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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tickets at the UCI box office from 12-4, Monday
through Friday,
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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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Winter 2008 Productions
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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Spring 2008 Productions
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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