South Coast Repertory Theater
We have been members for about 20 years but now we get to go anytime we want and do NOT have to run home to sleep to get up the next morning and go to work! We really enjoy retirement!
Italian Straw Hat (September 2008)
Funny, funny, funny!
Emmy Award-winning composer Dennis McCarthy ("Star Trek") teams up with Charles MacArthur prize winner John Strand and director Stefan Novinski, who delighted SCR audiences with A Little Night Music, for the spirited American adaptation of a classic European farce by Eugene Labiche.
With flavors of vaudeville, ragtime, light opera and even barbershop quartet, the rollicking new musical follows a hapless young bridegroom through turn-of-the-century New York, as he tries to correct a horrendous problem.
It seems his horse has eaten a young lady’s hat, and his wedding will be derailed if he can’t find a replacement—today!
A Dead Man's Cell Phone (October 2008)
He is dead!
Led by Variety (“wondrously mad and moving”) and The New York Times (“beguiling”), the critics—and the entire theatre world—have gone wild over Sarah Ruhl’s writing. The Clean House was seen by SCR audiences before it wowed New York and became a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her latest comedy is another runaway hit that proves she is, in the words of the MacArthur Fellowship, "a playwright creating vivid and adventurous theatrical works." In this imaginative new comedy, Gordon is dead, but his cell phone keeps ringing. Would you answer? Jean does, and soon she’s telling the callers what she thinks they need to hear, even though it takes her to hell (yes, that’s where Gordon ends up) and back, as she draws them into the surprises and mysteries of their lives—and her own.