NEW ALT PERFORMANCE GROUP 2010/2011 SEASON
GUTENBERG!: THE MUSICAL!
Written by Scott Brown and Anthony King
Starring David Butler and Tim Newell
Directed by Loraine O’Donnell
Musical Direction by Chuck Basil
Choreography by Amy Taravella
January 20 – February 6, 2011
Performances:
Thursday, January 20 8pm
Friday, January 21 8pm
Saturday, January 22 8pm
Sunday, January 23 7pm
Thursday, January 27 8pm
Friday, January 28 8pm
Saturday, January 29 8pm
Thursday, February 3 8pm
Friday, February 4 8pm
Saturday, February 5 8pm
Sunday, February 6 7pm
In this two-man musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights perform a backers’ audition for their new project - a big, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. With an unending supply of enthusiasm, Bud and Doug sing all the songs and play all the parts in their crass historical epic, with the hope that one of the producers in attendance will give them a Broadway contract – fulfilling their ill-advised dreams.
“A smashing success! Scott Brown and Anthony King are superb comic writers." -The New York Times
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
Written by David Mamet
Directed by Ronald J Leonardi
February 17, 2011 – March 12, 2011
The NAPG presents an all female cast for this 1984 Pulitzer Prize scalding comedy about small-time, cutthroat real estate salespeople trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. This play brilliantly demonstrates the tough life of hardened characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action-where closing a sale can mean a brand new Cadillac but losing one can mean losing it all.
Little Shop of Horrors
March 24 - April 16, 2011
Thursday, March 24 8pm
Friday, March 25 8pm
Saturday, March 26 8pm
Thursday, March 31 8pm
Friday, April 1 8pm
Saturday, April 2 8pm
Sunday, April 3 7pm
Thursday, April 7 8pm
Friday, April 8 8pm
Saturday, April 9 4pm & 8pm
Thursday, April 14 8pm
Friday, April 15 8pm
Saturday, April 16 4pm & 8pm
Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Based on the film by Roger Corman
Screenplay by Charles Griffith
Direction, Musical direction & costumes by Bret Runyon
Assistant Direction & Choreography by Amy Taravella
Little Shop of Horrors is a dark parody of American life in the fifties. The street urchins Ronette and the Crystals, observe the entire show from the outside looking in. Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day Seymour finds a mysterious unidentified plant which he names Audrey II, that seems to have a craving for blood and begins to sing for his supper. Soon enough, Seymour unwittingly feeds Audrey's sadistic dentist boyfriend, Orin Scrivello, to the plant and later, Mr. Mushnik for witnessing the death of Audrey's ex. Will Audrey II take over the world or will Seymour and Audrey defeat it and live in Suburban Heaven?
MEDEA
Written by Euripides with a translation by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Directed by David Lundy
May 5 – May 28, 2011
Medea we know as the wronged woman who takes the incredibly drastic measure of killing her children. Our 2011 production sets the action in a mental hospital circa 1975, and inserts simulated newscasts of actual, similar events, i.e. Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, and Dena Schlosser to demonstrate the relevance of the classics as human nature has not changed through the ages. Each actor will play a dual role: that of an actual character of the play, and that of hospital worker/nurse/physician. The Greek Chorus, speaking through the mediums of poetry and dance reflect and comment upon the unity of the minds of the women of Corinth and will be broadcast to the audience, giving the sense of contemporaneous action parallel to ancient Greek tragedy.