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The Fantasticks An allegorical story, loosely based on the play "The Romancers" ("Les Romanesques") by Edmond Rostand concerning two fathers who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know that children always do what their parents forbid.
The time is 1944, the place Catesville, Kansas. Restless and bored with small-town life, an attractive widow of 37, contemplates selling her late husband's dry goods store and pursuing her dream of becoming a novelist when she meets a young soldier "passing through" her hometown on his way overseas. “A lyrical and evocative study of love and how life's 'oughts' stifle dreams and about having the good sense and courage to recognize love where and how you find it."
From the team that brought you Dearly Beloved and Dearly Departed comes a church Christmas pageant spinning wildly out of control as three squabbling sisters try to reign in the mayhem. Amidst an ailing Santa, a vengeful sheep, and a reluctant Elvis impersonator, a family secret emerges that just might derail the entire production. And on top of everything else, the pageant will be shown live on cable access television for the first time ever. “Their hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure-filled Christmas Eve is guaranteed to bring joy to your world!”
~Celebrating 40 years of TJC Musical Theatre~ A Second Stage Presentation Written by Samuel Beckett in 1948, in which two characters wait for someone named Godot, who never arrives. Voted "the most significant English language play of the 20th century"
Cotton Patch Gospel “The Greatest Story Ever Retold” is based on the book “The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John” by Clarence Jordan in which the Gospel is presented in a setting of rural Georgia and set to country, bluegrass, and western music; the final and the best work of Harry Chapin.
Cover of Life In 1943, three brothers have gone off to war and their brides have moved in with their mother-in-law. Life Magazine picks up the down-home story and sends a snappy New York writer on assignment. North meets South and career meets home in this deeply affecting story about the struggles of women to achieve a sense of self-worth. THE COVER OF LIFE rings true to life for playwright Robinson and his hometown of Bastrop, Louisiana. In World War II, three Bastrop brothers, one of them the playwright's father, had their wives move in with their mother for the war's duration. LIFE Magazine did send a reporter to do a cover story on small town America coping with war. Fifty years later, Robinson honored his father and his town in his play. The play has bite, humor and heart with rich scenes for the three young brides, which illustrate varying degrees of anger, frustration, harbored dreams and shattered illusions.
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