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Dear patron of the arts,
Stop us if you’ve heard this one: An orphan, a nun, a killer and Charles Dickens walk into a theatre …
This set-up isn’t for a wacky joke, but rather an amazing season of theatre being planned for 2010 by Newton Community Theatre.
Everyone’s favorite redhead will start off the year in Annie, one of the world’s best-loved musicals. Annie is a plucky Depression-era scrapper determined to find the parents who left her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the gin-swigging Miss Hannigan. When she and her lovable mutt Sandy are selected in a public relations ploy to brighten the image of billionaire Oliver Warbucks, Annie proceeds to win the hearts of everyone from the servants to President Franklin Roosevelt. But can she crack the bank vault that is Warbucks’ heart? Or will she get run over when Miss Hannigan and her scheming brother Rooster try to scam their way to Easy Street?
Things will take a decidedly more serious turn in our second show, Doubt: A Parable. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, along with four Tony Awards and five Academy Award nominations, the story focuses on a stern, uncompromising nun and the progressive priest she suspects is inappropriately interested in a young student. Perhaps she’s seeing sin where none exists. Or perhaps she is the only one brave enough to seek it out. It’s a show where the costumes are black and white, but the answers are anything but.
In our October thriller Dial M for Murder, you’ll know precisely whom to root for … even when you watch her murder a man before your very eyes. In this theatrical version of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, a man plans the perfect crime in which his wife will be killed, he’ll get her money and his hands will stay clean. But when the missus turns out to be resilient (and handy with a pair of scissors), he’ll be scrambling … and you’ll be riveted.
We’ll wrap up the year and ring in the holidays with an old Christmas tale told in a brand-new way. If you think you know A Christmas Carol, you’ll be in for a hilarious surprise with Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, which takes the traditional story, adds a dash of It’s a Wonderful Life, a twist of Oliver Twist and a bucketful of laugh-out-loud insanity. Scrooge is going on a journey unlike anything Charles Dickens ever imagined and you’ll want to be along for the ride!
We appreciate your past support and hope we can count on you to join us once again for a year filled with music, drama, thrills and laughter. After all, you help put the “community” in Newton Community Theatre!
