Thursday, April 10, 2008
Irving Community Theater announces 2008-2009 mainstage season
A new season of comedy, musical, murder mystery and classic American drama.
Irving Community Theater is currently running Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest until April 12, and they have two more shows (Proof and Nine) left in their current season. They just revealed the 5 mainstage offerings for the 2008-2009 season which includes a variety of genres, sure to strike your fancy:
- Noises Off by Michael Frayn. The show recounts the misadventures of a troupe of fifth-rate actors as they perform a sex farce titled Nothing On during a flea-bag provincial tour. The noises off are the backstage yelps and battle cries of the actors, who are entangled in a sex farce of their own. From November 7 - 22, 2008.
- Sherlock's Last Case by Charles Marowitz. Someone is trying to kill Sherlock Holmes. Now the greatest detective on earth must solve the case of his life. Come travel back to Arthur Conan Doyle's foggy Victorian London to witness hair-raising twists and turns, scenes of odd happenstance and outbursts of comic brilliance. From January 16 -31, 2009.
- Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall. Mr. Jordan is checking passengers who are to depart in an airplane for the Hereafter. The routine is interrupted by the arrival of Joe Pendleton, an attractive prizefighter, who refuses to admit he is dead and induces Jordan to look up the "records," which reveal that Joe is not scheduled to arrive for another 60 years! But, as Joe starts to return to earth to continue his fighting, word reaches Heaven that Max Levene, Joe's manager, thinking he had been killed, had Joe's body cremated, and Joe has no body to return to. Jordan promises to find Joe another body and is informed that the wealthy Jonathan Farnsworth is about to be murdered by his wife. So Joe suddenly finds himself in the home of the financier, visible as Joe to the audience but apparently as Farnsworth to Mrs. Farnsworth, and the public. From March 25 - April 11, 2009.
- All My Sons by Arthur Miller. Tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly sold them defective airplane parts which later caused the planes to crash and killed 21 men. From May 29 - June 13, 2009.
- HMS Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan. The plot revolves around a naval captain's daughter who is in love with a lower-class foremast hand (a common sailor, well below officer rank), even though her father intends her to marry the First Lord of the Admiralty, the cabinet minister in charge of the Royal Navy. As with most of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise twist changes everything dramatically near the end of the story. From July 24 - August 8, 2009.
