2024 – 2025 Community Series
October 10 – 27, 2024
Little Shop of Horrors
Book & Lyrics by Howard Ashman • Music by Alan Menken
Based on the film by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles Griffith
Originally produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, Producing Director)
Originally produced at the Orpheum Theatre, New York City by the WPA Theatre, David Geffen,
Cameron Mackintosh and the Shubert Organization
October 10- 27, 2024 | Auditions – August 18, 2024
Premiere Night: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Rated PG-13- Parental Guidance Recommended (Click Content Advisory for more info.)
Performance Run Time is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes with intermission.
What do a lonely nerd, a naïve and lovely ingenue, R&B singers, a sadistic Dentist, a greedy boss and a blood-thirsty plant have in common? Wait, did we say…a PLANT? From the creators of some of Disney’s most beloved shows (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin), comes a quirky sci-fi tale of Seymour, an insecure, love-stricken flower shop employee who goes to unworldly lengths to win over Audrey, his secret crush. After naming a new and unusual breed of plant after her, “Audrey II” turns out to need much more than water to survive. Little Shop of Horrors is a cult-classic, drama-rom-com turned beloved musical that has been delighting audiences for decades, serving as a highly entertaining cautionary tale of the “Be careful what you wish for” variety. Plants grow better when you talk to them, so be careful what you say!
Little Shop of Horrors is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
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December 5 – December 22, 2024
A Christmas Story, The Musical
Book by Joseph Robinette. Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark, and upon In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash written by Jean Shepherd.
December 5- December 22, 2024 | Auditions – September 22, 2024
Premiere Night: Thursday, December 5, 2024
Rated PG- Parental Guidance Suggested (Click Content Advisory for more info.)
Performance Run Time is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes with intermission.
It’s all fun and games until someone shoots their eye out or sticks their tongue on a frozen flagpole. A Christmas Story, The Musical may be set in 1940s Indiana, but the iconic cultural references from the 1983 film will ring out like the sound of a Red Ryder BB Gun to modern-day audiences. Young Ralphie Parker’s quest for a special Christmas gift, the local bullies, the Bunny suit, Christmas dinner, the list goes on (no, we didn’t forget the leg lamp). The musical garnered 3 Tony Award nominations in 2013, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. Go ahead and watch the 1983 non-musical movie every year, but you don’t want to miss the experience of enjoying an innocent and charming classic live on stage this December; it’ll be as priceless as receiving a Major Award!
Produced with permission of Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures and Dalfie Entertainment.
Produced by special arrangement with DRAMATIC PUBLISHING, Woodstock, Illinois.
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January 16 – 26, 2025
Waitress
Book by JESSIE NELSON • Music and Lyrics by SARA BAREILLES
Based on the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly
Orchestrations by Sara Bareilles and The Waitress Band
Music by Arrangement with Sony Music Publishing
Originally produced on Broadway by Barry and Fran Weissler • Norton and Elayne Herrick • David I. Berley • Independent Presenters Network • A.C. Orange International • Peter May • Michael Roiff • Ken Schur • Marisa Sechrest • Jann Theatricals • 42nd. club/Square I Theatrics • Benjamin Simpson & Joseph Longthorne/Shira Friedman • Alecia Parkers, Executive Producer
Original motion picture produced by Michael Roiff/Night & Day Pictures
World Premiere produced by the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, August 2, 2015
Diane Paulus, Artistic Director and Diane Borger, Producer
Peter Duchan, Script Consultant for A.R.T. Production
January 16- 26, 2025 | Auditions – November 17, 2024
Premiere Night: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Rated PG-13- Parental Guidance Recommended (Click Content Advisory for more info.)
Performance Run Time is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes with intermission.
A fresh-baked, piping hot pie could burn you if you’re careless. And yet, the delicious flavor is so satisfying it may change your life. Just ask Jenna, a waitress whose small-town existence and difficult marriage are a recipe for unhappiness. Her search for escape and happiness lead her to a relationship with little future as it threatens her reputation. Still, Jenna manages to find some sweetness in life throughout this bittersweet journey. The superb music score by Grammy-award-winner Sara Bareilles blends both heartache (“She Used to Be Mine”) and hope (“What Baking Can Do”). This regional premiere based on the 2007 non-musical film of the same name, Waitress: The Musical is poignant. It’s relatable, bitter as a lemon and sweet as a marshmallow pie. Entertainment Weekly called it “a little slice of heaven” and MCT is proud to serve up this extraordinarily popular musical that promises to stir your heart. You’ll most likely want to pick up a pie on the way home.
Waitress is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
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March 6 – 16, 2025
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Based on the novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens
March 6-16, 2025 | Auditions – January 12, 2025
Premiere Night: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Rated R- Restricted (Click Content Advisory for more info.)
Performance Run Time is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes with intermission.
The setting is the UK, and the time is seven minutes after midnight. Someone has killed the neighbor’s dog, Wellington, with a garden fork. 15-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is determined to solve the case, but to do so, he must face challenges he has never faced and brave a world he has never braved. Christopher has an exceptional mind, but the secrets he uncovers in his search for who killed Wellington may change his life forever. With his faithful rat Toby and a small ensemble playing over 30 different characters, Christopher’s winding, often humorous journey is told beautifully and with stunning visual effects in this Tony and Olivier Award-winning adaptation of Mark Haddon’s highly acclaimed novel.
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (90 MINUTE VERSION) is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
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April 24 – May 11, 2025
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella
(The Enchanted Version)
Music by RICHARD RODGERS • Book and Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Adapted for the Stage by Tom Briggs
From the Teleplay by Robert L. Freedman
April 24- May 11, 2025 | Auditions – February 23, 2025
Premiere Night: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Rated G- General Audiences (Click Content Advisory for more info.)
Performance Run Time is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes with intermission.
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella 1957 debut on national TV starring Julie Andrews was the most widely viewed program in history at the time. It inspired new versions in 1965 (Lesley Ann Warren) and the “Enchanted version” in 1997 (pop star Brandy), which garnered seven primetime Emmy Awards. It breathed new life, charm and humor into the classic musical, while keeping memorable songs such as “Ten Minutes Ago,” and “In My Own Little Corner.” Lose yourself in the story of Cinderella dreaming to escape a life of drudgery under her cruel Stepmother and marrying the Prince. Impossible? With help from her Fairy Godmother, it just might be possible. Cinderella is whisked off to the Palace Ball to dance with the Prince, but with a Midnight curfew. Losing a shoe as she flees causes the Prince to begin a kingdom-wide search to perfectly match the glass slipper with the foot of his mysterious new love. (Perfect-fitting shoes are real…in fairy tales). Cinderella transports you to a time and place where a plain yellow pumpkin can become a golden carriage (“Impossible”). If the shoe fits, live happily ever after.
CINDERELLA is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. www.concordtheatricals.com
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