Monday, November 23, 2009
New Harmony Theatre 2010 season tickets, gift certificates on sale
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The summer season opens on June 11, 2010, with The School for Scandal, a comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In the lusty, back-biting world of 18th century London, Lady Sneerwell and Joseph Surface scheme to break up two lovers they want for their own. In the tradition of NHT's 2007 production of The Importance of Being Earnest, this scintillating, saucy comedy of manners combines uproarious satire with real heart and the triumph of true love. It runs through June 27. The season continues with The Glass Menagerie. Lenny Leibowitz, New Harmony Theatre's artistic director, describes Tennessee Williams' most lyrical, personal play as "luminous, poetic, haunting, and full of yearning." The beautifully-drawn characters and powerful dialogue make this one of the most memorable, beloved dramas of all time. It runs July 9 -25 at New Harmony's Murphy Auditorium. The summer season concludes with Finian's Rainbow. The current revival of this forties-era musical now running on Broadway has won critical acclaim. The New York Times said Finian's Rainbow has "infectious songs, exuberant dancing, jokes both lovably corny and unexpectedly fresh, and of course the satisfying pairing of a him and a her...the score...is by turns yearning and bouncy, mocking and sincere, soft as a rose petal and clever as a crossword." Finian and his daughter Sharon arrive in the fictional state of Missitucky, pursued by a leprechaun whose pot of gold Finian has stolen. According to Variety, "High spirits, extravagant comedy, political satire, and irrepressible, twinkle-eyed wit" ensue. Finian's Rainbow runs July 30- August 15 in New Harmony. In addition to the summer season at Murphy Auditorium, New Harmony Theatre joins with University of Southern Indiana Theatre to offer The Repertory Project, featuring two classic plays in rotating repertory at the Mallette Studio Theatre on the campus of University of Southern Indiana. The third Repertory Project season features two masterpieces of 19th century dramatic literature: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, and Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. With its frank and controversial portrait of middle-class marriage, A Doll's House caused a scandal at its opening in 1879. The play is set at Christmastime, and Nora is happily engaged in holiday preparations for her family. But she has been keeping a terrible secret from her husband, and the arrival of a stranger on Christmas Eve threatens to ruin her apparent domestic bliss. In Arms and the Man, Shaw's comic take on love and war, Raina, the beautiful and wealthy heroine, finds herself in a love triangle with a war-weary Swiss mercenary and the self-absorbed Bulgarian calvary officer to whom she is engaged. The comedy is full of Shaw's usual razor-sharp wit, and is as popular and relevant today as when it was first produced in 1894. The two plays run from March 18 to April 4, 2010. All plays in the summer mainstage season are performed at Murphy Auditorium at 419 Tavern Street in New Harmony. Show times are on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Subscriptions for the summer mainstage productions are on sale now. Subscriptions are $55 for adults and $50 for seniors (60 and over). New Harmony Theatre subscribers can add on The Repertory Project productions for an additional $25. Gift certificates are available for delivery before the holidays! For more information about New Harmony Theatre's 2010 season or to purchase tickets, contact the box office at 812/682-3115 or toll free at 1-877-NHT-SHOW (648-7469). |
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