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Breakthrough Theatre Company

 

The theater is located at 6900 Aloma Avenue in Winter Park. Ticket prices vary. For more information: www.breakthroughtheatre.com or wadehair1966@gmail.com.

 

We Are the Tigers: August 29-September 15. The musical, written by Preston Max Allen, is about the Tigers’ high school cheerleading squad meeting for their annual sleepover and bringing plenty of their teenage troubles with them. Not to mention, one of them may be a killer.

 

The Internet is Coming For You: September 19-21. This comedic play, with music, by Howard Elgison, explains the creation of the internet.

 

Lost in Chester: September 26-October 6. In this play, by Kym Fraher, inspired by the Iliad and the Odyssey, five teens are lost in the fictional town of Chester after a Saturday soccer match. Together, they have to learn to rely on each other while trying to navigate the townspeople, each other, and themselves to find their way back to the waiting bus.

 

Crazy Little Thing Called Horror: October 17-November 3. Eight short original plays about horror, several by local playwrights.

 

Redlight: The Bad Girls of Broadway: November 14-December 1. A musical revue featuring songs from Broadway bad girls.

 

Annie, Jr.: December 5-15. The classic musical about the adorable red headed orphan, Little Orphan Annie.

 

A Politically Incorrect Christmas: December 5-15 (on select nights). Politically incorrect scenes and songs about Christmas by local playwright, Thomas J. Kline.

 

Sanctuary: January 16-26. In this play, written by Val Valdez, Archbishop Mueller must make the agonizing choice of giving refuge to a Catholic German Architect and his pregnant girlfriend, a Jewish Resistance fighter, which would mean conflict, and possibly death, with the Nazis.

 

I’m Coming Out: January 30-February 8. A group of actors share real life coming out stories, submitted by the Central Florida LGBTQ+ community.

 

Assassins: February 13-March 2. Stephen Sondheim’s controversial musical about those who have, or have tried, to assassinate a U.S. President.

 

A Rock’s Story! The 95% True Story of the Joke That Made a Million Dollars: March 13-30. This comedy, by Davis Gordon Gilbert, tells the story of the Pet Rock, a popular collectible toy in the 1970s.

 

Where Are The Angels in America?: April 10-April 27. High school drama teacher, Ted Davidson, gets caught in the middle of a culture war as his motives are questioned, when he begins teaching Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. This drama is written by Ian Donley.

 

A Woman of Murder: May 8-25. There is a murderer on the loose at the Ms. Sterling Silver Pageant, a pageant for women 50 and over. This comedic murder mystery is written by Jacquelyn Priscorn.

 

Hee Haw 2: Still Pickin’ and a Grinnin’: June 5-22. A sequel to last season’s successful salute to the television show, Hee Haw.

 

Legally Blonde the Musical, Jr.: July 10-19. The Junior version of the popular musical, based on the Reese Witherspoon movie, about Elle Woods and her quest to get into Harvard.