PENTACLE
THEATRE PRESENTS
THE 2010 SEASON!
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YOU CAN’T TAKE IT
WITH YOU
A Comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
January
22 – February 13
Winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Best
Drama!
One
of the most popular and successful plays of modern times. At first the Sycamores seem mad,
but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is
madder.
THE PRICE
A Drama by Arthur Miller
March
5 – March 27
“...one of the most
engrossing and entertaining plays that Miller has ever written.” —NY Times
Brilliant,
powerful and deeply moving—this play examines with compassion, humor and rare
insight, the relationship of two long-estranged brothers who meet after 16 years to
dispose of their late father’s belongings.
THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND
A Comedy Satire by Tom Stoppard
April 16
– May 8
“Zanily, crazily funny.”
—NY Times
In
this hilarious spoof, two feuding theatre critics are swept into a live whodunit they are
viewing and find themselves becoming dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an
escaped madman.
THE TAFFETAS
A Musical Conceived by Rick Lewis
May
28 – June 19
Opening Off-Broadway almost two
years before “Forever Plaid,” THE
TAFFETAS
made nostalgia what it is today.
It’s
1950-something, and Kaye, Peggy, Cheryl and Donna, four singing sisters from Muncie, Indiana
are making their national television singing debut. “Spotlight on Music,” a
fictitious weekly 1950’s television show on the real-life Dumont Television Network,
sets the framework for an evening of some of the greatest hits of the 1950’s.
ONE FLEW OVER THE
CUCKOO’S NEST
A
Comedy Drama by Dale Wasserman, adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey
July
9 – July 31
Winner of both
the 2001 Tony Award and the Outer Critics Circle
Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play.
A charming yet
devil-may-care rogue chooses to serve his short sentence in an airy mental institution
rather than in prison. This, he learns, was a mistake.
STEEL MAGNOLIAS
A Comedy Drama by Robert Harling
August
20 – September 11
“The play builds to a conclusion that
is deeply moving.” —NY Daily News
Based
on the tragic death of Author Robert Harling’s younger sister, the action centers
around Truvy’s beauty parlor and six women who regularly gather there. Although the
main storyline involves Shelby, her mother and Shelby’s medical battles such as
choosing to have a child despite having Type 1 diabetes, the underlying group-friendship
among all six women is prominent throughout the drama.
NIGHT WATCH
A Suspense Thriller by Lucille Fletcher
October
1 – October 23
"A most superior thriller…which
from its first blood-curdling scream
to its last charming surprise is a first-class example of its genre" ---- NY
Times.
An insomniac
heiress, her handsome husband, her nurse, a German maid, psychiatrists, police and a
neighborhood eccentric in a thrilling game of who’s out to get who. An outstanding
Broadway success, this ingeniously devised thriller builds steadily in menace and suspense
until the final, breath-stopping moment of its unexpected, “twist” ending.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Based
on Sholem Aleichem stories by special permission of Arnold Perl, Book by
Joseph Stein, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by
Sheldon Harnick
November
12 – December 4
Nominated for
ten Tony Awards, winning nine, including Best Musical,
score, book, direction and
choreography
Tevye, a Jewish
peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia copes with the day-to-day problems of life, his Jewish
traditions, his family (wife and daughters) and state-sanctioned programs. A philosophical
village milkman, Tevye explains the customs of the Jewish people and their lives in the
Russian village of Anantevka in 1905, where life is as precarious as the perch of a
fiddler on a roof.
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