The Shanachie Theater Calendar (Mods Only)

[Anthony De Luca]

August 30th to September 3rd

Can you sing and dance? Is acting your dream? Can you carry a tune on any instrument we care to name? Then the Shanachie Theater is the place for you!

From Monday, August 30th, to Friday, September 3rd, the Shanachie Theater will be opening its doors for the annual round of auditions. Everyone is welcome to attend, so come out and show us what you've got!

[Anthony De Luca]

The Prince and the Swan
Shanachie Ballet Company
September 6th – September 25th

Please join us for Josette Wheeler’s directorial debut as the Shanachie Ballet performs The Prince and the Swan, based on Matthew Bourne’s version of Swan Lake - a contemporary ballet using the music by Tchaikovsky and a broad outline of the plot. Bourne's rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men.

[Anthony De Luca]

Saint Joan
Shanachie Repertory Company
September 27th – October 9th

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play reflects Shaw's belief that the people involved in Joan's trial acted according to what they thought was right.

[Anthony De Luca]

Jekyll & Hyde
Shanachie Theater Company
October 11th - October 23rd

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic thriller, Jekyll & Hyde is the gripping tale of a brilliant mind gone horrifically awry, set to a powerful pop-rock score by Frank Wildhorn with book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. In an attempt to cure his ailing father’s mental illness by separating “good” from “evil” in the human personality, talented physician Dr. Jekyll inadvertently creates an alternate personality of pure evil, dubbed Mr. Hyde, who wreaks murderous havoc on the city of London. As his fiancée Emma grows increasingly fearful for her betrothed, a prostitute, Lucy, finds herself dangerously involved with both the doctor and his alter ego. Struggling to control Hyde before he takes over for good, Jekyll must race to find a cure for the demon he has created in his own mind.

[Jonathan Granger]

Blithe Spirit
Shanachie Repertory Company
October 25th - November 6th

Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward. The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.

[Anthony De Luca]

Hansel & Gretel
Shanachie Ballet Company
November 8th - November 27th

This two-act ballet is a lively re-telling of the well-known fairytale about a brother and sister who wander into a forest where they are captured by a witch in a fantastic gingerbread house. In a classic good-triumphs-over-evil plot, the spunky youngsters defeat the witch, free other children she had baked into gingerbread, and are reunited with their loving parents in the happily-ever-after finale.

[Anthony De Luca]

Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Shanachie Theater Company
November 29th - December 11th

Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of the Mischief Theatre Company, creators of The Play That Goes Wrong (2012). The premise, as in The Play That Goes Wrong, is that the actors and crews are members of the fictitious Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society presenting their production of the J.M. Barrie classic 1904 play Peter Pan, and ruin it through amateurism and personal rivalries.

[Jonathan Granger]

Holiday
Shanachie Repertory Company
December 13th - December 25th

Holiday is a 1928 play by Philip Barry which was twice adapted to film. The original play opened in New York on November 26, 1928, at the Plymouth Theatre and closed in June 1929, after 229 performances. It was directed by Arthur Hopkins, set design by Robert Edmond Jones, and costume design by Margaret Pemberton.

The play was adapted for film twice: The first filmed Holiday was released in 1930. Directed by Edward H. Griffith, it starred Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames and Hedda Hopper. Holiday was filmed again in 1938. Directed by George Cukor, this version starred Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, and Edward Everett Horton, who reprised his role from the 1930 film. Donald Ogden Stewart wrote the screenplay adaptation, receiving an Academy Award.

The revival went up on December 3, 1995, at the Circle in the Square Theatre and closed on January 14, 1996, after 50 performances. It was directed by David Warren, sets by Derek McLane, costumes by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting by Donald Holder, sound and score by John Gromada, and style/movement by Loyd Williamson. The cast featured Tony Goldwyn as Johnny Case, Laura Linney as Linda Seton, Kim Raver as Julia Seton, Jim Oyster as Henry, Reese Madigan as Charles, Reg Rogers as Ned Seton, Tom Lacy as Edward Seton, Rod McLachlan as Seton Cram, Becca Lish as Laura Cram, Michael Countryman as Nick Potter, and Anne Lange as Susan Potter.

[Jonathan Granger]

Oliver, JR!
Shanachie STARS
June 24th - 26th & July 1st - 3rd

Consider yourself at home with Oliver! JR., the Broadway Junior version of Lionel Bart's classic musical based on Charles Dickens' novel, Oliver Twist.

The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance amongst a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin. When Oliver is captured for a theft that he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, threatening Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of a family.