[title of show]
music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen, book by Hunter Bell
WHEN: November 16 – December 12, 2010
Although peppered with references to Broadway and the world of theater, the heart of this popular new musical comedy is a universal story about anyone who, against all odds, stayed true to a dream.
A musical comedy for anyone who has followed a dream. When two struggling writers make a commitment to write something new in three weeks, they quickly find that writing a comedy about the process of writing was more interesting than anything else they could write! A show about four friends taking risks, creating art, killing Vampires (the dream-destroying kind, not the Dracula kind) — and how relationships change when life happens.
The Subject Was Roses
by Frank Gilroy
WHEN: February 8 – March 6, 2011
In the tradition of other powerful George Street plays such as Wit and Proof comes the 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of a young man’s return from service in World War II. After a homecoming celebration, old emotional wounds and unresolved tensions between father and son resurface, placing the new veteran in the middle of a family tug-of-war where love is both a prize and a weapon.
A Fox on the Fairway
by Ken Ludwig
Directed by David Saint
WHEN: March 22 – April 17, 2011
America’s number-one farceur and author of Lend Me a Tenor, Tony Award-winner Ken Ludwig, teams up with George Street Playhouse’s Artistic Director David Saint for this hysterical new comedy. The Quail Valley Country Club is preparing to take on archrival Crouching Squirrel in the Annual Inter-Club Golf Tournament. With a sizable wager at stake, the contest plays out amidst three love affairs, a disappearing diamond, objectionable sweaters and an exploding vase. Sex and water hazards collide in this artful madcap adventure about love and golf.
God of Carnage
by Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Directed by David Saint
WHEN: May 10 – June 5, 2011
And you thought the kids were trouble! The gloves come off and all hell breaks loose when two sets of parents meet to discuss the playground altercation between their two eleven year-old sons. What starts out as a civilized conversation about apologies and minor injuries, quickly escalates into a wild inter-parental melee of infantile behavior and unthinkable actions. An outrageous, explosive comedy that will leave you shrieking with laughter, gasping with disbelief and screaming “They didn’t just do that!” (A hit on Broadway last year.)
