‘Magic Awaits’ at Playhouse in 2023 | Information

“I feel the theme type of began with these reveals specifically, however I all the time say theater has magic,” Bates mentioned. “I really feel prefer it’s type of a quintessential theme to theater as a result of it all the time looks as if magic how the reveals come collectively – significantly in group theater with wonderful volunteers utilizing a number of their time and expertise to placed on reveals.”

Along with precise magic, the season will function a preferred thriller, a number of traditional musicals and never one however two Stephen Sondheim reveals. A type of, “Into the Woods” is extraordinarily widespread with common audiences, and the opposite, “Assassins,” is extra controversial and adult-oriented. Sondheim, a titan of American musical theater, died final November on the age of 91, so the productions needs to be a becoming tribute to him. His songs can generally be fairly technically difficult to carry out, however Bates mentioned she is all the time impressed by the ability with which Playhouse all the time brings to its musicals.

The season reveals are as follows:

In response to Broadwaylicensing.com, “Crowns” by Regina Taylor is “a shifting and celebratory musical play through which hats grow to be a springboard for an exploration of Black historical past and id as seen by the eyes of a younger Black lady who has come down South to stick with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn.” It was a preferred present when introduced at Playhouse greater than a decade in the past and includes a gospel music rating. That first manufacturing was directed by Stephen Keene, who might be again once more for the brand new presentation.

“Stephen Keene goes to direct that, and we’ll really be holding auditions for that in December, so we’ll be already prepping for that basically quickly,” Bates mentioned. “The present has some historical past, it’s a various present for us, and we might be inviting native faculties and a wide range of audiences to share that have.”

“Freaky Friday The Musical”

In response to mtishows.com, this musical is predicated on the 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers. It was tailored into a success 1976 Disney film, which was remade a number of instances for each movie and TV. “When an overworked mom and her teenage daughter magically swap our bodies, they’ve simply in the future to place issues proper once more,” the abstract reads.

In response to mtishows.com, this “a number of Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force … combines Sondheim’s signature mix of intelligently beautiful lyrics and delightful music with a panoramic story of our nation’s tradition of movie star and the violent means some will use to acquire it, embodied by America’s 4 profitable and 5 would-be presidential assassins. Daring, unique, disturbing and alarmingly humorous, ‘Assassins’ is probably probably the most controversial musical ever written.” Will probably be introduced as a part of Playhouse’s “After Darkish” sequence.

“The Snow White Challenge”  and “College Home Rock Dwell!”

Bates mentioned “The Snow White Challenge” is a family-focused theater venture that the Playhouse board’s head of training, Jonathan Carter, initially deliberate earlier than the pandemic delayed all the things. Workshops will train members easy methods to construct a present from begin to end, together with casting, directing, set-building, costume designing, advertising and marketing and extra. Because the identify signifies, members will stage a manufacturing of the “Snow White” fairy story.

In response to mtishows.com, “Schoolhouse Rock Dwell!” is a musical stage model of the “Emmy Award-winning Seventies Saturday morning cartoon sequence that taught historical past, grammar, math and extra by intelligent, tuneful songs …”

A perennial favourite with group theaters, excessive faculties and schools alike, Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” debuted on Broadway in 1987. The present makes use of the storybook characters of Cinderella, Jack from “Jack and the Beanstalk,” Little Purple Using Hood and others to inform a humorous and shifting story about what occurs after “fortunately ever after.” As mtishows.com says, it’s “a timeless, but related, piece… and a uncommon trendy traditional. The Tony Award-winning guide and rating are each enchanting and touching.”

Playhouse Summer season Camp presents “Pirates Previous Midday: Youngsters”

This 12 months’s summer season camp will placed on a present primarily based on certainly one of Mary Pope Osborne’s award-winning fantasy journey books from the Magic Tree Home guide sequence. Mtishows.com says “two siblings return to go to the magic tree home on a dreary, wet day. They discover a guide the place the solar is shining and the waves are crashing, so that they want to journey to this tropical place. They understand that they’re within the 18th-century Caribbean, the time of pirates!”

“The Savannah Sipping Society”

Mtishows.com says this present is a “pleasant, laugh-a-minute comedy” that includes “4 distinctive Southern ladies, all needing to flee the sameness of their day-to-day routines, (who) are drawn collectively by Destiny — and an impromptu blissful hour — and determine it’s excessive time to reclaim the keenness for all times they’ve misplaced by the years.”

“It’s like an enormous ‘girls’ night time out,’” Bates mentioned.

“Guys and Dolls Jr” would be the present for this 12 months’s Penguin Challenge, which casts intellectually and bodily disabled kids and younger adults within the starring roles. It’s a kids’s adaptation for of the present “thought-about by many to be the proper musical comedy,” mtishows.com says. The unique present ran for 1,200 performances after opening on Broadway in 1950, gained quite a few Tony Awards and in addition grew to become a success film starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra.

Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap”

In response to concordtheatricals.com, “The Mousetrap” is “rimming with intrigue, refined humor and shocking twists. Agatha Christie’s iconic homicide thriller – a couple of group of strangers trapped throughout a snowstorm – is the world’s most profitable and longest-running play.”

“Puffs, or Seven More and more Eventful Years at a Sure College of Magic and Magic”

“Puffs” is a comedy parodying the “Harry Potter” guide and movie sequence. “For seven years a sure boy wizard went to a sure Wizard College and conquered evil,” the abstract from concordtheatricals.com says. “This, nonetheless, shouldn’t be his story. That is the story of the Puffs… who simply occurred to be there too. A story for anybody who has by no means been destined to save lots of the world.”

It’s been a number of years since Playhouse introduced this seasonal favourite, primarily based on the traditional 1954 musical movie starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. It options many beloved songs by Irving Berlin, together with the title tune, “Rely Your Blessings” and “Sisters.”