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| Issue 10: June 2004 |
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NHT presents a dog, a dance, a dilemma
The New Harmony Theatre's 2004 season opened June 11 with the hugely popular romantic comedy, Sylvia.
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| Scott LaFeber, artistic director of The New Harmony Theatre, explores the audience's perspective during rehearsals at Murphy Auditorium. |
Featuring the antics of a street-smart dog, award-winning
playwright A.R. Gurney's Sylvia is found in a park and taken home,
where she becomes a major bone of contention between the middle-aged couple
giving her a place to stay. After some hilarious and touching complications,
will they all learn to value each other? That's the question. Sylvia,
which received three Drama Desk Award nominations, will be staged June
11-27.
Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo is next in the lineup, July
9-25. The scene is 1939 Atlanta. Gone With The Wind is making its
premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but the Freitag family is much more
concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season.
Problems of social acceptance, prejudice, and romantic jealousies are mended
with plenty of comedy and profound revelations in this winner of the 1997
Tony Award for Best Play.
The slapstick hoedown, Cowgirls, completes the season, July 30-August
15. Conceived by Mary Murfitt, the show introduces Jo, who is in quite a
pickle. She has 24 hours to save Hiram Hall - her father's once-famous
country-western saloon - from foreclosure. To make some fast cash, she's
booked the Cowgirl Trio, but a misunderstanding brings the Coghill Trio, a
group of classical musicians, to town. Mixing like oil and water, can
classical and country meet in the middle to save the day? Find out in this
Outer Critics Circle Award nominee for Best Off-Broadway Musical.
New Harmony Theatre season tickets are available: $55 adult; $50
senior/student; $46 USI employee; $46 groups of 20+. Individual tickets also
are on sale. Ticket reservations and additional information are available at
the NHT Box Office, 812/682-3115 or 1-877/NHT-SHOW.
Click here for information on the Web.
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