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FOREVER PLAID
Musical Comedy by Stuart Ross
September 10 – October 10, 2010
One of the most popular and successful musicals, this delicious production centers on four eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was. Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations, and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash hit!
PRESENT LAUGHTER
Comedy by Noel Coward
November 5 – December 5, 2010This audacious comedy, back by popular demand, features Kavinoky Artistic Director David Lamb as Garry Essendine, a vain matinee idol who becomes entangled in the amusing personal crises of the people around him – which are largely of his own making. “This play about a close-knit and insular set of unusually theatrical theater types suits the Kavinoky gang quite nicely, and provides David Lamb in particular with a sublimely perfect vehicle.” – The Buffalo News
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY
Holiday Classic adapted by Joe Landry
December 16 – December 19, 2010 (Not part of subscription series.)
Our annual holiday production! This beloved and captivating American holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve. "One of the best holiday shows around. This is a fresh and inventive way of reconnecting with a classic story of love and redemption." – Chicago Sun-Times
THIRD
WNY Premiere by Wendy Wasserstein
January 7 – February 6, 2011
Pulitzer Prize and Tony award winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s THIRD broadmindedly examines the subjects of stereotyping, politics, and generational issues. Woodson Bull III, or “Third”, a jingoistic jock at a liberal arts college, is accused of plagiarizing a sophisticated essay on King Lear. When confronted by the Committee of Academic Standards, the professor and student alike debate the accusation and grapple with their contrasting outlooks on relationships, age and our increasingly polarized political environment. “THIRD exhales a gentle breath of autumn, a rueful awareness of death and of seasons past, that makes it impossible to dismiss it…It’s the certainty of uncertainty in life that makes THIRD so affecting.” – NY Times
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
WNY Premiere by Tom Stoppard
March 4 – April 3, 2011
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968, and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. “ROCK ‘N’ ROLL touches the heart while stimulating the mind. An intellectually challenging, intensely theatrical piece of work that is destined to be talked about wherever playgoers gather. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.” – The Wall Street Journal
THE GRAND MANNER
WNY Premiere by A.R. Gurney
April 29 – May 29, 2011
Playwright A.R. Gurney, a young prep school student in 1948, traveled to New York to attend Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and to meet its star, “The First Lady of the American Stage,” Katharine Cornell, who agrees to see him because, like her, he was raised in Buffalo. A mix of remembrance and imagination, THE GRAND MANNER is a love letter to this fabled actress and a heartfelt look back at the glorious heyday of the Broadway theatre.
*Titles and dates are subject to change.
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