FOREIGNER

by Larry Shue

November 3 - 13, 2011

 
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER  

by Barbara Robinson

 December 9 - 18, 2011

In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-- probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem-- and the fun-- when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK

by Neil Simon

January 13 - 29, 2012

Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic Velasco, where everything that can go wrong, does.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

by Joseph Stein

April 13 - 29, 2012 

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman and Other Tales) by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on  the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and Jewish religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives. He must cope with both the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters—each one's choice of husband moves further away from the customs of his faith—and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village..

Sands Youth Theater Company

 has some great shows  too!

Peter Pan

A musical based on the play by James M. Barrie, Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne

The classical story of a mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up.

Jungle Book

Original adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale

March 8 - 18, 2012

A group of people lose the baby of one of their womenfolk while attempting to make a new home in the jungle. That child, Mowgli, who is lost in the jungle, is saved from a ferocious tiger and reared by the Wolf Pack. With his friends and famous Disney Jungle Book characters, Baloo the Bear and Bageera the Black Panther, as his teachers, Mowgli learns the Laws of the Jungle and eventually banishes his old enemy, the tiger.

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