Village Players 2008-2009 Mainstage Theatre Series!

 

Village Players Performing Arts Center announces their 2008-2009 Mainstage Theatre Series, 'A Season of Music.'  The season includes four musicals and a drama with musical elements.  The five shows are: Love in the Middle Ages (World Premiere); The Medium At Large (World Premiere); Amadeus; Bat Boy: The Musical; & Sunday in the Park with George.

Love in the Middle Ages
August 21 – September 21, 2008
The first show of the season is a World Premiere musical by two Chicago authors, Bob Solone and Scott Urban. Love in the Middle Ages has fun with those over 40 years old jumping back into the dating game. Join Jennifer as she discovers many single people from her parent's generation struggling with the same problems as she does today. Whether you're a Baby Boomer or the offspring of one, this show brings all our similarities and differences into focus.

BONUS!
Join Village Players on August 28th, as we join forces with the League of Chicago Theatres to present a special 'Theatre Thursdays' event. Before the show, enjoy wine and hors d'oeuvres along with a sneak preview from The Medium at Large and after the show, find out what goes into writing a musical when you spend a special Q&A session with the authors of 'Love in the Middle Ages.'
 
 
The Medium At Large
October 17 – November 16, 2008
Following is another World Premiere musical, this time by Emma Lively and Julia Cameron, an international best-seller for her book 'The Artist's Way.' Join Bruce, a medium-at-large, as he plays matchmaker in this world and the next. Ask to be guided, life isn't one-sided. Set skepticism aside for an evening of romantic high jinks.

BONUS!
By special arrangement with Actor's Equity Association, Tony Nominee and Chicago veteran John Herrera will be starring in The Medium at Large following his acclaimed Father's Day concert at Village Players. If you missed him last time around, don't make the same mistake twice!
 
 
Amadeus
February 13  - March 15, 2009
In this Tony Award winner for Best Play by Peter Shaffer; humor, romance, and revenge are combined into one riveting evening about renowned classical composer Mozart. Titled after the famous composer's pen name, 'Amadeus' follows rival composer Salieri as he continually tries to undermine Mozart's success.Will Salieri be able to stop him or will Mozart emerge more renowned than ever?

BONUS!
Compare and contrast two productions of the same play! After seeing Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's version this fall, come and see a more intimate production at Village Players next winter!
 
 
Bat Boy: The Musical
May 29 - June 28, 2009
Continuing the saga started by the Weekly World News, this Off-Broadway hit by Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming, & Laurence O'Keefe, is chock full of hilarity and heart-wrenching emotion. Edgar, the Bat Boy, is found in cave in West Virginia and then brought-up by a well-meaning family. Still the outsider, Edgar struggles to fit and survive in a world that is not ready to accept him.

BONUS!
Experience another hilarious, heartwarming, and tuneful musical from the composer of Legally Blonde, a smash hit this past year on both Broadway and MTV!
 
 
Sunday in the Park with George
August 14, - September 20, 2009
James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece journeys from Paris in 1884 to an American art museum over a hundred years later. Step inside George Seurat's famous painting, 'A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte,' while another George, his great grandson, struggles to create his own kind of art. A story for anyone who has ever lost their way with some of the most beautiful music ever composed for the stage.

BONUS!
Witness a stunning new physical concept as the show is reconfigured for the Village Players Mainstage Theatre. This will also be the first time this landmark Sondheim musical has been seen in Chicago in five years!

 
Subscriptions are available now at the low-cost of $96 for Adults and $76 for those over 65 or under 18.  Call 866-764-1010 to order a subscription today!
 
Village Players Performing Arts Center would like to acknowledge the sponsors for the 2008-2009 Season:  Park National Bank (Entire Season), Wednesday Journal (The Medium at Large), Forest Park National Bank & Trust Co. (Amadeus), Columbia College & Butler Family Foundation (Bat Boy: The Musical), & Community Bank of Oak Park River Forest (Sunday in the Park with George).
 

 
Additionally, the 2008-2009 Season marks the first full season performed under a new name and a new logo: Village Players Performing Arts Center. As the theatre diversified into offering a range of concerts, storytelling events, and a Black Box theatre series, Village Players Theatre was no longer an apt description of all the new programming taking place in the building at 1010 W. Madison.  In the coming weeks, the other season line-ups for 2008-2009 will be announced as well.
 
Furthermore, with the new name comes a new structure for Village Players. Having long outgrown its roots in community theatre, Village Players is now a professional, non-Equity theatre, hiring and paying actors and staff for all of the Mainstage productions.  Village Players expects this to allow the organization to continue to grow and expand in the coming seasons.
 
Presented in the Mainstage Theater of the newly renovated Village Players Performing Arts Center located at 1010 W. Madison St., Oak Park. Plenty of parking is available on the street. The theater is handicap accessible; please call ahead to arrange for special seating.   More information is available at www.village-players.org.
 
Village Players Performing Arts Center offers an eclectic mix of entertainment that empowers and inspires while exploring the human condition.

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