Category Archives: Plays

Information about individual productions put on by the Crighton Players acting group.

The King and I

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Poster by Jeffrey L. Baldwin

(Musical)
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
Lyrics by Oscar Hammertein II
Directed by: Bill Torgan

 

Auditions
Sunday-Monday @ 7:00 pm
June 3, 4
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Evening Performances
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00 pm
August 24-25, 31, September 1, 7-8, 14-15

 

Sunday Matinees are @ 2pm
First Matinee September 2nd
Second Matinee September 9th

 

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East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifting tale of enormous fascination. It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son arrive at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West, and he seeks Anna’s assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and the King grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another, in a truly unique love story. Along with the dazzling score, the incomparable Jerome Robbins ballet, ‘The Small House of Uncle Thomas,’ is one of the all-time marvels of the musical stage.Rodgers and Hammerstein

The Odd Couple

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Poster by Jeffrey L. Baldwin

 

(Comedy)
Written by: Neil Simon
Directed by: Terry Lynn Hale

 

Auditions
Sunday-Monday @ 7:00 pm
September 2, 3

 

Evening Performances
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00 pm
October 19-20, 26-27, November 2-3

 

Sunday Matinees are @ 2pm
First Matinee October 28th
Second Matinee November 4thst

 

 
This classic comedy opens as a group of the guys assembled for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it’s no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Unger who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious, depressed and none too tense, Felix seems suicidal, but as the action unfolds Oscar becomes the one with murder on his mind when the clean-freak and the slob ultimately decide to room together with hilarious results as The Odd Couple is born. Samuel French, Inc.

White Christmas

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Poster by Jeffrey L. Baldwin

(Musical)
Music and Lyrics by: Irving Berlin
Based Upon the Paramount Pictures Film Written For the Screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
Book by David Ives and Paul Blake
Directed by: Carole Lamont

 

Auditions
Sunday-Monday @ 7:00 pm
September 16, 17

 

Evening Performances
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00 pm
November 30, December 1, 7-8, 14-15, 21-22

 

Sunday Matinees are @ 2pm
First Matinee December 9th
Second Matinee December 16th

 

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Based on the beloved, timeless film, this heartwarming musical adaptation features seventeen Irving Berlin songs and a book by David Ives and Paul Blake. Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil’s former army commander. The dazzling score features well known standards including Blue Skies, I Love A Piano, How Deep Is the Ocean and the perennial favorite, White Christmas.

Rogers and Hammerstein

The Lion In Winter

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Poster by Jeffrey L. Baldwin

 

(Drama)
By James Goldman
Directed by: Brandi Baldwin

 

Auditions
Sunday-Monday @ 7:00 pm
December 2, 3

 

Evening Performances
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00 pm
January 25-26, February 1-2, 8-9

 

Sunday Matinees are @ 2pm
First Matinee February 3rd
Second Matinee February 10th

 
 

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King Henry II of England has three sons by Eleanor of Aquitaine: Richard, Geoffrey, and John. He wants the kingdom to stay united after his death, but all three sons want to rule and it is likely to be torn apart by revolution. Henry favors the youngest John, while Eleanor favors the eldest, Richard. Middle son Geoffrey hopes to play both ends against each other and come out on top. Henry would like to have another heir by his mistress Alais, but that would only add to the confusion. Uneasy is the head on which the crown lies, and uneasy the truce between a matchless king and queen.

Samuel french, Inc.

The Fantasticks

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Poster by Jeffrey L. Baldwin

(Musical)
Book by: Tom Jones
Music by: Harvey Schmidt
Lyrics by: Tom Jones
Directed by: Jeffrey L. Baldwin

 

Auditions
Sunday-Monday @ 7:00 pm
February 3, 4

 

Evening Performances
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00 pm
March 29-30, April 5-6, 12-13, 19-20

 

Sunday Matinees are @ 2pm
First Matinee April 7th
Second Matinee April 14th

 

 
THE FANTASTICKS is the longest-running production of any kind in the world, and with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. The result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be nostalgic and universal at the same time.

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Grease

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Poster by Jeffrey L. Baldwin

 

(Musical)
Book, Music & Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Directed by: Larry Calhoun

 

Auditions
Sunday-Monday @ 7:00 pm
March 31, April 1

 

Evening Performances
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00 pm
May 17-18, 24-25, 31, June 1, 7-8

 

Sunday Matinees are @ 2pm
First Matinee May 26th
Second Matinee June 2nd

 

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Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys” and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head “greaser” Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their “Summer Nights” as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as “Greased Lightnin’”, “It’s Raining on Prom Night”, “Alone at the Drive-In Movie” recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation.

Samuel French, Inc.

The Matchmaker

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Poster by Jeffrey L. Baldwin

 

(Farce)
Written by: Thornton Wilder
Directed by: Travis Bryant

 

Auditions
Sunday-Monday @ 7:00 pm
May 19, 20

 

Evening Performances
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00 pm
July 5-6, 12-13, 19-20

 

Sunday Matinees are @ 2pm
First Matinee July 14th
Second Matinee July 21st

 

 
A certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into a hilarious complication. After everyone gets straightened out romantically and has his heart’s desire, the merchant finds himself affianced to the astute matchmaker herself. He who was so shrewd in business is putty in the hands of Dolly Levi. He is fooled by apprentices in a series of hilarious hide and seek scenes, and finally has all his bluster explode in his face.

Samuel French, Inc.