The Boca Raton Theatre Guild Presents
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
Book by Charles Busch
Nov 4 – Nov 20
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
Book by Charles Busch
Nov 4 – Nov 20
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Current Productions for the week of October 31, 2011
Mitzi's Abortion by Elizabeth Heffron
at Empire Stage by Infinite Abyss Productions Until Nov 5
A Florida Premiere! With humor, intelligence and honesty, Mitzi's Abortion explores the questions that have shaped the national debate over abortion, and reminds us that whatever we may think we believe, some decisions are neither easy nor simple when they become ours to make. A generous and compassionate comedy with serious themes about a young woman trying to make an intensely personal decision in a system determined to make it a political one.
Women Drivers by Terry Lawrence
at The Women's Theatre Project Until Nov 6
From the Carbonell and Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright of Speaking Elephant, comes a comedy about women and driving. Driving instructor Erin Ford say, "Other students take a test. Mine go play in the street". While comically balancing the rules of the road, the hair-raising mistakes of her students and their competing overlapping conversations, Erin is aware that what she teaches is life and death - and not just metaphorically.
Bye Bye Birdie
at The Tamarac Theatre of Performing Arts Until Nov 6
Rock star Conrad Birdie is going to give one lucky girl one last kiss before he reports to the U.S. Army. Typical teen Kim MacAfee from Sweet Apple, Ohio, is that one lucky girl! The news has Birdie's fans fainting in the streets and burning up the telephone lines. Don't miss this Tony award winning classic featuring the songs: Put on a Happy Face, One Last Kiss, and Kids.
Hairspray
Staring David Arisco as Edna Turnblad
at Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre Until Nov 13
Hairspray is Broadway’s hottest musical-comedy phenomenon with so much heart and soul that it also inspired a major motion picture. It’s 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire, to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star, but she must use her new found power to vanquish the reigning teen queen, win the affections of her heartthrob Link Larkin and integrate a TV network – all without denting her ‘do!
Lend Me A Tenor
at Broward Stage Door Theatre Until Nov 13
Set in the 1930s, Lend Me a Tenor is a madcap screwball comedy that takes place when Tito Merelli, the fiery-tempered and world famous Italian superstar, arrives in Cleveland, Ohio to make his debut with the local opera and promptly goes missing. As Saunders, the show's presenter, conspires to cover for Tito's absence, placate his hot-blooded wife, and distract his most passionate fans, chaos on a truly operatic level ensues.
The 39 Steps
at The Maltz Jupiter Theatre Until Nov 13
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel and you have Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Broadway’s most intriguing, most thrilling, most riotous comedy smash! The mind-blowing cast plays over 150 characters in this fast-paced tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinarily entertaining adventure. Using ingenious theatrical invention, this production is an engaging, fast-paced whodunit that celebrates the magic of theater.
Thrill Me - The Leopold and Lobe Musical
at Rising Action Theatre Until Nov 20
The South Florida premiere of the acclaimed musical based on the true story of Leopold and Loeb, the so-called thrill killers who murdered a young boy in 1924 in order to commit the perfect crime. While this crime was previously depicted in the film dramas Hitchcock's Rope and Compulsion, this is the first musical version, and the most frank in revealing the couple's mutual sexual attraction.
After The Revolution
at The Caldwell Theatre Company Until Nov 20
After the Revolution is the story of the brilliant, promising Emma Joseph who proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her grandfather, much revered for refusing to “name names” during the McCarthy hearings. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved.
Guys and Dolls
at Broward Stage Door Theatre Until Dec 4
Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest permanent floating crap game, bets Sky Masterson that he can't make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. Featuring “Guys and Dolls”, “Luck Be a Lady Tonight”, and “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”, this beloved musical is also a great American classic and multiple Tony-Award Winner!
at Empire Stage by Infinite Abyss Productions Until Nov 5
A Florida Premiere! With humor, intelligence and honesty, Mitzi's Abortion explores the questions that have shaped the national debate over abortion, and reminds us that whatever we may think we believe, some decisions are neither easy nor simple when they become ours to make. A generous and compassionate comedy with serious themes about a young woman trying to make an intensely personal decision in a system determined to make it a political one.
Women Drivers by Terry Lawrence
at The Women's Theatre Project Until Nov 6
From the Carbonell and Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright of Speaking Elephant, comes a comedy about women and driving. Driving instructor Erin Ford say, "Other students take a test. Mine go play in the street". While comically balancing the rules of the road, the hair-raising mistakes of her students and their competing overlapping conversations, Erin is aware that what she teaches is life and death - and not just metaphorically.
Bye Bye Birdie
at The Tamarac Theatre of Performing Arts Until Nov 6
Rock star Conrad Birdie is going to give one lucky girl one last kiss before he reports to the U.S. Army. Typical teen Kim MacAfee from Sweet Apple, Ohio, is that one lucky girl! The news has Birdie's fans fainting in the streets and burning up the telephone lines. Don't miss this Tony award winning classic featuring the songs: Put on a Happy Face, One Last Kiss, and Kids.
Hairspray
Staring David Arisco as Edna Turnblad
at Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre Until Nov 13
Hairspray is Broadway’s hottest musical-comedy phenomenon with so much heart and soul that it also inspired a major motion picture. It’s 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire, to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star, but she must use her new found power to vanquish the reigning teen queen, win the affections of her heartthrob Link Larkin and integrate a TV network – all without denting her ‘do!
Lend Me A Tenor
at Broward Stage Door Theatre Until Nov 13
Set in the 1930s, Lend Me a Tenor is a madcap screwball comedy that takes place when Tito Merelli, the fiery-tempered and world famous Italian superstar, arrives in Cleveland, Ohio to make his debut with the local opera and promptly goes missing. As Saunders, the show's presenter, conspires to cover for Tito's absence, placate his hot-blooded wife, and distract his most passionate fans, chaos on a truly operatic level ensues.
The 39 Steps
at The Maltz Jupiter Theatre Until Nov 13
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel and you have Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Broadway’s most intriguing, most thrilling, most riotous comedy smash! The mind-blowing cast plays over 150 characters in this fast-paced tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinarily entertaining adventure. Using ingenious theatrical invention, this production is an engaging, fast-paced whodunit that celebrates the magic of theater.
Thrill Me - The Leopold and Lobe Musical
at Rising Action Theatre Until Nov 20
The South Florida premiere of the acclaimed musical based on the true story of Leopold and Loeb, the so-called thrill killers who murdered a young boy in 1924 in order to commit the perfect crime. While this crime was previously depicted in the film dramas Hitchcock's Rope and Compulsion, this is the first musical version, and the most frank in revealing the couple's mutual sexual attraction.
After The Revolution
at The Caldwell Theatre Company Until Nov 20
After the Revolution is the story of the brilliant, promising Emma Joseph who proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her grandfather, much revered for refusing to “name names” during the McCarthy hearings. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved.
Guys and Dolls
at Broward Stage Door Theatre Until Dec 4
Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest permanent floating crap game, bets Sky Masterson that he can't make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. Featuring “Guys and Dolls”, “Luck Be a Lady Tonight”, and “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”, this beloved musical is also a great American classic and multiple Tony-Award Winner!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Current Productions for the week of October 24, 2011
Rocky Horror Pcture Show
Back by Popular Demand
at The Slow Burn Theatre Co. Until Oct 29
We've left a light on for you. Return back to everybody's favorite fall vacation spot..the Frankenstein place. Slow Burn is remounting their crowd pleasing favorite The Rocky Horror Show LIVE!!! Christine Dolen of the Miami Herald called this production "RED HOT". But it's your last chance to see what all the fuss is about before we put this show back in the lab. Complete with audience participation. Slow Burn Theatre will have all ages doing the time-warp again!
Edith Can Shoot Straight And Hit Them
at New Theatre Until Oct 30
This timely and controversial work examines the lives of two all but abandoned teens having to create a makeshift family and its values while getting through the pangs of growing up. This play is the recipient of the National New Play Network's Continued Life for New Plays Theatre Fund and rolling World Premiere with the Humana Festival, KY and Actor's Express, ATL, GA and Mu Performing Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
The Addams Family
at The Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Until Oct 30
The Addams Family, it's definitely not the same old song and dance. It's every parent's nightmare. Your little girl has suddenly become a young woman, and what's worse, has fallen deliriously in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. Yes, Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has a "normal" boyfriend, and for parents Gomez and Morticia, this shocking development will turn the Addams house downside up. It's a family portrait that's completely off the wall.
Mitzi's Abortion by Elizabeth Heffron
at Empire Stage by Infinite Abyss Productions Until Nov 5
A Florida Premiere! With humor, intelligence and honesty, Mitzi's Abortion explores the questions that have shaped the national debate over abortion, and reminds us that whatever we may think we believe, some decisions are neither easy nor simple when they become ours to make. A generous and compassionate comedy with serious themes about a young woman trying to make an intensely personal decision in a system determined to make it a political one.
Women Drivers by Terry Lawrence
at The Women's Theatre Project Until Nov 6
From the Carbonell and Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright of Speaking Elephant, comes a comedy about women and driving. Driving instructor Erin Ford say, "Other students take a test. Mine go play in the street". While comically balancing the rules of the road, the hair-raising mistakes of her students and their competing overlapping conversations, Erin is aware that what she teaches is life and death - and not just metaphorically.
Bye Bye Birdie
at The Tamarac Theatre of Performing Arts Until Nov 6
Rock star Conrad Birdie is going to give one lucky girl one last kiss before he reports to the U.S. Army. Typical teen Kim MacAfee from Sweet Apple, Ohio, is that one lucky girl! The news has Birdie's fans fainting in the streets and burning up the telephone lines. Don't miss this Tony award winning classic featuring the songs: Put on a Happy Face, One Last Kiss, and Kids.
Hairspray
Staring David Arisco as Edna Turnblad
at Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre Until Nov 13
Hairspray is Broadway’s hottest musical-comedy phenomenon with so much heart and soul that it also inspired a major motion picture. It’s 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire, to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star, but she must use her new found power to vanquish the reigning teen queen, win the affections of her heartthrob Link Larkin and integrate a TV network – all without denting her ‘do!
Lend Me A Tenor
at Broward Stage Door Theatre Until Nov 13
Set in the 1930s, Lend Me a Tenor is a madcap screwball comedy that takes place when Tito Merelli, the fiery-tempered and world famous Italian superstar, arrives in Cleveland, Ohio to make his debut with the local opera and promptly goes missing. As Saunders, the show's presenter, conspires to cover for Tito's absence, placate his hot-blooded wife, and distract his most passionate fans, chaos on a truly operatic level ensues.
Thrill Me - The Leopold and Lobe Musical
at Rising Action Theatre Until Nov 20
The South Florida premiere of the acclaimed musical based on the true story of Leopold and Loeb, the so-called thrill killers who murdered a young boy in 1924 in order to commit the perfect crime. While this crime was previously depicted in the film dramas Hitchcock's Rope and Compulsion, this is the first musical version, and the most frank in revealing the couple's mutual sexual attraction.
After The Revolution
at The Caldwell Theatre Company Until Nov 20
After the Revolution is the story of the brilliant, promising Emma Joseph who proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her grandfather, much revered for refusing to “name names” during the McCarthy hearings. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved.
Guys and Dolls
at Broward Stage Door Theatre Until Dec 4
Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest permanent floating crap game, bets Sky Masterson that he can't make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. Featuring “Guys and Dolls”, “Luck Be a Lady Tonight”, and “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”, this beloved musical is also a great American classic and multiple Tony-Award Winner!
Back by Popular Demand
at The Slow Burn Theatre Co. Until Oct 29
We've left a light on for you. Return back to everybody's favorite fall vacation spot..the Frankenstein place. Slow Burn is remounting their crowd pleasing favorite The Rocky Horror Show LIVE!!! Christine Dolen of the Miami Herald called this production "RED HOT". But it's your last chance to see what all the fuss is about before we put this show back in the lab. Complete with audience participation. Slow Burn Theatre will have all ages doing the time-warp again!
Edith Can Shoot Straight And Hit Them
at New Theatre Until Oct 30
This timely and controversial work examines the lives of two all but abandoned teens having to create a makeshift family and its values while getting through the pangs of growing up. This play is the recipient of the National New Play Network's Continued Life for New Plays Theatre Fund and rolling World Premiere with the Humana Festival, KY and Actor's Express, ATL, GA and Mu Performing Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
The Addams Family
at The Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Until Oct 30
The Addams Family, it's definitely not the same old song and dance. It's every parent's nightmare. Your little girl has suddenly become a young woman, and what's worse, has fallen deliriously in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. Yes, Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has a "normal" boyfriend, and for parents Gomez and Morticia, this shocking development will turn the Addams house downside up. It's a family portrait that's completely off the wall.
Mitzi's Abortion by Elizabeth Heffron
at Empire Stage by Infinite Abyss Productions Until Nov 5
A Florida Premiere! With humor, intelligence and honesty, Mitzi's Abortion explores the questions that have shaped the national debate over abortion, and reminds us that whatever we may think we believe, some decisions are neither easy nor simple when they become ours to make. A generous and compassionate comedy with serious themes about a young woman trying to make an intensely personal decision in a system determined to make it a political one.
Women Drivers by Terry Lawrence
at The Women's Theatre Project Until Nov 6
From the Carbonell and Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright of Speaking Elephant, comes a comedy about women and driving. Driving instructor Erin Ford say, "Other students take a test. Mine go play in the street". While comically balancing the rules of the road, the hair-raising mistakes of her students and their competing overlapping conversations, Erin is aware that what she teaches is life and death - and not just metaphorically.
Bye Bye Birdie
at The Tamarac Theatre of Performing Arts Until Nov 6
Rock star Conrad Birdie is going to give one lucky girl one last kiss before he reports to the U.S. Army. Typical teen Kim MacAfee from Sweet Apple, Ohio, is that one lucky girl! The news has Birdie's fans fainting in the streets and burning up the telephone lines. Don't miss this Tony award winning classic featuring the songs: Put on a Happy Face, One Last Kiss, and Kids.
Hairspray
Staring David Arisco as Edna Turnblad
at Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre Until Nov 13
Hairspray is Broadway’s hottest musical-comedy phenomenon with so much heart and soul that it also inspired a major motion picture. It’s 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire, to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star, but she must use her new found power to vanquish the reigning teen queen, win the affections of her heartthrob Link Larkin and integrate a TV network – all without denting her ‘do!
Lend Me A Tenor
at Broward Stage Door Theatre Until Nov 13
Set in the 1930s, Lend Me a Tenor is a madcap screwball comedy that takes place when Tito Merelli, the fiery-tempered and world famous Italian superstar, arrives in Cleveland, Ohio to make his debut with the local opera and promptly goes missing. As Saunders, the show's presenter, conspires to cover for Tito's absence, placate his hot-blooded wife, and distract his most passionate fans, chaos on a truly operatic level ensues.
Thrill Me - The Leopold and Lobe Musical
at Rising Action Theatre Until Nov 20
The South Florida premiere of the acclaimed musical based on the true story of Leopold and Loeb, the so-called thrill killers who murdered a young boy in 1924 in order to commit the perfect crime. While this crime was previously depicted in the film dramas Hitchcock's Rope and Compulsion, this is the first musical version, and the most frank in revealing the couple's mutual sexual attraction.
After The Revolution
at The Caldwell Theatre Company Until Nov 20
After the Revolution is the story of the brilliant, promising Emma Joseph who proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her grandfather, much revered for refusing to “name names” during the McCarthy hearings. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved.
Guys and Dolls
at Broward Stage Door Theatre Until Dec 4
Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest permanent floating crap game, bets Sky Masterson that he can't make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. Featuring “Guys and Dolls”, “Luck Be a Lady Tonight”, and “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”, this beloved musical is also a great American classic and multiple Tony-Award Winner!
Friday, October 21, 2011
The Past Week In Theatre History (Oct. 17-21)
1858 Our American Cousin, Tom Taylor's comedy about the difference in manners between the English and the Americans, debuts in New York today, and proves an enduring hit, touring and being revived around the U.S. It will go down in history April 14, 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln, seeking to lift his spirits after the end of the Civil War just days previously, takes in a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC — and is assassinated by actor John Wilkes Booth. Booth knew just when the laughs would be loud enough — on the line "You sockdologizing old mantrap!" — to distract from the sound of his entering the president's box.
1882 Birthday of Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor who plays a variety of character roles before landing the part that will make him an icon, the title role in Dracula, first on Broadway (in 1927), then on film. He lives to 1956.
1915 Arthur Miller born today. The multiple Tony- and Pulitzer-winner becomes one of the foremost American playwrights of the post-WWII era, with dramas like All My Sons, The Crucible and his magnum opus Death of a Salesman, that look deeply into the nation's soul.
1923 Opening night of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1923, at 333 performances one of the longest-running of the series, featuring Fanny Brice, Bert Wheeler and the Paul White Orchestra. The score features music by Victor Herbert and Rudolf Friml.
1944 Marlon Brando makes his Broadway debut tonight only three years before he is to win critical acclaim in 1947's A Streetcar Named Desire. He is featured in I Remember Mama, the John Van Druten comedy produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein, which opens tonight at the Music Box Theatre. Brando is reported in the Playbill as having "served his apprenticeship at the New School...Born in Calcutta, India, he came to this country when he was six months old." The truth is that Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska. According to the New York Journal-American, "Brando's Nels is, if he doesn't mind me saying so, charming." Mady Christians and Oscar Homolka are the stars in this production, which is the basis for the 1949 hit television show of the same name. This original production will run 714 performances.
1945 Birth of future Tony-winning star John Lithgow, whose Broadway credits include Dirty Rotten Soundrels, The Changing Room, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Sweet Smell of Success and Retreat From Moscow.
1946 Birth in Scotland of mega-producer Cameron Mackintosh whose four giant international hits, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and longrun champ Cats make him the richest and most successful stage producer ever.
1977 A host of future female stars make up the cast of Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others, which opens tonight at the Marymount Manhattan Theatre, housed within Marymount Manhattan College on the Upper East Side. Jill Eikenberry, Glenn Close and Swoosie Kurtz play a group of women recalling their college days in this production, which will run only 22 performances. Although reviews are only lukewarm, Ms. Kurtz will go on to win an Obie for her role.
1982 A revival of Sam Shepard's True West opens at the Cherry Lane Theatre tonight. Gary Sinise (Steppenwolf's A Streetcar Named Desire and the film "Forrest Gump") directs and stars in this show, which runs 762 performances. Co-stars are John Malkovich, Sam Schacht and Margaret Thomson. Although the original production at the Public Theater in 1980 was repudiated by its author, he says he appreciates this new version, as do critics and theatregoers, who will come to regard this mounting as a landmark. True West will finally reached Broadway in 2000, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternating roles at Circle in the Square
2001 The blockbuster musical Mamma Mia! opens on Broadway with a record advance sale. Built around 1970s disco hits by the rock band ABBA, the show makes a star of Louise Pitre.
2010 Lombardi, Eric Simonson's biographical sports play that takes audiences to the living room, locker room and gridiron of football coach Vince Lombardi, opens at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre. Dan Lauria stars as coach Lombardi, with Judith Light as his wife, and Keith Nobbs as a young reporter who comes to stay for a week.
More of the weeks Birthdays: Jelly Roll Morton 1890, Edith Piaf 1915, Rita Hayworth 1918, Montgomery Clift 1920, Tom Poston 1921, George C. Scott 1927, Mary Bryant 1932, Wendy Wassterstein 1950, Jennifer Holliday 1960
