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.