Not Now Darling by John Roy Chapman and Ray Cooney was a British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley, and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to "Close […]
The first production in the new Depot Theater is Anyone Can Whistle, a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Set in an imaginary town that has gone bankrupt, it focuses on the unpopular, manipulative and corrupt mayoress, Cora Hoover Hooper and the practical but idealistic nurse, Fay […]
(Original: February 1987). The Company reprised Noises Off! in their new theater at the Santa Fe Depot complex. Noises Off! is a “play within a play” written by Michael Frayn and follows the foibles of the cast of “Nothing On”. Each of the three acts of Noises Off! contains a performance of the first act […]
PERFORMANCE DATES: December 2004 CAST: Connie Penick, Shamus Hager, Cynthia Thomas, Kelly Carroll, Haley Ashcroft, Ed Bethea, Amy Reinert, Barry Metcalf, Dee Burke, Joni Clark, Gayla Kirmer, Jordan Baltazor, Louise Tegarden, Taza Ricke, Jana Ross, Teri Hawkins, Kent Ross, Karen Carroll, Kyle Hager CREW: Light Design - Seth Eckelman, Sound Design - Alan Stukenholtz, Set Design - […]
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood was a play based on the author’s experiences as dresser to distinguished English Shakespearean actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, who is the "Sir" in the play. An aging lead actor named Sir is touring with a troupe of thespians who perform "King Lear" throughout war-ravaged England. Sir's devoted dresser, Norman, is […]
A fun show about the blues, put together using some of the great old blues songs and a few new ones. PERFORMANCE DATES: February 25 - 27, 2005 CAST: Violet Sue "Poor Girl" Dyer - Wendy Nelson, "Baby Blue" - Traza Ricke, Sally - Erin Jones, Sophie Bailey - Connie Penick, Rebecca Kay Garret, :The […]
(Original: January 1991). Those wacky nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken returned in NUNSENSE, a musical comedy with a book, music, and lyrics by Dan Goggin. The story follows five of the 19 surviving Little Sisters of Hoboken, a one-time missionary order that ran a leper colony on an island south of France, who […]
(Original: October 1986). The Company reprised another hit from their early years at Boot Hill with Little Shop of Horrors. This rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, tells the story of a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the […]
Author Ray Cooney can always be counted on for an evening fun – and Caught in the Net is another of his fine scripts. If you think your life is complicated, imagine the life of two-timing taxi driver John Smith who keeps two separate families! When his teenage children (a girl from one family and […]
In the tradition of the hilarious Harvey Korman and Tim Conway sketches from the old Carol Burnett Show, comes the stage comedy The Queen of Bingo! 'Sis' and 'Babe,' two sisters on the other side of 50, want to add a little fun and excitement to their lives...but where to find it? BINGO! Jeanne Michels […]
(Original: December 1998). The Company reprised The Best Christmas Pageant Ever which tells the story of 6 children (The Herdmans) who are poorly behaved and not exposed to church. The go to church for the first time merely because they find out snacks are offered at Sunday School. Instead, they find themselves as the lead […]
"My name is Known God and King. I am most in majesty, in whom no beginning may be and no end." – thus declares the Voice of God at the beginning of Godspell, a 1970 musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. Based on a series of parables found in the Gospels of Matthew & […]
