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2011-2012 Audience Survey

Below are two lists of titles that we are considering for the upcoming season. These include both MUSICALS and PLAYS.

We are not listing any new plays that are under consideration, as the titles and in most cases the authors will be completely unknown to our audience. But we do appreciate your input in the selection process and we take that input seriously. 

Please visit our survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G28FHY8 to record your choices! (Vote only once, please!)

If you'd like more information on the shows listed, simply click the titles (where links are provided) to be directed to additional information. 

Musicals

COMPANY – Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s tuneful, funny and moving look at marriage and commitment in urban life. Recently on Broadway in a hit revival.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – Bock and Harnick. The classic
musical. Last produced by PTC seventeen years ago.  
 
FOLLIES – Winner of seven Tonys, “Follies” is one of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s greatest works. All of life’s might-have-beens take center stage as two couples rehash past times and favorite songs amid the crumbling magnificence of their old theater.

GYSPY – Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim. The story of the ultimate stage mother. A recent hit revival on Broadway.

KISS ME, KATE – Cole Porter’s play within a play musical comedy about a company putting on a production of “The Taming of the Shrew.” Includes the numbers “Always True To You In My Fashion,” “Too Darn Hot,” and many other classics.

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC – Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s adaptation of the Bergman film “Smiles of A Summer Night.” Wry, wistful, charming and romantic. Recently concluded a successful revival on Broadway.

THE MUSIC MAN – Meredith Wilson’s iconic musical of small town America and a con man changed by love.
 
NEXT TO NORMAL – Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer prize for Drama.  The incredibly moving story of a suburban family struggling with the mother’s fragile psyche. “No show on Broadway right now makes as direct a grab for the heart” (NY Times)
   
PETER PAN (at Christmas) – A hit for PTC in 2002, the always charming story of the boy who didn’t grow up.

Plays

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY – Tracy Letts. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama & Tony Award for Best Play. 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 hilariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.
 
BEDROOM FARCE – Alan Ayckbourn. “One of his sunniest,
funniest comedies…. A dazzling exercise in comic complexity.” (NY Times)

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF – Tennessee Williams’ great 20th century drama of a dysfunctional southern family, celebrating this year’s centennial of Willams’ birth.
 
FALLEN ANGELS – Noel Coward. A little-known, but very funny, play from the master of the comedy of manners.

GOD OF CARNAGE – Yazmina Reza. A social comedy from the author of “Art”, and a critical success on Broadway. It affords four actors the opportunity for tour-de-force performances. Two sets of parents whose sons have had a playground fight meet for drinks to discuss their sons’ behavior in a “civilized” fashion.
 
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN – Oscar Wilde. Comedy/melodrama from one of the wittiest writers who ever lived.

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY – Phillip Barry’s 1920s comedy of Philadelphia “High Society” which made Katherine Hepburn a star.
 
RED – John Logan. A hit on Broadway last season. A compelling account of one of the 20th century’s great artists, Mark Rothko, and his struggles to create great art and maintain artistic integrity.  

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL – Tom Stoppard’s newest 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.

THE SEAGULL –  Anton Chekov’s masterpiece of romance, hope and disillusionment. Never produced by PTC.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW – Shakespeare. One of his best comedies.

THE TEMPEST – Shakespeare. A spectacular play of magic, revenge, and the supernatural. One of his last great plays.
   
TIME STANDS STILL – Donald Margulies. Recent Broadway success  by the author of “Dinner With Friends” about a wounded war photographer and her disintegrating marriage. “Crackles with bright wit and intelligence” (NY Times)

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF – Edward Albee. A masterpiece of 20th century theatre. Never produced by PTC.