Fargo Moorehead Community Theatre Announces the 70th Season on The Stage at Island Park - PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, BILLY ELLIOT and More!

Fargo Moorehead Community Theatre announces the 70th season on The Stage at Island Park:

Peter And The Starcatcher A Play by Rick Elice, Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson,

Music by Wayne Barker

October 7-9 and 13-16, 2016

Tony-nominated Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan

A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain's cabin, containing a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training, who realizes that the trunk's precious cargo is star stuff, a celestial substance so powerful it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates - led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own - the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.

Billy Elliot The Musical Book and lyrics by Lee Hall, Music by Elton John

May 4-7 and 11-14, 2016

This musical is based on the 2000 film, Billy Elliot. The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics by Lee Hall, who also wrote the film's screenplay. The plot revolves around motherless Billy, who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes. The story of his personal struggle and fulfillment are balanced against a counter-story of family and community strife caused by the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike at County Durham in northeastern England. Hall's screenplay was inspired in part by A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel about a miners' strike, The Stars Look Down, to which the musical's opening song pays homage.

Other Desert Cities By Jon Robin Baitz

January 27-29 and February 2-4, 2017

The Wyeth family holidays are a bit more dysfunctional that usual when the eldest daughter tries to publish a memoir of their family history that may drag their collective names through the mud while unlocking secrets from the past. Hilarity and healing ensue with this riveting comedy drama about family and future.

STUDIO THEATRE SEASON

Becky Shaw By Gina Gionfriddo

August 3-5, 2016

In Gina Gionfriddo's Pulitzer Prize nominated Becky Shaw, a newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends, so that the wife's best friend meets the husband's sexy and strange new coworker. When an evening calculated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy results in this wickedly funny play that asks what we owe the to people we love and to the strangers who land on our doorstep.

Stephen King's The Shining By Stephen King, adapted by Jason Levering

October 27-30, 2016

The Shining centers on the life of Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the historic Overlook Hotel, set in the scenic Colorado Rockies. His family accompanies him to the job, including his young son Danny Torrance, who possesses "the shining", an array of psychic abilities that allow Danny to see the hotel's horrific past. Soon, after a winter storm leaves them snowbound, the supernatural forces inhabiting the hotel influence Jack's sanity, leaving his wife and son in incredible danger.

Almost Maine By John Cariani

April 6-8, 2017

A comedy comprised of nine two-character vignettes exploring the sudden thunderclap of love and the scorched earth that sometimes follows, John Cariani's play will evoke either awww' or ick's, depending on your affection for its whimsical approach to the joys and perils of romance. These nine short plays explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine.

THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES (TYA) SERIES

A Year With Frog And Toad By Robert and Willies Reale, based on characters created by Arnold Lobel. In partnership with MSUM Department of Theatre and Dance

February 22 and 24 at 9:30am and 12:30pm, 2017

March 1 and 3 at 9:30am and 12:30pm, 2017

Arnold Robel's well-loved characters hop from the page to the stage in Robert and Willie Reals's musical A Year with Frog and Toad. Conceived by Mr. Lobel's daughter, Adrianne Lobel, A Year With Frog and Toad remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way, including a most important one about freiendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special.

SILVER FOLLIES

Rockin' To The Oldies

May 18-21, 2016

A Musical Review featuring classics from the 40's and 50's.