Wayside Theatre - 2002 Season - Theater - Shenandoah Valley Virginia - Plays - VA

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	ALWAYS PATSY CLINE Musical By: Ted Swindley July 12 - August 30, 2008
Always... Patsy Cline is based on the true story of Patsy Cline's friendship with Houston housewife and avid fan Louise Seger. After a chance meeting in 1961, the two women became fast friends and pen pals, igniting a friendship that would last until Cline's untimely death at age 30. The letters, each one signed "Love Always, Patsy Cline," became the inspiration for this amazing tribute, which features over 20 of Cline's greatest hits, including "I Fall to Pieces," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Walkin' After Midnight," and "Crazy." (Thur, Fri, Sat @ 8:00 PM; Wed Sat, & Sun matinees @ 2:30 PM) Performances at Wayside Theatre, 7853 Main Street, Middletown, VA
	Moonlight and Magnolias Comedy By: Ron Hutchinson August 8 - 24, 2008
Hollywood, 1939, Legendary producer David O. Selznick shuts down filming on Gone with the Wind and frantically locks himself in a room with director Victor Fleming and writer Ben Hecht. They have five days to rewrite the screenplay, including acting out the parts, with nothing but peanuts, bananas and chutzpah to get them through. A breathless look at the near-farce velocity birth of the most famous movie ever made from the bestselling epic novel, GONE WITH THE WIND, into a screenplay. This riotous play is at once a hyperventilating slapstick comedy, an impassioned love song and a blazing critique of Hollywood. (Thur, Fri, Sat @ 8:00 PM; Wed Sat, & Sun matinees @ 2:30 PM) Performances will be at the Shenandoah University - Glaize Studio Theatre, in Ohrstrom-Bryant Hall, Millwood Ave, Winchester, VA 22601
	Unnecessary Farce A contemporary American farce By: Paul Slade Smith September 6 - 27, 2008
The setting is two adjoining rooms in an economy motel. It is early morning. Two inexperienced police officers, Eric Sheridan and Billie Dwyer, have been sent to videotape a meeting between the local Mayor and the town's accountant, with the aim of uncovering an embezzlement scheme. But the day is not starting off well. Unnecessary Farce "is a comedy in the mode of traditional farce, with a contemporary, American spin. In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant. In the room next door, two undercover cops are supposed to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room. And who's being videotaped. And who's taken the money. And who's hired a hit man. And why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes." (Thur, Fri, Sat @ 8:00 PM; Wed Sat, & Sun matinees @ 2:30 PM) Performances at Wayside Theatre, 7853 Main Street, Middletown, VA
	THE MOUSETRAP Mystery Thriller By Agatha Christie October 11- November 8, 2008
A young couple, Mollie and Giles Ralston, who have started up a new hotel in the converted Monkswell Manor, are snowed in together with four guests and an additional traveler, who ran his car into a snowdrift. Detective Sergeant Trotter arrives on skis to inform the group that he believes a murderer is on his way to the hotel, following the death of Miss Maureen Lyon in London. When one of the guests is murdered, they realize that the murderer is already there. Everything is not as it seems. (Thur, Fri, Sat @ 8:00 PM; Wed Sat, & Sun matinees @ 2:30 PM) Performances at Wayside Theatre, 7853 Main Street, Middletown, VA
	Virginia Ghost Stories October 24- November 1, 2008
The production will be written by area young adults based on the many Virginia Ghost stories as part of "The Play's the Thing" Education in Action Program. Thursday, Friday and Saturday @ 7:30 PM, Saturday matinees @ 2:30 PM, Sunday matinee at 2:30 PM
	A Christmas Carol, The Musical Book written by Warner Crocker and Lyrics and Music by Steve Pryzyblski November 29 - December 28, 2008
It is a new musical retelling of Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol set in 1840's Victorian England. It is a story of hope, renewal, and community with all the charm and magic of the original Dickens novel about the visiting Christmas Ghosts. (Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat @ 7:30 PM; Sat, & Sun matinees @ 2:30 PM, various Sunday Eve @ 6:30 PM) Performances at Wayside Theatre, 7853 Main Street, Middletown, VA
	LIES & LEGENDS: The Musical Stories of Harry Chapin Conceived by Joseph Stern, Musical Arrangements by: Tom & Stephen Chapin January 31- March 14, 2009
Two dozen songs by singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, such as Cats in the Cradle and Taxi are highlighted in this Musical Revue that debuted Off-Broadway. Lies & Legends is a tribute to both the man who died tragically in a car accident at the age of 38, and his music. Chapin's sentimental short-story songs about "ordinary" Americans are both funny and rueful, his subjects ranging from mail-order brides, mass murderers, and lonely waitresses to aging disc jockeys, desperate dreamers and negligent fathers. (Thur, Fri, Sat @ 7:30 PM; Sat & Sun matinees @ 2:30 PM) Performances at Wayside Theatre, 7853 Main Street, Middletown, VA
	COTTON PATCH GOSPEL Musical Written by Tom Key and Russell Treyz, Music and Lyrics by Harry Chapin March 21 - April 25, 2009
"Greatest Story Ever Retold" is based on the book The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John by Clarence Jordan in which the Gospel is presented in a southern setting in rural Georgia with Blue Grass and country music songs, the final and perhaps best work of Harry Chapin. As this Gospel begins, they sing that "Somethin's a-brewin' in Gainesville." Herod is the mayor of Atlanta and, inevitably, Christ is lynched by local thugs only to rise again. The musical details the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. (Thur, Fri, Sat @ 7:30 PM; Sat & Sun matinees @ 2:30 PM) Performances at Wayside Theatre, 7853 Main Street, Middletown, VA
	Animal Farm Adapted by Ian Wooldridge from George Orwell's novel March 27- April 4, 2009
The play is an allegory in which animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal; class and status disparities soon emerge, however, between the different animal species. The novel describes how a society's ideologies can be manipulated and twisted by individuals in positions of social and political power, including how a utopian society is made impossible by the corrupting nature of the very power necessary to create it. Thursday, Friday and Saturday @ 7:30 PM, Saturday matinees @ 2:30 PM, Sunday matinee at 2:30 PM
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