2008 Woodie Awards
Department of Theatre and Dance Announce Year of Exciting Productions
Scottie Campbell/audience services coordinator
Issue date: 8/16/05 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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MAIN STAGE SERIES: ANNIE RUSSELL THEATRE
Performances: Annie Russell Theatre
Rollins College
1000 Holt Avenue
Winter Park, Florida
Wednesday-Saturday @ 8 p.m.
First Sunday Matinee @ 4pm
Second Saturday Matinee @ 2 p.m.
Tickets: Single tickets are $17-$19. Subscriptions range from $47 to $60. Subscription packages include discounts for seniors, students and Rollins alumni. Group rates are available. Rollins students receive one free ticket, one hour before curtain with a valid R-Card. Rollins faculty and staff receive 2 free tickets for any one performance with a valid R-Card.
Starting Here, Starting Now
Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Music by David Shire
September 23-October 1, 2005
The Annie opens its new season with a musical that brought the New York critics to their feet. The thrill of young love collides with the uncertainty of growing up - or is it the other way around? - in this intimate revue from the musical team that brought you Baby, Ain't Misbehavin' and Big. Join us on a joyous journey through the maze of modern relationships.
Pack of Lies
By Hugh Whitemore
November 11-19, 2005
Based on a true story, this startling drama tells of two couples, close friends and neighbors. A government investigator thrusts the quietly respectable Jacksons into the middle of an espionage inquiry when he informs them that the gregarious Krogers are Russian spies. Innocent actions take on sinister meanings as the friends struggle between loyalty to their country and to one another.
All My Sons
By Arthur Miller
February 17-25, 2006
All's fair in love and war? This classic American melodrama, first produced in 1947, is an unflinching look at what's not fair, even in war. All My Sons is the story of two patriarchs who ran a wartime machine shop that manufactured faulty airplane parts. One father is imprisoned while the other goes free. The drama escalates as their families struggle to reconcile feelings of deceit, guilt...and love.
Lend Me a Tenor
By Ken Ludwig
April 21-29, 2006
This is the stuff of opera: apparent suicide, heroic impersonations and conniving skullduggery. When Tony-winning playwright Ken Ludwig adds amorous interludes and double entendres (not to mention 50 lbs. of rotting shrimp mayonnaise) high opera becomes low farce. The Annie closes its 2005-2006 season with this hilarious descent into chaos, a riotous, door-slamming romp.
DANCE SERIES: ANNIE RUSSELL THEATRE
Performances: Annie Russell Theatre
Rollins College
1000 Holt Avenue
Winter Park, Florida
Friday-Saturday @ 8 p.m.
Tickets: Single tickets are $10. Subscribers to the Main Stage Series receive tickets for $8. Rollins Students receive one free ticket, one hour before curtain with a valid R-Card. Rollins faculty and staff receive 2 free tickets for either performance with a valid R-Card.
Rollins Dance XX
March 17-18, 2006
Always full of surprises, this collaboration between Rollins College and Valencia Community College celebrates its 20th anniversary. Rollins Dance features students in a diverse mix of faculty-choreographed works.
SECOND STAGE SERIES: FRED STONE THEATRE
Performances: Fred Stone Theatre
Rollins College
Chase Ave. & Fairbanks Ave.
Winter Park, Florida
Thursday-Sunday @ 8 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday Matinees @ 2 p.m.
Tickets: Admission is free, seating is general admission. Priority seating is available only to subscribers of the Main Stage Series.
Second Stage productions often contain adult language and themes.
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
By David Mamet
September 29-October 2, 2005
"You are trying to understand women and I am confusing you with information."
An early work by the provocative playwright, this comedy insightfully explores the uncertain world of singledom.
The Trojan Women: A Love Story
By Charles L. Mee
November 17-20, 2005
"Easy to say the war is over/but the men are still on fire"
Mee's "the (re)making project" was born from his belief that there are no original plays any more. Here he has taken Euripides' tragedy and turned it on its ear.
The Book of Liz
By David Sedaris & Amy Sedaris
February 23-26, 2006
"I can't control my love of the grape, but I can control you."
One of the funniest essayists teams with his equally funny sister to create this hilarious satire about an Amish-like community that supports itself by making cheese balls.
The Last Five Years
Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
April 27-30, 2006
A contemporary song-cycle musical ingeniously chronicling the five-year life of a marriage, from first encounter to break-up. Brown (Parade, Songs For A New World) has been hailed as "one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim."
For further information on Rollins College Department of Theatre & Dance and its 2005-2006 season, please call 407-646-2145 or log onto www.rollins.edu/theatre.