The Concord Players
2011-2012 Season
November
4, 5, 11, 12, 13,18,19 2011
In a rare combination of unprecedented originality and brilliant comedy, The Drowsy Chaperone unflinchingly addresses that great unspoken desire in all of our hearts: to be entertained. To chase his blues away a devout theatre lover drops the needle on his favorite Broadway cast vinyl record - “Yes, record!” - the 1928 musical comedy, The Drowsy Chaperone. As the crackling first notes waft through the hi-fi the show magically bursts to life in his tiny apartment. This "clever, gleeful and intelligent" (The New Yorker) musical-within-a-comedy, winner of five 2006 Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, spoofs the musicals of the 1920s. Complete with thrills and surprises that take both the cast and the audience soaring into the rafters, The Drowsy Chaperone is a toe-tapping trip back to the golden age of musicals.
February
10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 2012
From the author of The Boys Next Door, Tom Griffin's Amateurs is both a poignant and at times an over the top comedic tale about the tangled desires and hopes of the guests at an opening night party of a New England community theater group. Dorothy and her eccentric husband Charlie host an opening night party that will make you laugh and cry, where the dreams, loves, failures and successes of this assortment of personalities are explored with bittersweet humor and the relationship between risk and need is touchingly depicted.
Directed by Ben Delatizky
Apr 27, 28 (double), 29 ( mat);
May 4, 5 (double), 6 ( mat);
11, 12 (double), 13 ( mat), 2012
Friday and Saturday 8:00
Saturdays and Sundays 2:00
Louisa May Alcott's book, "Little Women", is the much loved story of the four March sisters, and their journey from childhood to maturity in 19th century New England. The story is loosely based on the author's own childhood experiences with her three sisters, and explores the sorrows and triumphs of the March girls, as they navigate their way through the various stages of their lives, both together and independently.
David Fielding Smith's script of "Little Women" is faithful to the book, and brings to life this timeless classic in a vibrant and exciting way.