PowPAC
Poway's Community Theatre
2007 - 2008 Season

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PLAY
AUTHOR
THESPIANS
AUDITIONS
DIRECTOR
PERFORMANCE DATES
A Streetcar Named DesireTennessee Williams
F6, M6
Apr. 30 & May 1
Jay MowerJune 15th - July 8th, 2007
Agnes of GodJohn Pielmeier
F3
June 18 & 19
Auditions by appointment only.
Raylene WallAug 3rd - 26th, 2007
Melodrama
BYE BYE BEELER CANYON
by Kirk Irvine
Aug. 6 & 7
7PM @ Theatre
Shelley HaleSept. 14, 15 & 16 &
Sept. 21, 22 & 23
Jerry's Girls
A Broadway Entertainment
New Revised Version.
Music and Lyrics of Jerry Herman
Concepts by Larry Alford, Wayne Cilento and Jerry Herman
F5
F6 Chorus
Sun. Aug. 12
Mon. Aug 13
7PM
Jeff Gastauer
Musical Direction by Rick Shaffer
Oct 26th - Nov 18th, 2007
The Cemetery ClubIvan Menchell
F5, M1
Mon and Tues, Oct. 29th and 30th
Kate HewittJan 18th - Feb 10th, 2008
Rabbit HoleDavid Lindsay-Abaire
F3, M2
Jan 21st and 22nd, 2008
Sherrie ColbournMar 7th - Mar 30th, 2008
Barefoot in the ParkNeil Simon
Casting Complete
Cast
Mark Loveless and Krystal Price WorkmanApr 25th - May 18th, 2008


A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams (Drama)

This celebrated play had a long and successful run on Broadway and the road. A tragic and effective drama which ranks as one of the greatest in our theatre. THE STORY: The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject-so far as possible-the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.

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Agnes of God
John Pielmeier (Drama)

Doctor Martha Livingstone, a court appointed psychiatrist, is asked to determine the sanity of a young nun accused of murdering her own baby. Miriam Ruth, the Mother Superior, seems bent on protecting Sister Agnes from the doctor, and Livingstone's suspicions are immediately aroused. In searching for solutions to various mysteries Who killed the baby? Who fathered the child? Livingstone forces all three women, herself included, to face some harsh realities in their own lives, and to re examine the meaning of faith and the commitment of love. "Riveting, powerful, electrifying drama. . . . The dialogue crackles." N.Y. Daily News. "Outstanding play [that] . . . deals intelligently with questions of religion and psychology." N.Y. Times . "Unquestionably blindingly theatrical. . . . Cleverly executed blood and guts evening in the theatre." N.Y. Post .

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BYE BYE BEELER CANYON
Melodrama

Bye Bye Beeler Canyon is a melodrama set firmly on its ear by a cat with the blues, a football-loving Indian, and two young lovers with split personalities. Confusions, illusions, collisions and crazies compete for a unusual treasure in an even more unusual old mansion.

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Jerry's Girls
(musical)

This Broadway hit features all the best songs for women from such immortal musicals as Mame, Hello Dolly!, Milk and Honey, Mack and Mabel, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine and La Cage Aux Folles. "A brilliantly lively and scintillating evening of cabaret."-- N.Y. Times. "Warm, witty, lively and terrific!"-- AP. "A show of tremendous musicality and great wit." -- Variety.

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The Cemetery Club
Ivan Menchell (Comedy)

Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife's grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt stricken when this nearly breaks Ida's heart. "Funny, sweet tempered, moving." Boston Globe. "Very touching and humorous. An evening of pure pleasure that will make you glad you went to the theatre." Washington Journal Newspapers.

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Rabbit Hole
David Lindsay-Abaire (Drama)

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation-an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty." -Variety. "Grade: A! A transcendent and deeply affecting new play, which shifts perfectly from hilarity to grief." -Entertainment Weekly. "RABBIT HOLE presents a tragedy and its consequences with utter candor, and without sentimentality. The dialogue is most impressive for capturing the awkwardness and pain of thinking people faced with an unthinkable situation-and eventually, their capacity for survival, and even hope." -USA Today. "With RABBIT HOLE, David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted the most serious, simply told work of his career-a painstakingly beautiful, dramatically resourceful, exquisitely human new play." -BackStage. "A thoroughly absorbing, profoundly affecting and painfully touching examination of grief." -Bergen Record. "The highest praise to playwright David Lindsay-Abaire! RABBIT HOLE is an entertaining and satisfying play-it might just be the year's best." -

Show Business Weekly. "A perceptive and poignant study in the day-to-day aches of bereavement: problems with personal intimacy, the uneasy friends who don't call, the emptiness in a house packed with reminders…Heartbreaking in its theme and details, RABBIT HOLE is a beautifully crafted work of great sensitivity." -Star-Ledger.

THE STORY: Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.

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Barefoot In The Park
Neil Simon ( Comedy)

After a six day honeymoon a spanking new lawyer, who has just won his first case 6 cents in damages, and his young bride, who is as pretty and addled as they come, move into the new, high rent apartment that she has chosen for them. But the difficulty is, in order to enjoy the charming character of this apartment, one has to climb six wheezing flights. And the apartment is absolutely bare of furniture, the paint job came out all wrong, the skylight leaks snow, there isn't room for a double bed, and an outlandish gourmet who lives in a loft on the roof uses it and the window ledge as the only access to his padlocked premises. The situation is enough to break the heart and burst the lungs of any stylish young lawyer; and indeed it does, on the night he flatly refuses to join his wife in a barefoot walk through the snow in the park. She kicks him out, but he comes back not for reconciliation, but because he figures that since he's paying the rent she should be the one to go. "The merriest evening Broadway has enjoyed in years." N.Y. World Telegram & Sun. "A bubbling, ribtickling comedy." N.Y. Times. "Critic weeps joyfully.... I don't think anybody stopped laughing while the curtain was up last evening." N.Y. Daily News.

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