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Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
October 18-21 & 24-27, 2007
Mainstage Theatre
Urinetown is an award-winning satirical musical comedy, poking fun at local government, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty-minded, small-town politics. Can we laugh and thrill to a musical at a time like this? There is simply no show I’ve ever seen that gives off such a sense that the creators and performers know what it takes to make the world a better place. And did I mention that “Urinetown” is hilarious? When every individual spirit as well as the national one can use all the bolstering it can get, “Urinetown” is not just a recommended tonic. Its reopening under the glare of lights on Broadway places it beside “The Producers,” another great musical that makes us laugh at tyranny, as a stanchion of pure American vibrancy. “Urinetown” is simply the most galvanizing theater experience in town.
- - Bruce Weber – The New York Times
Dinner With Friends
By Donald Margulies
November 29 - December 2 & 4-8, 2007
Dudley Experimental Theatre
Two couples. Two crises. When Beth and Tom decide to split after twelve years of marriage,their friends Gabe and Karen are forced to examine their own marriage in this “sober, wise and extremely funny play.” (New York Times) A keen and witty examination of our times. Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
By Georges Feydeau
February 14-17 & 20-23, 2008
Mainstage Theatre
Yvonne intercepts a pair of her husband’s suspenders in the mail, and all Hell breaks loose! A Flea In Her Ear, the equivalent of the English expression “a bee in her bonnet” is French master playwright Georges Feydeau’s most celebrated work. Written in 1907, this Parisian door-slamming, pants-dropping, bodice-ripping, mistaken identity, bed-revolving farce was the toast of the Paris boulevard theatre, and once translated became Feydeau’s most popular play in English-speaking countries. Eccentric characters, misunderstandings, clandestine trysts, and misplaced jealousies create overall fun and mayhem, as Yvonne definitely has “a flea in her ear.”
By William Inge
March 13-15 & 25-30, 2008
Dudley Experimental Theatre
Based on Inge’s earlier one-act play, People in the Wind, Bus Stop discusses the circumstances of a busload of weary travelers who are forced by a snowstorm to stay at a roadside diner until morning. Overnight, a pair of young lovers struggle to find love in the modern world, a bus driver explores a long-overdue friendship, and a middle-aged scholar faces his past. William Inge should be a great comfort to all of us…he brings to the theatre a kind of warm-hearted compassion, creative vigor, freshness of approach and appreciation of average humanity that can be wonderfully touching and stimulating.
--The New York Post
Created by Tom Isbell and Valerie Buel, Denise Dawson, Jamison Haase, Kourtney Kaas, Julie MacIver, Andrew Nelson & Julie Unulock
April 24-27 & 30 - May 3, 2008
Mainstage Theatre
The award-winning documentary play about the Holocaust returns to UMD ten years after its premiere performance. Drawing on interviews, letters, and materials from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the play chronicles Hitler’s rise to power, the persecution of European Jews, the massacres at Babi Yar, life in the ghettos and concentration camps, and liberation. A powerful, poignant look at humankind – a must-see for anyone who recognizes we must “never forget.”
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