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Fulton Theatre 2010-2011 Premier SeriesDownload 2010-2011 Season Subscription Materials Monty Python's Spamalot Lovingly ripped off form the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a new musical with a book by Eric Idle and an entirely new score created by Eric Idle and John Du Prez. Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, and featuring a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people. Monty Python's Spamalot "raises silliness to an art form" (The Sunday Times) and has been hailed as "a no-holds-barred smash hit." (The New Yorker) The Fulton was hand selected by Theatrical Rights Worldwide to be the mid-Atlantic regional premiere of this hit musical. Deathtrap Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a "dry" spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college-a thriller which Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway hit. Sidney's plan, which he devises with his wife's help, is to offer collaboration to the student, an idea which the younger man quickly accepts. Thereafter suspense mounts steadily as the plot begins to twist and turn with devilish cleverness, and with such an abundance of thrills and laughter, that audiences will be held enthralled until the final, startling moments of the play. The Sound of Music The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain von Trapp. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit clash with the Captain, his fiancée and soon the Nazis as they seize power of her Austrian homeland. The motion picture version remains the most popular movie musical of all time. The 39 Steps Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance! In The 39 Steps, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure pleasure! Sweeney Todd The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe! Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising, "Sweeney Todd" nevertheless has a great sense of fun, mixing intense drama with howlingly funny moments of dark humor: audiences find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise the next. Discovery Project Winner! In Michael Archangel, the winner of the first ever Discovery Project, Fulton Theatre's new biennial playwriting contest, lust and anger, loyalty and hostility all collide as two factions of the Russian American mafia struggle for power with results both comic and tragic. After the death of the patriarch of one mob faction, his widow must decide whether to remain the head of her family or to cede power to her dead husband's rival, Uncle Porfiry, by marrying him. But the idealistic teacher turned warrior, Michael, poses an ideological and emotional problem for her... and every other female in sight who fall irresistibly in love with him. Tension rises as the players in this stratagem compete for survival until the final shocking moments of Michael Archangel. Michael Long of the Sunday News writes: "This show-beautifully conceived, sharply written... is a dark, adult comedy built on the smoldering-and sometimes festering-desires of its participants... Spiced with politics and current events...[It is] the best script I read." Ian Fleming's The most fantasmagorical musical in the history of everything! With characters created by James Bond author Ian Fleming, a story by iconic children's author Roald Dahl and music from the legendary Sherman brothers whose songs from Disney classics, including Mary Poppins, have been the soundtrack for families since the 1960s, this all-new stage version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will charm and delight audiences of all ages. This production, which closes the Fulton's 2010-2011 Season, features a cast of singing and dancing candy factory workers, a windmill full of inventions, self-absorbed Vulgarian royalty, more than 20 children, a dozen dogs, a motherless family, and one 16,000 pound flying car! Download 2010-2011 Season Subscription Materials Fulton Theatre 2010-2011 Eichmann Family SeriesBeauty and the Beast A visiting acting troupe is putting on a production of Beauty and the Beast but they just can't get it right. So, it's up to the Fulton's audience to save the day and the show! And as you help make the play come to life, Rose, the Beauty, must help the Beast find true love before the clock strikes midnight to lift his curse. Jack and the Beanstalk When Jack is forced to sell his only pal, Angus the cow, he can't just accept any price. So, when a Mysterious Man offers him 5 magic beans, how could he refuse? In this fractured fairy-tale filled with bovine best friends, imprisoned harpists, hungry mothers, pining giant spouses, rapidly descending behemoths and a boy whose dreams are as big as the sky, we see that if you believe, anything is possible! The Little Mermaid "Deep down in the depths of the ocean, there once lived a Little Mermaid..." So begins Hans Christian Anderson's story of The Little Mermaid and this delightful adaptation. On Melody's 18th birthday, her only dream is to visit dry land. Along with her friends Bobell and Turtell, a well meaning but bumbling frog and turtle, Melody sets out to find her land legs and true love. Holiday Add On: One of the most popular productions from our 2009-2010 Family Theatre Series is back for the holidays. Follow the journey of the heroic Nutcracker as he tries to reclaim the magic crown from the Evil Mouse King. Travel through the magical land of sweets. Watch as an enchanted jack-in-the-box springs to life, tap dancing penguins back up a very cool Snow Princess and meet the wondrous Sugar Plum Fairy. The magic of Christmas comes alive in this joyous musical adaptation of the classic holiday story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. |
