Main Stage Productions
We are excited to introduce you to the 2010–11 theatre season at Cedarville University. It begins with the well-known period comedy The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. The twists and turns of the plot will keep you captivated until everything is unraveled at the end. One of the most vibrant, fast-paced, funny musicals in American theatre, the award-winning Hello, Dolly! is an optimistic story that glitters with splashy numbers. Finally, you won't want to miss our spring production of the hilarious and fast-paced farce See How They Run. We hope you are as excited about these shows as we are. Plan now to attend the entire season!
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Director: Diane Merchant
2:40 minutes
Performance Times:
September 30 - October 2, 7-9
Gwendolyn and Cecily are in love with romantic, handsome, beguiling young men named "Ernest" ... or at least they think they are! And Jack and Algernon, bachelors who may have finally fallen victim to romance, seem to be caught between the wiles of the female sex and the allure of freedom. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a romantic delight that entertains audiences, satirizes the hypocrisy of social obligations, and comments on society's foibles — all in the midst of mistaken identities and some mysterious business with a handbag in a train station. Playwright Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy, set in Victorian England, is one of the most widely produced plays in the English language and has been described as Wilde's "most enduringly popular play." Join us as we watch Lady Bracknell preside while Gwendolyn, Cecily, Algernon, and Jack learn the importance of being earnest!
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Hello, Dolly!
Book by Michael Stewart
Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
Director: Robert Clements
2:40 minutes
Performance Times:
February 3-5, 10-12
" … I meddle." And indeed she does. Dolly Levi meddles in numerous people's lives as she pursues her goal of marrying Horace Vandergelder, the well-known half-a-millionaire. Dolly, one of the most fabulous characters on the musical stage, has been hired by Mr. Vandergelder, a widower, to find him a new wife. Little does he realize that Dolly has found him the perfect wife — herself. It takes two hours of comedy, fun, music, dancing, and a cast of crazy characters for Horace to realize that Dolly is just the wife he needs. Comedy, music, and spectacle provide a full package of laughter and optimism in this production of match-making and scheming as Dolly charms and meddles her way into the heart of the "hard as nails" Horace Vandergelder.
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See How They Run
by Philip King
Director: Rebecca Baker
2:30 minutes
Performance Times:
April 7–9, 14-15, 17
No doubt about it — this smash London hit left its audience as exhausted from laughter as if they had run a footrace. Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an American actor and actress, a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, a staunch parishioner who unknowingly gets into the cooking sherry, and four men in clergyman suits. One is the bishop who really lives there, another is a disguised escaped prisoner, one just dropped in to visit, and the other — well, that's left for those on stage and the audience to figure out. Fast-paced and fun, the farce See How They Run will leave you guessing and laughing from beginning to end.
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