Stoneham Theatre's young company: Summer Festival 2011
| Venue: | The Greater Boston Stage Company (Formerly Stoneham Theatre) |
| Hours: | Hours Vary see below |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $$ |
| Category: | Theater & Shows |
Enjoy up to 6 fantastic performances by the troupe of the Stoneham Theatre's young co. during their annual Summer Show Festival. Choose one, a few or get an entire Festival pass. This year's shows include: Bugsy Malone Jr.; Curtains; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; The Rose and The Rime; Assassins; and Chicago.
See below for a detailed description of each show.
Bugsy Malone
The pie-flinging, pinstripe-wearing, pint-sized classic has finally made it to the musical stage in this adaptation of the hit film that catapulted a young Jodie Foster to stardom! In this film noir spoof, the message is one of good fun; the characters are wonderful cartoon cutouts; and the weapons of choice are 'splurge' whip cream guns, flour bombs, and custard pies.
August 5th 10:00am
August 6th 12:00pm
August 7th 12:00pm
Curtains
It's the brassy, bright and promising year of 1959. Boston's Colonial Theatre is host to the opening night performance of Robbin' Hood!, 'a new musical of the Old West'. The only problem? It's terrible! The curtains rise on the show's merciful finale. Act Two. Scene 23.
Chief among the its problems is the leading lady of the production, a former film star who can't act, can't sing, and can't dance — not even a little. But when the curtains fall to reveal her mysteriously 'passed on,' the entire cast & crew are suspects. Enter a local detective, who just happens to be a musical theatre fan!
August 5th 7:00pm
August 6th 3:00pm
August 7th 7:00pm
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
This wildly warm-hearted theatrical experience kicks off when the Music Hall Royale (a hilariously loony Victorian musical troupe) 'puts on' its flamboyant rendition of an unfinished Dickens mystery. The story itself deals with John Jasper, a Jekyll-and-Hyde choirmaster who is quite madly in love with his music student, the fair Miss Rosa Bud. Now, Miss Bud is, in turn, engaged to Jasper's nephew, young Edwin Drood. Our title character disappears mysteriously one stormy Christmas Eve-but has Edwin Drood been murdered? And if so, then whodunnit?
But this show’s most memorable attribute is a no-holds barred finale in which the audience votes on the suspect they think is most guilty, leading to any number of alternate endings!
August 4th 7:00pm
August 6th 7:00pm
August 7th 3:00pm
The Rose and the Rime
Radio Falls, Michigan, has been trapped in perpetual winter for a generation, and the constant blizzard surrounding the town means there’s no way in or out. The last moment of heated passion brought the town its only remaining youth: a young girl named Rose. It is up to her to save Radio Falls from the vicious curse of the Rime Witch. But when she succeeds, Radio Falls discovers the witch’s magic coin has two sides. This ensemble-based, physical theatre piece will be unlike anything you’ve yet seen from the young company.
This remarkable modern myth from the House Theatre of Chicago—creators of Mainstage Season 10’s magical The Sparrow—reminds us that anything powerful enough to fulfill your dreams is powerful enough to destroy them
August 11th 8:00pm
August 13th 2:00pm
August 14th 2:00pm
Assassins
Bold, original, surreal, disturbing, thought-provoking and alarmingly funny, 'Assassins' is one of Stephen Sondheim’s highest achievements and a recent Broadway revival starring Neil Patrick Harris, Marc Kudisch and Michael Cerveris.
This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical 'revusical' that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a rollercoaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and in an intense final scene.
August 12th 8:00pm
August 13th 5:00pm
August 14th 8:00pm
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