Orlando, FL: The POINTE Performing Arts Center Season and Audition Information
October 26, 2010 by Lance Carter
THE POINTE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 2010-211 SEASON
1901 International Drive
Orlando, FL 32819
Job postings appear at www.pointearts.org/jobs.shtml
September 15-October 10, 2010: THE ODD COUPLE (Female Version) By: Neil Simon
Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon’s hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the two Constanzuela brothers. But the hilarity remains the same.
“Very funny indeed.”-New York Post
“Endearing.”-USA Today
October 20-November 14, 2010: Torch Song Trilogy By: Harvey Fierstein
An endearing trilogy of love, loss and acceptance.
Tony Award Winner, Best Play 1983
The International Stud
Fugue in a Nursery
Widows and Children First!
“A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family…the zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for.” – Newsweek
“Under the tragedy, the play is gorgeously funny.” – N.Y. Post
December 1-December 23, 2010: A SEASONAL CELEBRATION By: Christian St.
John & The Eight Reindeer Monologues By: Jeff Clarke
We will be offering two Holidays shows this season. One for the family, a Musical, celebrating the Season, Floridian Style. And, one for the Adults who want to share in a little holiday cheer and razzing of the Man in Red, himself.
These shows will be playing in rep with one another, check our website for exact dates and times.
January 19-February 14, 2011: Blithe Spirit By: Noel Coward
Just in time for the Winter British Visitors: The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantakerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium”, one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and
un-) personalities clash, Charles’ current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, “passes over”, joins Elvira and the two “blithe spirits” haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
March 1-March 27, 2011: Equus By: Peter Shaffer
Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. This very passion is as foreign to Dysart as the act itself. To the boy’s parents it is a hideous mystery; Alan has always adored horses. To Dysart it is a psychological puzzle that leads both doctor and patient to a complex and disturbingly dramatic confrontation. This international success reached new acclaim in London and on Broadway when revived in 2008.
“The closest I have seen a contemporary play come to reanimating the spirit of mystery that makes the stage a place of breathless discovery rather than a classroom for rational demonstration. Mr. Shaffer may have been trying for just such iconography a portrait of the drives that lead men to crucify themselves there. Here I think he’s found it.”-The New York Times
April 13-May 15, 2011: Side Show Book and Lyrics by: Bill Russell.
Music By: Henry Krieger
Based on the true story of Siamese twins Violet and Daisy Hilton who became stars during the Depression, Side Show is a moving portrait of two women joined at the hip whose extraordinary bondage brings them fame but denies them love. Told almost entirely in song, the show follows their progression from England to America, around the vaudeville circuit and to Hollywood on the eve of their appearance in the 1932 movie Freaks.
“Daring, enthralling … [with] passion, empathy and directness [that is] reflected in the tidal pull of the music and the winning simplicity of the lyrics…. Grafts the Hilton sisters into the hearts of their audience.” N.Y. Times.
“A bright and moving musical…. From the first, almost Brechtian scene the show completely holds interest…. A rousing blast off for the Broadway season.” N.Y. Post.
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