Mainstage Events—Our 78th Season
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Our 2011 - 2012 Mainstage Season Shows
 13
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn
Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 6, 7, 8, 2011 @ 8:00 PM
Oct. 2, 9, 2011 @ 2:00 PM
A grown-up story about growing up!
When his parents get divorced and he’s forced to move from New York to a small town in Indiana, Evan Goldman just wants to make friends and survive the school year. Easier said than done. The star quarterback is threatening to ruin his life and his only friend, Patrice, won’t talk to him. The school freak sees an opportunity for blackmail and someone is
spreading the nastiest rumors. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, “13” is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.
'Til Beth Do Us Part
 By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
January 27, 28; February 2, 3, 4, 2012 @ 8:00 PM
January 29, February 5, 2012 @ 2:00 PM
A comic romp about marriage. Career-driven Suzannah Hayden needs a lot more help on the home front than she’s getting from her husband of twenty-seven years, Gibby. Enter Beth Bailey, Suzannah’s newly-hired assistant, a gregarious, highly-motivated Southerner. To Suzannah’s delight, Beth explodes into the Hayden household and whips it into an organized, well-run machine. This couldn’t have happened at a better time for Suzannah, since her boss is flying in soon for an important make-or-break business dinner. Gibby grows increasingly wary as Beth insinuates herself into more and more aspects of their lives and Suzannah’s career. Gibby sets out to save his marriage aided by Suzannah’s best friend, Margo, a wisecracking and self-deprecating divorcee and her ex-husband, Hank, who is in the midst of his own mid-life crisis. Their effort to stop Beth at any cost sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry.
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 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
April 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 2012 @ 8:00 PM
April 15, 22, 2012 @ 2:00 PM
Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser.
It is a hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show’s Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.
Under The Yum Yum Tree
By Lawrence Roman
June 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 2012 @ 8:00 PM
June 3, 10, 2012 @ 2:00 PM
 Hogan, the landlord who occupies the apartment next door, rents the cozy diggings to women who generally require some sort of solacing. Irene Wilson, the latest recipient of Hogan’s consolations, is vacating the flat in San Francisco to spend the summer teaching in
Sacramento, and she is turning over the apartment to her niece, Robin Austin, a student at Berkeley. It doesn’t take Hogan long to make the discovery that she is
gorgeous and has a problem. She is in love with a cleancut, upstanding young lawyer named Dave Manning. She thinks that before marrying they ought to test their compatibility by sharing the apartment for a few weeks—platonically, that is. The business of a red-blooded American male resisting the innocent blandishments of the nubile Robin is manipulated to arrive at maximum
suggestive content. But the sport ends blamelessly.
* Plays and dates are subject to change. |