City Circle Acting Company Of Coralville Announces 2018-2019 Season

City Circle Acting Company of Coralville has announced its 2018-19 season.

The season opens with the 2015 Tony award-winning play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time based on Mark Haddon's internationally best-selling novel. The play will be directed by Bo Frazer and will run September 28-30.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, a lavish family musical filled with spectacular costumes and wonderful songs by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Tim Rice will be a holiday treat for audiences. Elizabeth Tracey directs this "tale as old as time" which will run December 7-16.

A concert version of The Who's Tommy will help chase away your winter blues.

Based on the iconic 1969 rock concept album, this five-time Tony Award-winning rock musical is an exhilarating, high-energy, one-of-a-kind theatrical event. Directed by Elizabeth Tracey, Tommy runs February 15-17, 2019.

In May audiences will be transported to 18th century France and England for The Scarlet Pimpernel, a swashbuckling action/adventure musical, based on Baroness Orczy's famous 20th-century novel about the French Revolution and the battle for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. With an epic, sweeping book by Nan Knighton and a rousing and passionate score by Knighton and Frank Wildhorn, this musical is a glorious window into 18th century French and British history. Directed by Jaret Morlan, the show will run May 3-12, 2019.

The final show of the season will be City Circle's annual teen musical which will run June 14-22, 2019. Chris Okiishi and Leslie Nolte will direct this recent Broadway hit which will be announced in March 2019.

City Circle Acting Company is the community theatre of Coralville and the resident theatre company of the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. The Center is located at 1301 5th Street in Coralville. For ticket information go to coralvillearts.org.

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