Boise Little Theater
2008-2009 Season Brochure in PDF Format
Plaza Suite
By Neil Simon
Directed by Patrick Ryan
September 5,6,11,12,13,18,19,20, 2008 at 8 PM and
Sept 14, at 2 PM & Sept 17, at 7:30 PM
Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively
occupying a suite at the Plaza. “Wonderfully
funny.” Neil Simon has the knack for presenting
funny lines in mostly real, sometime serious, situations
that
relate to our everyday lives and problems. Act I-the spark has died between a long married couple; Act II-a Hollywood producer tries to seduce his former girlfriend; and Act III-parents try to get their daughter out of the bathroom on her wedding day.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
By Rupert Holmes
Based on the writings of Charles Dickens
Directed by Autumn Kersey
Oct 17,18,23,24,25, 30,31, Nov. 1, 2008 at 8 PM and
October 26, at 2 PM & October 29, at 7:30 PM
This wildly warm-hearted theatrical experience kicks
off when the Music Hall Royale (a hilariously loony
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, then whodunnit? Musical numbers include
The Wage of Sin, Perfect Strangers, Both Sides of the
Coin, Don't Quit While You're Ahead, and Moonfall.
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!
The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge
By Mark Brown
Directed by Cricket Langworthy
Nov 28,29, Dec 4,5,6,11,12,13, 2008 at 8 PM and
December 7, at 2 PM & December 10, at 7:30 PM
The trial of the century! A year after his miraculous
transformation, Ebenezer Scrooge is back to his old
ways, suing Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas
Past, Present, and Future for breaking and entering,
kidnapping, slander, pain and suffering, attempted
murder and the infliction of emotional distress. The
ghosts employ Solomon Rothschild, England's most
charismatic, savvy and clever barrister. Scrooge, that
old penny pincher, represents himself.
Open House
By Tom Donahoe
Directed by Larry Dennis
January 16,17,22,23,24,29, 30, 31, 2009 at 8 PM and
January 25, at 2 PM & January 28, at 7:30 PM
Louise and Leonie are two elderly women living
peacefully in Leonie’s family home until one day
Leonie’s scoundrel son devises a plan to sell the home
and pocket the money for himself. With the help of
his girlfriend, a real estate salesperson, the son convinces
the ladies to hold an “open house” and a bizarre
assortment of characters, including a cop,
some robbers, a priest and his altar boy, begin treating
the home as their own.
Foxfire
By Susan Cooper & Hume Cronyn
Music by Jonathan Holtzman
Directed by Wendy Koeppl
February 27,28, Mar 5,6,7,12,13,14, 2009 at 8 PM and
March 8, at 2 PM and March 11, at 7:30 PM
Annie Nations, an indomitable Appalachian widow of
79, lives on her mountain farm with her acerbic husband
Hector. A brash real-estate developer wants to
turn her land into a vacation resort and her son Dillard,
a country singer, wants Annie to come live in Florida
with him and his family. Annie’s battle to decide her
future takes her through some funny, touching and
magical flashbacks of her life with Hector.
Our Town
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Nancy Shankweiler
April 10,11,16,17,18,23,24,25, 2009 at 8 PM and
April 19, at 2 PM and April 22, at 7:30 PM
This winner of the Pulitzer Prize was revived in 2002 on Broadway starring Paul Newman. “Thornton Wilder’s masterpiece. . . An immortal tale of small town morality. . . A classic of soft-spoken theater.” NY Times. “Beautiful and remarkable—one of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre.” NY Post “No American play describes more powerfully how we imagine ourselves.” NY Daily News
Bleacher Bums
Conceived by Joe Montegna
Written by The Organic Theatre Company
Directed by Janelle Walters Priest
May 22,23,28,29,30, June 4,5,6, 2009 at 8 PM and
May 31, at 2 PM and June 3, at 7:30 PM
In the bleachers at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, die-hard Cub fans root for their team. The group includes a rabid cheerleader, a blind man who follows the game by transistor radio and does his own play-by-play, a bathing beauty, a nerd and various other bleacher denizens. As the game proceeds, they bet among themselves on every conceivable event, go out for frosty malts or beers, try to pick up the bathing beauty and, occasionally, watch the game.