Current Theatre Season

LU Stage Announces 2009-2010 Theatre Season


Audition Information

NEW! TALKBACK SESSIONS
Talkback Sessions are a wonderful opportunity to become acquainted with directors and cast members. After 1 performance of each show, the Director, Designers, Stage Manager and select cast members will be available for a question and answer period. Talkback Sessions are notated by an * next to the performance date.

The LU Theatre Summer Camps is proud to present GODSPELL JUNIOR. This production will be put on by the 7th through 12th grade summer camp students under the direction of the camp staff. Drawing from various theatrical traditions, such as clowning, pantomime, charades, acrobatics and vaudeville, GODSPELL JUNIOR is a groundbreaking and unique reflection on the life of Jesus, with a message of kindness and love.

• July 24, 25 - 7:00pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE JULY 20. ALL TICKETS $5.00 + tax.

• GODSPELL JUNIOR is not included in the regular season ticket package.

Disney's CINDERELLA KIDS is a summer camp production performed by children ages 8 to 11. The timeless fairy tale meets the magic of Disney in this adaptation of the treasured animated film. Poor Cinderella is endlessly mistreated by her wicked stepmother and stepsisters, and denied a chance to go to the Royal Ball. With a little help from her mice friends, and a lot of help from her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella goes to the ball, meets the Prince, and falls in love! With a beautiful score including "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" and the classic "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo," this musical will charm its way into your heart, and remind you that dreams really can come true.
 

• August 1 - 1:00pm
• August 1 - 3:30pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE JULY 27. ALL TICKETS $3.00 + tax.

• Disney's CINDERELLA KIDS is not included in the regular season ticket package.

Disney's THE ARISTOCATS KIDS is a summer camp production performed by children ages 8 to 11. Madame's jealous butler Edgar cat-naps Duchess and her Aristokittens and abandons them in the Parisian countryside. What's a cat to do? Luckily, Thomas O'Malley and his rag-tag bunch of Alley Cats come to their rescue! This feline adventure is sure to get you tapping your feet to its hep, jazzy beat, which includes the Disney favorites "The Aristocats," "Scales and Arpeggios" and "Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat."
 

• August 8 - 1:00pm
• August 8 - 3:30pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE AUGUST 3. ALL TICKETS $3.00 + tax.

• Disney's THE ARISTOCATS KIDS is not included in the regular season ticket package.

Annie Oakley is the best shot around, and she manages to support her little brother and sisters by selling the game she hunts. When she's discovered by Col. Buffalo Bill, he persuades this novel sharpshooter to join his Wild West Show. It only takes one glance for her to fall head over heels for dashing shooting ace Frank Butler, who headlines the show. She soon eclipses Butler as the main attraction which, while good for business, is bad for romance. Butler hightails it off to join a rival show, his bruised male ego leading the way, but is ultimately pitted against Annie in a final shoot-out. The rousing, sure-fire finale hits the mark every time in a testament to the power of female ingenuity.

"What a wonderful musical Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun is:
the melodies just shake out of it in an endless cascade,
and the simple story is unexpectedly involving."
 The New York Post, 2001 

• September 25, 26, 29, October 1, 2*, 3 - 7:30pm
• September 26, October 3 - 2:00pm
• September 27, October 4 - 2:30pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE SEPTEMBER 14. Regular ticket prices apply.  

This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Sacrifice, trust and love among the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration.

"A milestone in the American Theatre."
Ebony

• October 16, 17, 22, 23*, 24 - 7:30pm
• October 24 - 2:00pm
• October 18, 25 - 2:30pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE OCTOBER 5. Regular ticket prices apply

 "Musical Magic! Jane Eyre is brilliant! This fairytale of love and suspense,
 a sweeping story with universal and timeless themes, grips from the start.
A brilliantly staged production that has the cohesion
and clout to move an audience in the manner of Les Miserables.
The motors of pace and passion run at full throttle throughout with
maximum impact and minimum waste."
Geoff Chapman, Toronto Star

• November 6, 7, 12, 13*, 14, 17, 19, 20 - 7:30pm
• November 7, 14 - 2:00pm
• November 8, 15 - 2:30pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE OCTOBER 26. Regular ticket prices apply

 It is Christmas in New York, but for two young lovers, Jim and Della, the prospects are bleak, as both are out of work and penniless. But as those familiar with the famous O. Henry story are aware, their dilemma is solved when both part with their most precious possessions (she her beautiful long hair, he his heirloom pocket watch) in order to buy presents for each other thereby creating, at least for a magical moment, an aura of warmth and giving in the cold, impersonal winter city.

"…bright and beguiling…calculated to bring a laugh to the throat and a misty tear to the eye of theatregoers, young or old."
NY Tribune.

*The Gifts of the Magi is not part of the LU Theatre mainstage season. This production will be produced by Transformation Theatre Company, and will be hosted by The Department of Theatre Arts.*

• December 4, 5 - 7:30pm
• December 4, 5 - 9:00pm
• December 6 - 2:30 pm

• Donations accepted at the door. All donations will go to the Lynchburg Salvation Army.

At the end of each semester, our advanced classes invite you to join them for their final. All showcases are free and open to the public. The showcase acts as their final exam. Please come and support these students as they show what they have learned through the semester.

• December 14th at 7:30pm - Musical Theatre and Stage Movement 
• December 15th at 7:30pm - Playwriting and Classical Acting
• December 16th at 7:30pm - TBA
  
   

Based on Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, Figaro's Wedding!  is a rolicking adaptation of the familiar story, set in a New York City Restaurant. Tony Figaro is a clever restaurant manager who is about to marry Susanna, a waitress. Al Maviva, the restaurant's owner, tries to set the couple up in an apartment near his own so that he can pursue Susanna after the wedding. Another waitress, Marcy, has loaned money to Tony for Susanna's engagement ring, but when she sells the loan to the Mob, it's big trouble for Tony! When Maviva's wife Rose learns of her husband's intrigues, she plots with Tony and Susanna to frustrate his plans. Throw in adolescent teenagers in the throes of first love, and the delightful music of Mozart, and you have the recipe for a delightful evening of comedy!

• January 21, 22, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30 - 7:30pm

• TICKETS GO ON SALE January 18. Regular ticket prices apply.

Twain's timeless classic sweeps us down the mighty Mississippi as the irrepressible Huck Finn helps his friend Jim, a slave, escape to freedom at the mouth of the Ohio River. Their adventures along the way are hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming, bringing to life your favorite characters from the novel-the Widow Douglas and her stern sister, Miss Watson; the uproarious King and Duke, who may or may not be as harmless as they seem; Huck's partner in crime, Tom Sawyer, and their rowdy gang of pals; Huck's drunken father, the sinister Pap Finn; the lovely Mary Jane Wilkes and her trusting family. Propelled by an award winning score from Roger Miller, the king of country music, this jaunty journey provides a brilliantly theatrical celebration of pure Americana.

"A classic American musical with the most fetching score of the decade."
Time Magazine 

• February 19, 20, 26*, 27, March 5, 6 - 7:30pm
• February 20, 27, March 6 - 2:00pm
• February 28 - 2:30pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE February 12. Regular ticket prices apply

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl's undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike, before the evening is over. Twists, turns and unexpected revelations carry us to the startling culmination. Combining murder mystery and morality play, this work will have you guessing until the very end.

• March 26, 27, April 1, 2*, 3- 7:30pm
• March 27, April 3 - 2:00pm
• March 28 - 2:30pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE March 8. Regular ticket prices apply

"The Scarlet Pimpernel is a French Revolution-themed musical with the lavish costumery and period
feel of "Les Miserables", but with much-less-serious pretensions. With book and lyrics by
Nan Knighton and a musical score by Frank Wildhorn, the Tony Award-nominated 1999
musical is a little bit pop and a little bit camp."
The North County Times

• April 16, 17, 23*, 24, 29, 30, May 1 - 7:30pm
• April 17, 24, May 1 - 2:00pm
• April 18, 25 - 2:30pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE April 5. Regular ticket prices apply
   
   

An original adaptation of Medea. This production will be directed, designed, and acted by the 2010 Senior Class.

• May 6, 7, 8 - 7:30pm
• May 8 - 2:00pm
• TICKETS GO ON SALE May 3. All tickets $1.
  
  
   

At the end of each semester, our advanced classes invite you to join them for their final. All showcases are free and open to the public. The showcase acts as their final exam. Please come and support these students as they show what they have learned through the semester.

• May 10th at 7:30pm - Advanced Musical Theatre and Stage Movement 2
• May 11th at 7:30pm - Advanced Acting

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