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THE AMOROUS AMBASSADOR introduced a bright new talent to the world named Liza Minnelli (a lady who continued to inspire An American Farce by Michael Parker and champion their work for the rest of her career)! Their first great success wasCabaret! From then October 6 – 22, 2017 | Show 1 on, Kander and Ebb produced one ground-breaking show after another: Chicago, Zorba, 70 Girls 70, Woman Of The Year and Kiss Of The Spider Woman. And The World Goes ‘Round celebrates 50 years of If you enjoyed last season’s popular hit The Sensuous Senator, then great Kander and Ebb standards, songs like “All That Jazz,” “Cabaret,” “Ring Them Bells,” “Maybe This rejoice, because “Hormone Harry” Douglas is back! However, he Time,” “My Coloring Book,” Sometimes a Day Goes By,” “The Grass is Always Greener,” “How Lucky is no longer a Senator! He’s now the US Ambassador to Great Can You Get?” and the anthem they wrote in tribute to The Big Apple, “New York, New York!” Britain! Along with his new responsibilities comes an even more urgent need for romantic dalliances. He tells his wife (Lois) that he’s arranged a golfing weekend, whereupon Lois announces that she’s going to a spa and that their daughter Debbie will be visiting BLACKOUT a girlfriend. So Harry arranges a stay-at-home tryst with a sexy A Mystery Thriller by Rick Harlowe neighbor named Marianne. Meanwhile, Debbie secretly arranges March3 – April 8, 2018 | Show 4 a romantic weekend with her boyfriend and Harry’s secretary Faye decides to use Harry’s “empty house” for an assignation with a young Marine Corps Captain. In the In this suspenseful mystery play, we learn that (thirteen years end, Harry’s usually unflappable British butler (Perkins) finds himself at wit’s end trying to keep the ago) a five-year-old boy named David was abducted and brutally house’s burgeoning population of “weekend lovers” from discovering each other’s secrets! Critics murdered in the woods outside of a small town in Massachu- have hailed this vintage American farce as “A block-buster hit!” “An evening of madcap merriment setts. At the time of the murder, it was assumed that the killer from start to finish!” had to be a vagrant, since everyone in this small community knew each other so well. When the young victim’s father died, the child’s mother (Martha) took her surviving daughter to live GET YOUR GUN with her own mother, the town’s wealthiest and most influential A Musical by Dorothy Fields & Herbert Fields citizen. Thirteen years later, Martha receives a mysterious letter Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin threatening the life of her now 15-year-old daughter, Rosemary. December 1 – 17, 2017 | Show 2 Suddenly, the community realizes with horror that the unidentified murderer they had assumed to be a passing stranger was in fact one of their own neighbors. In a frenzied effort to prevent a second Irving Berlin’s classic musical about Annie Oakley (the world’s murder, they begin an investigation to discover the identity of the killer before he can strike again. A foremost female sharp-shooter) and Frank Butler (the star of Buf- powerful drama that is also a classic murder mystery, Blackout is a play you will not soon forget. falo Bill Cody’s famous travelling Wild West Show) remains one of the best-loved musicals in the history of the American Musical Theatre. Annie Get Your Gun was the first show that America’s greatest living songwriter wrote for Ethel Merman (The First Lady WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? of Musical Stage) and the result was a musical mas- A Classic Drama by Edward Albee terpiece! The story of the unlikely romance between an illiterate Show 5 backwoods hillbilly and a chauvinistic “swollen-headed stiff” who May 18 – June 3, 2018 | gradually fall in love as they work together in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show was transformed into When Edward Albee died in 2016, he was the last representa- pure gold in Irving Berlin’s greatest score, a score that includes such Broadway standards as “You tive of an American playwriting tradition that had begun with Can’t Get a Man With a Gun,” Doing What Comes Naturally,” “I Got Lost in his Arms,” “They Say it’s Eugene O’Neill and included such giants as Arthur Miller and Wonderful” and the show-stopping duet, “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better).” The score also , all playwrights who wrote about the Ameri- includes Irving Berlin’s great Broadway anthem, “There’s No Business Like Show Business!” can family as if it were the center of their artistic universe. Albee made his explosive debut in 1962 when Virginia Woolf became the most talked about and controversial play on Broadway. AND THE WORLD GOES ROUND: Damned by some for its explicit use of language and sexual THE MUSIC OF KANDER & EBB themes, it was hailed by others as the most brilliantly written A Musical by David Thompson, examination of a marriage in the modern theatre. The play takes and Susan Stromen place one night after a faculty meeting in a small college when George and Martha (a middle-aged February 2 – 18, 2018 | Show 3 professor and his wife) invite Nick and Honey (a new member of the faculty and his wife) over for drinks and (what the older couple calls) “Fun and Games.” People who only remember the humor- When John Kander and Fred Ebb met in 1962, it was the be- less film version of the play sometimes forget that Edward Albee’s masterpiece is also intensely ginning of one of the most successful pairings of two musical witty, consistently entertaining and completely absorbing. theatre talents since Richard Rodgers met Oscar Hammerstein. Their first show together wasFlora The Red Menace. It wasn’t a big hit, but it was a great learning experience and it also

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Show 1 | YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU! musicals like The Baker’s Wife, Rags and Pippin, he was chosen by the Disney Corporation to The Story of Al Jolson, create scores for such popular animated (and live-action) films asPocahontas, The Hunch- America’s First Musical “Superstar” back Of Notre Dame and Enchanted (scores that have earned him three Academy Awards). October 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25, 2017 In addition to his work on stage and film, he also wrote lyrics for Leonard Bernstein’sMass . His songs include “Magic to Do!,” “Day by Day,” “God Bless the Outcasts,” “Corner of the Anyone who’s listened to his recordings or seen Sky,” “So Close,” “That’s How You Know.” “Colors of the Wind” and “Popular.” Wicked is his films will not be surprised to learn that as currently one of the longest-running shows in the history of the American Musical Theatre. a Broadway star, Al Jolson was billed simply as “The World’s Greatest Entertainer!” When he recorded the first song ever heard in a sound Show 4 | ON THE ROAD TO “!” film The( Jazz Singer), he had already been From Gilbert & Sullivan to Rap a star in Vaudeville and on Broadway for three decades. Before the age of “re-enforced April 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12, 2018 sound,” Jolson was renowned for being able to galvanize audiences in The Winter Garden Theatre without a microphone. His filmThe Singing Fool was the highest-grossing film of The Broadway musical Hamilton has become its time! (It’s record was finally broken in 1939 byGone With The Wind.) And as a singer, he both a financial and cultural phenomenon. It is introduced more popular songs than any other singer of his generation, including George the MUST-SEE show on Broadway today and is Gershwin’s “Swanee,” “April Showers,” “Toot Toot ,” “California, Here I Come,” “The poised to become the most financially success- Anniversary Waltz,” “Rock-a-bye Your Baby (With a Dixie Melody)” and “Waiting for the ful show of all time. The “revolutionary” aspect Robert E. Lee.” of this show about the American Revolution is that the actors playing our Founding Fathers are being played by non-whites and the score is a blend of hip-hop and rap music. At Show 2 | ALL THAT JAZZ! first glance, the score forHamilton seems like a total departure from classical Broadway The Musicals of Bob Fosse music. However, the show’s composer points out that “hip-hop” is simply the latest form Dec. 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2017 of the “patter song” first refined by Gilbert & Sullivan in operettas likeHMS Pinafore and The Pirates Of Penzance. This technique of sung-speech later reappeared in shows like The One of the most innovative and brilliant direc- Music Man (“Trouble”) and My Fair Lady (“I’m An Ordinary Man”). Later, Stephen Sondheim tors and choreographers in the history of the “rapped” in Company (“I’m Not Getting Married Today”) and (“Greens, American Musical Theatre, Bob Fosse created Greens and Nothing But Greens!”). a style of dance and a conceptual approach to staging that remain uniquely his own. After making his Broadway debut as a choreographer Show 5 | OPENING NEW WINDOWS! for , he went in to create a Angela Lansbury on Broadway succession of hit shows including , Bells Are Ringing, Little Me, How To Succeed May 28, 29, 30, June 4, 5 and 6, 2018 In Business, Pippin, Sweet Charity and Chicago. By the end of the 1970’s, he had become such an iconic figure that Hollywood invited him to make an autobiographical film about his Angela Lansbury has enjoyed an astonishing own life called All That Jazz. In 1999, Broadway paid him the ultimate tribute by creating career as a performer succeeding triumphantly a musical revue simply called Fosse featuring recreations of some of his greatest dance in every phase of show business. She earned her numbers, such as “,” “Whatever Lola Wants,” “Hernando’s Hideaway,” “I’ve Got first Academy Award nomination at the age of Your Number,” “Razzle Dazzle” and “All I Care About (Is Love).” 17 in Gaslight. Later she starred in the popular television series, Murder, She Wrote. In 1966, she conquered Broadway with her dazzling perfor- Show 3 | DEFYING GRAVITY! mance as Mame. Later she created the iconic role of “Mrs.Lovett” in Stephen Sondheim’s The Songs of Stephen Schwartz Feb. 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21 and 22, 2018 Sweeney Todd. Other musicals include ’s Dear World and Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle, along with revivals of Gypsy and , two generations of

children know her best as “Mrs. Potts,” the grandmotherly teacup who sang the title song In a career that now spans over four decades, in Disney’s animated classic, Beauty And The Beast. In a stage career spanning five decades, Stephen Schwartz has created some of the Angela has introduced over a dozen Broadway standards, including “Bosom Buddies”, “If most popular musicals in the history of the He Walked into My Life,” “We Need a Little Christmas” and “Not While I’m Around.” American Theatre, from the innovative Godspell to the high-flying Broadway spectacular,Wick - ed. After writing a series of highly praised stage

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All membership applications must be signed. ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE ticket exchange policies Exchanging between Main Stage Plays Partial group exchanges cannot be and Musical Memories is available to done, i.e. every member on one order Personal Angels and higher member lev- form must exchange together. how would you like to receive els. See Membership Levels on page 3. For information on Group Sales to groups your tickets? of 20 or more, please see page 17. o Snowbirds Note: If you become a Per- o By mail sonal Angel with a donation of $75, you oo Held at Box Office (Patron & higher only) have the benefit of exchanging between If no choice is made, tickets will be mailed to your address. Plays and Musical Memories. So you could exchange your first play in October to any Musical Memory. Send order form to The Delray Beach Playhouse 950 NW 9th Street Delray Beach, FL 33444

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STAGE children’s theatre Young Actors Workshop Summer Fun Camp Available Fall 2017 & Winter 2018 A weekly camp offered 3 – 4 weeks each general policies It all started some 23 years ago with 7 summer. Children learn acting, improv, children and 2 teachers, of which one – our singing and dancing, plus have lots of Ms. Dolly continues to teach and direct the fun playing theatre games. Each Friday, • Proper attire required (casual/business). Shorts are the children put on a show “Live From discouraged. acting classes and shows. Workshops are available for students from age 6 – 18, and The Delray Beach Playhouse, It’s Friday • Bring a sweater, the theatre tends to be chilly. Afternoon!”. They perform skits that • The playhouse has a concession stand in the lobby. consist of drama, diction, improv, music, singing and dance. In addition, Dolly has they have written and a song and dance • NO food or drink allowed inside the Theatre (except bottled number. Information will be available on water). audition classes for those students trying to secure a position in an arts school, as well our website in March 2018. • Late arrivals may be seated in rear of theatre until intermission. as private instruction.

• All cell phones must be turned off prior to the performance. We also have several other children’s • Heavy use of perfume or cologne is discouraged. Summer Musical Production programming options throughout the Each year we put on one major musical year: • A limited number of hearing devices are available. See the for children (of all ages), by our talented House Manager at the Box Office (You must leave an ID children actors/singers/dancers. Auditions ¬¬­ which will be returned to you after the show). are in March or April and rehearsals start Musical Readings on the weekend in May and full days M-F ¬¬Talent­ Shows­ • A limited number of seat cushions are available at the Box after school is out in June. Children have ¬¬Kids­ Night Out Office for our shorter patrons. fun while learning what it takes to put on a major production. We have 3 public ¬¬Opportunities­ for • The theatre is equipped with wheelchair accessible spots. and over 20 camp performances (other teenagers to learn Seating for companions may be located adjacent to these Summer Camps from Sunrise to Jupiter spots. Please request this seating arrangement when to Pahokee pack 238 campers in each of backstage skills purchasing tickets. Adjacent seats subject to availability. For these performances). Information will be more information, call 561 272 1281 ext. 4. available on our website in February 2018.

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Studio Theatre $20 The songs of this period literally bound our Feelin’ Groovy $20 Gift Certificate Amounts are: nation together, whether they were the Big Main Stage Theatre Plays & Musical Band songs introduced by Glenn Miller or Some groups pass along the savings to Memories — $30, $60, $90, $120 (any the popular songs of longing, separation members and others use it as a Fund-Raiser amount in $30 increments), and hope written by Johnny Mercer, Hoagy and charge the regular theatre rate. Studio Theatre — $25, $50, $75, $100 (any Carmichael or Frank Loesser. amount in $25 increments),

To reserve group seats, simply call the Box Nostalgic Concert Series – Feelin’ Groovy — Join us on New Year's Eve as we celebrate a Office 561-272-1281 Ext.4 and tell us what $25, $50, $75, $100 (any amount in $25 time in our history when all Americans were show, when you would like to attend and increments). united in sharing the same dream: to win the number you expect in your group. We the War and to bring our boys back home. will send you a contract to be signed and We can mail the Gift Certificate to you or You'll hear songs made famous by such returned with a 25% deposit. The balance directly to the recipient. We will even write popular singers as Jo Stafford, Doris Day, (payment in full) is due no later than 30 a personal note from you. Redemption is Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters, songs days prior to the reserved performance easy – the recipient picks the show and like "I'll Walk Alone," "I'll Be Seeing You," date. Changes to the contract (number in time, calls the box office to reserve seats "Seems Like Old Times," "You'd Be So Nice group, etc.) must be made and submitted in and when they arrive for their show they to Come Home To" and "It's Been a Long, writing at least 30 days prior to the selected simply exchange the certificate for their Long Time." performance. Seating is based on the best tickets.

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16 delraybeachplayhouse.org Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter For more information, call 561-272-1281 ext. 4 17 Get ready for an Show # 2: entertaining and Showdown at the Deli Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:00pm exciting sixth season On his first date with of studio theatre! Carol, Harry strolled into his favorite deli and waved the waiter over with a Our audiences are raving, and saying it’s the best kept secret at the Playhouse! flourish. Smiling, Please join us for three clever matinee performances filled with heart-felt moments, Carol ordered a unexpected twists, and lots and lots of laughter! In every show, you’ll see a series pastrami on white of short vignettes. Each sketch poses a different problem or situation for the with lots of mayo. characters. Some stories may bring a smile and some may bring a tear, but every act Pastrami on white is unforgettable, and here’s why: the audience is invited to talk to the characters on with mayo? Not on stage and help them figure out how to solve their problems! After each act, we’ll your life! Was this bring a microphone into the audience, and ‘talk-show style’, you can choose to make a date chopped liver… comment, give an insight, or ask a question. Of course, you can also choose to simply or just the appetizer? sit back and enjoy the comments of those around you. It’s always fun, it’s always intriguing, it’s often hilarious, and it’s always a great afternoon of entertainment! ​Show # 3: Somewhere over the Fairway Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 2:00pm Be a Part of Three Great Shows for $60 Wherefore art (Season Package) thou, Romeo? He's living in the condo across the golf course directly opposite Harriette’s Show #1: apartment, of Cabana Boy course! Stepping out Friday, December 8, 2017 at 2:00pm onto her balcony, romance is on her Gertie certainly has been mind and binoculars enjoying life at the lovely are in her hand, Boca Del Vida Del Ray ready to take a look condo community! She at her dream date. plays Mah Jongg and Once she takes a Canasta. She plays tennis closer look, she may and goes to Zumba! Now find herself in the sand trap! Will they end up toasting at the 19th that she’s joined the hole, or is this love affair destined to be out of bounds? Fore! group fondly known as ‘The Pool Schmoozers’, will she take the plunge and play around? Be A Part of Three Great Shows for $60 Everybody into the pool! Subscription Deadline: August 31, 2017 (Save $15 Off Individual Tickets) Individual Tickets $25 On Sale September 5, 2017

18 delraybeachplayhouse.org Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter For more information, call 561-272-1281 ext. 4 19 MARCHING ON: 2017 – 2018 The U.S. Labor Movement and its Songs Nostalgic Concert Series: Feelin’ Groovy Wed. Feb. 7, 2018 at 2:00pm

In the Fall of 2015, three anniversaries will remind These tributes are powerful presentations of us of the accomplishments of the American labor commentary, slides and live music by Joan movement: The 100th anniversary of the execution of Friedenberg and Bill Bowen who sing profes- organizer and songwriter Joe Hill (Nov. 19); the 85th sionally as the PinkSlip Duo. While the lyrics year since the death of legendary activist “Mother are projected on a screen for the audience to Jones” (Mary Harris, Nov. 30) and the 50th anniversary sing along, emotionally stirring music and of ’s Delano Grape Boycott (Sept. 16). The intellectually stimulating narration and pho- labor movement used song to press its points and rally tography combine to make for a unique and its members. Many of those songs, by the likes of Woody Guthrie and the Almanac Singers, unforgettable experience. and the Weavers, , Utah Phillips, Billy Bragg, Anne Feeney and others, tell stories of poor working conditions and union action that propelled this social revolu- See All Five Entertaining Shows for $100 tion and its victories. Now the victories are largely taken for granted, e.g. the 8-hour day, workplace safety, pensions, health insurance, and the prohibition of child labor. Subscription Deadline: August 31, 2017 (Save $25 Off Individual Tickets) • Individual Tickets $25 “REMEMBERING” WOODSTOCK: On Sale September 5, 2017 Songs from a Seminal Event in an Upstate Pasture Wed. March 28, 2018 at 2:00pm A TIME FOR :

The Life And Song Of Pete Seeger Wed. Oct. 11, 2017 at 2:00pm When rain washed out the second day of the Miami Pop Festival in May 1968, it would prove training for pro- Pete Seeger honed his banjo skills while moter Michael Lang, who had organized traveling in Appalachia and became the most the gathering of 25,000 at Hallandale’s stalwart of America’s troubadours for social Gulfstream Park. Lang, an NYU dropout justice, peace and the environment. Together who moved to Coconut Grove in 1967 to with his wife, Toshi, he founded such icon- open a head shop, would relocate to upstate New York the following year. He become the ic groups as the Almanac Singers and the driving force for a three-day music festival in a cow pasture that became a seminal mo- Weavers and continued to entertain and rally crowds around their causes after others of ment for a generation. Woodstock, which expected to attract 50,000 people, drew nearly his generation had long since faded away. Seeger sang for striking workers and union rallies a half million, clogging traffic throughout the region and shutting down the Newburgh in his youth, withstood with aplomb the brunt of the McCarthy communist witch hunt, and Harriman exits on New York State Thruway. The festival became a marvel of peaceful bore with dignity 19 years of blacklisting from TV appearances because of his communist coexistence and a symbol of Sixties’ communal values successfully applied. The music, by associations and continued performing and singing for causes he believed in right up until Crosby, Stills and Nash, Country Joe MacDonald, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, his death March 2014 at age 94. the Who, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence and others, became the soundtrack of a generation. THE BRITISH INVASION:

The Music that Took Over our THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND: Lives From 1964 to 1967 Wed. Dec. 6, 2017 at 2:00pm The Life And Song Of Woody Guthrie Wed. May 23, 2018 at 2:00pm

When it comes to borders, no walls could ever Woody Guthrie, the iconic bard and singer-songwrit- keep out music. In the early sixties, rock ‘n roll er, created music that is part of the collective mem- was sharing the charts with the burgeoning folk ory and shared culture of generations of Americans revival, Motown out of Detroit and surfer music who grew up in the mid-20th century. The messages from California when unstoppable Beatlemania swept across the Atlantic, triggering the of his songs, such as “This Land is Your Land,” “Do Re British Invasion. Begun along the banks of the Mersey River, the new sound percolated in Mi,” “Pastures of Plenty,” “Hobo’s Lullaby,” “Union Liverpool clubs as skiffle bands that incorporated elements of Chuck Berry-style rock n’ roll Maid,” “This Train,” “Sinking of the Ruben James,” “Deportee,” and others, provide insight and other influences, such as doo-wop and R&B — essentially, a fusion of American sounds into Depression-era America. This was a time when Dust Bowl refugees left their ravaged unique to British artists. In 1964, led the way for The Dave Clark Five, Gerry and farms in search of a better life and into Guthrie’s own fascinating connections to both the the Pacemakers, the Animals, Rolling Stones, Zombies, Herman’s Hermits, Freddie & the Communist Party and the Jewish culture. Dreamers and a host of others. In May 1965, nine songs on the U.S. Top Ten were British.

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