Performances take place Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8PM; 2PM Saturday matinees the last 2 weekends of each show’s run and Sundays at 3PM. (Please check performance schedule for individual shows for detailed information.)
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What the Butler Saw
by Joe Orton
September 11-26, 2010
The Prentices are not an ordinary couple. Dr. Prentice is a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes that the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her. Geraldine Barclay does her best to comply, but nothing is going to work smoothly in this nut house that includes Mrs. Prentice, a nymphomaniac who is seduced by a bellhop in a hotel, or maybe it’s vice versa. Mrs. Prentice brings home her reluctant bellhop just as the state inspector decides to pay a visit to the hospital. What ensues is a wild melee of disappearances, disguises and discoveries as husband and wife try to hide their prizes from the inspector and from one another. The ending is one of those delights that Oscar Wilde might have dreamed up in a sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest.
“Hilarious, outrageous… It dazzles!… Wonderfully verbal, toying with words as if they were firecrackers.” New York Times
“Brilliant, witty, the funniest show so far this season.” NBC TV
“Madly antic humor.” AP
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Reefer Madness
Book by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney; Music by Dan Studney; Lyric by Kevin Murphy
October 23-November 14, 2010
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence. The addictive and clever musical numbers range from big Broadway-style showstoppers to swing tunes like “Down at the Ol’ Five and Dime” and the Vegas-style “Listen to Jesus, Jimmy,” featuring J.C. himself leading a chorus of showgirl angels. Reefer Madness is a highly stylized and satirical political commentary.
“Reefer Madness broadly expands on the skeleton plot of the original film and turns it into a deliciously campy, wickedly funny romp… This show combines the main character from Godspell with the kinkiness of The Rocky Horror Show and the traditional musical theatre aesthetic of A Chorus Line…” Johnnie Walker, Strand (Toronto)
“Reefer Madness…is deliberately outlandish and silly. And that’s what makes it so good…[the show includes] a dozen or so over-the-top and hilarious production numbers.” Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News
“The funniest thing to come down the pike — or the pipe — in a while.” Eric Marchese, Backstage
Originally directed by Andy Fickman and produced by Stephanie Steele for Dead Old Man Productions
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Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
December 4-19, 2010
This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him, his mother and four maiden aunts. Widely regarded as Brian Friel’s masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel’s tribute to the spirit and valor of the past. Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.
“The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie.” TimeOut
“…this play does exactly what theater was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall.” New York Times
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The Drowsy Chaperone
Music and Lyrics by Lisa Morrison & Greg Lambert; Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar
January 29-February 20, 2011
A rare combination of unprecedented originality and blinding talent, The Drowsy Chaperone boldly addresses a great unspoken desire in all of our hearts: to be entertained. It all begins when a die-hard musical-theater fan plays his favorite cast album on his turntable, and the musical literally bursts to life in his living room, telling the rambunctious tale of a brazen Broadway starlet trying to find, and keep, her true love. The Drowsy Chaperone is a wildly entertaining tribute to jazz age musicals.
Winner of the 2006 Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score.
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August Wilson’s Jitney
March 19-April 3, 2011
Set in 1977 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh that is served by a makeshift taxi company, August Wilson’s Jitney is a beautiful addition to the author’s decade-by-decade cycle of plays about the black American experience in the twentieth century. The men who drive gypsy cabs, or “jitneys,” strive to find honor and accomplishment in a harsh world. When the station owner’s estranged son returns from prison, their reunion unleashes two decades of brutal, raw emotion.
“Explosive… Crackles with theatrical energy.” N.Y. Daily News
“Throughly engrossing, Jitney holds us in charmed captivity.” New York Times
“Comic, soulful and immensely moving.” Time Out
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Oliver!
Book, Music and Lyrics by Lionel Bart
April 30-May 22, 2011
Nothing works on the stage like a well-crafted tale, and Oliver! is just such a show. Based on the Dickens novel, you will be engaged by its pathos and drama, while delighting in its outstanding musical numbers. Food, Glorious Food, I’d Do Anything, Where is Love?, Consider Yourself, As Long As He Needs Me, Who Will Buy and Reviewing the Situation are musical theatre classics. Dickens’ characters are brought to life-perhaps larger than life-in this show.
Winner of 3 Tony Awards in 1963.
The 14th Annual Black Box New Play Festival
June 2-26, 2011
Where can a playwright find an outlet? Where can an audience see new works? The Gallery Players provides both of these in this Festival. Over the years of producing the Festival, we have developed works by countless playwrights, many of whom continue to work with The Gallery Players each year to incubate their new ideas. More than 300 plays have appeared in the Black Box New Play Festival since its inception and this year will bring even more writing and acting talent to the stage. Who knows what you’ll discover in the Box?
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FOR KIDS: The Peanut Gallery
A Musical Theater Summer Adventure Camp
July 2011
Your kids can sing and dance on stage! Sign up for The Peanut Gallery, an affordable summer day-camp right here in Park Slope. Taught by professional theater artists, kids in Grades 1-6 create and perform an original show with songs from Broadway musicals…all in ONE WEEK! Call (718) 595-0547 x6 to request more information.
Administrator: Dominic Cuskern
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