January 6 - February 7, 2010
Music and lyrics by David Nehls, Book by Betsy Kelso

    There's a new tenant at Armadillo Acres-and she's wreaking havoc all over Florida's most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband-the storms begin to brew.
    "Adultery, strippers, murderous ex-boyfriends, Costco and the Ice Capades. Undeniable fun." -NY Post. "

New Musical

 

March 3 - April 4, 2010
 

 

 

 

 

Musical Drama

 

    
May 12 - June 13, 2010
Book by June Bingham Music and Lyrics by Carmel Owen

    Everyone knows the story of how President Abraham Lincoln died. But what happened afterward? What became of his eccentric wife, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, and their son Robert? Though not everyone knows it, the tale of their battle of wills is as thrilling as American history gets. In ASYLUM: THE STRANGE CASE OF MARY LINCOLN, writer June Bingham and composer Carmel Owen explore the dark psychological warfare and unique historical conditions that drove Robert Lincoln to have his mother wrongfully committed to an insane asylum. Imprisoned at a time when women had few rights, Mary must draw on all her strength and cleverness, as well as a few courageous friends and the memory of her husband, to fight the system and set herself free. A haunting character study of a strong-willed woman and a dangerous man, ASYLUM makes history come alive.
    "...the music takes center stage. Owen is onto something with her music...laudable moments of Puccini proportions." David Fuller, NYTheater.com

  

 

 

New Musical 

 

 

 Greenbrier Ghost  

                    

July 1 - August 8, 2010
Music and Lyrics by Clay Zambo   Book by Susan Murray

Based on a true story...On January 23, 1897 the lifeless body of Zona Heaster Shue was found by a young boy at her at her log home in Livesay's Mill in the western part of Greenbrier County. Just three months prior, Zona had fallen in love with and married a blacksmith named Erasmus Stribbling "Trout" Shue, who hailed from nearby Pocahontas County. A local physician and county coroner, Dr. George W. Knapp, initially ruled the young, vivacious 15-year-old had died of "an everlasting faint." A month later, Mary Jane Heaster began telling friends that Zona's ghost had appeared and recounted how Trout had choked her to death for her failure to cook meat.

 

 

 

New Musical 

 

         
August 25 - September 26, 2010
Words by Katie Baldwin Eng  Music by James Rubio

    Adapted from the nineteenth century short story by clergyman George MacDonald, "The Day Boy and the Night Girl" is the story of Watho, a witch who, while driven to discover the answers to the endless questions of life, is possessed by a Wolf in her mind.  In the grandest of all her experiments to find answers, she decided to raise two children; the Day Boy, raised without any fear in the light, but he's terrified of the dark, and the Night Girl, imprisoned in a dark cellar. By raising the children in this way, she hopes to guard them against their own "wolves".  Her experiment goes horribly wrong when she discovers her children's own independence and the wolf possessing her, begins the hunt.
    With a brilliant and innovative musical score and a captivating and engaging story, this is theater you will not want to miss!

 

 

 

(Phil Piece TBA)                     
October 20 -  November 21, 2010
  
The U.S première of a new work written and directed by one of Britain's most successful musical theatre writers, Phil Wilmott.  Phil's many accolades include New York's Brooks Atkinson prize for playwriting and a recent award for the UK's best musical for his latest show. Past successes have included new musicals based on Jason and the Argonauts, Around the World in Eighty Days, Treasure Island, spy thrillers and his own stories. As a director he has worked all over Europe and the UK from the West End to open air amphi-theatres. This project will be Phil's American directing début