The Aurora Fox Sets 31st Season: LITTLE WOMEN, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN & More

The Aurora Fox has announced their 31st season - check out the full lineup below!

Jekyll and Hyde - the musical
Conceived for the Stage by STEVE CUDEN and FRANK WILDHORN
Book and Lyrics by LESLIE BRICUSSE
Music by FRANK WILDHORN
September 18 - October 11, 2015

Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi-Grammy and TONY nominated Frank Wildhorn & double Oscar and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse, Jekyll and Hyde is about the epic struggle between good and evil. A devoted man of science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find a chemical breakthrough that can solve some of mankind's most challenging medical dilemmas. Rebuffed by the powers that be, he decides to make himself the subject of his own experi-mental treatments, accidentally unleashing his inner demons along with the man the world would come to know as Mr. Hyde.

Little Women - the musical (REGIONAL PREMIERE)
Music by KIM OLER
Lyrics by ALISON HUBBARD
Book by SEAN HARTLEY
November 27 - December 27, 2015

This all-new musical, based upon Louisa May Alcott's beloved 19th century novel, vividly brings to life the March family of Concord, Massachusetts. In a time of war and sacrifice, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, guided by their mother Marmee, grow from girls into women, through romance and courtship, illness and loss, loving and letting go. Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard's moving Richard Rodgers Award-winning score, by turns funny and touching, is seamlessly matched by Sean Hartley's wise and witty book. This is Little Women like you've never seen before.

The Arabian Nights - a play (in the Studio Theatre)
by MARY ZIMMERMAN
January 8 - February 14, 2016

Scheherazade's cliffhanger stories prevent her husband, the cruel Shahryar, from taking her life. After 1,001 nights Shahryar is cured of his madness and Scheherazade is allowed to return to her family. This adaptation offers a wonderful blend of the lesser-known tales from Arabian Nights with the recurring theme of how the magic of storytelling holds the power to change people.

Black Elk Speaks
based on the book by JOHN G. NEIHARDT. Adapted by CHRISTOPHER SERGEL
March 18 - April 10, 2016

Lakota visionary and healer, Nicholas Black Elk, grew up during the closing decades of the 19th century when white settlers were invading the homeland of the Lakota Sioux, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the tribe's way of life. As presented onstage, Black Elk recounts the history of his people to his government-educated grandson, Hoksila, as members of the ensemble play Indian Warriors and American Generals re-enacting many fierce battles leading up to the massacre at Wounded Knee.

Catch Me If You Can
Book by TERRANCE McNALLY
Score by MARC SHAIMAN & SCOTT WITTMAN
April 22 - May 15, 2016

Based on the hit DreamWorks film and the incredible true story that inspired it, Catch Me If You Can is a high-flying musical adventure about Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., a teenager who runs away from home in search of the glamorous life. With nothing more than his boyish charm, a big imagination and millions of dollars in forged checks, Frank successfully poses as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer - living the high life and winning the girl of his dreams. But Frank's lies catch the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty who chases Frank to the end...and finds something he never expected.

Season Subscribers also receive FREE admission to PHAMALY Theatre Company's production of Fuddy Meers (February 6 - February 21, 2016) - Aurora Fox Mainstage.

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