FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS, SHOUT! and More Set for Surfside Players' 2013-14 Season

Surfside Players has announced its 2013-14 season, featuring Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Hello, Dolly!, Love Letters, To Kill a Mockingbird and Shout! Details below.

SEPTEMBER 2013

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, comedy, by Alan Ball

During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women's spirit.

5 female, 1 male.

Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.

OCTOBER 2013

Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie with Shadow Cast

SPECIAL EVENT. Let's do the Time Warp again! Our annual screening of the cult classic musical tribute to science-fiction-horror B-movies continues for its eleventh straight year, featuring a shadow cast mocking the film while providing song, dance, and weird comedy. After the extravaganza of the Tenth Anniversary, we're taking the show back to its roots, with a short rehearsal schedule and on-stage improvisation. Under 18 requires parent/guardian permission both to audition and to attend a performance.

Large flexible cast.

Presented by special arrangement with Criterion Pictures.

NOVEMBER 2013

Smokey Joe's Café Musical Review, by Leiber & Stoller

Leiber and Stoller, as much as anyone, virtually invented rock 'n' roll, and now their songs provide the basis for an electrifying entertainment that illuminates a golden age of American culture. In an idealized '50's setting, the classic themes of love won, lost and imagined blend with hilarious set-pieces and slice-of-life emotions. Featuring nearly 40 of the greatest songs ever recorded, SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE isn't just great pop music - it's compelling musical theatre.

5 male, 4 female.

Presented by special arrangement with Rodgers and Hammerstein.

December 2013 Surfside Youth Players

The graduating production of the fall semester. Every student is cast!

Playwrights Workshop

Three original one-act plays by local Brevard County authors. Second and third Playwrights Workshop productions still to be scheduled.

Christmas Show

Songs and sketches for the holiday season.

JANUARY 2014

To Kill a Mockingbird
Drama, by Christopher Sergel, based on the novel by Harper Lee

Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it change any of the racial tension in the town?

11-12 male, 6-8 female.

Presented by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing.

FEBRUARY 2014

Love Letters Comedy-Drama, by A. R. Gurney

SPECIAL EVENT. The piece is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. As the actors read the letters aloud, what is created is an evocative, touching, frequently funny but always telling pair of character studies in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.

1 female, 1 male.

Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French.

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2014

Hello Dolly! Musical, by Stewart and Herman

"And what do you do for a living, Mrs. Levi?" asks Ambrose Kemper in the first scene of this most delightful of musical comedies. "Some people paint, some sew...I meddle," replies Dolly. HELLO, DOLLY! is full of memorable songs including Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Ribbons Down My Back, Before the Parade Passes By, Elegance, Hello, Dolly!, It Only Takes a Moment and So Long, Dearie. And we are off on a whirlwind race around New York at the turn of the twentieth century, as we follow the adventures of America's most beloved matchmaker!

6 female, 6 male, large chorus.

Presented by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark.

APRIL/MAY 2014

Shout! The Mod Musical Musical Review, by George and Lowenstein

SHOUT! travels in time from 1960 to 1970 chronicling the dawning liberation of women. Just as Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, and Cilla Black were independent women with major careers, English and American women were redefining themselves in the face of changing attitudes about gender. SHOUT! (and its all- female cast) reflects that through the unforgettable music of the time. With a shimmy and shake, the songs are tied together by hilarious sound bites from the period -- from 60's advertisements to letters answered by an advice columnist who thinks every problem can be solved with a "fetching new hair style and a new shade of lipstick." (Think "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In") Songs include : England Swings / 'Round Every Corner / I Know A Place (Medley), I Only Want To Be With You / Tell the Boys (Medley), How Can You Tell, Wishin' & Hopin', One Two Three, To Sir With Love, Don't Sleep in the Subway, Son of a Preacher Man, James Bond Theme / Goldfinger, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Diamonds Are Forever, Puppet On a String, and Georgy Girl / Windy (Medley)

5 female.

Presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International.