Backdoor Theatre announces it's first productions for the 2010 season.
We will start off the year with "Andrew Brothers," a story about a USO tour where three guys must "be" the Andrew Sisters when the real sisters are unable to attend. Great Andrews Sisters music for a very funny and sweet production.
Our Summer Youth Musical for 2010 will be Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance." Plenty of pirates, a pirate king, police and a Modern Major General and his daughters. Frederic is suppose to be inducted into the pirate life on his 25th birthday but he does not want to be a pirate. His mother was instructed to bring him as an apprentice pilot but she heard pirate.
The "Pirates Of Penzance” spins a hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers, dewy-eyed daughters and an eccentric Major-General, all morally bound to the often-ridiculous dictates of honor and duty.
The fall will begin with the classic "Bus Stop". In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with the most to worry about. She's been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she's ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, "Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I'm gonna end up in Montana …" As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.
Our Fall musical will keep everyone on the edge of their seats. The Broadway hit "Jekyll & Hyde" will astound you. A true musical theatre phenomenon, "Jekyll & Hyde" attracted legions of loyal fans even before the show began its smash-hit Broadway run. An evocative tale of the epic battle between good and evil, "Jekyll & Hyde" is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart. Convinced the cure for his father's mental illness lies in the separation of Man's evil nature from his good, Dr. Henry Jekyll unwittingly unleashes his own dark side, wreaking havoc in the streets of late 19th century London as the savage, maniacal Edward Hyde.
These, along with 4 additional productions and maybe a few surprises will make the 2010 season at Backdoor Theatre one of the best ever.
(Awesome so far and more to come? well guess I'll have to wait!)
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