SPAMALOT, SHOW BOAT, DEAR WORLD and More Set for Lakewood Theatre's 2013-14 Season

Lakewood Theatre Company will begin its 61st season with six productions on its Mainstage and three productions on its Side Door stage beginning today, July 12, 2013. Season tickets for the 2013-2014 season are on sale now and prices for the six-show season range from $165.00 - $175.00. Performances are Thursday - Saturday at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 7:00 PM and some Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM.

Season tickets can be purchased at the LTC Box Office at 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego. Box Office hours are 9-5 weekdays and 10-4 on Saturdays. Call 503-635-3901 to charge your order by phone. Season tickets may also be purchased on line at www.lakewood-center.org.

Welcome to Lakewood Theatre's 61st season! Lakewood will be staging the Portland area premiere of the hilarious Monty Python's Spamalot and the classic mystery Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap in this year's selection of plays. Orders received before June 1st will receive discounted tickets to our summer show, Greater Tuna.

This year Lakewood continues value added options for our subscribers. Now subscribers can pre-order tickets to our Lost Treasures Collection Series on our Side Door stage, Lakewood in Lights (our holiday gala and fundraiser) and a special reprise of last year's run away hit, Irving Berlin's White Christmas for December 2013.

2013-14 Season at Lakewood Theatre Company:
(performances on the Headlee Mainstage at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street, Lake Oswego, Oregon)

GREATER TUNA
July 12 - August 18, 2013
By Jaston Williams, Ed Howard, Joe Sears
Directed by Steve Knox
What do Arles, Thurston and Aunt Pearl have in common? They are all upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas played by two-actors; Jay Hornstein and Gary Brickner-Schulz. An Off-Broadway hit and fun "tour de farce" of character and costume quick changes. Faster than a rabbit running from a coyote!

MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT
September 6 - October 13, 2013
A Portland area premiere
Book & Lyrics by Eric Idle, Music by John Du Prez & Eric Idle
Directed by Alan Shearman
This new musical is lovingly ripped off from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Featuring a bevy of show girls, cows and killer rabbits, it was nominated for 14 Tony Awards and won 3 including Best Musical. It's a spoof on King Arthur, his knights of Camelot and their quest for the Holy Grail.

INSPECTING CAROL
November 1 - December 8, 2013
By Daniel Sullivan & The Seattle Repertory Theatre Resident Company
Directed by Don Alder
This hit backstage-comedy treats audiences with the thrill of watching an ill-fated play going horribly wrong. The Soapbox Playhouse needs a NEA grant and must impress a government inspector or risk bankruptcy. When he visits, everything goes hopelessly awry. One of the funniest holiday shows you'll ever see!

Agatha Christie'S THE MOUSETRAP
January 10 - February 16, 2014
By Agatha Christie
Directed by Tyson Stephenson
The mistress of mystery sparkles with this long-running and cunning whodunnit. Eight strangers are stranded by a snowstorm and trapped in a guest house. A murderer is among them, but who? Everyone has secrets and no one is quite what they seem.

CRIMES OF THE HEART
March 7 - April 13, 2014
By Beth Henley
Directed by Diane Englert
Babe's in jail, Meg's missing in Hollywood, the horse just died and Mom made the national news. What a way to celebrate a birthday. A comedic and compassionate look at good country folk whose lives have gone wrong. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the New York Drama Circle Award for Best American Play.

SHOW BOAT
May 2 - Jun. 8, 2014
Music by Jerome Kern, Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and Based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber
Directed by Ron Daum
This tale of life on the Mississippi from the 1880s to the 1920s is both a love story and a powerful reminder of the bitter legacy of racism. Come aboard for a sweeping journey and epic score featuring the lives and loves of show people. Tony Award winner.

ADDED SHOW (can be added to subscription as an option)
Irving Berlin'S WHITE CHRISTMAS
Dec. 12 - Dec. 29, 2013

Dec. 12 - 28 at 7:30 PM
Dec. 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 at 2 PM
(no performances on December 16, 23, 24, 25)
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
with Book by David Ives and Paul Blake,
Based upon the Paramount Pictures film written for the screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank
Directed by Annie Kaiser
Lakewood Theatre Company reprises last year's hit, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, a delightful new musical based on the 1954 smash hit movie. Two army buddies have a successful song-and-dance act after the war. The two follow beautiful singing sisters to a Christmas gig at a Vermont lodge owned by their former Army commander. The boys are the only guests at the resort because there is no snow! To help the General, they come up with a scheme to bring in a crowd. The show features Irving Berlin hits such as "Blue Skies," "Sisters," "Happy Holiday," "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep," and the title song, "White Christmas."

2013-14 SIDE DOOR STAGE SHOWS:
Lakewood Theatre Company presents on its Side Door Stage for 2013-14 The Lost Treasures Collection - a unique series of three plays. Each attraction is performed for one weekend only! Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7:00 PM. New this year: we've added a Satuday matinee at 2:00 PM. Series Sponsor: Banner Bank.

The Lost Treasures Collection now in its fourth season, is a series of obscure and rarely performed musicals presented in concert/cabaret version on our Side Door stage. No sets, no props (none of the usual trappings of a fully staged production). Picture Portland's foremost performers presenting some of the most beautiful, comedic and witty songs of musical theatre. This year's theme focuses on strong women. Food, wine and other beverages are available for purchase before and during the show.

HIGH SPIRITS
October 18 - 29, 2013 (Friday & Saturday at 7 PM, Saturday at 2 PM)
Book, lyrics, and music by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray,
based on the play Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
Writer Charles Condomine hosts a séance conducted by medium Madame Arcati in the hope that he'll learn her tricks so he can use the information in his new novel. His assumption that she is a fake is proven wrong when she falls into a trance and unwittingly conjures the spirit of his late wife Elvira, although he alone can see her. His present wife Ruth believes that Charles is joking until Elvira moves into the Condomine household.

ONE TOUCH OF VENUS
February 21 - 22, 2014 (Friday & Saturday at 7 PM, Saturday at 2 PM)
Music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash, based on the novella The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie
A long-lost, priceless statue of the goddess Venus is found and placed on display in an art museum in New York. A slow but good-hearted window dresser, Rodney Hatch, kisses the statue when intoxicated. The sculpture comes to life, and the two fall in love, although Rodney is already engaged.

DEAR WORLD
April 19 - 20, 2013 April 18 - 19, 2014 (Friday & Saturday at 7 PM, Saturday at 2PM)
Book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
Based on Jean Giraudoux's play The Madwoman of Chaillot as adapted by Maurice Valency
Three Countesses deviously scheme to stop businessmen from drilling for oil in the Parisian neighborhood of Chaillot. The forces of idealism, love and poetry win over those of greed, materialism and science.

Performances for the Mainstage season: Thursday - Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 7:00 PM
and some Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM. Performances at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street, Lake Oswego. Shows are subject to change. Call 503-635-3901 for tickets or go on line at www.lakewood-center.org.

61 Years of Live Theatre: Founded as a not-for-profit organization in 1952, Lakewood Theatre Company is a professional theatre dedicated to the study and presentation of drama in all its forms; the training and development of actors; and the creation, maintenance and operation of a theatre in which to present plays and other forms of entertainment. Lakewood Theatre Company is the oldest continually operated, not-for-profit theatre company in the Portland Metropolitan area. It annually provides theatre artists the opportunity to learn and display their craft and attracts more than 40,000 people to its shows.