Rumors
- (Florida Repertory Theatre)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Depart: IS: 6:30 p.m. /WDL: 6:40 p.m. /EP: 6:50 p.m. - Return Time: 11:00 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $43.00
The stage is set for a lavish anniversary party, but as the first guests arrive, something is fishy: their host lies wounded in the back room, his wife is nowhere to be found, and all the servants have disappeared with the dinner half prepared. Four couples are about to have the worst night of their lives in one of the funniest plays ever written. Prepare yourself for an evening of miscommunication, confusion and gossip-driven hilarity.
White Christmas
- (Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre)
Friday, December 2, 2011
Depart: IS: 5:15 p.m. /WDL: 5:25 p.m. /EP: 5:35 p.m. - Return Time: 11:00 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $55.00
Irving Berlin’s musical “White Christmas” is the stage adaption about two ex-GI’s who have become famous entertainers. They put on a show to save the Vermont resort of their former commanding general. The 1954 film starred Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. The Irving Berlin score includes Blue Skies, Happy Holidays, Sisters, and the title song, White Christmas.
Cirque Dreams Holidaze
- (Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall)
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Depart: IS: 12:30 p.m. /WD: 12:40 p.m. /EP: 12:50 p.m. - Return Time: 6:00 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $65.00
Renowned director Neil Goldberg re-imagines the holiday season with Cirque Dreams Holidaze. An international cast of over 30 multi-talented and brilliantly costumed artists comes to life and perform astonishing feats of disbelief. Experience gingerbread men flipping mid air, toy soldiers marching on thin wires, snowmen daringly balancing, icemen powerfully sculpting, penguins spinning, puppets dancing and reindeer soaring high above a landscape of holiday wonderment. An original music score and some seasonal favorites accompany hundreds of spectacular costumes and holiday dreams in a setting of gigantic gifts, colossal candy canes and 30-foot towering soldiers. The perfect way to come in from the cold, forget the holiday stresses and rediscover the magic of the season.
Me and My Girl
- (Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Depart: IS: 5:15 p.m. /WDL: 5:25 p.m. /EP: 5:35 p.m. - Return Time: 10:30 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $55.00
It’s 1937 and the Earl of Hareford has died leaving no apparent heir. The family has gathered, eagerly awaiting to hear how the estate will be split. The unlikely heir is commoner, Bill Snibson, a pugnacious Cockney ne’er do well from Lambeth. Hilarity ensues as the Duchess tries to turn Bill into a proper gentleman. The British blue-bloods eventually warm to his charm and so will you as you dance in the aisles to the “Lambeth Walk”.
Les Miserables
- (Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Depart: IS: 6:15 p.m. /WDL: 6:25 p.m. /EP: 6:35 p.m. - Return Time: 11:00 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $89.00
The 25th-anniversary production of Les Misérables features glorious new staging and spectacular scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, Les Misérables is an epic, uplifting story about the survival of the human spirit, which includes such classic songs as I Dreamed a Dream, On My Own and many more.
Memphis
- (Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts)
Thursday, Feb 16, 2012
Depart: IS: 6:15 p.m. /WDL: 6:25 p.m. /EP: 6:35 p.m. - Return Time: 11:00 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $82.00
Winner of four 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Memphis is the hot new musical that bursts onto the stage with explosive dancing, irresistible songs and a fascinating narrative about fame and forbidden love. Inspired by actual events, Memphis tells the story of a radio DJ who wants to change the world and a club singer ready for her big break. It’s a show filled with laughter, emotion and roof-raising rock ’n’ roll!
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- (Sanibel School House Theater)
Friday, Feb 3, 2012
Depart: IS: 6:45 p.m. /WDL: 6:55 p.m. /EP: 7:05 p.m. - Return Time: 10:45 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $44.00
This story centers on two con men living on the French Riviera. The first is the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money. The other, a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother's failing health. After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn't big enough for the two of them. They agree on a settlement: the first one to extract $50,000 from a young female target, heiress Christine Colgate, wins and the other must leave town. A hilarious battle of cons ensues, that will keep audiences laughing, humming and guessing to the end!
The Fox on the Fairway
- (Gulfshore Playhouse)
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Depart: IS: 12:00 p.m. /WDL: 12:10 p.m. /EP: 12:20 p.m. - Return Time: 5:30 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $43.00
The hilarious romp by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo), pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics. Ken Ludwig's The Fox on the Fairway is a brand-new tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s. You won't want to miss this charmingly madcap adventure - about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with... golf.
Brigadoon
- (Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre)
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Depart: IS: 5:15 p.m. /WDL: 5:25 p.m. /EP: 5:35 p.m. - Return Time: 10:30 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $55.00
A mysterious Scottish village appears for only one day every hundred years. Two American tourists, lost in the Scottish Highlands, stumble upon the village just as a wedding is about to be celebrated, and their arrival has serious implications for the village's inhabitants. The Lerner and Lowe score includes Almost Like Being In Love.
Wicked
- (Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts)
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Depart: IS: 12:30 p.m. /WDL: 12:40 p.m. /EP: 12:50 p.m. - Return Time: 6:00 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $109.00
Winner of 35 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, WICKED is Broadway’s biggest blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon and was just named “the defining musical of the decade" by The New York Times. Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One - born with emerald green skin - is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good makes for "the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time" (USA Today).
A Streetcar Named Desire
- (Gulfshore Playhouse)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Depart: IS: 6:00 p.m. /WDL: 6:10 p.m. /EP: 6:20 p.m. - Return Time: 11:00 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $43.00
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows the story of Blanche DuBois, a weak and disturbed woman on a desperate prowl for some place in the world to call her own. After losing their ancestral home, Belle Reve, Blanche shows up at the doorstep of her sister, Stella, in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Putting on airs of refinement and Southern gentility, Blanche tries to impress her brother-in-law, and his gentle, good-natured friend, Mitch. Seeking to escape from reality, and an emblem of a lost traditional South, Blanche becomes a victim of the harsh present.
Mystery of Irma Vep
- (Florida Repertory Theatre)
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Depart: IS: 6:30 p.m. /WDL: 6:40 p.m. /EP: 6:50 p.m. - Return Time: 10:45 p.m. approximate return
Cost: $43.00
In this hilarious spoof, two actors bring a whole host of characters to life-from sympathetic werewolves to Egyptian mummy princesses. As Lord Edgar Hillcrest and Lady Enid try to solve the mystery of Irma Vep, they find that life is anything but normal in their spooky English manor house. This rollicking parody is a brilliantly funny and quirky Off Broadway sensation that the New York Daily News called “Lunatic fun that keeps you in stitches!”