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CURTAIN CALL’S 2019 - 2020 Season: Our 29th! Area Premiere!!! Area Premiere!!! Area Premiere!!! One of the top 10 longest-running Broadway musicals! BEYOND THERAPY A DARK COMEDY WORTH TALKING ABOUT! This play contains adult language and adult situations and is not suitable for children. Plus comedy nights, concerts, murder mysteries and more! Single Tickets go on sale in July. Single Tickets and 203-461-6358 www.curtaincallinc.com discounted Flex Passes now on sale! Produced in cooperation with The City of Stamford Area Premiere!!! ? ? ? SEASON-OPENING GALA PERFORMANCE: Plus(Exchange one more privileges VERY recent and Broadwayrestaurant hit Thursday, September 12 - GREASE thatdiscounts we can’t included announce for Flex till Pass July holders.) 1, but we Great pre-show cocktail party included! know you're going to love it. FIRST TIME AT CURTAIN CALL GREASE - THE KWESKIN THEATRE SOMETHING ROTTEN - THE KWESKIN THEATRE AREA PREMIERE! September 13 thru October 12 (Gala Season Opening performance and party—September 12) January 31 February 22 - A powerhouse Broadway musical and enduring movie classic, Grease picks up the story of bad boy Danny and girl- It’s 1595 and brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that next-door Sandy where their summer lovin’ leaves off: at the start of a new school year at Rydell High, 1959. Amid Renaissance rockstar known as "The Bard." When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves fast cars, teen angst, and moon-lit nights, the two discover that, to remain hopelessly devoted, sometimes you’ve singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world's very first MUSICAL! This new got to wake up, shape up, and shake it up! Injected with irresistible music and electrifyin’ dance numbers, Grease show features one of the most clever and funny production numbers to appear on Broadway since the Little Old Lady has earned its place among the world’s most popular musicals. This production includes the hit songs “Greased walker dance in The Producers... and almost every number from Spamalot. DON’T miss this one! Lightning,” “We Go Together,” “Hopelessly Devoted To You,” and “You’re The One That I Want.” BEYOND THERAPY - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE SOCIAL SECURITY - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE March 5—15 September 19 thru October 6 Bruce meets Prudence at a restaurant. It is their first date, and they are both nervous. They shake hands. Bruce gestures her to her seat, and sits down across from her. He looks into her eyes. They share a moment. “You have This hilarious Broadway comedy surrounds a married couple who are art dealers. Their domestic tranquility is beautiful breasts,” he says, and the worst date in human history is on its way. Beyond Therapy is likely Christopher shattered upon the arrival of the wife’s goody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband, and her archetypal 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 Jewish mother. They are there to try to save their college-student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. of naked ids, including her lascivious therapist Stuart , Bruce, Bruce’s lover Bob and Bruce’s therapist Mrs. Wallace, The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother hits it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is the art whose aphasic loopiness masks a profound hostilty to her patients and to…to everyone, really. dealers’ best client! "Just when you were beginning to think you were never going to laugh again on Broadway, (Note: contains Adult Themes and language.) along comes Social Security and you realize that it is once more safe to giggle in the streets. Indeed, you can laugh out loud, joyfully, with, as it were, social security, for the play is a hoot, and better yet, a sophisticated, even civi- NUNSENSE - THE KWESKIN THEATRE lized hoot." - New York Post April 2 - 25 Nunsense begins when the Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, has THE UNDERPANTS - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters, and they are in dire need of funds for the burials. The sisters decide that the November 1 thru 17 best way to raise the money is to put on a variety show, so they take over the school auditorium, which is currently set Legendary comedian and writer Steve Martin is back with a riotously funny farce. Newly married Louise is bored up for the eighth grade production of Grease. Here we meet Reverend Mother Regina, a former circus performer; with her demanding and uptight bureaucrat husband. Then one day at the royal parade, she jumps up on a bench to Sister Mary Hubert, the Mistress of Novices; a streetwise nun from Brooklyn named Sister Robert Anne; Sister Mary see the king go by, and oops—wardrobe malfunction!—her bloomers come loose and fall down around her ankles. Leo, a novice who is a wannabe ballerina; and the delightfully wacky Sister Mary Amnesia, the nun who lost her Her husband is frantic that her faux pas will cost him his job and reputation. But suddenly the room they’ve been memory when a crucifix fell on her head. Featuring star turns, tap and ballet dancing, an audience quiz, and comic trying to rent out has plenty of takers, and it just might have something to do with…the underpants. Steve Martin, who gave audiences hits like Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Bright Star, and Meteor Shower, brings us a hilarious look at surprises, this show has become an international phenomenon. sudden fame and the crazy things people do when they’re in the grip of romantic fever. The New York Times calls the play “laugh-out-loud funny!” and “an amalgam of comic book and social commentary made out of sex jokes, CROSSING DELANCEY - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE slamming doors, and sophisticated repartee.” April 30 - May 17 Come to New York's Lower East Side, visit with Izzy, and sit a spell with her Bubbie (grandmother) in this romantic A CHRISTMAS STORY, The Musical - THE KWESKIN THEATRE comedy as Izzy yearns to trade her traditional Jewish upbringing for the slick glamour of Manhattan's literary scene. AREA PREMIERE! November 15 thru December 14 (Evening performances at 7:30pm) Learn from Bubbie's old-world wisdom as she encourages Izzy to find real happiness by choosing a nice pickle From the songwriting team behind the smash-hit Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen and the Academy salesman from the neighborhood over a sophisticated author. Crossing Delancey feels suffused with female energy, Award-winning film La La Land, A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL, brings the classic 1983 movie to hilarious life putting women’s concerns first, and it’s simultaneously sharp and affectionate. on stage! Based on the perennial holiday movie favorite, A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL chronicles young and bespectacled Ralphie Parker as he schemes his way toward the holiday gift of his dreams, an official Red Ry- KINKY BOOTS - THE KWESKIN THEATRE AREA PREMIERE! der® Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle (“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”). An infamous leg lamp, outra- June 5 - 27 geous pink bunny pajamas, a maniacal department store Santa, and a triple-dog-dare to lick a freezing flagpole are Winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a joyous, Tony-winning score by Cyndi just a few of the distractions that stand between Ralphie and his Christmas wish. Hailed by The Associated Press as Lauper, and an hilarious, uplifting book by four-time Tony winner, Harvey Fierstein. The exhilarating true story about “a joyous Christmas miracle.” The New York Times writes “I was dazzled. You’d have to have a Grinch-sized heart not a struggling shoe factory will lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Kinky Boots will have you dancing in the aisles and to feel a smile spreading across your face.” discovering why, sometimes, the best way to fit in... is to stand out! CACTUS FLOWER - THE DRESSING ROOM THEATRE January 9 – thru 26 A philandering dentist keeps his many affairs at bay by claiming to be married with children. When the ruse threatens to catch up with him, he drafts his prickly nurse to pose as his "wife". She blossoms and he finds himself CALL US AT 203-461-6358 TO BOOK YOUR SEATS BEFORE WE’RE SOLD OUT! falling in love with the lovely "cactus flower" right under his very nose. This Broadway hit later became a successful We hope you can join us for our fabulous, season-opening Gala Performance of GREASE film starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn. Written by legendary Broadway director and writ- er, Abe Burrows, (Guys & Dolls, How to Succeed…, and many others) you’re sure to have a good laugh! on September 12, including a terrific pre-show cocktail party. .