Open Stage Harrisburg

25th ANNIVERSARY SEASON

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Music and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen
Book by Hunter Bell
October 8 to November 6

“May I have your attention, please, devoted aficionados of musical theater? Have I got a show for you!” – New York Times

Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theatre festival. However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. With nothing to lose, the pair decides to try to create something new with the help of their friends Susan, Heidi and Larry on the eighty-eights. [title of show] is, above all, a love letter to the musical theatre—a uniquely American art form—and to the joy of collaboration. The musical received a Tony Award® nomination for Best Book of a Musical in 2009.

Performance dates:
October 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17*, 28, 29, 30, 31*, November 4, 5, 6, 2010
* Sunday Matinee performances

Opening Night Performance & Party        October 8
Pay-What –You-Will-Thursdays               October 14, 28, November 4
Post Performance Discussion                  October 17

Curtain: 8 p. m. Thurs., Fri., & Sat.
   2 p. m., Sun.

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Charles Dickens’
A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Adapted by Edward Alsedek
at Whitaker Center
December 2 to 5

Our annual presentation of Dickens’ timeless holiday classic. Nick Hughes returns, once again, in his signature role of Ebenezer Scrooge. Cast off the "humbug within" and catch the spirit of the Season. Meet Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, the three spirits and all the familiar Dickensian characters for a very merry time.

"I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly...
Their faithful Friend and Servant,
C. D
December, 1843."

Performance Dates
December 2, 3, 4*, 5*, 2010
* Matinee performances

Curtain: 7:30 p. m. Dec 2 & 3
2 p. m. Dec 4 & 5

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THE PIANO LESSON
1990 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play
1990 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play
1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1996 Peabody Award

By August Wilson
February 4 to 26

Sponsored by Char Magaro, Gerald McKee, Kristin Scofield,
and Jim Scheiner

"Like other Wilson plays, it seems to sing even when it is talking."
—The New York Times

"A lovely tragic comedy.... Haunting as well as haunted."
—New York Newsday

August Wilson won his second Pulitzer Prize for this haunting drama. It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family's rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated.

February 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13*, 17, 18, 19, 20*, 24, 25, 26
* Matinee performances
Curtain: 8 p. m. Thurs., Fri., & Sat.
              2 p. m. Sun.
Opening Night Performance & Party        February 4
Pay-What –You-Will-Thursdays               February 10, 17, 24
Post Performance Discussion                  February 13

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THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

Two Performances Only
At Whitaker Center
March 12 and 13

Sponsored by

Open Stage’s twelfth annual production of the story of a young girl in Nazi occupied Europe as she matures toward self-assured womanhood.

Performance Dates
March 12 and 13*, 2011
* Matinee performance

Curtain: Saturday at 8 p. m. and Sunday at 2 p. m.

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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
By Tracy Letts
April 15 – May 8

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award.

"I'd bet the farm that no family has ever been as unhappy in as many ways—and to such sensationally entertaining effect—as the Westons of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, a fraught, densely plotted saga of an Oklahoma clan in a state of near-apocalyptic meltdown. Fiercely funny and bitingly sad…[a] turbo-charged tragicomedy…" —NY Times.

A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you've got a major new play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.

"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY may make you think twice about going home for the holidays…it's a great big exhilarating gift." —NY Daily News

April 15, 16, 21, 22, 23*, 28, 29, 30
May 1*, 5, 6, 7, 8*
* Matinee performances

Curtain: 7:30 p. m. Thurs., Fri., & Sat.
              2 p. m. Matinee performances
Opening Night Performance & Party        April 15
Pay-What –You-Will-Thursdays               April 21, 28, & May 5
Post Performance Discussion                  May 1

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2011

FESTIVAL
June 2 to 25

A Singularly Sensational Event!
Our twelfth annual festival of solo performers
Performance dates: June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26
Curtain 8 p. m.

Watch this space for announcement of performers
Tickets for Flying Solo will go on sale February 1, 2011.

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How to Find Us

All performances, except where noted, are at the Open Stage Angino Family Theatre, 223 Walnut St., located on the street level of the Walnut Street Parking Garage in downtown Harrisburg. The garage is situated on Walnut Street between Third and Second Streets.

2010 -2011
School-Day Matinees
at Whitaker Center

Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL
December 2 and 3, 2010

Curtain: 10 a. m.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
March 8, 9, 10, 11, 2011
Curtain 9:45 a. m.

Sponsored by

E-mail education@openstagehbg.com or call 717-214-3250 for group rates and information about student matinee performances.

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Casting

Submit head shot and resume to Casting at Open Stage, 223 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101.

Casting dates:
A CHRISTMAS CAROL - TBA
THE PIANO LESSON - TBA
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK - TBA
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY - TBA

2011 FLYING SOLO FESTIVAL

Performers should submit a cover letter, video, press packet, and SASE. Submissions should be received no later than December 15, 2010. Send material to 2011 Flying Solo Festival, Open Stage of Harrisburg, 223 Walnut St., Harrisburg, PA 17101. For information, contact casting@openstagehbg.com.

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