MVT announces 2009-2010 season
Advertiser Staff
Manoa Valley Theatre announced its 2009-2010 season today with a little bit of something for everyone, including some family fare.
The season will open Sept. 3 with the musical revue “Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit,” a send-up of Broadway’s most acclaimed contemporary productions.
The theater also announced some changes to its season traditions, most notably that beginning next year, opening night switches to Thursdays. A Saturday matinee has also been added. Performances will no longer be staged on Wednesdays.
Food service is also being offered with select shows, such as it is with the theater’s current production “Duck Hunter Shoots Angel.”
Season ticket purchasers for the Friday series will also have the option of adding on reserved seating section privileges.
Show times for all productions are Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 4 p.m.
Season tickets are $140 for the five-play (one ticket per play) season. A $140 flex pass, which allows five admissions useable in any combination of plays in the 2009-10 season, is also available. Season tickets and flex passes are on sale now.
Its production of “Once Upon One Time” is a special engagement, and is available to season subscribers at an advance purchase price of $30 per ticket.
For more information, call MVT at 988-6131 or log on to www.manoavalleytheatre.com.
MVT’s 2009-2010 SEASON
By Gerard Alessandrini
Sept. 3-20
Synopsis: For more than 25 years Gerard Alessandrini has been tickling Off-Broadway's funny bone with his sharp spoofs of show tunes, characters, personalities and plots of Broadway musicals in his award-winning Forbidden Broadway series of parodies. MVT's Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit takes on such notables as Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, South Pacific (2008 revival), Mary Poppins, The Lion King, and Wicked, among others.
By Roger Bean
Nov. 12-29, 2009
Synopsis: It's 1968 and Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy are entertaining at the Holiday Party for Harper's Hardware. When they hear that the store is closing, they try to cheer things up with happy Christmas memories as well as a musical tribute to Christmas around the world. But all ends happily and merrily in this winter wonderland. Songs include "Mister Santa," "Jingle Bell Rock," "Mele Kalikimaka," "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," "Winter Wonderland" and many more.
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
Jan. 14-31
Synopsis: Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other's lives. The Dixie Swim Club focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. It is the story of these five unforgettable women-a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever.
By James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot
March 4-21, 2010
Synopsis: The story of a group of young Americans searching for love and peace during the Vietnam era, Hair is a timeless portrait of a movement that changed the world. The 1968 Broadway hit blazed a new trail in musical theater by defining the genre of the "rock musical." Its groundbreaking rock score features some of the greatest songs ever written for the stage; several becoming Top 40 hits and anthems of the anti-war movement. The show was revived on Broadway to acclaim in 2009 as the "Age of Aquarius" dawns again in this jubilant new production - a celebration of life, a love letter to freedom, and a passionate cry for hope and change.
By Anthony Shaffer
May 20 - June 6, 2010
Synopsis: Andrew Wyke is an immensely successful mystery writer living a millionaire's life in his manor house in Wiltshire, England. His home reflects his obsession with the inventions and deceptions of fiction and his fascination with games and game-playing. He lures his wife's lover, Milo Tindle, to the house and convinces him to stage a robbery of her jewelry for their mutual benefit. The proposal sets off a chain of events that leaves the audience trying to decipher where Wyke's imagination ends and reality begins in this deadly serious, seriously twisted game with murderous consequences.
By Lisa Matsumoto, Paul Palmore and Roslyn Catracchia
July 8-25, 2010
Synopsis: This award-winning pidgin musical comedy adapts and intertwines familiar fairy tales into a fun Hawaiian kine "local-style" fantasy for the whole family. The action takes place in a mythical local kingdom where outrageous characters meet for one crazy, kapakahi (mixed up) adventure. Characters include Noelani an da Six Menehunes (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), Kekoa and Maile (Hansel and Gretel), Red Rose Haku (Little Red Riding Hood), Da Keed Who Wen Cry Mongoose (The Boy Who Cried Wolf), and many more.
