Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park

2009-10 Theatre Season

2009-10 Theatre Season
(also, see our On The Edge Series, Cabaret Series, and Family Series Pages)

Ticket prices:
$15.00 General Admission
$12.00 Senior Citizens
$10.00 Students

*We accept CASH or CHECKS only!


"A...My Name Will Always Be Alice"



Directed by Wade Hair
Musical Director: Wendy Feaver
September 25 - October 4, 2009

Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3:00 p.m.
$18.00 adults/$12.00 students and senior citizens

Conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd. Originally produced by the Women's Project at the American Place Theatre in New York, Alice enjoyed a long run at the Village Gate Off Broadway. This slick and lively revue created by a wide variety of comedy writers, lyricists and composers offers a marvelous kaleidoscope of contemporary women. Sophisticated, bawdy, funny and insightful, the songs portray friends, rivals, sisters and other relationships. Winner of the Outer Critics' Circle Award: Best Musical.

 "Delightful.... The music and lyrics are so sophisticated that they can carry the weight of one act plays."---N.Y. Times.

"A boodle of laughs."---N.Y. Post.

"Rates an A!."-- N.Y. Daily News.

"Slick as can be."---Village Voice. 



"We Need A Little Christmas" 
Directed by Wade Hair





December 3 - December 13, 2009
     
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday matinees at 3:00 p.m.

All tickets only $10.00!

A cast of thirteen perform your favorite Christmas classics in this lively, touching holiday musical revue for "kids from 1 to 92".


"Five Women Wearing the Same Dress"
Written by Alan Ball


Directed by J. Lee Vocque
January 29 - February 14, 2010
Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday matinees at 3:00 p.m.
$15.00 adults
$12.00 senior citizens
$10.00 students

 
CAST:

MEREDITH: Katie Thayer

FRANCES: Alyssa Jane Foley

TRISHA: Monica Rae Reiken

GEORGEANNE: Kimberly Crandall

MINDY: Rochelle Wheeler

TRIPP: Joe Coffey

THE STORY: During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women's spirit.

An irreverent and funny look at the intricacies of friendship and the power of similar dressing. "…[a] wonderfully entertaining play…" —NY Post. "FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS is a fresh-as-a-daisy comedy, funny as can be…" —NY Daily News. "Ball has the comic writer's requisite talent for dialogue that ricochets snappily around the stage." —TheaterWeek.



"Best of Broadway: 2000-2009"
Directed by Wade Hair



March 19 - April 4, 2010

Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday matinees at 3:00 p.m.
$15.00 adults
$12.00 senior citizens
$10.00 students

This musical revue features songs from all of the Tony Award winning musicals and revivals from 2000-2009.

The revue will feature songs from the following musicals:
2000: Kiss Me Kate, Contact
2001: 42nd Street, The Producers
2002: Into the Woods, Thoroughly Modern Millie
2003: Nine, Hairspray
2004: Assassins, Avenue Q
2005: La Cage aux Folles, Spamalot
2006: The Pajama Game, Jersey Boys
2007: Company, Spring Awakening
2008: South Pacific, In The Heights
2009: Hair, Billy Elliot


Cast:
Tara Corless
Krystal Gillette
Nicole Bianco
Erynn Hair
Wade Hair
Seth Lindsey
John Gracey
Ian Clark
Joshua Eads-Brown
Jossalynn Moukouanga
Lucy Yarbrough
Brenna Arden Warner
Desiree Perez
Troy Garcia
Linda Tram 
Eric Bridges
Rob DelMedico

Butterflies Are Free
by Leonard Gershe



Directed by Heather-Lucia Bass
June 4 - June 20, 2010
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.
Sundays at 3:00 p.m.
$15.00 General Admission
$12.00 Senior Citizens
$10.00 Students
Cash or Check Only

Young Don Baker, hero of his mother's children's book series, "Donny Dark" has been blind since birth, his overprotective mother following his every move. Don finally decides to take his own apartment in Manhattan and pursue his songwriting ambitions. When she meets his kooky neighbor, sexy actress Jill, Mrs. Baker's controlling instincts go into overdrive with hilariously touching results.

"A lovely play. It is funny when it means to be, sentimental when it is so inclined, and heartwarming."-New York Daily News

"A charming play...humorous, winning and quietly moving."-New York Post 


Red, White, and Tuna
by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard


Directed by Ken Rush
July 2 - July 18, 2010
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.
Sundays at 3:00 p.m.
$15.00 General Admission
$12.00 Senior Citizens
$10.00 Students
Cash or Check Only

Starring: Benjamin Dixon Rush and Torey Scarbrough

The much anticipated third installment in the Tuna trilogy takes the audience through another satirical ride into the hearts and minds of the polyester-clad citizens of Texas' third smallest town.

Along with Tuna's perennial favorites, some new Tuna denizens burst into the 4th of July Tuna High School Class Reunion. This sets the stage for a show full of fireworks and fun from the land where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.

It's been several years since we left Bertha and Arles dancing at the end of A Tuna Christmas...Did the romance blossom? Has Didi Snavley received any "cosmic" communications from R.R.'s UFO? Did Stanley make his fortune in the Alburquerque taxidermy business? These and other burning questions will be asked and answered in the side-splitting spoof of life in rural America.

Nunsense A-Men!
by Dan Goggin
   
Directed by David Gerrard

August 27 - September 12, 2010
Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday matinees at 3:00 p.m.
$15.00 adults
$12.00 senior citizens
$10.00 students
 
Nunsense A-Men is basically the original “Nunsense” show with all of the characters being portrayed by male musical comedy performers. Think of it as “Mrs. Doubtfire enters the Convent.” Done totally seriously, this show is, to quote a critic, “no drag.” First performed in Brazil as “Novicas Rebeldes,” this version of “Nunsense” premiered in New York in 1998. Receiving rave reviews and standing ovations subsequent productions have boasted such stars as “Laugh-In’s” Arte Johnson as Mother Superior and Olympic Champion, Greg Louganis as Sister Robert Anne. A whole new layer of comedy surfaces with lines like “The guys in the old neighborhood still can’t believe I became a nun!” To quote the New York Times: “A change of habit, boy oh, boy!”

“Is Nunsense A-Men! fun? Definitely yes. The all-male
cast is a genuine blessing.” --New York Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

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