South Coast Rep to Present A CHRISTMAS CAROL, LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA and More, Now thru Jan 2014

The South Coast Repertory released their calendar from October of 2013 to January of 2014, including A CHRISTMAS CAROL and LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.

October 2013

Oct. 6 - 27 Julianne Argyros Stage
Fast Company
By Carla Ching
Directed by Bart DeLorenzo

Mable Kwan is the best grifter who ever lived. And this tough cookie raised her kids to be just like her. Son Francis is the top roper around and H, the number one fixer. When daughter Blue surprises them all by putting together the score of the decade, will the entire family get in on the action or will one of them walk away with it all? Fast, funny, dark and dangerous-this skewed look at family and ambition keeps us guessing about who's on top and who's getting conned.

Tickets: Prices start at $22
Dates: Previews: Oct. 6 - 10; regular performances: Oct. 12 - 27.
Show times: Tuesday- Sunday at 7:45 p.m.; Saturday- Sunday at 2 p.m.
More information: (714) 708-5556

Oct. 18 - Nov. 17 Segerstrom Stage
4000 Miles
By Amy Herzog
Directed David Emmes

Vera is 91, an old-world Leftie. Her grandson, Leo, is 21, a new age Hippie. After a cross-country trip, Leo turns up at Vera's New York apartment with a backpack, a bike and no money. She agrees to let him spend the night; a few weeks later, he's still there. Leo is at a bad place with his parents, his girlfriend wants to break up, and something terrible happened on his trip. As Vera listens-when her hearing aid is turned on-we listen, with compassion. his odd couple has grabbed our hearts and will not let go. They are, as The New York Times says, "Altogether wonderful."

Tickets: Prices start at $22
Dates: Previews: Oct. 18 - 24; regular performances: Oct. 26 - Nov. 17
Show times: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
More information: (714) 708-5556

Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Nicholas Studio
Mr. Wolf
by Rajiv Joseph
NewSCRipts Reading Series

Tragedy brought Julie and Michael together. Each the parent of an abducted child, they met in a support group after their first marriages failed. They bonded over their shared sense of loss and Michael's insistence that they must never give up the search for their lost children. Now, years later, their carefully reconstructed life is about to be blown to smithereens, not by loss-but by miraculous recovery. Michael's daughter, Theresa, has been found. Theresa's psyche is profoundly altered by the years she spent with her captor. No one knows how to move forward ... except Michael's first wife, who arrives for a reunion with her lost daughter and makes a radical proposal. Meanwhile, Theresa mourns the loss of the only life she can remember, and the man called Mr. Wolf, who gave her that life.

Tickets: $15
More information: (714) 708-5556

November 2013

Through - Nov. 17 Segerstrom Stage
4000 Miles
By Amy Herzog
Directed David Emmes

Vera is 91, an old-world Leftie. Her grandson, Leo, is 21, a new age Hippie. After a cross-country trip, Leo turns up at Vera's New York apartment with a backpack, a bike and no money. She agrees to let him spend the night; a few weeks later, he's still there. Leo is at a bad place with his parents, his girlfriend wants to break up, and something terrible happened on his trip. As Vera listens-when her hearing aid is turned on-we listen, with compassion. his odd couple has grabbed our hearts and will not let go. They are, as The New York Times says, "Altogether wonderful."

Tickets: Prices start at $22
Dates: Previews: Oct. 18 - 24; regular performances: Oct. 26 - Nov. 17
Show times: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
More information: (714) 708-5556

Nov. 8- 24 Julianne Argyros Stage
Ivy + Bean, the Musical
Based on the "Ivy and Bean" series of books
by Annie Barrows
Book, music, and lyrics by Scott Elmegreen

Ivy is all about ideas; she loves to read. Bean is all about action; she loves to be the center of attention. How could these two second-graders become inseparable friends? Just wait! When they get together, the result is mischief, occasional chaos and non-stop laughter. Along the way, hidden within their plotting and planning, are wonderful lessons about friendship and family.

Tickets: Prices from $20 - $25
Show times: Evening and weekends; call or go online for more details: www.scr.org.
More information: (714) 708-5556

Nov. 29 - Dec. 26 at Segerstrom Stage
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
Adapted by Jerry Patch
Directed by John-David Keller

Nineteenth-century London comes to life when your family joins the SCR family for the holidays. Recapture the spirit of an old-fashioned Christmas with this timeless Dickens classic and all your favorite characters-Tiny Tim and the Cratchit family, the Fezziwigs, the Ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet-to-come-and, as always, Hal Landon Jr. as everyone's favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge. ("The quintessentiAl Ebenezer Scrooge!" according to the Daily Pilot).

Tickets: Prices start at $21- $26
Dates: Previews: Nov. 29 - Dec. 3; regular performances: Dec. 6 - 26.
More information: (714) 708-5556 or www.scr.org

Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Nicholas Studio
TBD
NewSCRipts Reading #2

January 2013
Jan. 5 - 26 Julianne Argyros Stage
Trudy and Max in Love or, that Forever Feeling (an affair in twenty four scenes)
by Zoe Kazan

Directed by Lila Neugebauer
On rare occasions, you meet someone and everything clicks. But is love a choice? Or does it just happen? Trudy writes young adult fiction; Max is a novelist of celebrity status. And their attraction is anything but convenient. This very funny take on an unconventional romance is the latest from the multi-talented Zoe Kazan. A playwright/screenwriter/stage and screen actor on a roll, she's the author and star of Ruby Sparks, the hit indie film The New York Times called "beautifully written and acted."

The Light in the Piazza
book by Craig Lucas
music and lyrics by Adam Guettel
directed by Kent Nicholson
based on the novel by ElizaBeth Spencer

Filled with sunshine, light as a summer breeze; this exhilarating musical follows the Italian travels of Margaret Johnson and her stunningly beautiful daughter, Clara. When a dashing young Italian captures Clara's heart, Margaret is compelled to reveal the secret about her daughter. Even as she struggles with concern about Clara's future, she must decide whether or not to release her hold-and bravely give the young lovers her blessing. Early in his career, playwright Craig Lucas found a home at SCR, which produced five of his plays in five years. Now he returns for the 50th Season with this award-winning play boasting one of the most celebrated scores of the decade by Adam Guettel (grandson of the iconic composer Richard Rodgers).

Tickets: Prices start at $22
Dates: Preview: Jan. 24 - Jan. 30; regular performances: Feb. 1 - Feb 23.
Show times: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
More information: (714) 708-5556

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