2017 – 2018 season ng rati leb ars Ce Ye 1 7 � be1 delraybeachplayhouse.orgmoved. be thrilled.Like us on Facebook be Follow here. us on Twitter be supportive you can be a part of live community theatre Few things compare to the thrill of live theatre. Keeping a theatre running takes a community of support—from volunteers and local dedicated talent to supportive local businesses and kind donors. Most importantly, it takes a strong member base of enthusiastic theatre-goers who appreciate quality performances. The Delray Beach Playhouse offers several levels of memberships for its Main Stage Plays – Play Members receive a $50 savings over individual ticket prices and Musical Memory Members receive a $25 savings over individual ticket prices. 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Musical Memories $375/couple The Delray Beach Playhouse offers special donor Remember, if you work for or are retired from a opportunities, such as naming a selected seat after Matching Gift Company, your tax-deductible contri- a loved one and other opportunities. bution to the playhouse may be doubled or tripled! 2 delraybeachplayhouse.org Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter For more information, call 561-272-1281 ext. 4 3 main stage plays 2017 – 2018 season 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 ANNIE 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 the Broadway 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 Tennessee Williams, 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, Scott Ellis 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.