BINGO the winning musical
Book by
Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid
Music and Lyrics
by Michael Heitzman, Ilene Reid
and David Holcenberg
Bingo is a splashy , zippy, outrageously funny new musical. Come meet Vern, Honey, and Patsy: three pals that have driven through a terrible storm in the name of their weekly obsession. In between the number calling, strange rituals, and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long lost friends reunite!
A cast of 6 Women and 1 Man
Prodution Dates: September 17-19, 24-26 2010 
Directed by Mitchell Antesky
Auditions July 18 & 19
A CHRISTMAS STORY
Play by Philip Grecian,
based upon A Christmas Story, ©1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros.
written by Jean Shepherd
Leigh Brown
Bob Clark
and In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash
by Jean Shepherd
Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Goldblatt's Department Store. The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out."
All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking; Ralphie's fantasy scenarios, and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.
A total delight for the holiday season!
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois
Cast of 2 Men, 2 Women, 5 boys, 2 girls playing 19 roles and recorded voices
Prodution Dates: December 3-5, 10-12 2010 with Saturday Matinees!
Directed by Tim Bolton
Auditions TBA
LEAVING IOWA
The Comedy About Family Vacations
by Tim Clue and Spike Manton
The spark behind Leaving Iowa comes from being children of parents from the now dubbed "greatest generation". The story is a toast to their idealism and character, and a little roast of their undying dedication to the classic family road trip. More specifically, it is the story of Don Browning, a middle-aged writer, who returns home and decides to finally take his father's ashes to his childhood home, as requested. But when Don discovers Grandma's house is now a grocery store, he begins traveling across Iowa searching for a proper resting place for his father. This father-and-son road trip shifts smoothly from the present to Don's memories of the annual, torturous vacations of his childhood. Don's existential journey leads him to reconcile his past and present at the center of the United States. Leaving Iowa is a postcard to anyone who has ever found himself or herself driving alone on a road, revisiting fond memories of his or her youth.
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing
Cast 2 Women, 2 Men, and multiple roles for 1 man and 1 woman
Production Dates: January 21-23, 28-30 2011
Directed by Michael PJ Foos
Auditions TBA
THE AMOROUS AMBASSADOR
by Michael Parker
When Harry Douglas, the new American Ambassador to Great Britain, tells his family he is going to Scotland to play golf, his wife and daughter announce weekend plans of their own. Their newly hired butler, Perkins, watches stoically as each leaves and secretly returns for a romantic rendezvous in the empty house. Harry's secretary and Captain South of Marine Corps Embassy Security then arrive in the wake of a bomb threat and the embassy is sealed off, with hilarious results. Even the imperturbable Perkins is drawn into the shenanigans
Cast 4 Men and 4 Women
Prodution Dates: March 11-13, 18-20 2011
Directed by Pete Lowry
Auditions TBA
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
With Music by Richard Rogers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
Suggested by "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"
May 6-8, 13-15, special bonus weekend May 20-22
Directed by Dan Henning
Audition Dates: TBA
Produced by special arrangement with The Rogers and Hammerstein Organization, R&H Theatricals
