Gulfshore Playhouse Announces 2010 2011 Season

Gulfshore Playhouse announced their full 2010-2011 Season, filled with heart-warming stories,  comedies, and classics.

Opening the mainstage season is "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom, based on the book by Mitch Albom, playing October 29th - November 21st, 2010, with a preview performance on October 28th. This theatrical incarnation of the beloved bestseller is the heartwarming autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie's appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig's Disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and what starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of life. Wayne LeGette, who played Cleante in their production of "Tartuffe" will star as Mitch.

"Unnecessary Farce" by Paul Slade Smith, will be the second show of the season playing January 28th - February 13th, 2011 with a preview performance Jan 27th. Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go! In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes.

The American classic, "A View from the Bridge" by Arthur Miller fills the third slot and runs March 4th - 20th, 2011, with a preview performance March 3rd. This story is a fiercely compelling drama about love, belonging and betrayal that centers on Eddie Carbone, an Italian-American longshoreman who lives in Brooklyn with his wife Beatrice and his orphaned 17-year-old niece Catherine, with whom he is obsessed. Beatrice's two cousins enter the country illegally seeking a better life in America, and when Catherine falls in love with one of them, Eddie's jealousy erupts in a rage that consumes him, his family and his world.

The fourth and final show of the season: Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" playing April 8th - 23rd, with a preview performance on April 7th. This stylish comedy from Noel Coward, the author of Private Lives and Hay Fever, is the story of a cantankerous novelist, Charles Condomine, who is re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. When a "happy medium," one Madame Arcati, conjures up the specter of his former spouse, all the personalities, worldly and otherwise, clash with funny results.

Season Subscriptions are available now. The rates for these ticket packages will go up slightly after July 4th. Single tickets will also be available for purchase beginning July 5th so act now to get your packages at rock bottom prices. For subscriptions, call 239-261-PLAY.  Visit their website at www.gulfshoreplayhouse.org.

If you have a party of 10 or more, contact Gulfshore about discounts. Call 239-261-PLAY if you have questions.

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