2007-2008 Season

Featuring: Larry Cole, Larry Hansgen, Jim Monsul, Mark Narens, Nikki Rehmert, Caliph Scott, Misti Stewart, and Drew Washburn

One of Neil Simon's best known and loved plays, the story of fussy and depressed Felix Unger and sloppy Oscar Madison and their pals is one of the playwright's funniest efforts. When Felix is kicked out by his wife, Oscar, also divorced, takes him in. Soon, the patterns of their own disastrous marriages begin to reappear in this arrangement with hilarious results.

Mild adult language; recommended for ages 13 and above.

Featuring: Michael Wilson, Lynne Doyle, Connor McClellan, Amy Anderson, and Brian Cheslik

Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a "dry" spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college—a thriller which Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway hit. Sidney's plan, which he devises with his wife's help, is to offer collaboration to the student, an idea which the younger man quickly accepts. Thereafter suspense mounts steadily as the plot begins to twist and turn with devilish cleverness, and with such an abundance of thrills and laughter, that audiences will be held enthralled until the final, startling moments of the play.

Recommended for ages 13 and above.

Featuring: Andrew Mauney, Ryan Long, Chase Hoffman, Emily Good, Meredith Rea, and Patrick Cline

YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN is a musical based on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. It presents a mythical day in the life of Charlie Brown, made up of little moments from Valentine's Day to the baseball season, from wild optimism to utter despair, all mixed in with the lives of his friends (both human and non-human) and strung together on a single day, from a bright uncertain morning to a hopeful starlit evening. Join the Peanuts gang in this fast paced, lighthearted musical, guaranteed to please audiences of all ages!

Suitable for all ages.

Once again, Curtain Players will feature the exciting and entertaining plays of up and coming playwrights from around the country. Be they comedies, thrillers, dramas, or thought-provoking new works, we bring you new and unpublished shows and an audience with the playwrights. From one-acts to full-length, ranging from readings to fully-staged productions, the Playwrights Festival offers you a chance to meet the playwrights and become a part of their process and contribute your thoughts to the future of theatre.

Read more about this year's scripts...

Separation Anxiety by Jeremy Sony • January 11 & 12
No Worse for the Wear by Jaclyn Villano • January 18 & 19
Tabloid Love by Kenneth Nichols • January 18 & 19
Chasing Ozymandias by Michael S. Parsons • January 25 & 26

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Featuring: Drew Smith, Gene Johnson, James Petsche, Dan Stanton, Cole Simon, Emily Good, John Newkirk, Laura Smith Hill, and Jeff Tudas

Four developmentally disabled men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the disabled, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they are allotted on this earth.

Recommended for mature audiences.

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Featuring: Dale Bush, Stacia Koch, Joyce Roberts, Mary Acierno, Nolan Martin, Scott Willis, Drew Washburn, Larry Hangsen, Erik Binion, Jeff Kemeter, Mark Cummings, John Masterson

We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously "acceptable" roomers and the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. When their nephew Mortimer discovers a body under the window seat of his aunts' home, however, the elderly women 'fess up to their deeds matter-of-factly and the events of the play become more absurd right up to a surprise ending.

Suitable for all ages.

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Featuring: Rachel Wengrow, Amy Anderson, Sarah Willis, Gina Ruffner, Robin Starr and Courtney Lingnofski

The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle, the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town's rich curmudgeon, Ouiser; an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, and the local social leader, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby is about to marry a "good ole boy." Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.

Mild adult language; Recommended for ages 13 and above.

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Featuring: Lisa Kreischer and John Newkirk

One of the most popular romantic comedies of the century, SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR ran four years on Broadway, was a successful motion picture, and remains one of the most widely produced plays in history. It follows a love affair between people who meet by chance at a remote inn and decide to rendezvous once a year where they first met. Twenty five years of manners, morals, and attitudes are hilariously mirrored by the lovers.

Suitable for ages 13 and up.

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