2022-23 Main Stage Season
Inspired by Motown and R&B legends of the 1960s-70s, Dreamgirls follows the rising stardom of the Dreamettes, an all-girl singing trio from Chicago. The three best friends team up with a driven, demanding manager who is determined to see their—and his—star rise. As their careers begin to take off, changes are made to ensure their mass appeal to the pop market. Egos are bruised, tempers flare, and hearts are broken in pursuit of stardom. Dreamgirls is a love letter to American R&B music and the artists that make such music great.
By David French
A warm-hearted, lively and truly hilarious examination of backstage shenanigans by one of Canada’s leading playwrights. Dealing with the trials and tribulations of a provincial theatre company as it approaches opening night of its latest production. Animosity has developed between the featured actress and a local celebrity, a veteran character actor who cannot retain his lines, a male juvenile who is soused and a tyrannical stage manager and overly eager young director and novice playwright. What could(n’t) go wrong?
Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
What is the Holiday Season without music? Regardless of which holidays we celebrate or how we celebrate them, the musical sounds of the season bring us all together. This December, the Peninsula Community Theatre invites you to join them for Sounds of the Season—a Holiday music celebration that will warm the heart, tickle the funny bone, please the ear, and remind you what the season is all about: love, joy, and laughter.
Sounds of the Season will feature beloved traditional Holiday favorites, some newer, less traditional songs, and a sprinkling of musical theatre pieces—all performed by a talented cast of 15 local performers under the stage direction of Jeff Corriveau and the musical direction of Betsy Forrest.
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Book by Marsha Norman
Based on the novel by Robert James Waller
The Bridges of Madison County captures the lyrical expanse of American’s heartland along with the yearning entangled in the eternal question, “What if…?” In this story Francesca Johnson, a beautiful Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy, looks forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm when her family heads to the 1965 State Fair. When a ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer, Robert Kincaid, pulls into her driveway seeking directions, what happens in those four days may very well alter the course of Francesca's life. This soaring score and heartbreaking story are a touching and powerful addition to our season and a tour de force for our leading couple.
This show contains some adult themes.
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is presented through special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
By Joe DiPietro
In this hilarious family comedy, Nick whose parents have moved to New Jersey still has both sets of his Italian-American grandparents around to join him every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them he’s been offered his dream job and will be moving away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. This news doesn’t sit well with them and thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best to keep him around, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely – and single- Caitlin O’Hare as bait. This show is loaded with laughs every step of the way.
Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
Open auditions are held at the theatre for each show. Detailed information is available on the auditions page.
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