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AUDIENCE SURVEY
Thank you for participating in our 2010-2011 Audience Survey.
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Please complete the survey only once. This survey will restrict each computer to only one survey. The survey is completely anonymous, unless you wish to provide any information at the end. Below are the musical and play suggestions on this year's survey, as well as relevant links to additional information:
PLAYS:
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. This would be the regional premiere of “the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.” (NY Times) A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. A major new play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family. See NY Times review here.
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN by Oscar Wilde. Comedy/melodrama from one of the wittiest writers who ever lived.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee Williams. The great 20th-century drama of a dysfunctional southern family.
A FEW GOOD MEN by Aaron Sorkin. The basis for the hit movie, a military trial delves into questions of honor and justice in a country threatened by nearby enemies.
THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON by Jason Miller. The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about five men who reunite twenty years after winning their state high school basketball championship.
DRACULA An adaptation of Bram Stoker’s great Gothic novel. A major hit for PTC twenty years ago.
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY by Phillip Barry. The 1920s comedy of Philadelphia “high society” which made Katherine Hepburn a star.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK by Goodrich and Hackett, adapted for the Broadway revival of a decade ago by Wendy Kesselman. A deeply moving and enduring story of a young girl growing up in hiding during the Holocaust. (This was last produced by PTC fourteen years ago.)
HAMLET by Shakespeare. Possibly the greatest play ever written.
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by Shakespeare. One of the author’s best comedies.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by Shakespeare. A comedy? A family drama? An unsettling and not easily quantifiable play in the 21st century.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL by George Bernard Shaw. One of Shaw’s smartest yet lightest, most whimsical comedies.
BLACK COMEDY by Peter Shaffer. A very funny farce from the 1960s. In one hilarious act, the action supposedly in the dark is illuminated; when the lights are to be on, the stage is dark. “It is still possible to laugh yourself into a hernia watching Black Comedy.”-USA Today
ROCK ‘n’ ROLL by Tom Stoppard. A new play about the rise of rock and roll and the fall of communism and their impact upon the lives of a small group of friends and colleagues from Cambridge to Prague. Smart, funny, moving.
ALL MY SONS by Arthur Miller. A great play about family bonds and war-time ethics.
THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekov. A masterpiece of romance, hope and disillusionment.
FALLEN ANGELS by Noel Coward. A little known, but very funny play from the master of the comedy of manners.
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee. A masterpiece of 20th-century theatre. Never produced by PTC.
MUSICALS:
RENT by Jonathan Larson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway rock musical based loosely on Puccini’s La Bohème. WHITE CHRISTMAS Stage adaptation of the beloved Irving Berlin Christmas movie. THE WIZARD OF OZ by Arlen and Harburg. Stage version of the classic movie musical. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF by Bock and Harnick. The classic musical; last produced by PTC seventeen years ago. THE MUSIC MAN by Meredith Willson. An iconic musical of small town America and a con man changed by love. GYPSY by Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, and Stephen Sondheim. The story of the ultimate stage mother. A recent hit revival on Broadway. COMPANY by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. A tuneful, funny, and moving look at marriage and commitment in urban life. Recently on Broadway in a hit revival. A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC by Stephen Sondheim. Hugh Wheeler’s adaptation of the Bergman film Smiles of A Summer Night. Wry, wistful, charming and romantic. Currently playing on Broadway in a successful revival. See also the Broadway site. BUDDY—THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY by Alan Janes and Rob Bettinson. The musical biography of the rock and roll great. See also the Broadway site.
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