Performances

New London Theatre 2008 - 2009 Performances

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Up to a house high on a mountain top have been invited ten people who are strangers to each other. When they are all gathered, they hear from their host that each one of them has in someway caused the death of an innocent person and that justice had not be served in their cases. There are eight guests and two servants there for the weekend, but one by one, they are being knocked off according to the poem of "Ten Little Indians". As the number of survivors decreases, they begin to believe that the killer is one of the group, but are unable to decide on which one he or she may be.

This wildly warm-hearted theatrical experience kicks off when the Music Hall Royale (a hilariously loony Victorian musical troupe) "puts on" its flamboyant rendition of an unfinished Dickens mystery. The story itself deals with John Jasper, a Jekyll-and-Hyde choirmaster who is quite madly in love with his music student, the fair Miss Rosa Bud. Now, Miss Bud is, in turn, engaged to Jasper's nephew, young Edwin Drood. Our title character disappears mysteriously one stormy Christmas Eve-but has Edwin Drood been murdered? And if so, then whodunnit? Musical numbers include The Wage of Sin, Perfect Strangers, Both Sides of the Coin, Don't Quit While You're Ahead and Moonfall. The giddy playfullness of this play-within-a-play draws the audience toward one of DROOD'S most talked-about features, which allows the audience to vote on the solution as prelude to the most unusual and hilarious finale. This play is suitable for older teens -adults.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, fifteen and thirteen years old, face Napoleon's wolf-soldiers and a scheming fox, but with help from the comedic Bremen musicians, succeed in being reunited with their family in this coming-of-age original fairy tale.

The Neil Simon play: Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic - he's landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. It seems the town has been cursed with chronic stupidity for 200 years and it's Leon's job is to break the curse. But no one tells him that if he stays over 24 hours and fails to break the curse, he becomes stupid too. So why doesn't Leon leave? Because he's fallen in love with a girl so stupid that she has only recently learned how to sit down! Will Leon breaks the curse and win the girl?

Frederic has been taught since childhood to be a sea-going bandit by the Pirate King, but with his 21st birthday imminent, Frederic wants to leave pirating behind, especially after he becomes infatuated with innocent Mabel. But the Pirate King informs Frederic that since he was born on the last day of February on a Leap Year, his 21st birthday won't roll around for some time yet, and he still owes the King some raiding on the high seas. To Frederic's embarrassment, the Pirate King's next target turns out to be Major General Stanley, Mabel's father!

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