Our 2007–2008 Season: There's No Place Like Home!
Welcome to the premier season in our new Theatre in the Centralia Center. Yes, “There’s No Place Like Home” and we invite you experience this great line-up of some all-time favorites. We’ve picked a season that we know you are going to love! It’s our way of thanking you for supporting us over the years.
Our Fall 2007 production: November 8 –11, 14 –17, 2007
She Loves Me
By Joe Masteroff
(with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock)
Directed by the founder of WRCT,
Cathy Meils
The large cast musical “She Loves Me” is an ideal first production for our new theatre!“ She Loves Me” is a warm romantic comedy with an endearing innocence and a touch of old world elegance and nostalgia.
THE STORY: Meet Georg and Amalia – two feuding clerks in a European parfumerie who secretly find solace in their anonymous romantic pen pals, little knowing their respective correspondents are none other than each other. Add a strong ensemble cast playing a range of vivid, emorable characters of all ages and you have a truly enjoyable theatrical experience.
Our Winter 2008 production: February 8 –10; 13 –16, 2008
Moon Over Buffalo
By Ken Ludwig
Directed by Susan Edgren
We welcome 2008 with “Moon Over Buffalo”. This is a rip-roaring farce that is sure to tickle your funnybone!
THE STORY:Follow the misadventures of an acting couple (not exactly the Lunts) that are on tour in Buffalo in 1953. Fate has given these thespians one more shot at starring roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel epic and director Frank Capra, himself, is in route to Buffalo to catch their matinee. Will Charlotte appear or run off with their agent? Will George be sober enough to emote? Hilarious misunderstandings pile on madcap, all of which is magnified by Charlotte’s deaf mother who manages the theatre. Don’t miss this one!
Our Spring 2008 production: April 11 –13; 16 –19, 2008
Jake's Women
By Neil Simon
Directed by Cynthia Welling
We refer our spring production of “Jake’s Women” by Neil Simon as a “dramedy”- it’s lighthearted at times, but also has some serious and heartfelt moments.
THE STORY: In the world of modern relationships, we find Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life. He is facing a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. The comic and moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females. The cast includes l man and 7 women.
Our Youth production:
Monster in the Closet
By Angela D. Steward
Directed by Stephanie Hoerth
The story: Emily has a big problem. Not only is she sent to bed just as she reaches the highest level of her new video game, but there's a monster in her closet! It's not just her imagination. Her friend Stephanie saw it, too. Suffering the teasing of her brother and his friends, Emily and Stephanie recruit some of their own friends to help capture the monster. What they don't know is that Murray, the closet monster, doesn't mean any harm-he only wants to play Emily's new video game. He's too scared of kids to even think about trying to frighten them. Murray's boss, the Dream King, has heard about his goofing off on the job, and now Murray is on probation. Murray's supervisor, fellow monster Wanda, is not happy with him either. After all, every monster knows that when a child is born, a monster is assigned to watch over her-not to play with her toys and especially not to get caught in the act! What will happen when Emily has all her friends over for a sleepover to try to capture Murray? Even with Emily's friend Brain's careful analysis and planning, the girls wind up trapping the Dream King and his secretary, Toady, instead of Murray. With other wonderfully entertaining characters like Sandy the Sandman and his dream weavers, the solution to Emily's monster problem brings humor, a bit of ingenuity and a little magic to this charming and delightful family show.
Look for more information closer to this summer!
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