The Cape Playhouse Sets 89th Summer Season: 'VELOCITY,' 'VANYA' & More

The Producer of The Cape Playhouse, Mark Cuddy, today announced the remaining two productions for the historic theater's 89th Season in Dennis, MA. Six professional productions - a mix of comedies, dramas & musicals - and starring Broadway actors, will play from June 16 - September 5, 2015.

Cuddy stated "The Cape Playhouse continues to be fortunate in acquiring the latest shows to be Cape Cod premieres, and have the best actors from New York eager to show their talents on the famed Playhouse stage."

Each production of the 2015 Summer Season will run for fifteen performances over two weeks. Casting will be announced later in the spring.

Season Subscriptions are now on sale and can be purchased at CapePlayhouse.com or by calling 877-385-3911. Individual show tickets will go on sale April 15, 2015.

The 89th Cape Playhouse Season 2015

Straight from Broadway
THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN
by Eric Coble
Directed by Skip Greer
June 16 - 27, 2015

The first production of this explosive comedy-drama after its 2014 Broadway debut. The Velocity of Autumn swirls around Alexandra, a 79-year-old artist in a showdown with her family over where she'll spend her remaining years. In Alexandra's corner are her wit, her volcanic passion and the fact that she's barricaded herself in her Brooklyn brownstone with enough Molotov cocktails to take out the block. But her children have their own secret weapon: estranged son Chris who returns after 20 years, crawls through Alexandra's second floor window, and becomes the family's unlikely mediator. No sooner are the words "Hi, Mom" uttered than the emotional bombs start detonating.

5 Tony Award Winner
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
Directed by Pamela Hunt
Choreographed by Shea Sullivan
June 30 - July 11, 2015

One of the funniest new musicals of the last decade and winner of 5 Tony Awards, The Drowsy Chaperone, featuring music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison, and book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar, has been called "the perfect Broadway musical" by New York Magazine. In the story, an eccentric musical theatre devotee who plays the record album of his favorite musical for the audience, with ongoing wry commentary, of a fictional show is called The Drowsy Chaperone, a supposed hit of 1928. The musical comes alive in his apartment, which is transformed into the settings for the singing and dancing characters who appear in a tale of love and stardom.

Hilarious New Comedy
WOMEN IN JEOPARDY!
by Wendy MacLeod
Directed by Sean Daniels
July 14-25, 2015

A special part of the 2015 season will be only the second presentation of this hilarious contemporary tale. Heard last summer in a play reading as part of the new "Cape Playhouse Extras" series, it's Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club when divorcees Mary and Jo are suspicious of their friend Liz's new dentist boyfriend. He may look a bit creepy, but is there really anything to worry about? The fact that his oral hygienist was recently murdered could be just a... coincidence. Imaginations run wild as they try to discover the truth, trading their wine glasses for spy glasses in a hilarious off-road adventure.

The Musical Masterpiece
MY FAIR LADY
by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Directed by Hunter Foster
Choreographed by Lorin Latarro
July 28 - August 8, 2015

The centerpiece of the 2015 season and the first-ever Playhouse production of Lerner and Loewe's triumph. Tony Nominee Hunter Foster makes his Cape Playhouse directorial debut with the unforgettable story of Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from Professor Henry Higgins so that she can pass as a proper lady. Set against the gorgeous scenery and costumes of Edwardian England, My Fair Lady is filled with some of the greatest songs in musical theater history: Wouldn't It Be Loverly?, With a Little Bit of Luck, The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, Get Me to the Church on Time and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face.

Winner of 2013 Tony Award for Best Play
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
by Christopher Durang
Directed by Bruce Jordan
August 11 - 22, 2015

An irresistible and laugh-out-loud comedy, directed by the maestro of last year's hit, Perfect Wedding. Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse An irresistible, laugh-out-loud comedy and winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up. When their movie-star sister Masha makes a surprise visit with her hot boy-toy Spike in tow, so begins an unforgettable weekend of rivalry, regret and hilarious racket in this wacky, Chekhovian mash-up. By the end of their impromptu family reunion, this lovable bunch won't ever be the same!An irresistible, laugh-out-loud comedy and winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up. When their movie-star sister Masha makes a surprise visit with her hot boy-toy Spike in tow, so begins an unforgettable weekend of rivalry, regret and hilarious racket in this wacky, Chekhovian mash-up. By the end of their impromptu family reunion, this lovable bunch won't ever be twhere they grew up. When their movie-star sister Masha makes a surprise visit with her hot boy-toy Spike in tow, an unforgettable weekend of rivalry, regret, and hilarious racket begins in this whacky Chekhovian mash-up. By the end of this impromptu family reunion, this lovable bunch won't ever be the same.

A British Thriller
MURDER BY MISADVENTURE
by Edward Taylor
Directed by James Brennan
August 25 - September 5, 2015

Everybody loves a good mystery! Set in 1992 before the ubiquitous cell phone, this quintessential thriller examines what happens when two successful mystery writers, who have worked together for years, begin to hate each other. Harry has invested well and now lives with his glamorous wife in a luxury, hi-tech apartment high above the Sussex coast. Paul has spent his earnings on liquor and women, and lives in dread of his gambling debts. Harry wants to break the partnership that is Paul's lifeline, but Paul knows a sinister secret from Harry's past. They find themselves locked in a dangerous dance from which murder seems the only escape...and they have just plotted the perfect crime for their latest TV film.

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