MAINSTAGE SERIES
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School Performances: Tuesday-Friday, Sept. 18-21
Public Performance: Saturday, Sept. 22, 2 p.m.
Glenn Auditorium, Clegg Fine Arts Building
Free Admission
Drawing on the Appalachian Jack tales of American folklore, playwright Mike Kenny retells the classic story of “Jack and the Beanstalk” as an encounter between a young boy trying to be a man and a wife trying to find happiness despite her bullying husband. Snappy, contemporary dialogue and loads of good humor are sure to delight the young and old alike.
Sponsored by the Fred Register Endowment for Children’s Theatre at Young Harris College
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Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 8-10, 7 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 11, 2 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 15-17, 7 p.m.; Dobbs Theatre, Goolsby Center; $10 for adults, $5 for seniors 65+ or with YHC ID
This witty satire brings together art aficionados, culture snobs, skeptics, foreigners, unruly students, lost souls, fellow artists and one beleaguered security guard on the final day of a group show of three fictitious contemporary American artists at a major modern art museum. The real show, however, is the parade of more than 40 colorful characters who wreak havoc as they walk through the exhibit. This comedy by one of America’s most inventive playwrights Tina Howe looks at people looking at art—and examines the movement and yearning of these people.
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Friday-Saturday, Feb. 22-23, 7 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 p.m.; Glenn Auditorium, Clegg Fine Arts Building; $10 for adults, $5 for seniors 65+ or with YHC ID
Based on the Mel Brooks film of the same name, The Producers 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 (all “little old ladies”) out of millions of dollars. Only one thing goes awry: the show is a smash hit! The antics of Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom as they maneuver their way fecklessly through finding a show (the gloriously offensive “Springtime For Hitler”), hiring a director, raising the money and finally going to prison for their misdeeds is a lesson in broad comic construction. At the core of the insanely funny adventure is a poignant emotional journey of two very different men who become friends.
Recommended for mature audiences only
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Thursday-Saturday, April 11-13, 7 p.m., Sunday, April 14, 2 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday, April 18-20, 7 p.m.; Dobbs Theatre, Goolsby Center; $10 for adults, $5 for seniors 65+ or with YHC ID
Have you ever been tempted to flee your own life? Becky Foster is caught in middle age, in middle management and in a middling marriage—with no prospects for change on the horizon. Then one night a socially inept and grief-stricken millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where Becky works. Becky is offered nothing short of a new life . . . and the audience is offered a chance to ride shotgun in a way that most plays wouldn’t dare. Becky’s New Car is a thoroughly original comedy by playwright Steven Dietz with serious overtones—a devious and delightful romp down the road not taken.
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STUDIO SERIES
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Musical Theatre Revue
Saturday, Sept. 15, 7 p.m.; Dobbs Theatre, Goolsby Center
Some of Young Harris College’s most talented students strut their stuff with favorite Broadway songs, dances, and scenes, selected from the best of the young artists’ growing professional repertoires.
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 21-22, 7 p.m.; Dobbs Theatre, Goolsby Center
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. Ruhl explores how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering changes us—in this odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
God of Carnage
Tuesday-Wednesday, April 16-17, 7 p.m.; Dobbs Theatre, Goolsby Center
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime? From playwright Yasmina Reza comes one of the most lauded plays of the decade and the 2009 Tony Award winner for Best Play.
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