CLT Announces Our Exciting 69th Season!

Kiss Me Kate
Directed by David Lock
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Bella and Samuel Spewack
October 10, 11, 17, 18 2008 8PM
October 16 2008 7:30PM
October 12, 19 2PM

Combine Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" with Cole Porter's music and lyrics to get Kiss Me Kate, an instant success with every cast and audience. This Tony award winner for Best Musical Revival in 2000 is a play-within-a-play where each cast member's on-stage life is complicated by what is happening offstage.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!               
Directed by Ellen Peters 
Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro
Music by Jimmy Roberts    
January 23, 24, 30, 31 2009 8PM
January 29 2009 7:30PM
January 25 & February 1 2009 2PM

Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit. This hilarious revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have dared to ask, "Say, what are you doing Saturday night?" and to those who are still in love after all these years. The road to coupledom and all of its trials and tribulations are explored in this musical celebration of modern-day romance. "... It's 'Seinfeld' set to music!" (Star-Ledger)

 Drood
Directed by Mitchell Clyde Thomas
A musical by Rupert Holmes
March 20, 21, 27, 28 2009 8PM
March 26 2009 7:30PM
March 22, 29 2009 2PM

This wildly warm-hearted theatrical experience kicks off when the Music Hall Royale (a hilariously loony Victorian musical troupe) "puts on" its flamboyant rendition of an unfinished Dickens mystery.
The story itself deals with "John Jasper", a Jekyll-and-Hyde choirmaster who is quite madly in love with his music student, the fair Miss Rosa Bud. Now, Miss Bud is, in turn, engaged to Jasper's nephew, young Edwin Drood. Our title character disappears mysteriously one stormy Christmas Eve-but has Edwin Drood been murdered? And if so, whodunit? The giddy playfulness of this play-within-a-play draws the audience toward one of Drood's most talked-about features, which allows the audience to vote on the solution as prelude to the most unusual and hilarious finale

Lost In Yonkers
Directed by Dick Rosenberg
Written by Neil Simon
June 19, 20, 26, 27 2009 8PM
June 25 2009 7:30PM
June 21, 28 2009 2PM

This Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama and Best Play by Neil Simon, is a touching yet funny saga of how families struggled during the war years. In 1942, when you move two young boys in with their Grandmother upstairs over her candy store, and add a slightly crooked Uncle and two slightly strange Aunts, hardship, comedy and family all come together for a delightful evening in the theater.

Miss Saigon
Directed by Richard Martin
Written by: Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil
Lyrics by: Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.
August 14, 15, 21, 22 2009 8PM
August 20 2009 7:30PM
August 16, 23 2009 2PM
Lewiston Middle School Auditorium

A classic love story is brought up-to-date in one of the most stunning theatrical spectacles of all time. In the turmoil of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. Their struggles to find each other over the ensuing years ends in tragedy for her and a fighting chance for the child he never knew he had. An international sensation, Miss Saigon is an epic, daring pop opera that is universal in its emotional power.