Colony Theatre Company Sets 2015-16 Season: MARY LINCOLN, THE FABULOUS LIPITONES & More

The Colony Theatre has announced the plays for its 2015-2016 season. The multi-Ovation Award-winning theatre company will be bringing its subscribers and audiences five World, West Coast, or California premieres, including a World Premiere one-woman show starring Patty Duke as Mary Todd Lincoln, and a World Premiere musical based on stories by Damon Runyon, with the music of Frank Loesser.

The 2014/2015 Colony Theatre Company Season:

West Coast Premiere
THE FABULOUS LIPITONES
Written by John Markus and Mark St. Germain
Directed by John Markus
July 25 - August 23, 2015

A barbershop quartet who's been belting out close harmonies for twenty years suddenly loses its lead singer, who dropped dead at the Regionals on a heart-stopping high C. The three surviving members must cease their bickering and race to find a replacement in time for the Nationals. They hear a tenor with a gorgeous voice, but when he shows up he's a dark-skinned Indian immigrant in a turban. And one of the quartet is Archie Bunker. It's a wonderful comedy about the difficult journey they take to find their voice together.

World Premiere
MARY LINCOLN
STARRING PATTY DUKE
Written by John Philip Dayton
Directed by Cameron Watson
September 19 - October 18, 2015

Toward the end of her life, Mary Todd Lincoln shares her stories and memories with (unseen) reporters in an evening that is funny, heartbreaking, captivating, and sets the record straight about who this fascinating woman really was.

California Premiere
HUMBLE BOY
Written by Charlotte Jones
Directed by David Rose
November 7 - December 13, 2015
Felix Humble is a brilliant but bumbling astro-physicist whose mission in life is to unlock the secrets of the universe, but cannot stumble across a garden hose without using it to illustrate the finer points of string theory before twisting it into a noose. He returns home to his bee keeping father's funeral, only to discover his difficult and domineering mother in the arms of another man. As he struggles to unlock the secrets of the human heart, what emerges is a touching, funny, and entertaining family portrait.

West Coast Premiere
THE BEST OF ENEMIES
Written by Mark St. Germain
Directed by David Rose

Meet Ann, an African-American civil rights activist, and C.P., the Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. They are forced by the federal government to work together to achieve integration in their small North Carolina town fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education. Clearly, they will never be friends, but over the course of the play they discover all the things they have in common, and ultimately forge an alliance based on respect and trust. Impossible to believe - except it's a true story, based on the book of the same name by Osha Gray Davidson.

World Premiere
ANOTHER ROLL OF THE DICE
Book by Mark Saltzman
Based on Stories by Damon Runyon
Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Music by Frank Loesser and others
Directed by Michael Matthews
April 16 - May 15, 2016

Few writers made the streets of New York sing like Damon Runyon. His beat was Broadway, the Great White Way - a dazzling and decadent mile of bright lights and nightlife. As a reporter in the Thirties, he moved among bootleggers, gamblers, hustlers, actors, showgirls, and gangsters. In this new musical by Mark Saltzman (who wrote The Colony's hit from last season Falling for Make Believe), Damon Runyon's mugs and dames, scams and swindles, are once again matched with songs by the great Frank Loesser, the original "Guys and Dolls" composer.

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