2010 Season
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Hamlet The season opens with one of the greatest plays ever written. With its action-packed plot featuring revenge, intrigue, a ghost, a moving love story, lots of murder, and more than a little comedy, Hamlet has thrilled audiences for more than 400 years. With one of Lancaster County’s best actors, Timothy Riggs (EPAC’s Frozen, The Pillowman, The Fifth of July), as the idealistic prince unable to accept the status quo, Hamlet is certain to be one of the most exciting events of the local theatre season.
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Seussical Jr All your favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and the Whos of Whoville, are part of this magical musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Lucky Stiff, Once on This Island). Connecting the tales is Jojo, a young man who’s a “thinker of strange and wonderful thinks!” As part of EPAC’s Family Season, this joyous Kids for Kids production will enchant children, adults, and all who love Seuss. |
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25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee A musical about a spelling bee? What a strange idea! But this outrageously funny musical about six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime is certain to charm and delight you just as it charmed and delighted the New York critics and the Broadway audiences who flocked to it for three years.
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The Lady in Question EPAC proudly brings you this loving satire of Hollywood’s World War II romantic thrillers that starred impossibly beautiful women like Norma Shearer, Greer Garson, and Joan Crawford. The Lady in Question will star EPAC’s own impossibly beautiful Edward R. Fernandez as Gertrude Garnet, the most glamorous concert pianist on the international stage. On tour in Bavaria in 1940, Gertrude’s colossal self-absorption is challenged when a handsome American professor asks for her help rescuing his mother from a Nazi prison.
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Rent Join the artists, drug addicts, drag queens, and budding entrepreneurs of New York’s East Village in this landmark rock musical. Jonathan’s Larson’s fabulously tuneful modern take on La Boheme took Broadway by storm, won every award in sight (including the Pulitzer), and ran for more than 12 years. You can be sure that EPAC will bring you the uncensored version of this raunchy, provocative, yet surprisingly sweet and tender musical about love and sex among young artists and rebels living in the shadow of AIDS.
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Man of la Mancha The beloved musical about the transformative power of art returns to EPAC. This classic of the American theatre, set in 16th-century Spain, brings together the tale of the mad knight Don Quixote with the story of his creator, Miguel de Cervantes. Man of La Mancha has enthralled audiences around the world for more than 40 years with its thrilling music, including “The Impossible Dream,” its powerful, dramatic story and its unforgettable characters. |
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Grey Gardens Big Edie and Little Edie Beale — Jackie Kennedy’s aunt and cousin — became notorious in 1971 when it was discovered that the once-elegant East Hampton mansion in which they lived was now a dilapidated wreck, overrun with cats and raccoons, along with a five-foot mountain of empty cans in the dining room. What had happened to two of the brightest names in the Social Register? Based on the famous Grey Gardens documentary about the two Edies (who were also the subjects of the Emmy-winning HBO movie), this hilarious and devastating musical brings the ladies back to outrageous and glorious life.
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The Full Monty This crowd-pleasing musical version of the popular British movie moves the story to Buffalo, New York. Terrence McNally’s raucously funny book and David Yazbek’s dynamic score combine vividly to tell the rousing story of a bunch of unemployed steelworkers looking for a way to pay the bills and regain their self-respect. They band together with an unlikely plan: a strip show featuring themselves. This sexy, feel-good show is a life-affirming journey full of entertaining surprises.
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Willy Wonka: The Musical The delicious adventures experienced by Charlie Bucket on his visit to Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory light up the stage in this captivating adaptation of Roald Dahl’s fantastical tale. Featuring the enchanting songs from the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder, and filled with the extraordinary characters that you all know — including Varuca Salt, Mike Teavee, Violet Beauregard, Augustus Gloop, Grandpa Joe, and, of course, Charlie and Willy Wonka himself — this show will be a wonderful Holiday gift for the whole family. |