Theatrikos Theatre Company’s 2012 Season: To purchase tickets, click here.
Cabaret (musical) January 27 through February 18th
Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Book by Joe Masteroff
Director: Scott Tignor
Winner of 12 Tony Awards and 8 Academy Awards, this musical from the creators of Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman brings to life the dark, sexually charged decadence of 1930′s Berlin, beckoning the audience into the Kit Kat Klub on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Defiant and melancholy, brazen and gleeful, Cabaret sizzles and provokes with classics such as Wilkommen, Money, and of course, Cabaret. Join the Master of Ceremonies as he beckons you to “leave your troubles outside”, and experience the steamy, seedy world of Cabaret. Performance dates: January 27, 28, 29, February 3-5, February 10-12, February 17-18, 2012
Content: Sexual situations and humor. Mature audiences only.
Love, Sex and the IRS (farce) March 30 through April 15
By Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore
Director: Alisa Davis
Here is a wild farce with twists of fate, sight gags, mistaken identities and hilarious comic lines. Jon Trachtman and Leslie Arthur are out of work musicians who room together in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as married. The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the “couple” they’re going to be investigated by a Mr. Spinner. Leslie masquerades as a housewife, aided by Jon’s fiancee, Kate. Complicating matters further Leslie and Kate are having an affair behind Jon’s back, Jon’s mother drops in unexpectedly to meet her son’s fiancee, and Leslie’s ex girlfriend shows up demanding to know why Leslie has changed and won’t see her anymore.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (comedy/drama) May 25 through June 10
By Dale Wassermann from the novel by Ken Kesey
Directors: Virginia Brown and Linda Sutera
Randle P. McMurphy is a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. After clashing with the head nurse he takes over the ward, accomplishing what the medical profession has been unable to do; he makes a presumed deaf and mute Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so they can see the World Series on television, and arranges a rollicking midnight party. Winner of the 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival.
Out of Order (comedy) July 27 through August 12
by Ray Cooney
Director: Dennis Hattem
When Richard Willey, a U. S. Congressman, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition’s administrative aide, things go disastrously wrong – beginning with the discovery of a “body” trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable window. Desperately trying to get out of a potentially headline-making situation, Richard calls for his assistant, George. However, with a conniving waiter, a suspicious hotel manager, an alert private detective, an angry wife, a furious husband, a bungling secretary, an unconscious nurse and a dead body to deal with, this is not the romantic evening Richard had planned. Olivier Award Winner, Best Comedy.
A Doll’s House (drama) September 28 through October 14
By Henrik Ibsen adapted by Frank McGuinness
Director: Mickey Mercer
Nora Helmer is a vibrant young housewife who nonetheless suffers from a crippling dependency on her husband of eight years. He, Torvald, has always done the thinking for the both of them. In order to save Torvald from a debt, and to spare his masculine pride, Nora arranges a loan without his knowledge, and does so by forging a signature. The inevitable revelation of the crime results in an unexpected reaction from Torvald: Rather than being grateful to Nora, he is incapable of accepting the pride and self-sufficiency she demonstrated in taking care of him, and he accuses her of damaging his good name. The illusions behind their marriage are exposed, and Nora wakes to feelings of self awareness for the first time in her life. Torvald is not the man she thought she knew. They are husband and wife, yes, but they are strangers as well. And in one of the most famous, and scandalous, climaxes in all of nineteenth-century drama, Nora leaves her husband and children, determined to forge a new identity from the one she has always known. Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for best revival.
A Christmas Carol (holiday drama) November 30 through December 16
By Charles Dickens
Director: TBD
A faithful rendition of the Dickens class in which Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghosts of his late partner, Jacob Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come. Faced with his own mortality, and the evil results of his misanthropic, miserly ways, Scrooge is redeemed, reconciled with this nephew and his neighbors, and becomes a second father to his assistant’s son, Tiny Tim.
