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2008-2009 SEASON

On Golden Pond
By Ernest Thompson

Auditions September 7 & 8, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Performances November 7-9, 14-16, and 21-22, 2008.

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year.  He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory -- but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever.  Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together.  They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer.  The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness -- and slang -- in return. 

There are roles for 3 men, 2 women, and 1 boy.

Moon Over Buffalo
By Ken Ludwig

Auditions November 23 & 24, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Performances January 16-18, 23-25, and 30-31, 2009.

An acting couple -- not exactly the Lunts -- are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac (revised one-nostril version) and Noel Coward's Private Lives.  Fate has given these thespians one more shot at starring roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel, and director Frank Capra himself is en route to Buffalo to catch their matinee performance.  Will Charlotte Hay appear or run off with their agent?  Will George Hay be sober enough to emote? Will Capra see Cyrano, Private Lives or a disturbing mixture of the two?  Hilarious misunderstandings pile on madcap misadventures, all of which are magnified by Charlotte's deaf mother who manages the theatre.

There are roles for 4 men and 4 women.

Over the River and Through the Woods
By Joe DiPietro

Auditions January 25 & 26, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Performances March 20-22, 27-29, and April 3-4, 2009.

Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey.  His parents retired and moved to Florida, but that doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey.  In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner.  This is routine until he has to tell them he's been offered a dream job.  The job he's been waiting for -- marketing executive -- would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents.  He tells them.  The news doesn't sit so well.  Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around.  Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely -- and single -- Caitlin O'Hare as bait…

There are roles for 3 men and 3 women.

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