Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Frisco Community Theatre announces 2008-2009 season

By Shawn Parikh

The last season of Frisco Community Theatre was postponed due to lack of a performance space, but saw success with their production of 1984. Now, the company is back and will be performing at the Cox Building Playhouse in Plano. Here are the 3 shows for the next season:

• Bullshot Crummond from October 10th - October 25th. This parody of low budget 30s detective movies typifies British heroism. Teutonic villain Otto von Brunno and his evil mistress crash their plane in the English countryside and kidnap Professor Fenton who has discovered a formula for making synthetic diamonds. Bullshot Crummond is called to the rescue. Otto paralyzes Crummond with a fiendish ray. He rams a stick of dynamite in Crummond's mouth which will explode when the next person enters the room. Rosemary enters, but the static electricity in her fur wrap averts the detonation. They pursue in a hair raising car chase, but plunge over a cliff. They sneak into the dungeons where the professor is being tortured, but Crummond hopelessly loses the ensuing saber duel. Unperturbed, Crummond finally triumphs by shooting the rest of the cast.
• Jacob Marley’s A Christmas Carol from December 5th - December 21st. Jacob Marley is dead and condemned to a hellish eternity. To escape his own chains, he must first redeem and reform Scrooge and get him to open his heart. An irreverent, funny and deeply moving story.
• The Fantasticks from April 10th - April 26th. Talk about a time-proven audience-pleaser! "Try To Remember" a time when this romantic charmer wasn't enchanting audiences at New York’s Sullivan Street Playhouse. “The Fantasticks” is the longest-running musical in the world, and with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. The result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be nostalgic and universal at the same time.

Source: FCT

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