Director & Choreographer
Darren Lee
Assistant Director
Melanie Tojio Lockyer
Musical Director
Emmett Yoshioka
Based On A Novel
Richard Henry Morris
& Dick Scanlan
Music
Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics
Dick Scanlan
Thoroughly Modern Millie
September 22 to October 8, 2006
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a high-spirited musical romp that has all of New York dancing the Charleston. It’s the zany new 1920’s musical that has taken Broadway by storm! Taking place in New York City in 1922, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city in search of a new life for herself. It’s a New York full of intrigue and jazz – a time when women were entering the workforce and the rules of love and social behavior were changing forever. Based on the popular movie, the stage version of Thoroughly Modern Millie includes a full score of new songs and bright dance numbers. Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon-lady of a villainess audiences will love to hate, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a perfectly constructed evening of madcap merriment. And with the role of Millie Dillmount, musical theatre has found a new heroine for the ages in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Director
Greg Zane
Choreographer
Timothy Albrecht
Musical Director
Emmett Yoshioka
Book & Lyrics
Oscar Hammerstein II
Music
Richard Rogers
Cinderella
December 1 to December 17, 2006
A musical filled with wonderful songs, wicked (but hilarious) stepsisters, a lovingly pompous king and of course the glass-slippered heroine, Cinderella. Originally presented on television in 1957 starring Julie Andrews, CINDERELLA was the most widely viewed program in history. Its recreation in 1965 starring Lesley Ann Warren transported a new generation to the miraculous kingdom of dreams-come-true. Now as adapted for the stage, with great warmth and more than a touch of laughter, the hearts of children and adults alike still soar when the slipper fits.
Director
Rub Duval
A Play Written
Ken Ludwig
Lend Me A Tenor
February 2 to February 18, 2007
This night in September of 1934 is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello, his greatest role, at the gala season opener. Saunders, the General Manager, hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli’s Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he’s Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo! A sensation on Broadway and in London’s West End, Lend Me a Tenor is guaranteed to leave your audiences teary eyed with laughter.
Director & Choreographer
Andrew Sakaguchi
Musical Director
Althea Train
Book
Neil Simon
Music
Cy Coleman
Lyrics
Dorothy Fields
Sweet Charity
March 23 to April 8, 2007
Charity works at a dance club where she has seen only the dark side of life through bad relationships. One day she meets Oscar and believes her luck has changed. When things turn sour, Charity stays sweet and hopeful that someday her ideals will materialize.
Director & Choreographer
John Rampage
Musical Director
Laurence Paxton
Book & Lyrics
Alan Jay Lerner
Music
Frederick Lowe
Gigi
May 18 to June 3, 2007
This is the classic story of a young girl who wins at the game of love. Gigi has been brought up by her Grandmama and Aunt Alicia, an old-school courtesan, to be a stylish coquette and set her sights on a rich man. When Gaston visits, he brings her candy and lets her cheat at cards. He is captivated by school-girl ways. But Gigi is now 16 and the time is ripe to put away childish things and to prepare to become Gaston’s mistress. Gigi however, has other plans…
Director & Choreographer
John Rampage
Musical Director
John Kolivas
Writer
Lee Cataluna
Music & Lyrics
Keola Beamer
You Somebody
July 13 to July 29, 2007
Welcome to You Somebody, the world of Pua “Ma” Lusa. Wildly over the top, Ma Lusa is determined to make up for her own less than successful stage career. She embarks on a zany quest to make her family famous. All she wants is her name is the column- specifically Wayne Harada’s column- a sure sign (she thinks) that she has “made it”. Watch as Ma and her family weave through a series of misguided, always hilarious attempts to win a contest, any contest- from pageants to keiki hula, from karaoke to ukulele- always thwarted by the perfect, talented Baga family.