Thursday, Friday, Saturday Performances are at 7:30 PM, Sunday Matinee times are at 3:00 PM
Proof
Black Box Theater Setting on the Frauenthal Stage, January 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 2012
The winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, Proof combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling. On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions, the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father, who hopes to find valuable mathematics work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into her most difficult problem of all: how much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?
Lend Me a Tenor
Beardsley Theater, February 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, March 1, 2, 3, 4, 2012
It’s opening night for the 1934 season, and this September performance is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company! World famous tenor, Tito Morelli, is to perform Otello, his greatest role, at the gala season opener. Saunders, the harried General Manager of the Company, hopes this will put Cleveland on the cultural map. However, Morelli is nowhere to be found, and when he finally arrives drunk, it is too late for any rehearsal. When a double dose of tranquilizers mixes with the booze, Il Stupendo passes out, and Saunders thinks that he is dead. What to do? Saunders coaxes his assistant Max into Morelli’s costume, intending to fool the audience with this fake ‘Il Stupendo,’ blackface and all. Nervous amateur, Max, succeeds admirably, but Morelli revives and dresses for his second act. With two Otellos now in costume and two women en dishabille, the farce spins out of control onstage and off. For more information on Ken Ludwig go to www.kenludwig.com
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Frauenthal Theater, May 3, 4, 5, 6, 2012
This musical is a hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst! The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee chronicles the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show’s Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.
