Clue: The Musical

By: Peter DePietro and Tom Chiodo

Friday & Saturday, November 12 & 13, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Sunday, November 14 at 2 PM
Dinner theater at Castle Hill Supper Club

The internationally popular game is now a fun filled musical which brings the world's best known suspects to life and invites the audience to help solve the mystery: who killed Mr. Boddy, in what room and with what weapon. The audience receives forms to help them deduce the solution from clues given throughout the fun filled evening. Three audience members choose from cards representing the potential murderers, weapons and rooms; there are 216 possible solutions! Only one hard nosed female detective is qualified to unravel the merry mayhem. Comic antics, witty lyrics and a beguiling score carry the investigation from room to room. Even after the culprit confesses, a surprise twist delights the audience. This colorful crowd pleaser was devised by the authors of Murder at Rutherford House and other popular interactive entertainments.

"Makes good moves.... The creators have found the clue." -Baltimore Sun.

"Superb! Terrific! Excellent! Fun!" -Herald Gazette.

"Has guts ... along with its intrigue, 'colorful' suspects and deadly weapons." -Chicago Sun Times.

"A show for the whole family. A real good time!" -City Paper.

"Effervescent fun." -WBAL TV.

Visit the official CLUE: THE MUSICAL website at www.cluethemusical.com.

Alice in Wonderland

Directed by: Nancy Clemence and Renee Rhodes-Lembke

January 28 & 29, 2011 at 7 PM
January 30 at 2 PM
Lunda Theater

Lewis Carroll's unflappable young heroine takes a tumble down an enchanted rabbit hole to an off-kilter world of mock turtles, dancing flora, punctual rabbits and mad tea parties, where playing cards hold court and nothing is as it seems. Whimsy and wordplay are the order of the day in this imaginative musical adaptation of a favorite of generations of children, adults and psychoanalysts! This version is just good, clean fun.

Wizard of Oz

Directed by: Greg and Todd Koboski

June 17 & 18, 2011 at 7 PM
June 19 at 2 PM
Lunda Theater

The Wizard of Oz was a 1902 musical play extravaganza based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, which was originally published in 1900. It premiered in Chicago and later moved to Broadway in 1903, where it ran for nearly 293 performances from January 21, 1903 to December 31, 1904, followed by travelling tours of the original cast. It starred Anna Laughlin as Dorothy Gale, Fred Stone as The Scarecrow and David C. Montgomery as the Tin Woodman (who is called Niccolo Chopper in the play [per the books, he had begun life as human Nick Chopper]). Arthur Hill (no relation to the Canadian film, theatre and TV actor) played the Cowardly Lion, but in this version, his role was reduced to a bit part. An element from the show — the snowfall caused by the Good Witch which finally kills the spell of the poppies that had put Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion to sleep — was later used in the famous 1939 movie.

Tony & Tina's Wedding

By: Artificial Intelligence Comedy Troupe

Directed by: Ben Boardman

Friday & Saturday, November 11 & 12, 2011 at 7 PM
Sunday, November 13 at 2 PM
Dinner theater at Castle Hill Supper Club

One of the longest-running comedies in American theatre, Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding stages a traditional Italian-American wedding and reception with warm and intrusive stereotypes pushed to the limit. Audience members are treated as guests at the wedding by the interactive, improvisational comedy cast.

The Diary of Anne Frank

Adapted by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett

Directed by: Nancy Clemence

January 20-22, 2012
Lunda Theater

The Diary of Anne Frank, the play adapted from Anne Frank’s famous diary, made its theater debut in 1956. Since then, it has been reproduced countless times on stages across the country and abroad. Collaborators Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, longtime Hollywood writers, had little experience with such a story as that of the Frank family. Previous scripts included sophisticated comedies such as The Thin Man or lively musicals such as Easter Parade. However, Goodrich and Hackett researched the play meticulously, drawing not only on Anne’s diary but also on the experience of visiting Otto Frank and the attic hideout. As Evelyn Ehrlich noted in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Hackett in 1956 said, "We all felt we were working for a cause, not just a play."