The Dayton Playhouse has just announced their line up for the 2022-2023 season that will start in the fall of 2022. In the meantime, be sure and check out their current show Into The Woods, which runs through Jan 30th, August: Osage County in March or Hello, Dolly! this May!
Here are the shows we can look forward to:
Monty Python’s SPAMALOT!
Book and Lyrics by Eric Idle, Music by John Du Prez & Eric Idle
A new musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” from the original screenplay by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Directed by Jenni Cypher
HARVEY
By Mary Chase
Directed by Dawn Roth Smith
Elwood P. Dowd is an affable man who claims to have an unseen (and presumably imaginary) friend Harvey – whom Elwood describes as a six foot, three-and-one-half inch (192 cm) tall pooka resembling an anthropomorphic rabbit. Elwood introduces Harvey to everyone he meets. His social-climbing sister, Veta, increasingly finds his eccentric behavior embarrassing. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium.
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
Directed by Kip Moore
A Musical, Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
A coming-of-age one-act stage musical based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy. It is set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. It concerns a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring people together of different social classes.
GOD OF CARNAGE
By Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Tim Rezash
It is about two sets of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park. They agree to meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos.
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Songs by Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Based on The Kensington Stories by Sally Benson and the MGM Motion Picture Meet Me In St. Louis
Directed by Brian Sharp
The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair.
