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41st Anniversary Season
Annual Meeting/Season Kickoff
SPIRO Awards Presentation
SUNDAY JANUARY 27, 2008
@Ionia Theater, Ionia, Michigan
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"THE LAST FIVE YEARS"
Book, Music and Lyrics by: Jason Robert Brown
The Last Five Years premiered in Chicago in 2001
and was then produced off-Broadway in March of
2002 . Since then it has enjoyed numerous
productions internationally.
A contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles
the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from
break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. The Last
Five Years explores a five-year relationship between Jamie
Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress.
The show uses a novel form of storytelling in which Cathy travels
backwards in time (beginning the show at the end of the marriage),
and Jamie travels forwards (starting with the couple's first date).
CAST: Cally Redder and Ben Bookie
January 24-27, 2008
@Ionia Theater, Downtown Ionia
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"SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL"
Music/Book by Lynn Ahrens
Lyrics/Book by Stephen Flaherty
PERFORMANCES: February 29,
March 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 2008
Director - WARREN WENTWORTH
"I can see that you’ve got quite a mind for your age!
Why, one Think and you dragged me right onto the stage!
Now, I’m here, there is no telling what may ensue
With a Cat such as me, and a Thinker like you!"
So says the mischievous Cat in the Hat at the onset of this
fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Lynn Ahrens and
Stephen Flaherty (Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once On
This Island, and Ragtime) have lovingly brought to life all of
our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the
Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and all of the Whos
of Whoville!
These classic, colorful tales are seamlessly brought together by
Jojo, a young boy and “thinker of strange and wonderful
thinks”! As each story unfolds you will marvel at how relevant
and profound Seuss’s subtle themes are; making this musical
one that appeals to all ages.
The score emerges as a Seussian gumbo of musical styles,
ranging from Latin to pop, swing to gospel, and R&B to funk!
So let your toes tap, your fingers snap, and your imagination
run wild, for
"If you open your mind,
Oh, the Thinks you will find
Lining up to get loose!
Oh, the Thinks you can think!
Oh, the Thinks you can think
When you think about Seuss!!"
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"DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER"
by Marc Camoletti
Adapted by Robin Hawdon
Bernard is planning a weekend with his mistress. He has
hired a gourmet cook, is packing his wife Jacqueline off
to her mother's, and has invited his best friend, Robert, to
provide an alibi. It is foolproof. What could possibly go
wrong? Suppose Robert doesn't know why he has been
invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers?
What happens if the cook is mistaken for the mistress and the
mistress can't cook? Mix these ingredients and you have the
recipe for an evening of hilarious confusion... where nothing
can go right!
An evening of pratfalls, mistaken identity, and immoral
activities will leave the audience rolling in the aisles
FALL 2008
