DRACULA
Adapted by William McNulty
Directed by Albert N. Ricci

Monday, Friday and Saturday
October 8 through 30
Tickets are $8, Students and Sr. Citizens $7

For years “Dracula” has thrilled audiences based on Bram Stoker’s famous novel of the same name.

You are cordially invited to join us for an evening of high suspense and terror as Professor Van Helsing and his brave comrades must hunt down and destroy the profoundly evil Count Dracula who is exceedingly resourceful, employing superhuman strength, psychic powers, and shape-changing to confound and frustrate his antagonists. Culminating in a wild and shocking confrontation between the King of Vampires and those who would rid the world of him, this adaptation is an action-packed, blood-soaked retelling of Bram Stoker’s classic tale of Horror.

August 6,7,9,12,13,14

Evenings 7:30 pm & Saturday Matinees at 2:00 pm

Ticket prices - $6 General, $5 Students, Seniors and Children under 12.

“The Tempest,” Shakespeare’s final play, is an enchanted tale filled with mystery, magic, love, friendship, suspense, and comedy. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda live on an island paradise teeming with spirits and sprites. When Ariel, Prospero’s magical servant, creates a fierce storm at sea, King Alonso, his son Ferdinand, and others are shipwrecked. Will the evil brothers Antonio and Sebastian carry out their plot to murder the king? Will beastly Caliban and his buddies usurp control of the island? Will Ferdinand overcome obstacles and trials to win Miranda’s hand? Come see the YouthTheater’s production of Shakespeare’s most magical play!

June 4 through 26
Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Tickets are $8, students and sr. citizens $7.

This show takes us back to a time before phone mail and high technology, when a real person answered your ringing telephone for you, if you couldn’t do it yourself. Welcome to Susanswerphone, where the lines are blurred between doing a job and eavesdropping.

The story and musical numbers are delightful and uplifting. Just in Time, Better Than a Dream, Drop That Name and A Simple Little System keep actors and audiences smiling.

Winner of 2 Tony Awards for Best Actress and Best Featured Actor. BELLS ARE RINGING played for 924 performances on Broadway at the Shubert and Alvin Theatres starring Judy Holliday and Sydney Chaplin. It was revived on Broadway most recently in 2001 with Faith Prince as Ella Peterson.

Tickets are $8, students and sr. citizens $7, families $40
Print out this page and present it at the door to receive discount.

Performances March 5 through March 27, Friday, Saturday, and Monday

Need some cash? Looking for tips on how to get out of an arranged marriage? Seeking help for getting out of just about any jam you find yourself in? Well in this little Italian neighborhood, the crafty Scapino is your man. His elaborate schemes always seem to work, although they rarely go off without a hitch!
The modern Scapino, penned in 1970 by Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale, is based on Moliere’s 1671 comedy entitled The Trickeries of Scapin. The story is set at a waterfront restaurant in Naples. Scapino ,who has a reputation for hatching up brilliant schemes, is the conniving servant of Geronte . Both Leandro and Ottavio want his assistance in marrying the girls they have fallen in love with rather than girls that their fathers have already arranged for them. Scapino is immediately confident that he can hoodwink their fathers, but even the best laid plans can encounter surprises when dealing with stubborn and suspicious fathers.

The time has come to see something new on the stage. Super is a contemporary show with fun characters, humorous situations, escapist action, and if that’s not enough, there’s even a deep thought or two.

This weekend only, there are two performances, free to the public, but seating is limited. So, come early and find out why Super is “Like Something You’ve Never Seen.”

January 10 & 12 at 7:30 pm, doors open at 7:00 pm.

Fridays, Saturdays, & Mondays
October 23 through November 14
7:30pm

When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood’s delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad after all.

At the Springville Playhouse, there is no reserved seating. Tickets are sold at the door on a first come, first served basis. We are unable to accept bankcards for ticket purchases, but we will gladly accept checks.

In a loving home in the city of London, Dalmatian parents, Pongo and Perdita happily raise their Dalmatian puppies, until the monstrous Cruella De Vil plots to steal them for her new fur coat! Join all the dogs of London, as they daringly rescue the puppies from Cruella and her bumbling henchmen. With a delightfully fun score, lovable characters, and one of the most deliciously evil villains in the Disney canon, this stage adaptation is certain to charm and delight all audiences. And with a highly expandable chorus, the stage could easily be filled with 101 performers to fit the bill!

August 3rd through August 15th
Fridays, Saturdays, & Mondays @ 7:30pm

June 5,6,8,12,15,19,20,22,26 and 27
Tickets are $8, students and sr. citizens $7, families $40
Print out this page and present it at the door to receive discount.

The Pajama Game

by George Abbott and Richard Bissell
Music & Lyrics by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler

Directed by Robinne Booth

The dangers of a workplace romance are explored to hysterical effect in this romantic comedy from the creators of “Damn Yankees.” Conditions at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory are anything but peaceful, as sparks fly between new superintendent Sid Sorokin and Babe Williams, leader of the union grievance committee. Their stormy relationship comes to a head when the workers strike for a 7½-cent pay increase, setting off not only a conflict between management and labor, but a battle of the sexes as well.

Pajama Game is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are supplied by MTI, 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019, Tel.: (212) 541-4684 Fax: (212) 397-4684 www.MTIshows.com

February/March 2009

See How They Run
a classic English comedy by Philip King

Directed by Maureen Eastwood.

So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race. Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an American actor and actress (he is now stationed with the air force in England), a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who “touches alcohol for the first time in her life,” four men in clergyman suits presenting the problem of which is which, for disguised as one is an escaped prisoner, and a sedate Bishop aghast at all these goings on and the trumped up stories they tell him.

Fridays, Saturdays, & Mondays @ 7:30pm
February 26th through March 21st

October/November 2008

The Crucible
By Arthur Miller

Directed by Albert N. Ricci.
Produced by Debbie Smith.

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible chronicles the Salem witch trials and the extreme behavior that can result from dark desires and hidden agendas. Young girls and a slave, Tituba, are caught playacting at casting spells. To avoid punishment, they falsely accuse neighbors of witchcraft. Fueled by fears, jealousy, secrets, lies, and greed, residents turn on each other — resulting in mass paranoia and death. Arthur Miller’s play was inspired by the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s.

Fridays, Saturdays, & Mondays @ 7:30pm
October 31st through November 22nd

August 2008

Into The Woods, Jr.

Book by James Lapine
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Directed by Jill Bell.
Produced by Daryl Tucker.

When a Baker and his Wife learn they’ve been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, deceiving and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red Ridding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk!)

Fridays, Saturdays, & Mondays @ 7:30pm
August 1st through August 11th

Fridays, Saturdays, & Mondays
@ 7:30pm. Art City Days
June 6th through June 28th

Hello Dolly
By Thornton Wilder

Directed by Robinne Booth

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 hilarious complications. 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.

Fridays, Saturdays, & Mondays @ 7:30pm
February 15 through March 8

George Washington Slept Here
By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Directed by Jake Suazo

New Yorkers Newton and Anabelle have to move from their apartment. Without Newton’s knowledge, Annabelle purchases a dilapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution. Much of the humor comes from the couple’s many problems they encounter while trying to fix up the place.

We are honored to work with Jake, an award-winning Director, and founder of the “Thrillionaires” Improv Theater in Provo.

December 2007

October 2007

A despicable theatre critic has been murdered, and Holmes and Watson are soon visited by George Bernard Shaw, an aspiring Irish playwright who entices Holmes to take the case. As they cross swords with the most famous literary luminaries of the day — Oscar Wilde, Gilbert & Sullivan, Henry Irving, Bram Stoker, and a young H.G. Wells, Holmes and Watson come face to face with their own celebrity as they pursue the killer in this rollickingly funny whodunit.

Directed by Albert Ricci.

August 2007