2009 Musical Theatre Season
We’ve wrapped up a season of six musical theatre gifts for 2009, added a funny bone side splitter, and kept the biggest surprise of our 23 years for Christmas!
Nunsense 2: |
Plain and Fancy |
Once Upon a Mattress |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
Barefoot in the Park
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Season Subscription Prices and Packages
Your ballots are in, votes cast, your wish list is compiled, we’ve checked it twice, left out the naughty and kept the nice. The 2009 season has a present for everyone; it’s like birthdays and Christmas rolled into one package. Out of 170 musicals receiving votes, every 2009 show comes from the top 25!
Here’s our gift to you: Six musical theatre classics, including a sequel and encore production, and One Neil Simon comedy that includes Nunsense 2: The Second Coming, Plain & Fancy, Once Upon a Mattress, Oklahoma!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Barefoot in the Parkand an Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical to be Announced! We will unwrap one of these Seven presents at a time throughout the season and save the best for a surprise ending. From nutty Nuns, mute Kings, singing Cowboys, ribald Romans, and “we can’t tell you what” popping up, you have the usual menagerie you have come to expect all wrapped up in a bright red round barn bow.
The Little Sisters of Hoboken will continue the antics of Nunsense they began on the Joseph Stein Stage in 2007. The story picks up six weeks after the sisters staged their first benefit and Sister Amnesia won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes. It just gets more zany and out of hand as it goes.
Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodger's daughter, composed the music for Once Upon a Mattress, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Princess and the Pea. Many moons ago...Queen Agravain decrees that only a genuine princess may marry her son. An elaborate scheme to keep him single fails the test as Princess Winnifred cannot sleep on mattresses piled high.
For our encore production, we will bring back the first musical of the first repertory season in 1996: Oklahoma!. After your response to this year’s Carousel, it is confirmed that Rodgers & Hammerstein remain as fresh and current today as they did in 1943. “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin” was the first song to come from the stage of The Round Barn Theatre other than those from Plain and Fancy. The music just kept coming with “The Surrey With The Fringe On Top,” “Kansas City,” “People Will Say We’re In Love,” and of course, “Oklahoma.”
To follow Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first with Sondheim’s best is a seldom seen treat. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forumbegins with“Comedy Tonight” announcing a madcap night of hilarity. Period.
Our Second Stage Productions of dramas and comedy over the last five years have become so popular they have grown to bring Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park as the first non-musical as part of our season subscription, bringing to Seven the Main Stage show schedule—and you know what happened on the Seventh Day!
And for the Holidays, we will mount a show so big we have to keep it a secret. All we can say is An Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical To Be Announced. So take Joseph Stein, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Neil Simon, Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, put them together on the same stage in the same season—well, it is simply stunning.
The spring Second Stage Production will likely be Art, the Tony Award winning Best Original Play from 1998. Art is a French language play translated into English that opened in London’s West End. The original Broadway cast stared Alan Alda, Victor Garber, and Alfred Molina.
Add the full slate of Joseph Stein Young Actors Studio High School production, Summer Camps, and Theatre for Young Audiences and The Round Barn Theatre remains the busiest and most vibrant professional repertory theatre in Indiana and beyond.
You won’t find a more convenient, casual, informal, family-friendly, up-close, and easy-to-reserve-seats theatre. You will find the air fresh, the seats comfortable—to most, and the rustic patina and homey, historical, and country flavor relaxing. You’ll meet the actors following each show and at receptions, previews, readings, and second stage productions. It’s simply delightful! And every musical is filled with stories of life, love, irony, tolerance, understanding, and peace among all men and women; it can’t get any better.
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