The Gallery Players is proud to announce the 7 productions for its 42nd Season in 2008-2009!
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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The Underpants
by Carl Sternheim, adapted by Steve Martin
September 13-28, 2008
Producers: Lara Terrell & Tom Wojtunik for The Gallery Players
Director: Seth Soloway
Production Stage Manager: Jodi Witherell
Assistant Director: Stefanie Horowitz
Assistant Stage Manager: DaVonne Bacchus
Set Designer: Stephen K. Dobay
Costume Designer: Danielle Schembre
Lighting Designer: Tony Galaska
Sound Designer: Ned Thorne
Steve Martin, the renowned comic actor and author provides a wild satire adapted from the classic German play about Louise and Theo Maske, a couple whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise’s bloomers fall down in public. Though she pulls them up quickly, he thinks the incident will cost him his job as a government clerk. Louise’s momentary display does not result in the feared scandal but it does attract two infatuated men, each of whom wants to rent the spare room in the Maskes’ home. Oblivious of their amorous objectives, Theo splits the room between them, happy to collect rent from both the foppish poet and the whiny hypochondriac.
“This is funny stuff … a fine play … with funny characters and lightning flashes of wit.” -TheaterMania
Read more about The Underpants.
Like You Like It
A New Musical
Book and Lyrics by Sammy Buck
Music by Daniel Acquisto
October 18 - November 2, 2008
Limited engagement!
Producer: Heather Siobhan Curran/The Gallery Players
Director: Igor Goldin
Choreographer: Keith Andrews
Musical Director: Jeffrey Campos
Set Designer: Carl Tallent
Lighting Designer: Dan Jobbins
Production Stage Manager: Kayla Shriner-Cahn
Assoc. Producer: Marissa Rosenblum
Assistant Stage Manager: Estie S. Sarvasy
All the world’s a mall in this totally awesome mix of Shakespeare and John Hughes.
It’s 1985 and the brand new Arden Mall is hosting a high school dance. Bookworm babe Rosalind wants to go with varsity wrestler Orlando, but she’s never had the guts to talk to him. Rosalind disguises herself as a frat dude named Corey and learns Orlando’s true feelings for her. But things get tricky when “Corey” complicates the lives of three other couples at Arden. Rosalind will do anything to get Orlando, even if it means showing up at the dance as both herself and Corey.
In a show filled with memorable tunes, a hip sense of humor, pure joy and a huge heart, it all works out in Like You Like It!
“Composer Acquisto gleefully sends up the era’s music, and the tunes he’s devised incorporate various rock, punk and and pop styles.” -Talkinbroadway.com
“How Rosalind gets away with her thinly-veiled ruse is a question that Shakespeare audiences have asked for centuries. It’s clever of Buck to have her call attention to the flimsy disguise, and that’s only one of many examples of this musical’s cleverness.” -David Finkle, TheaterMania
Read more about Like You Like It.
A Tuna Christmas
by Ed Howard, Joe Sears and Jaston Williams
December 6-21, 2008
Producer: Robin Mishik-Jett/The Gallery Players
Director: TBA
In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it’s Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey’s production of “A Christmas Carol” is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. Audiences who have and who have not seen Greater Tuna will enjoy this laugh filled evening.
“A hoot!” -The New York Times
“So funny it could make a raccoon laugh affectionately at Davy Crockett…. It’s far too good for just Christmas.” -NY Post
“The hilarity … never lets up.” -Village Voice
Read more about A Tuna Christmas.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
book by Richard Henry Morris
music by Jeanine Tesori
new lyrics by Dick Scanlan
January 31-February 22, 2009
Producer: TBA
Director: Neal J. Freeman
Musical Director: TBA
This zany, high-spirited 1920s musical, which won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Musical, will have you dancing the Charleston. Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to New York City in search of a new life for herself. It is a time when women were entering the workforce and the rules of love and social behavior were changing forever. Based on the popular movie, it is a musical filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon-lady of a villainess who audiences will love to hate. It is a perfectly constructed evening of madcap merriment.
“With goofy, spoofy humor - a colorful, fluffy confection.”
- CurtainUp
Read more about Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Bus Stop
by William Inge
March 14-29, 2008
Producer: TBA
Director: Heather Siobhan Curran
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She’s been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she’s ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, “Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I’m gonna end up in Montana …”
“Mr. Inge has put together an uproarious comedy that never strays from the truth.” -The New York Times.
“William Inge should be a great comfort to all of us…he brings to the theatre a kind of warm-hearted compassion, creative vigor, freshness of approach and appreciation of average humanity that can be wonderfully touching and stimulating.” -NY Post.
The Who’s Tommy
Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend
Book by Des McAnuff and Pete Townshend
Additional Music and Lyrics by John Entwistle and Keith Moon
May 2-24, 2009
Producer: Katie Adams/The Gallery Players
Director: Tom Wojtunik
Musical Director: TBA
Pete Townshend’s tale of a young boy’s journey from pain to triumph is the most electrifying evening of rock and roll ever to play in a theatre! The classic ’60s rock opera by The Who was translated to the stage by theatrical wizard Des McAnuff into a high-energy, one-of-a-kind theatrical event. The exhilarating score is timeless in its youthful appeal, giving the show a cross-generational appeal that has made it a smash-hit around the world.
“TOMMY is an entertainment juggernaut that lifts the audience right out of its seats. TOMMY is the first musical in years to feel completely alive in its own moment”. –The New York Times
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The 12th Annual Black Box New Play Festival
June 6-21, 2009
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?
Read more about The 12th Annual Black Box New Play Festival.
FOR KIDS: The Peanut Gallery
A Musical Theater Summer Adventure Camp
July 2009
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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