Escanaba in Da Moonlight
Show dates: October 14-17 and 21-23
Directed By: Tracy Ulrich
- Mentoring Director: Susan Brown
Jeff Daniel's hilariously twisted comedy about five Yoopers - residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula - and their escapades at a ramshackle deer camp on the eve of the Opening Day of the 1989 hunting season.
Reuben Soady goes to the hunting camp cottage, otherwise known as deer camp, with his father Albert, brother Remnar and Jimmy "the Jimmer" Negamanee from Menominee. If Reuben, now 42, doesn't manage to shoot a buck by the end of the season, he will become the oldest Soady in recorded history not to have achieved this task, a taboo that leads people in the community to believe he is jinxed.
Reuben breaks with tradition, taking advice from his Native American wife, Wolf Moon Dance, who offers him spiritual remedies involving a drink made with moose testicles, and porcupine urine to protect him from evil spirits.
Sabrina Fair
Show dates: February 10-13 and 17-19
Co-Directed By: Jennifer Brabant
and Jamie Platte
Sabrina Fairchild is the daughter of a chauffeur to the wealthy Larrabee family, who live in a mansion on the North Shore of Long Island. Returning from a stay in Paris after working as the private secretary, she presents herself as a young woman of beauty, charm, incredible sophistication and zest for living, She proclaims her desire "to do everything and see everything, sense everything; to know that life is an enormous experience and must be used.
Although she once had a crush on David Larrabee, the young playboy of the family, and returns to America with a wealthy French suitor in tow, she finds herself drawn to Linus Larrabee, whose intelligence, lack of sentimentality, and knowledge of the world stimulates her. When it's revealed that Sabrina's father has amassed a fortune on the stock market over the past decades, she is able to woo and win Linus as her financial, as well as intellectual, equal.
Alice in Wonderland
Show dates: March 10-13 and 17-19
Directed By: Tonda Richey
Michele L. Vacca's adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" brings all of the well known characters from the children's story to life on stage. Watch as Alice makes her way through Wonderland where she meets the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts and all the other characters in this delightful comedy. At the end of the play Alice may question if her adventures were imagination or real...but we know better, don't we!
Spelling Bee
Show dates: May 5-8 and 12-14
Directed By: Gary Albert
Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.
Please be advised that this production may not be suitable for children under 12 as is contains some adult language and deals with adolescent and adult themes.
Curtain times for the adult shows are 8:00 Thursday – Saturday and 2:00 on Sundays
Childrens shows are 7:00 Thursday – Saturday and 2:00 on Sundays
All auditions and performances are held in the Ross Stoakes Theater in the Crooked Tree Arts Center unless noted otherwise.
Community Theatre Association of Michigan
American Association of Community Theatres
Eddi Awards