheatreOCU
By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman
This adaptation for a new generation confronts the true horrors of the Holocaust. Newly discovered writings from the diary of Anne Frank, as well as survivor accounts, are interwoven to create a contemporary impassioned story of the lives of people persecuted under Nazi rule. It examines the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence—their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. Yet through each day of these two dark years, Anne’s voice shines through.
Schedule B • Kirkpatrick Auditorium
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| The Arkansaw Bear
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March 18 – April 3, 2009
By Aurand Harris
Saddened and bewildered at her grandfather’s approaching death, Tish runs to her “special tree.” There, in a world of fantasy, she meets the World’s Greatest Dancing Bear. He is old, like her grandfather, and is running away—from death. In trying to help him, she begins to understand the meaning of both life and death, which helps her to cope with her own sadness. Delightfully theatrical, with music, magic and dance, this important work sparkles with entertainment and, at the same time, dramatizing, with poignancy, a universal truth.
Schedule A • Children’s Center for the Arts
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| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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May 13–24, 2009
Adapted from the book by Lewis Carroll
It’s a very
ordinary day for
Alice, until she
spots a White
Rabbit with a
pocket watch
whizzing by! Her
insatiable
curiosity draws
her into a
madcap adventure
in which she
meets remarkable
characters like
the Caterpillar,
Talking Flowers,
a Duchess and
her Cook, a
Gryphon and Mock
Turtle, a Mad
Hatter and a
March Hare. When
Alice finally
catches up with
the White Rabbit
in the Queen’s
Court, she’s in
for her biggest
adventure of
all.
Schedule B •
Burg Theatre
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