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Book of Days
by Lanford Wilson
September 30-October 4, 2004

An intriguing, prismatic and thoroughly engrossing depiction of contemporary small-town life” with a murder mystery at its core. A quest to find truth and honesty amid small-town jealousies, religion, greed, and lies, this “tornado of a play” propels you through its events like a page-turning mystery. (For our adult audiences.)

Scrooge: The Annual Musical
book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
November 17-20, 2004
Wise Auditorium

A “sensational” adaptation of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, this “rollicking, frolicking” Christmas feast of musical theatre entertainment is a sure-fire audience pleaser sure to kick-off the holidays on a merry note.

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
January 21-25, 2005

Touted by critics as “Absolutely fascinating” and “imaginatively commanding”, this modern American classic moves you to laughter or close to tears by taking you on a mind trip through Henry David Thoreau’s early years as a transcendentalist beginning on the eventful night he was jailed for refusing to pay taxes to a country waging a war of aggression in Mexico.

The Wizard of OZ
by L. Frank Baum
Directed by Victor L. Siller
Music Direction by Cheryl Rogers
Adapted by Frank Gabrielson with Music and Lyrics of the MGM motion picture Score by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg
Background Music by Herbert Stothart.
April 27-30, 2005

Adapted from the timeless movie. TJC's Theatre, Music and Dance Departments join forces to bring Little Dorothy Gale of Kansas and her dreams of what lies over the rainbow.

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Directed by Becky Faulds
Play by John Bishop
March 8-12, 2005

“Intelligent nonsense” is the word for this “side-splitting” comic romp generously served by Bishop’s biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent wit. What you end up with is a brash, silly and relentlessly convoluted murder mystery balanced by tear-wiping hilarity.