Lyceum Theatre Announces Their 50th Anniversary Season

LYCEUM THEATRE ANNOUNCES 50th ANNIVERSARY SEASON

As the curtain falls on another successful Lyceum Season, Artistic Director Quin Gresham and Managing Director Steve Bertani are thrilled to announce the 2010 Season schedule. "Our goal in assembling the Lyceum's 50th season was to create a fun and celebratory combination of musicals and plays befitting this major milestone", says Artistic Director Quin Gresham. "We think we have just such a line-up."

The 50th Anniversary Season opens on June 2nd with the Lyceum Premiere of Mel Brooks The Producers, winner of a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards in 2001 including Best Musical. Based on the film starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, this outrageously funny musical tells the story of a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and his mild-mannered accountant who come up with a scheme to produce the most notorious flop in history thereby bilking their backers out of millions of dollars. Only one thing goes awry: the show is a smash hit and the investors want their returns! The Producers (June 2 -12).

The Lyceum follows the smash hit premiere with a beloved standard of musical theatre, Cole Porter's Anything Goes opening June 19th. The 1920's musical comedy Anything Goes is a farce set below decks on a ocean liner bound for London from New York. This age old tale of Boy-Meets-Girl and the complications that ensue are told through the incredible music and lyrics of Cole Porter. Anything Goes includes some of Broadway's most memorable songs such as "Friendship", "I Get a Kick Out Of You", "It's Delovely", and "Blow Gabriel Blow". Anything Goes (June 19- 27).

The Lyceum continues the fun on July 3rd with the hilarious comedy Red, White and Tuna, the third installment in the hugely popular Greater Tuna series. A Lyceum premiere, Red, White and Tuna takes place in Tuna, Texas, the third-smallest town in the State, where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies!.Comic masters ignite the stage playing all 24 of the hilarious firecracker characters. This newest installment centers on the town's 4th of July Homecoming Reunion and fireworks display, the homecoming queen contest, as well as a wedding, a honeymoon and the Smut Snatchers drive to censor the Methodist hymnal. Red, White and Tuna (July 3-11).

Rounding out the first half of the 2010 Anniversary Season, the Lyceum returns to musical theatre with Lerner and Lowe's 1957 Tony Award winning musical My Fair Lady, opening July 21st. When two noted British linguists, Prof. Henry Higgins and Col. Hugh Pickering overhear a cockney flower girl named Eliza Doolittle caterwaul in the street, they wager a bet that Higgins can transform the young girl into a refined Victorian lady. My Fair Lady introduced such classic musical numbers as "The Rain In Spain", "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" and "I Could Have Danced All Night". My Fair Lady (July 21- 31)

The laughs just keep coming with the fifth show of the 2010 season, The Man Who Came To Dinner opening August 7th This hysterical three act comedy is written by the incomparable team of George S. Kaufman and Moss Mart, the same gentlemen that penned this season?fs hit, You Can't Take It With You. The Man Who Came To Dinner centers around SheriDan Whiteside, a distinguished theatre critic, lecturer and radio personality , arriving to dine at the home of the prominent Stanley family in a small Ohio town, slips on their icy doorstep and injures his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement follow, during which Whiteside monopolizes the living room and takes over the Stanley household. Before it's over, the outrageous has become commonplace. This stylish and funny production will feature one of the largest casts ever assembled for a play at the Lyceum. The Man Who Came To Dinner (August 7-14).

Mystery and intrigue light up the stage next with Agatha Christie's classic, And Then There Were None, opening August 21st. And Then There Were None also published under the title Ten Little Indians, is Agatha Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best selling mystery. this superlative whodunit, statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. And Then There Were None (August 21-28).

The Lyceum's seventh show of the season is Pump Boys and Dinettes opening September 4th. This musical written by a performance group of the same name opened on Broadway in February of 1982. The musical tells the story of four men who work at a gas station, and two waitresses at the Double Cupp Diner, a dinette, located some where between Frog Level and Smyrna, North Carolina. Pump Boys and Dinettes is a raucous musical tribute to life by the roadside. Pump Boys and Dinettes (September 9 -12).

By popular demand, the Little Sisters of Hoboken are back on the Lyceum stage to close out the 50th Anniversary season in Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical opening November 13th. The nuns have turned their convent basement into a TV studio and are producing their first Christmas special. stars the nuns you love plus Father Virgil and some of Mt. Saint Helen's most talented students. With a mixture of their prepared program and a healthy dose of shenanigans, these singing, dancing sisters are sure to delight audiences because as everyone knows; Nunsense is habit-forming. Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical (November 13-21).

The Lyceum 2010 season will continue to offer special pricing for groups of 10 or more, also gift certificates for the 2010 season are available by calling the theatre at 660-837-3311.?