ANYTHING GOES
By Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse,
Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter

Come join the fun aboard the S.S. American sailing from New York to England with an outrageous cast of comic characters. This award-winning, classic Cole Porter musical features such hit songs as “You’re the Top”, “I Get a Kick Out of You”, “It’s Delovely” and “Blow, Gabriel, Blow”. Never before presented by the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Anything Goes is the most produced musical from the 1930s. Full of high octane dancing, steamy romantic interludes, and madcap mistaken identities, this production is sure to engage, arouse, excite and entertain.

Directed by Don Hill
Musical Director: Daniel Gary Busby
Choreographer: Heather Castillo
Opens November 9, 2007 – Closes November 17, 2007
Irvine Barclay Theatre

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STILL LIFE WITH IRIS
By Steven Dietz

Stripped of her memories, a clever young girl searches for her home. Her journey takes her from the bizarre wonders of the Land of Nocturno to the shores of Great Island, where she meets friends as unlikely as Mozart and Annabel Lee. As her fantasy-adventure points her towards the Tunnel of the Unwanted, the past reveals secrets that shape her future.  Unfolding in the tradition of Alice in Wonderland, magic and illusions fill this all-ages adventure set in a fantastical world.

Directed by Erin McBride Africa
Opens November 29, 2007 – Closes December 1, 2007
Little Theatre

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DARK OF THE MOON
By William Berney and Howard Richardson

A haunting tale of supernatural love, Dark of the Moon takes us into a forgotten village lost in the Smoky Mountains. A witch boy falls in love with a human woman and gives up his magic to woo her. The power of old-time religion, Appalachian music, and universal law drives the lovers to their inevitable destinies in this romance rich in atmosphere and visual imagery.

Directed by Annie Loui
Opens January 24, 2008 – Closes February 2, 2008
Claire Trevor Theatre

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THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
By Stephen Adly Guirgis

From one of today's most exciting playwrights comes this time-bending, politically incorrect imagining of what might happen if the case of Judas Iscariot were brought before an appeals court. With a skirt-chasing prosecutor, a sexy feminist defense attorney, and witnesses ranging from Satan to Sigmund Freud, this wild and often hysterical play tackles religion, philosophy, and justice in its quest to answer the question of just how culpable Judas was.

Directed by Jim Knipple
Opens January 31, 2008 – Closes February 9, 2008
Studio Theatre

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
By William Shakespeare

What happens when a world of restraint and reason collides with one of passion and pleasure? Could reason temper passion, or would pleasure unravel restraint? The answers lurk in the moonlight shadows of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Directed by Benjamin Pohlmeier
Opens February 28, 2008 - Closes March 8, 2008
Studio Theatre

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UNCLE VANYA
By Anton Chekhov

Rewritten by Anton Chekhov from his earlier play The Wood Demon, the now treasured Uncle Vanya was the second of his four masterpieces to be produced by the Moscow Art Theater. The change of title signaled Chekhov’s re-focusing of the play onto the fulminating, querulous Vanya, an aging would-be lover at the center of a comic ménage. The contrast of Vanya’s world-weariness with his niece Sonya’s simple faith endows this cherished drama with immortal and bittersweet poetry.

Directed Keith Fowler
Opens April 10, 2008 - Closes April 19, 2008
Winifred Smith Hall

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MEASURE FOR MEASURE
By William Shakespeare

Deception and truth. Corruption and virtue. Justice and mercy. They all hang in the balance in Measure for Measure. When the Duke of Vienna abandons his city, he places his zealous deputy in charge. Who will the puritanical Angelo serve, faced with a city rife with prostitution and sexual excess, as he delivers his uncompromising application of justice? Life, death, chastity, and truth swing the scales in equal measure in Shakespeare's classic intrigue.

Directed by Philip Thompson
Opens May 1, 2008 - Closes May 10, 2008
Studio Theatre

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REEFER MADNESS
Written by Dan Studney and Kevin Murphy
Music by Dan Studney, Lyrics by Kevin Murphy

This outrageously funny hit musical follows the budding romance of high school sweethearts Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane. Everything seems to be going swell, until Jimmy is lured into the evils of a reefer den and tries his first hit of the "demon weed." Be sure not to miss what follows in what the L.A. Weekly called, "an irreverent and hilarious musical extravaganza," and the New York Daily News dubbed, "a giggle-stick from beginning to end."

Directed by Vince Tycer
Musical Director, Dennis Castellano
Opens May 29, 2008 - Closes June 7, 2008
Claire Trevor Theatre

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