COMPANY, A CHRISTMAS CAROL & More Set For Nevada Conservatory's 2009-10 Season

2009-2010 Nevada Conservatory Theatre Season

Main Season (in the Judy Bayley Theatre)

Company
Book by George Furth, Music and Lyrics by by Stephen Sondheim
October 2, 3, 8, 9 & 10 @ 8PM, October 4 & 11 @ 2PM

Phone rings! Door chimes! In comes Company! Bobby is everybody's favorite friend and he's single. Join Bobby and his unforgettable married friends as they try to find him the perfect girl and figure out what makes a perfect relationship. This winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical is an honest, sophisticated look at relationships, with a brilliant and energetic score containing many of Sondheim's best-known songs including "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "Being Alive. "Company" is quite simply in a league by itself. Artistry, excitement, intelligence and professionalism have been so long gone from Broadway that it's almost easy to forget when the musical theatre held the promise of greatness." Martin Gottfried.

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Adapted by David H. Bell
Nov 27, 28, Dec 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12 @ 8PM, Nov 29, Dec 6 & 13 @ 2PM

A Holiday Must-See For The Entire Family! A greedy and heartless miser named Ebenezer Scrooge learns the meaning of compassion after he is visited on Christmas Eve by four fantastic spirits: the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The specters reveal to Scrooge visions of his lonely youth, the effects of his selfishness on his present day neighbors and the dire future for himself and his dependants if he
continues in his miserly ways. Our gift to you!

The Women By Clare Boothe Luce
Jan 29, 30, Feb 4, 5, & 6 @ 8PM, Jan 31 & Feb 7 @ 2PM

Clare Boothe Luce's dishy, decadent classic comes to drop-dead gorgeous life in a stunning large-scale production - as these cunning, sexy sophisticates use every weapon in their arsenal to fight for love, happiness, and their personal dignity. Spend an evening with this viciously entertaining group of women and you may discover that while times have changed, people haven't.
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The Little Dog Laughed By Douglas Carter Beane
Feb 26, 27, March 4, 5 & 6 @ 8PM, Feb 28 & Mar 7 @ 2PM

Ruthless Hollywood agent Diane is poised to land her handsome up-and-coming young client Mitchell the movie role of a lifetime, but she may have to push him back in the closet and everyone else in his life off a cliff to do it. This Tony Award-nominated outrageous and steamy comedy is a fast-paced, hilarious look at the world of celebrity and the down-and-dirty politics of show biz.

A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare,
Apr 23, 24, 29, 30 & May 1 @ 8PM, Apr 25 & May 2 @ 2PM

Eloping lovers who somehow mistake their true loves, a mischievous sprite who transforms hearts and heads with magic love potions, feuding fairies who disrupt the human world with their quarrel, and an earnest though talentless company of working folk who unwittingly produce the world's most hilarious comedy - all these elements are filtered through the lyricism of Shakespeare's creative imagination to create a madcap comedy without equal.

Masters Season (in the Black Box Theatre)

reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute
Sept 18, 19, 24, 25 & 26 @ 8PM, Sept 20 & 27 @ 2PM

This brilliant work deals with Greg's four year involvement with Steph and what happens after a friend of hers overhears him disparage her looks during some dude talk with his buddy Kent. From their on, LaBute takes us on a cruel dissection that pits men against women, men against men, and women against women. No one is sparred in this amazing work on what its costs to be pretty. This is the final play in the author's trilogy about people's perceptions of physicality. A love story about the impossibility of love.

New Play Festival Nov 4, 5, 6, 7 @ 8PM, Nov 8 @ 2PM | Nov 11, 12, 13, 14 @ 8PM, Nov 15 @ 2PM | Nov 18, 19, 20 & 21 @ 8PM, Nov 22 @ 2PM (Order TBA)
High Five the A-5 by Elizabeth Leavitt
The Way It Has To Be by Jeremiah Munsey
Sugar Daddy by Neil Haven

(Note: This Festival is sold separately from the MASTERS SEASON)

The Musical of Musicals By Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell
Mar 12, 13, 18, 19 & 20 @ 8PM, Mar 14 & 21 @ 2PM

The Musical of Musicals is a musical about musicals! In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. June is an ingenue who can't pay the rent and is threatened by her evil
landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? This comic valentine to musical theatre was the longest running show in the York Theatre Company's 35-year history before moving to Off-Broadway.

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