This play is set in Sunnyside, Queens in 1965, on the day Pope Paul VI visited New York City. This dark comedy featured a zookeeper who dreams of making it big in Hollywood as a songwriter, his wife Bananas, their son - a GI headed for Vietnam, a trio of nuns, Artie's friend - Billy […]
A celebration of the season. PERFORMANCE DATES: December 1985 CAST and CREW: Doug Austen, Jill Austen, Heather Birney, Amy Brax, Gordon Day, Ken Dean, Tod Demuth, Theresa Eades, Dean Freeman, connie Hudnett, Stephanie McMullough, Sara McFarland, Barry Metcalf, Ray Mettling
This musical comedy was essentially two independent one-act plays, with a book and lyrics by Dick Vosburgh and music by Frank Lazarus. Additionally, songs by other composers were incorporated into the score. The first act - A Day in Hollywood, is a revue of classic Hollywood songs of the 1930s performed by singers and dancers […]
Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. PERFORMANCE DATES: October 30 […]
In his plot for Noises Off, Michael Frayn played on the concept of a play within a play, in this case a parodically dreadful sex comedy titled Nothing On—the type of play in which young girls run about in their underwear, old men drop their trousers, and many doors continually open and shut. Nothing On […]
Baby was a musical with a book by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. The plot focused on three couples—each newly expecting a child, and each with different but familiar reactions. Liz and Danny were university juniors who had just moved in together. Athletic Pam and her husband, Nick, […]
The scene is set in a resort-style fishing lodge in rural Georgia. This comedy revolves around two of its guests, Charlie Baker and Englishman Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur. Charlie is so pathologically shy that he is unable to speak. As way of explanation, Froggy claims his companion is the native of an exotic country who […]
This musical comedy spoof about the mythical god Jupiter relates the story of his transformation from a "wild and crazy god" into a deity of love and compassion. The setting is ancient Greece in the city of Thebes. The Chorus introduces itself with "Welcome to Greece" and Jupiter arrives, weary of life on Mount Olympus, […]
The action centers around Truvy's beauty parlor and some women who regularly gather there. The drama begins on the morning of Shelby's wedding to Jackson and covers events over the next three years, including Shelby's decision to have a child despite having diabetes and the complications that result from the decision. We also get a […]
This play is set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the "third-smallest" town in the state. It is at once an affectionate comment on small-town, Southern life and attitudes but also a withering satire of same. The play is notable in that three men play the entire cast of over twenty eccentric characters of […]
It was an unpublished musical written especially for radio that was found in a record bin in New York City. The authors agreed that the Museum Repertory Company should perform it. PERFORMANCE DATES: October 26 - November 11, 1989 CAST: Daisy Durant - Karen Warshaw, Myrna - Amy Reinert, Marshall Heatherington Asbury - Ken Dean, […]
Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends explored issues of blind faith and organized religion through the characters of Reverend Eddie and Brother Lawrence, survivors of an apocalypse who have taken shelter in their church. As Reverend Eddie prepares his final sermon, his grip on reality and his faith are challenged by […]
