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MCT's 1999 Season
Who killed Mr. Boddy? Was it Miss Scarlet in the ballroom with the candlestick or Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with the knife? You decide who is guilty in this "who done it" audience participation musical based on the popular Parker Brothers board game. Book by Peter DePietro. Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci. Lyrics by Tom Chiodo.
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the last century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent "up there." Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day and, time being what it is "up there," fifteen years have passed and he now encounters the teenage daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless child, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love. Music by Richard Rodgers. Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. Based on Ferenc Molnar's play "Liliom" as adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer. as adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer.
Comedy. America’s premier comedy playwright delighted audiences with this out-and-out funny story of four couples gathering to celebrate the tenth wedding anniversary of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife. But the host has shot himself in the head (it’s only a flesh wound) and his wife has disappeared! Hilarity abounds as other guests arrive and the cover-up becomes progressively more complex as nobody can remember who has been told what about whom! "Neil Simon makes people laugh - a lot!" -- USA Today (Audition dates: June 27 & 28, July 18 & 19 1999)
Children’s Show by Pat Cook. Here’s a comedy package of 12 Yuletide sketches just perfect for an evening of entertainment this Christmas! Everybody in the little town of Christmas is friendly and funny and you’ll meet them all including the elf comedy team of Skeezix and Sylvester, Dancer and the REAL boss, MRS. CLAUS! Also included are old favorites such as "Twas The Night Before Christmas", updated and aimed to tickle your funny bone. Throw in a band of wandering carolers who cough and sneeze on cue and you have a holiday evening of laughter and warmth. (Audition dates: September 12 & 13, 1999) . |
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