Sunset Playhouse Production History 2020-21 Season Run for Your Wife
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Sunset Playhouse Production History 2020-21 Season Run for your Wife by Ray Cooney presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals for Samuel French 9 to 5, The Musical by Dolly Parton presented by special arrangement with MTI Elf by Thomas Meehan & Bob Martin presented by special arrangement with MTI 4 Weddings and an Elvis by Nancy Frick presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals for Samuel French The Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchell presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals for Samuel French Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks presented by special arrangement with MTI An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals for Samuel French Newsies by Harvey Fierstein presented by special arrangement with MTI _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2019-2020 Season A Comedy of Tenors – by Ken Ludwig presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Mamma Mia – presented by special arrangement with MTI The Game’s Afoot – by Ken Ludwig presented by special arrangement with Samuel French The Marvelous Wonderettes – by Roger Bean presented by special arrangement with StageRights, Inc. Noises Off – by Michael Frayn presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Cabaret – by Joe Masteroff presented by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Barefoot in the Park – by Neil Simon presented by special arrangement with Samuel French (cancelled due to COVID 19) West Side Story – by Jerome Robbins presented by special arrangement with MTI (cancelled due to COVID 19) 2018-2019 Season The Man Who Came To Dinner – by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Mary Poppins - Original Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman Book by Julian Fellowes, Co-Created by Cameron Mackintosh A Musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film (After Sunset) The Bad Seed - by Maxwell Anderson, from William March’s novel Christmas Belles - by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, & Jamie Wooten A Murder Is Announced - by Leslie Darbon Adapted from Agatha Christie’s novel (After Sunset) Rabbit Hole - by David Lindsay-Abaire The Curious Savage - by John Patrick (After Sunset) August Osage County - by Tracy Letts Spamalot - Book & Lyrics by ERIC IDLE Music by JOHN DU PREZ & ERIC IDLE A new musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” From the original screenplay by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin (After Sunset) Side Show - Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Additional book material by Bill Condon Leading Ladies - by Ken Ludwig Hairspray - Book by Thomas Meehan & Mark O'Donnell Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman Based on the New Line Cinema film, written and directed by John Waters ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2017-2018 Season Over The River and Through The Woods - by Joe DiPietro Sister Act - Based on the Touchstone Pictures motion picture "Sister Act" written by Joseph Howard Book by Cheri & Bill Steindeliner Music by Allan Menken Lyrics by Glenn Slater (After Sunset) Phantasies Such As These - by Egdar Allan Poe Adapted by Michael Pocaro Beauty and the Beast - Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice Book by Linda Woolverton Originally Directed by Robert Jess Roth Originally Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions (After Sunset) The Graduate - by Buck Henry, Calder Willingham, charles Webb, Terry Johnson Room Service - by John Murray and Allen Boretz Into The Woods - Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine (After Sunset) Betrayal - by Harold Pinter Don’t Dress For Dinner - by Marc Camoletti, adapted by Robin Hawdon Any Number Can Die - by Fred Carmichael (After Sunset) – Heathers The Musical - Book, Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe & Kevin Murphy based on the film written by Daniel Waters The Producers - Book by Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks, Based on the 1968 Film by Mel Brooks ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2016-2017 Season Moon Over Buffalo - by Ken Ludwig Fiddler On The Roof - Based on Sholem Aleichem stories by special permission of Arnold Perl Book by JOSEPH STEIN Music by JERRY BOCK Lyrics by SHELDON HARNICK The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - by Barbara Robinson You Can’t Take It with You - by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman Little Shop of Horrors - Books and Lyrics by Howard Ashman Music by Alan Menken Based on the film by Roger Corman Screenplay by Charles Griffith (After Sunset) She Loves Me - Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI) The Dixie Swim Club - By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten And Then There Were None - By Agatha Christie’ Hello Dolly! - Book by Michael Stewart Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman Based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2015 – 2016 Season Sherlock Holmes, The Final Adventure - by Steven Dietz Based on the original 1899 play by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle The Addams Family - Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa A Christmas Carol - by John Jakes Steel Magnolias - by Robert Harling The Foreigner - by Larry Shue The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Boeing Boeing - by Marc Camoletti Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans Anything Goes - Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter Book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2014-2015 Season The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie Guys and Dolls based on the story and characters of Damon Runyon, Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows Miracle on 34th Street adapted by Mountain Company Theater from the novel by Valentine Davies Based upon the Twentieth Century Fox motion picture Miracle on 34th Street One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Dale Wasserman based on the novel by Ken Kesey The Nerd by Larry Shue The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan from the movie of Alfred Hitchcock Plaza Suite by Neil Simon Thoroughly Modern Millie book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan New Music by Jeanine Tescori New Lyrics by Dic Scanlan Original story and screenplay by Richard Morris for Universal Pictures film 2013-2014 Season Red Hot and Cole Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter Book by James Bianchi, Muriel McAuley and Randy Strawderman Concieved by Randy Strawderman Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawernce and Robert Edwin Lee It’s A Wonderful Life by James W. Rodgers Based on the film by Frank Capra Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie based on her 1937 novel, Death on the Nile Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber with Lyrics by Tim Rice I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson Gypsy book by Arthur Laurents, Music my Jule Styne, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim 2 2012- 2013 Season Stage Door by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose A Christmas Story by Philip Grecian (based on the Jean Shephard stories) Lumberjacks in Love book and lyrics by Fred Alley, music by James Kaplan Over The Tavern by Tom Dudzik Lucky Stiff book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahren. Music by Stephen Flaherty The Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser 2011- 2012Season Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas Annie book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Charles Strouse, Lyrics by Martin Charnin Nunsense Book, music and lyrics by Dan Googin Greater Tuna, by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare Sweet Charity Book by Neil Simon, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields 2010-2011 Season The Underpants by Steve Martin You Can’t Get There From Here by Pat Cook It’s A Wonderful Life adapted for the stage by James W. Rodgers Guys on Ice by Fred Alley and James Kaplan Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher Love and the I.R.S. by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore Dearly Departed by David Botrell and Jessie Jones The Drowsy Chaperone music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar 2009-2010 Season Auntie Mame Deathtrap Inspecting Carol Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical Rumors by Neil Simon Escanaba in Love by Jeff Daniels Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig Hair 2008- 2009 Season Those Crazy Ladies in the House on the Corner by Pat Cook Escanaba in da Moonlight by Jeff Daniels It’s a Wonderful Life I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade Social Security by Andrew Bergman 3 Noises Off by Michael Frayn Fame: The Musical by David De Silva 2007- 2008 Season Oscar and Felix by Neil Simon Misery by Stephen King, adapted for the stage by Simon Moore The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of “A Christmas