Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre Sets Five of Six 2015-2016 Mainstage Season Productions
By: Anna Bencivengo Feb. 18, 2015
Actors' Playhouse is proud to announce five of six productions selected for 2015 - 2016, a season that will mark the company's 28th anniversary as a regional theatre company and its 20th year at the Miracle Theatre. The exciting line-up of musicals and plays will include: the Off-Broadway comic pop-rock musical The Toxic Avenger (October 14 - November 8, 2015), a delightful new holiday play The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge (December 2 - 27, 2015), a returning Broadway classic that brought Actors' Playhouse seven Carbonell Awards in 1998: West Side Story (January 27 - February 21, 2016), a very funny and touching new play The Tin Woman (May 11 - June 5, 2016), and a one-man tour-de-force Off-Broadway comedy entitled Buyer & Cellar (July 13 - August 7, 2016). One more musical is still in negotiation for the March 16 - April 10, 2016 timeslot.
The best way to support culture in the community and also guarantee seats to this exhilarating new season is to become a valued Actors' Playhouse subscriber. Season subscriptions for the 2015 - 2016 Mainstage Season are on sale now with prices from $203 for preview performances, $257 for Wednesday or Thursday evenings or Sunday matinees, $293 for Friday or Saturday evenings, and $297 for VIP Flexible/Anytime tickets for premium seats to any performance. Opening Night Subscriptions, which include invitations to the Gala Opening Night celebrations, are $453. Miracle Maker donor subscriptions, including two tickets to the Gala Opening Night celebrations, donor acknowledgement, and invitations to special events including the annual Reach For The Stars Gala Auction, are $1,500. Subscriptions for children 18 years and younger with a full paid adult subscription, and college students, are $123 (restrictions apply). ONSTAGE subscriptions (exclusively for young professionals 40 and under) are $135 and include a pre-show reception and ticket to every production during the third Wednesday performance of every run. All prices include handling charges and fees.Music & lyrics by David Bryan (founding member of Bon Jovi)
Book & lyrics by Joe DiPietro, (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change)
October 14 - November 8, 2015 Based on the classic cult film of the same name, this rock-pop musical is a charming, exhilarating and hysterical love story that has it all - an unlikely hero, his beautiful girlfriend, a corrupt New Jersey Mayor, and two guys who play EVERY other character in the play; including bullies, monsters, old ladies and stiletto-wearing back up singers. "Toxie" is an unconventional contemporary love story with an environmental twist that will rock the house and leave audiences laughing out loud.
By Mark Brown
December 2 - 27, 2015 It's now one year since his miraculous transformation, and good old Scrooge is back to his old ways, or so it seems. Ebenezer is now suing Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future for breaking and entering, kidnapping, slander, pain and suffering, attempted murder, and intentional infliction of emotional stress. It's the "Trial of the Century" with hysterical courtroom antics. With this all-new, very smart and clever script, worthy of the Dickens original, playwright Mark Brown has created an entertaining, funny and uplifting new tradition for the holiday season. West Side Story
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Arthur Laurents
January 27 - February 21, 2016 West Side Story returns to Actors' Playhouse almost 20 years since it won the region's Carbonell Award for "Best Production of a Musical," this time in an all-new and exciting 21st Century Production. West Side Story is considered by many to be one of the greatest creations in American musical theatre history. The Jets and the Sharks are back, along with the incomparable Bernstein score, Romeo and Juliet style romance, and the infamous Jerome Robbins' based choreography. West Side Story will explode onto the Miracle Theatre's Stage as our featured large-scale musical of the season, with classic reverence and contemporary heat. A Musical Currently Under Negotiation
March 16 - April 10, 2016 The Tin Woman
By Sean Grennan
May 11- June 5, 2016 From the author of Making God Laugh, which our audiences fell in love with two seasons ago, comes Sean Grennan's newest comedy, this one with inspirational dramatic resonance. The Tin Woman is a rich, funny and moving theatrical experience involving a postoperative heart transplant recipient struggling with her own survival guilt, who decides to meet the family of the late donor, their son. The grief of the late donor's family coupled with the recipient's own questions, fears and doubts evolve into a very real, very funny and touching new play, that leaves the audience with an unexpected and moving resolution. Buyer & Cellar
By Jonathan Tolins
July 13 - August 7, 2016 Winner of the 2013 Drama Desk Award, this fantastically funny one-man tour-de-force was the most talked about new comedy of last year's Off-Broadway Season. Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous show about the oddest of odd jobs: an underemployed Los Angeles actor who goes to work in Barbra Streisand's Malibu basement. What follows is a riotously funny new play that gets every comedic element right, ultimately questioning the price of fame. One actor will amaze audiences playing a handful of roles including himself, his boyfriend Barry, Streisand's House Manager, James Brolin and ultimately Barbra herself. Visit www.actorsplayhouse.org for up-to-date information on details and schedules. About Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
Actors' Playhouse is the nonprofit resident theatre company and managing agent of the historic Miracle Theatre on Miracle Mile in Coral Gables. Actors' Playhouse, which has brought home 82 regional Carbonell Awards for artistic excellence, is a Florida Presenting Cultural Organization and one of 13 major cultural institutions in Miami-Dade County. In addition to its Mainstage season, Actors' Playhouse offers a year-round season of Musical Theatre for Young Audiences, a Theatre Conservatory and Summer Camp Program, as well as educational arts outreach programs for underserved youth, and has initiated a Young Talent Big Dreams contest for children in partnership with The Children's Trust. www.actorsplayhouse.org
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