2010-11 Main Stage Season

Moon Over Buffalo

By Ken Ludwig
Directed by Mike Hill

• Oct. 29 & 30, 7:30 pm
• Hall Student Center
• Tickets: $6

Please note: this production contains adult language, similar to a movie with a PG-13 rating. Parental guidance is suggested.

Charlotte and George Hay, an acting couple not exactly the Lunts are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac "revised, one nostril version" and Noel Coward's Private Lives. This backstage farce by the author of Lend Me a Tenor brought Carol Burnett back to Broadway co-starring with Philip Bosco as her megalomanic, drunken husband and leading man. Fate has given these thespians one more shot at starring roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel epic and director Frank Capra himself is en route to Buffalo to catch their matinee performance.

Will Charlotte appear or run off with their agent? Will George be sober enough to emote? Will Capra see Cyrano, Private Lives or a disturbing mixture of the two? Hilarious misunderstandings pile on madcap misadventures, in this valentine to Theatre Hams everywhere.

The Music Man

Music by Meredith Willson
Lyrics by Franklin Lacey and Meredith Willson
Directed by Dan O’Connell
Music Direction by Joel Diffendaffer

• March 4 & 5, 7:30 pm
• Hall Student Center
• Tickets: $9

An affectionate paean to Smalltown, U.S.A. of a bygone era, Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band he vows to organize – this despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.

Night Watch

By Lucille Fletcher
Directed by Lynn King

• May 6 & 7, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
• May 7, 2011, 2 p.m.
• Centennial Hall Theatre
• Tickets: $6

Unable to sleep, Elaine Wheeler paces the living room of her Manhattan townhouse, troubled by unsettling memories and vague fears. Her husband tries to comfort her, but when he steps away for a moment Elaine screams as she sees (or believes she sees) the body of a dead man in the window across the way. The police are called, but find nothing except an empty chair.

Elaine's terror grows as shortly thereafter she sees still another body—this time a woman's—but by now the police are skeptical and pay no heed to her frantic pleas. Her husband, claiming that Elaine may be on the verge of a breakdown, calls in a lady psychiatrist, who agrees with his suggestion that Elaine should commit herself to a sanitarium for treatment.

From this point on, the plot moves quickly and grippingly as those involved—Elaine's old friend and house guest Blanche; the inquisitive and rather sinister man who lives next door; and the nosy German maid Helga—all contribute to the deepening suspense and mystery of the play as it draws towards its riveting and chilling climax. 

Middle School

The middle school will present two one-acts each evening. 

The Light In The Library and After Hours, both by Kevin Stone

• Nov. 10-12
• 7 p.m., Centennial Hall