[Capdist-announce] Classic Theater Guild Announces Its 2011-12 Season at Proctors

[Charles Treadwell]

Classic
Theater Guild’s 2011-12 Season at Proctors









The
Crucible 
 October 28-30, November 3-6, 2011 




Winner of the
1953 Tony Award for Best Play. This exciting drama about the Puritan
purge of witchcraft in old Salem is both a gripping historical play
and a timely parable of our contemporary society.



"A powerful
drama." —NY Times 

"Strongly
written." —NY Daily News



The story focuses
upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who
maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer
brings the girl to court to admit the lie—and it is here that the
monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The
farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of
witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others.






Miracle on
34th Street 
 December 9-11, 15-18, 2011 




Adapted by Will
Severin, Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder and John Vreeke from the novel
by Valentine Davies. Music by Will Severin. 

Comedy with music





Kris Kringle is
the personification of good will and holiday spirit. As Macy's
holiday Santa, he enchants children and shoppers so completely that
he is deemed dangerous by fellow employees who question his
competency and plot to ruin him. A small girl's belief in Santa and
the magic of the holiday is at stake in a climactic courtroom
decision. This hilarious, tender and charming show for the entire
family is a Christmas classic. 




Originally
produced by the New York State Theatre Institute. 




"A
delight.... The play bustles from scene to scene with holiday good
cheer." - Metroland 

"A Christmas
gift." -Albany Times Union


"Gives kids
something to cheer about." - Daily
Gazette






One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest    
February 17-19, 23-26, 2012



Comedy Drama 

Dale Wasserman,
adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey



Kirk Douglas
played the role of McMurphy on Broadway as a charming rogue who
contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution
rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with
the head nurse, a fierce martinet. Quickly, he takes over the yard
and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do
for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He
leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so that they can
see the world series on television, and arranges a rollicking
midnight party with liquor and chippies. For one offense, the head
nurse has him submit to shock treatment. The party is too horrid for
her and she forces him to submit to a final correction a frontal
lobotomy. 




Winner of the
2001 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival. 




"Cuckoo is
captivating." N.Y. Post 

"Scarifying
and powerful." N.Y. Times 

"Funny,
touching, and exciting." N.Y. Daily News 

"Brilliant.
The stuff of great theatre." WQR Radio 

"Transforms
the audience into one wild cheering section." WNYC Radio 

"One of the
finest, most meaningful and most moving play of recent times."
WPIX TV 







The Man Who
Came To Dinner   April
20-22, 26-29, 2012
by Moss Hart and
George S. Kaufman



While on his way to dinner at a
suburban family's home, Sheridan Whiteside, an insufferably arrogant
radio personality, accidentally falls and breaks his hip. A
tumultuous six weeks of confinement follow, during which Whiteside
monopolizes the living room and, along with an offbeat cast of
characters who come to visit him, proceeds to drive his hosts round
the bend! 

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      Classic
Theater Guild, Inc. is established exclusively for the
      advancement
of education in the theater arts through, among other
      things, the
production of contemporary and classical plays. The Guild
      also works
to strengthen theatre arts, support emerging playwrights,
      encourage
education in the Arts, present a diverse array of topics,
      and
encourage persons to enter acting by promoting the benefits of
      dramatic
entertainment to educational institutions and to the general
      public.
Classic Theater Guild, Inc. is a non-profit, tax exempt, all
      volunteer
community theater company.For more information, call 424-6579; www.classictheaterguild.org










      
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