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Clinton County Showcase
2008-2009 Season
YOUTH MUSICAL
Crazy for You
Director: Lori Wahl Home: (618) 526-0181
Performance Dates: July 10-13, 2008 (Rain Date: July 14th)
Audition Date: Saturday, May 10th at 1pm (at St John's United Church
of Christ, 200 N Main St., Breese)
Crazy for You
The New Gershwin Musical
Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Book by Ken Ludwig
Co-Conception by Ken Ludwig and Mike Ockrent
Inspired by Material by Guy Bolton and John McGowan
Originally produced on Broadway by Roger Horchow and Elizabeth
Williams
“The worldwide copyrights in the music of George and Ira Gershwin
for this presentation are licensed by the Gershwin Family.”
“GERSHWIN is a registered trademark and service mark of Gershwin
Enterprises. CRAZY FOR YOU is a registered trademark and service
mark of CRAZY FOR YOU Enterprises.”
* Produced by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library,
Inc.
SYNOPSIS:
CRAZY FOR YOU is the story of Bobby Child, a well-to-do 1930's man
about town, whose dream in life is to dance. And despite the serious
efforts of his mother and soon-to-be-ex-fiancée, Bobby achieves his
dream! Memorable Gershwin tunes include I Can't Be Bothered Now,
Bidin' My Time, I Got Rhythm, Naughty Baby, They Can't Take That
Away from Me, But Not for Me, Nice Work if You Can Get It,
Embraceable You and Someone to Watch Over Me. It's a high energy
comedy which includes mistaken identity, plot twists, fabulous dance
numbers and classic Gershwin music.
AUGUST MUSICAL
Disney’s Beauty And The Beast
Directors: Paul and Jill Klostermann Cell: (618) 830-7486
Performance Dates: July 31 & August 1-3, 2008 (Rain Date: August
4th)
Audition Date: Saturday, May 31st at 1pm (in the All Saints Academy
Music/Multi-Purpose Room)
Disney’s Beauty And The Beast
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice
Book by Linda Wolverton
Originally Directed by Robert Jess Roth
Originally Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions
* Produced by special arrangement with Music Theatre International.
TAG LINE:
CCS brings magic to the park with Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Come experience this childhood classic in a whole new way…live!
SYNOPSIS:
Step into the enchanted world of Broadway’s modern classic, Disney’s
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Based on the Academy Award winning animated
feature, the stage version of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST includes
all of the wonderful songs from the film, plus new songs written
especially for the Broadway version.
Audiences will be transported to a lovely French provincial town
where the beautiful Belle lives with her father – a dotty inventor.
When her father doesn’t return from a trip to the local fair, Belle
rushes off to find him. To her dismay, she discovers he is being
held captive in an old castle by a horrible beast. She trades her
freedom for his and the “tale as old as time” begins.
How Belle tames the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate
transformation into a handsome prince continues to enthrall
audiences of all ages. Filled with spectacular costume and set
opportunities, Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is family theatre at
its best.
SEPTEMBER PLAY
Twelve Angry Men
Director: Dustin McSparin Home: (618) 526-7704
Performance Dates: September 4-7, 2008 (Rain Date: September 8th)
Audition Date: Saturday, July 26th at 1pm
Twelve Angry Men
Based on the Emmy award-winning show by Reginald Rose.
Adapted by Sherman Sergel.
* Produced by special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing
Company of Woodstock, Illinois.
SYNOPSIS:
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his
father. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors
begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable
thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are
notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt
or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have
nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a
personal thing." But personal it does become, with each juror
revealing his own character as the various testimonies are
re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is
born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated,
and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors' final verdict and
how they reach it—in tense scenes that will electrify the audience
and keep them on the edge of their seats—add up to a fine, mature
piece of dramatic literature.
**If the rights for TWELVE ANGRY MEN are unavailable, we will
produce OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck.
OCTOBER PLAY
Rehearsal for Murder
Director: Rob Otrembiak Home: (618) 523-9907
Performance Dates: October 17-19, 24-26, 2008
Audition Date: Saturday, August 9th at 1:00pm
Rehearsal for Murder
Adapted for the stage by D.D. Brooke
Based on the hit television play by Richard Levinson and William
Link, Emmy-award-winning writers of the 'Murder She Wrote' and 'Columbo'
series
* Produced by special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing
Company of Woodstock, Illinois.
SYNOPSIS:
This is a thrilling "theatrical" mystery in which the theatre
becomes the set for the play. The playwright turns on the stage work
light and prepares for the first reading of his new play. The
actors, producer, director and others connected with the show come
onto the stage, and under their humorous (and utterly real)
theatrical talk, tension grows. We discover that everyone connected
with this play was involved with another play by the same
playwright. At its opening night, exactly a year ago and in this
same theatre, the beautiful leading lady, who was also the
playwright's fiancée, was murdered! As these people start with the
new play, startling connections to the murder begin to unfold. The
growing tension reaches the boiling point with surprising
revelations, countered by others even more surprising. The dazzling,
yet basically logical twists build to a climax and solution that are
theatrically stunning!
DECEMBER PLAY
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Director: Donna Goetz Home: (618) 588-4382
Performance Dates: December 5-7, 12-14, 2008
Audition Date: Saturday, October 25th at 1pm
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
By Barbara Robinson
* Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
SYNOPSIS:
In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a
church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids--
probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't
believe the mayhem-- and the fun-- when the Herdmans collide with
the Christmas story head on!
FEBRUARY PLAY
Assassins
Director: Leah Klostermann Home: (618) 526-9075
Performance Dates: February 6-8, 13-15, 2009
Audition Date: Saturday, December 6th at 1pm
AssassinsMusic and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr.
Playwrights Horizons, Inc. – New York City produced Assassins
Off-Broadway in 1990
* Produced by special arrangement with Music Theatre International.
SYNOPSIS:
This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine
individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President
of the United States, in a one-act historical “revusical” that
explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes
Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend
the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish
rollercoaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from
different historical periods meet, interact and in an intense final
scene inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the
American Dream.
APRIL PLAY
Rumors
 Director: Hank Crider Cell: (618) 806-4493
Performance Dates: March 27-29 & April 3-5, 2009 Home: (618)
654-1971
Audition Date: Saturday, February 7th at 1pm
Rumors
By Neil Simon
* Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
SYNOPSIS:
Four couples are at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor
and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. The party
never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (it's
only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer's cover-up
gets progressively more difficult to sustain as the other guests
arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what about whom.
Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more
crazed
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Crazy for You
Director: Lori Wahl
Performance Dates:
July 10-13, 2008
(Rain Date: July 14th)
Audition Date: Saturday, May 10th at 1pm (at St John's United Church
of Christ, 200 N Main St., Breese)
Disney’s Beauty And The Beast
Directors: Paul and Jill Klostermann
Performance Dates:
July 31 & August 1-3, 2008
(Rain Date: August 4th)
Audition Date: Saturday, May 31st at 1pm (in the All Saints Academy
Music/Multi-Purpose Room)
Twelve Angry Men
Director: Dustin McSparin
Performance Dates:
September 4-7, 2008 (Rain Date: September 8th)
Audition Date: Saturday, July 26th at 1pm
Rehearsal for Murder
Director: Rob Otrembiak
Performance Dates:
October 17-19, 24-26, 2008
Audition Date: Saturday, August 9th at 1pm
The Best Christmas
Pageant Ever
Director: Donna Goetz
Performance Dates:
December 5-7, 12-14, 2008
Audition Date: Saturday, October 25th at 1pm
Assassins
Director: Leah Klostermann
Performance Dates:
February 6-8, 13-15, 2009
Audition Date: Saturday, December 6th at 1pm
RUMORS
Director: Hank Crider
Performance Dates:
March 27-29 & April 3-5, 2009
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Clinton County Showcase
