 TomfooleryOpens: 12/31/2011Closes: 01/22/2012Company: Cinnabar Theater, Petaluma About the Production: A healthy dose of attitude is all you need to enter the witty, wicked, offbeat and thoroughly twisted world of the famed satirical songwriter, Tom Lehrer. He’s delighted millions of fans since the 1950’s with his dry, cynical but good-humored attacks on everything from the A-bomb to pollution. Nothing is sacred in this hysterical revue featuring such favorites as Poisoning Pigeons In The Park, The Masochism Tango, The Vatican Rag and an unforgettable Gilbert and Sullivan-esque recitation of the table of elements.
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 SouvenirOpens: 05/11/2012Closes: 05/27/2012Company: 6th Street Playhouse-Studio Theater, Santa Rosa About the Production: For more than half a century the name Florence Foster Jenkins has been guaranteed to produce explosions of derisive laughter. Not unreasonably so, as this wealthy society eccentric suffered under the delusion that she was a great coloratura soprano when she was in fact incapable of producing two consecutive notes in tune. Nevertheless, her annual recitals in the ballroom of the Ritz Carlton hotel brought her extraordinary fame. As news of her terrible singing spread, so did her celebrity. Her growing mob of fans packed her recitals, stuffing handkerchiefs in their mouths to stifle their laughter—which Mrs. Jenkins blissfully mistook for cheers. The climax of her career was a single concert at Carnegie Hall in 1944.
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 Tennessee Menagerie: A Evening with the Women of Tennessee WilliamsOpens: 03/23/2012Closes: 04/07/2012Company: 6th Street Playhouse-Studio Theater, Santa Rosa About the Production: In this new visit with the female characters of one of America’s greatest playwrights we see glimpses into William’s own life as a son to a single mother and brother to a mentally disabled sister, and how some of his early women in his one act plays went on to mature into the most powerful matriarchs, sexually repressed ingénues, and tragic female victims of the American stage; now populating his better-known works such as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, and more. Co-conceived by Artistic Director, Craig A. Miller, and company Dramaturge, Lennie Dean, this evening is sure to be a perfect companion to our G. K. Hardt production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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 The Grapes of WrathOpens: 03/02/2012Closes: 03/11/2012Company: Cinnabar Theater-Young Rep, Petaluma About the Production: A powerful and deeply affecting stage version of one of the masterpieces of American literature. Holding to the simplicity and directness of the original novel, the play uses the sparest of technical means to convey its timeless message of the persistence and strength of the human spirit as it battles against the adversities of nature and an uncaring society.
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 Born YesterdayOpens: 05/25/2012Closes: 06/10/2012Company: Cinnabar Theater, Petaluma About the Production: This magnificent comedy may be old but you’d never know it. Washington insiders, greed and government cover-ups - Bernie Madoff could learn a few things! Here’s the hilarious tale of a not-so-dumb-blonde, her less-than-honest brute of a boyfriend, and the no-nonsense reporter who helps her uncover Washington’s dirty little secrets and life’s glorious possibilities.
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