Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park
2009-10 Theatre Season
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.
"Kick Ass Plays For Women"
by Jane Shepard
Fridays and Saturdays,
November 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 at 8:00 p.m.
Award-winning new playwright Jane Shepard comes to print with powerful short plays for women. Edgy, original, and with a darkly funny humanity.
Directed by Laurel Clark and Christine Robison
Featuring Alia Laurence, Sarah Lee Dobbs, Christine Robison, Michelle Kepner-Prueitt, Caroline Ross and Samantha O'Hare
"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".
"The Eight: Reindeer Monologues"
written by Jeff Goode
Directed by Michael Colavolpe
December 17 at 8:00 p.m.
December 18 and 19 at 8:00 p.m. AND 10:00 p.m.
December 20 at 3:00 p.m. AND 8:00 p.m.
Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges, which seems to implicate everyone from the littlest elf to the tainted Saint himself. With each deer's confession, the truth behind the shocking allegations becomes clearer and clearer. ...and murkier and murkier. A dark, dark Christmas comedy.
Starring Chris Prueitt, Jeff Lindberg, Ryan Gigliotti, Robyn Pedretti Kelly, Kevin Kriegel, Janine Klein, Kevin Bee, and Michelle Prueitt.
"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
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. "Dog Sees God: Directed by Tara Corless THE STORY: When CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace. But a chance meeting with an artistic kid, the target of this group's bullying, offers CB a peace of mind and sets in motion a friendship that will push teen angst to the very limits. Drug use, suicide, eating disorders, teen violence, rebellion and sexual identity collide and careen toward an ending that's both haunting and hopeful. Tony Award Winner, Best Play 1983 Each act focuses on a different phase in Arnold's life. In the first, Arnold meets Ed, who is uncomfortable with his bisexuality. In the second, one year later, Arnold meets Alan, and the two settle down into a blissful existence that includes plans to adopt a child, until tragedy strikes. In the third, several years later, Arnold is a single father raising gay teenager David. Arnold is forced to deal with his mother's intolerance and disrespect when she visits from Florida. The award-winning and popular work broke new ground in the theatre: "At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Harvey challenged both gay and straight audiences to champion an effeminate gay man's longings for love and family." "A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family...the zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for." - Newsweek "Under the tragedy, the play is gorgeously funny." - N.Y. Post "Hilarious." Gannett Newspapers. Butterflies Are Free "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
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.
Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead"
Written by Bert V. Royal
February 18-28, 2009
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Sundays at 3 p.m.
Cast:
CB- P.J. Gajda II
Cb's sister- Megan Goldman
Van- Adam Delmedico
Matt- Kyle James
Beethoven- T.J. Parman
Marcy- Megan Borkes
Trica- Lindsay Pennington
Van's sister- "Bunny" Fitzgerald
"Best of Broadway: 2000-2009"
Directed by Wade Hair
March 19 - March 28, 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.
Cast:
Tara Corless
Krystal Gillette
Nicole Bianco
Erynn Hair
Wade Hair
Seth Lindsey
John Gracey
Ian Clark
Lucy Yarbrough
Brenna Arden Warner
Desiree Perez
Troy Garcia
Linda Tram
Rob DelMedico
Kate O'Neal
Matt Dutton
"Torch Song Trilogy"
Written by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by Wade Hair
April 16-May 2, 2009
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
Arnold: Joshua Eads-Brown
Ed: JR Barnhill
Laurel: Penny Mathis
Alan: Sean Patrick Carey
David: Avery Chester
Mrs. Beckoff: Judith Gill
Lady Blues: Erynn Hair
Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s.
"Psycho Beach Party"
Written by Charles Busch
Directed by Wade Hair
May 14-23, 2010
Fridays at 8 p.m.
Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Sundays at 3 p.m.
$15.00 General Admission
$12.00 Senior Citizens
$10.00 Students
Cash or check only!
Imagine 'Gidget' crossed with 'The Three Faces of Eve' and 'Mommie Dearest'. Chicklet, a perky teenager in Malibu Beach circa 1962, wants to learn to surf and join a group of beach bums led by the great Kanaka. Unfortunately, she suffers from a multiple personality disorder. Seeing red causes her to transform into various other selves, including a sinister vamp out to conquer the world. Complications arise when a movie starlet flees the set of her latest rotten movie to hide among the surfers. The climax is a wild luau scene where hypnosis reveals the shocking root of Chicklet's psychosis.
by Leonard Gershe
Directed by Heather-Lucia Bass
June 17-27, 2010
Thursday (June 17) at 8 p.m.
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.