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The Pursuit of Happiness
Theatre Three is in the pursuit of happiness in both Theatre
Three and Theatre Too for the 2009/2010 Season. Everyone
has a different idea of happiness and how to get it: living
a full life onstage, winning a spelling bee, merging two
very different lives for romantic success, surviving all
of life’s changes with grace, creating something entertaining
at the very last minute, treasuring America’s musical heritage,
learning how to dance again, celebrating the holidays with
wild abandon, paying tribute to a legendary talent, finding
that one true love, and conquering personal demons. Theatre
Three’s 2009/2010 season encompasses it all. Woody Guthrie’s
American Song in Theatre Too kicks off the 2009/2010
season on June 19, 2009, with the Theatre Too season concluding
on April 18, 2010. Theatre Three’s 2009-2010 subscription
season begins with The Royal Family on July 30,
2009 and concludes May 23, 2010.
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the landmark comedy by George S. Kaufman &
Edna Ferber
No show cheered up New York more
in 1927 than this madcap comedy of a celebrated family
of charismatic (but chaotic) actors, their agents, their
lovers, and their put-upon servants. Steppenwolf Theatre
in Chicago recently revived this comic jewel leading reviewers
to say “highly entertaining … like a backstage glass of
cheap, opening night champagne, it fizzes deliciously
on the tongue… pleasingly intoxicating….a love-letter
to, and satire of, life in the theater.”
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the recent Broadway musical hit
by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin
A Tony Award winning team puts six
adolescent hopefuls at the mike for the most important
chance of their lives – a chance to stand out and fit
in by winning the spelling bee championship. This Broadway
hit began as non-musical entertainment devised by an improvisational
troupe: improvisation remains embedded in its hugely entertaining
format, adorned with the musical’s brilliant score sung
by delightfully offbeat characters.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic comedy by Lanford
Wilson
This important, enchanting
play shows one evening in the courtship of two unlikely
lovers, Sally Talley and Matt Friedman. Set during other
uncertain times (World War II), this American couple --
from different religious backgrounds and even more different
life experiences -- becomes brave enough to seek happiness
joining their lives together (despite all) in this hopeful,
uplifting 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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a serious comedy by Sir David Hare
An epic play covering twenty
years played by just six actors in two simple sets, this
magnificent theatrical achievement has been called a political
play, a social comedy, a saga of surviving devastated
finances, a study of the changing problems of women, and
finally, as New York critic John Simon summed up “It is,
simply, brilliantly about life…and being about life, it
is about surprises all along the way….attempts a truer
understanding of existence.” It’s dazzling.
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the ingenious, marriage disaster comedy by Alan
Ayckbourn
The stage set has three bedrooms
in which we see four couples whose intertwined lives ricochet
between passion and indifference in this breakthrough
tale penned by England’s most successful contemporary
playwright. Written while he was artistic director of
the Stephen Joseph Theatre, (a theatre-in-the-round about
the same size as Theatre Three), this play went on to
the West End and Broadway where critics and audiences
alike cheered Ayckbourn’s unique inventiveness, his wit,
and his cheerful diagnosis of the collapse of middle class
morality.
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original Broadway musical with music and lyrics by
Jeff Bowen and book by Hunter Bell
In the uproarious tradition of backstage
musicals, this 2006 off-Broadway hit follows two theater
geeks as they try to pursue their idea of happiness: create
a really great musical just in time to make the deadline
for a theater festival. The songwriting team considers all
sorts of fabulous ideas as they try to cobble together this
last minute production, discovering all of the hilarious
backstage drama of putting on a show.
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