Productions 09/10

The Night of One Acts
November 5, 6, & 7
A collection of three, one act plays, the Night of One Acts will feature the troupe's competition piece, Forbidden Broadway, which we will take to district in January. Sleepy Hollow will be the first act, directed by Amanda Zappia, the adaptation of the popular legend of the headless horseman. The final act is In the Wings, written and directed by Sarah Bernier, it features the stage as you've never seen it before, reversed. The night is certain to be interesting.

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
January 28, 29, 30 / February 5, 6, & 7
A musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn and a book by Rachel Sheinkin. The show centers around a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School in Putnam County, NY. Six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, run by three equally-quirky grown-ups. The spellers learn that winning isn't everything.

The Crucible
April 22, 23, & 24
A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his innocent wife. Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded their innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950's America.