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GREASE - THE KWESKIN THEATRE FIRST TIME AT CURTAIN CALL CACTUS FLOWER - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE September 13 thru October 12 (Gala Season Opening performance and party—September 12) January 9 – thru 26

A powerhouse Broadway musical and enduring movie classic, Grease picks up the story of bad boy Danny and girl- A philandering dentist keeps his many affairs at bay by claiming to be married with children. When the ruse threat- next-door Sandy where their summer lovin’ leaves off: at the start of a new school year at Rydell High, 1959. Amid ens to catch up with him, he drafts his prickly nurse to pose as his "wife". She blossoms and he finds himself falling fast cars, teen angst, and moon-lit nights, the two discover that, to remain hopelessly devoted, sometimes you’ve in love with the lovely "cactus flower" right under his very nose. This Broadway hit later became a successful film got to wake up, shape up, and shake it up! Injected with irresistible music and electrifyin’ dance numbers, Grease starring Walter Matthau, , and . Written by legendary Broadway director and writer, has earned its place among the world’s most popular musicals. This production includes the hit songs “Greased , (Guys & Dolls, How to Succeed…, and many others) you’re sure to have a good laugh!

Lightning,” “We Go Together,” “Hopelessly Devoted To You,” and “You’re The One That I Want.” A BIG BROADWAY SMASH - THE KWESKIN THEATRE AREA PREMIERE! SOCIAL SECURITY - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE January 31 - February 22 September 19 thru October 6 Watch our website on June 1 when we can announce this wonderful—VERY RECENT—Broadway musical comedy spoof. This new show features one of the most clever and funny production numbers to appear on Broadway since This hilarious Broadway comedy surrounds a married couple who are art dealers. Their domestic tranquility is the Little Old Lady walker dance in The Producers... And almost every number from Spamalot. DON’T miss this one! shattered upon the arrival of the wife’s goody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband, and her archetypal Jewish mother. They are there to try to save their college-student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. BEYOND THERAPY - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother hits it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is the art March 5—15 dealers’ best client! "Just when you were beginning to think you were never going to laugh again on Broadway, Bruce meets Prudence at a restaurant. It is their first date, and they are both nervous. They shake hands. Bruce along comes Social Security and you realize that it is once more safe to giggle in the streets. Indeed, you can laugh gestures her to her seat, and sits down across from her. He looks into her eyes. They share a moment. “You have out loud, joyfully, with, as it were, social security, for the play is a hoot, and better yet, a sophisticated, even civi- beautiful breasts,” he says, and the worst date in human history is on its way. Beyond Therapy is likely Christopher lized hoot." - New York Post Durang’s best play, and we’re thrilled to bring it back to Curtain Call after nearly 30 years! Prudence is alone in a

jungle of naked ids, including her lascivious therapist Stuart , Bruce, Bruce’s lover Bob and Bruce’s therapist Mrs. THE UNDERPANTS - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE Wallace, whose aphasic loopiness masks a profound hostilty to her patients and to…to everyone, really. November 1 thru 17 (Note: contains Adult Themes and language.) Legendary comedian and writer is back with a riotously funny farce. Newly married Louise is bored with her demanding and uptight bureaucrat husband. Then one day at the royal parade, she jumps up on a bench to see NUNSENSE - THE KWESKIN THEATRE the king go by, and oops—wardrobe malfunction!—her bloomers come loose and fall down around her ankles. Her April 2 - 25 husband is frantic that her faux pas will cost him his job and reputation. But suddenly the room they’ve been trying Nunsense begins when the Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, has to rent out has plenty of takers, and it just might have something to do with…the underpants. Steve Martin, who accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters, and they are in dire need of funds for the burials. The sisters decide that the gave audiences hits like Picasso at the Lapin Agile, , and , brings us a hilarious look at sudden fame and the crazy things people do when they’re in the grip of romantic fever. The New York Times calls best way to raise the money is to put on a variety show, so they take over the school auditorium, which is currently the play “laugh-out-loud funny!” and “an amalgam of comic book and social commentary made out of sex jokes, set up for the eighth grade production of Grease. Here we meet Reverend Mother Regina, a former circus slamming doors, and sophisticated repartee.” performer; Sister Mary Hubert, the Mistress of Novices; a streetwise nun from Brooklyn named Sister Robert Anne; Sister Mary Leo, a novice who is a wannabe ballerina; and the delightfully wacky Sister Mary Amnesia, the nun who

lost her memory when a crucifix fell on her head. Featuring star turns, tap and ballet dancing, an audience quiz, and A CHRISTMAS STORY, The Musical - THE KWESKIN THEATRE AREA PREMIERE! comic surprises, this show has become an international phenomenon. With more than 5000 productions worldwide, November 15 thru December 14 (Evening performances at 7:30pm) it has been translated into 21 languages. From the songwriting team behind the smash-hit Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen and the Academy

Award-winning film La La Land, A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL, brings the classic 1983 movie to hilarious life CROSSING DELANCEY - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE on stage! Based on the perennial holiday movie favorite, A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL chronicles young and April 30 - May 17 bespectacled Ralphie Parker as he schemes his way toward the holiday gift of his dreams, an official Red Ry- Come to New York's Lower East Side, visit with Izzy, and sit a spell with her Bubbie (grandmother) in this romantic der® Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle (“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”). An infamous leg lamp, outra- comedy as Izzy yearns to trade her traditional Jewish upbringing for the slick glamour of Manhattan's literary scene. geous pink bunny pajamas, a maniacal department store Santa, and a triple-dog-dare to lick a freezing flagpole are Learn from Bubbie's old-world wisdom as she encourages Izzy to find real happiness by choosing a nice pickle just a few of the distractions that stand between Ralphie and his Christmas wish. Hailed by The Associated Press as “a joyous Christmas miracle.” The New York Times writes “I was dazzled. You’d have to have a Grinch-sized heart not salesman from the neighborhood over a sophisticated author. Crossing Delancey feels suffused with female energy, putting women’s concerns first, and it’s simultaneously sharp and affectionate. to feel a smile spreading across your face.”

A BIG BROADWAY SMASH - THE KWESKIN THEATRE AREA PREMIERE! CALL US AT 203-461-6358 TO BOOK YOUR SEATS BEFORE WE’RE SOLD OUT! June 5 - 27 We hope you can join us for our fabulous, season-opening Gala Performance of GREASE Watch our website on July 1 when we can announce this recent Best Musical and Best Score Tony Award-winning, wonderful Broadway musical. Heartwarming and including some incredibly high-stepping, high energy on September 12, including a terrific pre-show cocktail party dancing, trust us...you’re going to want to get tickets for this one!

All shows subject to change. WRECK THE HALLS - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE December 6, 7, 13 & 14