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Limelight Theatre's 16 Season Schedule
08.08.2007
St. Augustine, FL - Limelight Theatre is pleased to announce its 16th season to open September 7, 2007, in the new Studio Theatre. The opening production will be "Criminal Hearts," by Jane Martin, and directed by Barbara Evans of Neptune Beach.
The Limelight Theatre is opening its new Studio Theatre, technically a 'Black Box' theater, which allows for movable seating and stage sets. The theater will seat up to 70 persons and is geared for: shorter run productions; contemporary themes; children's theatrical productions & workshops.
The Limelight Theatre is a subscriber-based organization - we are pleased to announce this year's Play 8 Subscription is the same price as last year's Play 7. Call the Box Office to become a subscriber.
The season schedule is as follows:
September 7 – 23, 2007
LIMELIGHT THEATRE'S, STUDIO THEATRE - CRIMINAL HEARTS
By Jane Martin
Adult Comedy - A cheating husband, an agoraphobic wife and two con artists,
Revenge is sweet.
16 Performances, Tickets: $20 General Admission (except for subscribers).
October 5 - 28, 2007
LIMELIGHT THEATRE – FRANKENSTEIN
By Mary Shelley, adapted by Tim Kelly
Mystery - Dr Victor Frankenstein's wedding night is interrupted by the arrival of his Creature, who demands in the name of justice that Victor create him a bride to relieve his loneliness. Fear and terror are neatly counter pointed by humor in this otherwise faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's prophetic classic.
21 Performances, Tickets: $22
November 30 – December 8, 2007
LIMELIGHT THEATRE'S, STUDIO THEATRE – SANTALAND DIARIES
By David Sedaris, adapted by Joe Montello
Irreverent Comedy - A pair of comic monologues bursting with unconventional holiday humor, adapted from the author's best-selling Holidays on Ice. A young man arrives in New York with dreams of being a writer for One Life to Live and instead lands a part-time job as a Macy's Christmas elf named Crumpet. The author's real-life experiences, detailed in The SantaLand Diaries, are merrily subversive and fall-on-your-knees funny!
8 Performances, Tickets: $20 General Admission (except for subscribers).
December 14, 2007 – January 12, 2008
LIMELIGHT THEATRE - THE FANTASTICKS
By Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt
Musical - The longest-running show in the history of the American theater (it opened at an off-Broadway theater in the spring of 1960, where it remained until the production finally closed in early 2002. A pair of small town fathers scheme to bring their children Matt and Luisa together in a romance. As a carnival arrives to the sleepy village, the fathers persuade a mysterious interloper (El Gallo) to perform a mock abduction of Luisa, and Matt comes to her rescue, all contribute to awaken these innocent charges to the darker and more disappointing side of love.
24 Performances, Tickets: $25
February 8 – March 9, 2008
LIMELIGHT THEATRE – A RAISIN IN THE SUN
By Lorraine Hansberry
Classic Literature - The Youngers, an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s, are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000, from the deceased Mr. Younger's life insurance policy. Each of the adult members of the family has an idea as to what he or she would like to do with this money.
25 Performances, Tickets: $22
April 11 – May 11, 2008
LIMELIGHT THEATRE – BILOXI BLUES
By Neil Simon
Comedy - Biloxi Blues was the twenty-first play by Neil Simon to reach the Broadway stage in twenty-four years. In the 1980s, the author, already an established comedic playwright, turned to his own life for inspiration and produced a trilogy of semi-autobiographical plays. He first introduced Eugene Morris Jerome, the hero of Biloxi Blues, in the widely acclaimed Brighton Beach Memoirs. The play depicted Eugene's close-knit Brooklyn Jewish family, as seen through Eugene's diary entries. In Biloxi Blues Simon follows Eugene as he gets sent to army training camp in Biloxi, Mississippi. There, the naïve Eugene, who has never before left home, is forced to confront difficult issues and his own reactions to them. These experiences inform his development as a writer. It was honored with a Tony Award for the best play of 1985, but also audiences warmed to the humor that filled each scene, indeed, almost every line. Critics noted that Simon, as he had done so many times previously, was able to draw his audience together with his relatively simple words.
25 Performances, Tickets: $22
May 30 – June 15, 2008
LIMELIGHT THEATRE'S, STUDIO THEATRE – WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
By Edward Albee
Drama - Winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play. The Broadway production of this play was a shattering and memorable experience and proclaimed the author as a major American playwright. Scorching, revealing, and completely engrossing.
16 Performances, Tickets: $20 General Admission (except for subscribers).
July 25 – August 17, 2008
LIMELIGHT THEATRE – PERFECT WEDDING
By Robin Hawdon
Farce - On his wedding morning, a man wakes up in the bridal suite to find an attractive woman in his bed. Before he can get her out, his bride-to-be arrives to dress for the wedding.
20 Performances, Tickets: $22
All productions will open with a Champagne Reception at 7PM on the first Friday of the production, with curtain at 7:30PM. Saturday and Sunday Matinees curtain at 2PM. Thursdays through Saturdays curtain at 7:30PM. Please call Box Office for specific dates and group rates. 904-825-1164. www.limelight-theatre.org