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Stagecrafters 2009-2010 Season
Night Watch - Opens Sept. 18
Night Watch
By Lucille Fletcher
Directed by Tracie Lango
Sept 18,19,20,24,25,26,27,Oct 1,2,3

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Our season opens with the gripping mystery-thriller Night Watch, by Lucille Fletcher. As the curtain rises we see Elaine Wheeler pacing about in her luxurious Manhattan apartment near dawn, unable to sleep. While her husband is trying to calm her, she spots something through her window, inside an apartment in a building across the way, disturbing, distant, yet clearly visible to her – a raggedy chair, half in shadow...  As seeming illusion melds with existing reality and her haunting memories, Elaine is confronted by family, friends, and the authorities, and slowly drawn into a fearsome web of intrigue and foreboding. As the plot ever thickens, the atmosphere of menace and suspense builds to a chilling climax.

(Note:  Unlike our other shows this season, there will be NO performance on the third Sunday, 10/4)

★ Swift-moving • Riveting • Chilling★

THE CAST
ELAINE WHEELER Pierlisa Chiodo-Steo
JOHN WHEELER Walter DeShields
MATILDA
Cherri Poet
VANELLI Ed Mancinkiewicz
CURTIS APPLEBY
Richard Geller
BLANCHE COOKE
Bonnie Grant
LIEUTENANT WALKER Bob O’Neal
DR. TRACEY LAKE
Sonya Aiko Hearn
SAM HOKE
Gary Labowitz
DIRECTOR
Tracie Lango
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The Matchmaker - Opens Nov. 27
The Matchmaker
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Yaga Brady
Nov. 27,28,29(sold out)
Dec 3,4,5,6,10,11,12,13

NOTE:  11/29 Performance is SOLD OUT

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As our second offering this season we proudly bring to you Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, a joyous, sprawling, and rollicking farce, one of the most enduring and endearing classics of the American stage. The Matchmaker marks the 500th production at The Stagecrafters.

Set in Yonkers and New York City near the end of the nineteenth century, the action takes place in the course of a single day . . . and what action it is! Love makes the world go ‘round, but a little money will grease the wheels – so proclaims canny marriage broker, Dolly Gallagher Levi. Engaged by rich, wife-seeking widower Horace Vandergelder, she artfully conspires to snag the man for herself and, in so doing, sets off a whirlwind of assorted missteps, mishaps, mistaken identities, and romantic entanglements that befall a dozen-or-so inter-related characters, each in their way primed to experience something new and invigorating in their lives.

★ Witty • Fun-filled • Charming ★
THE CAST
HORACE VANDERGELDER David Ehrenkrantz
AMBROSE KEMPER Owen Williams
BARBER
Gerry Alexander
GERTRUDE Jacquie Duris
CORNELIUS HACKL
Tim Urian
ERMENGARDE
Jackie Anderson
MALACHI STACK John McKevitt
MRS. DOLLY LEVI
Doff Meyer
BARNABY TUCKER
Andrew Mooers
MRS. IRENE MOLLOY
Cathy Gibbons Mostek
MINNIE FAY
Sonya Aiko Hearn
CABMAN
Gerry Alexander
PIERRE (a waiter)
Jonathan Zell
AUGUST (a waiter)
Greg Pronko
MISS FLORA VAN HUYSEN
Susan Mooers
COOK
Mary McNeill Zell
DIRECTOR
Yaga Brady

 

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A Soldier's Play - FOURTH WEEKEND ADDED
A Soldier's Play
By Charles Fuller
Directed by Marilyn Yoblick
Feb 5,6,7,11,12,13,14,18,19,20,21,25, 26,27,28

FOUR NEW PERFORMANCES ADDED, LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY

Tonight's performance will go on as scheduled! - No cancellation!


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The first production of the new year at The Stagecrafters theater is the riveting mystery-thriller, "A Soldier’s Play" by Charles Fuller, which opens on Friday, February 5, 2010. The action deals with the investigation of the murder of a black sergeant at an army base in Louisiana in 1944 during World War II. As the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the killing proceeds, the psychological complexities of the case come to the forefront, and easy stereotypical judgments become questionable and are, one-by-one, refuted. The play, which is flawlessly structured as a classic whodunit, provides a mesmerizing narrative and delivers at the same time a scorching commentary on ingrained bigotry, racism, and social injustice. Critic Frank Rich (N.Y. Times) noted that Fuller’s writing “... speaks to both blacks and whites without patronizing either [and embraces] volatile contradictions ... to arrive at the shattering truth.”

Charles Fuller, born in Philadelphia in 1939, earned the D.F.A. degree at La Salle University in 1967 and co-founded the Afro-American Arts Theatre that same year in Philadelphia. In 1971 Fuller moved to New York City and, over the following decade with the Negro Ensemble Company, wrote and produced, among several plays, one of which, Zooman and the Sign (1980), won an Obie award. A Soldier’s Play, which opened at Manhattan’s Theatre Four in 1981, featured Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson. A huge critical and popular success, it won Fuller the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New York Drama Critics Award. He also adapted his script to the 1984 film, A Soldier’s Story, which won him the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Film Screenplay. After some twenty-five years the play indeed retains its power to engage theatergoers and to hold them spellbound.


★ Gripping • Shocking • Unforgettable ★

THE CAST
LIEUTENANT BYRD Mike Gannon
CORPORAL BERNARD COBB Richard Steven Bradford
CAPTAIN RICHARD DAVENPORT
Gerard Joseph
CORPORAL ELLIS E.L. Banks
PRIVATE LOUIS HENSON
Marc Holly
PRIVATE C.J. MEMPHIS
Walter DeShields
PRIVATE TONY SMALLS Kyle Paul Dandridge
CAPTAIN CHARLES TAYLOR
Jeff Ragan
TECH SERGEANT VERNON C. WATERS
Monroe Barrick
CAPTAIN WILCOX
David Ferrier
PRIVATE JAMES WILKIE
Ron Shipman
PFC MELVIN PETERSON
Chadwick Antonio Rawlings
DIRECTOR
Marilyn Yoblick

 

 
The Violet Hour- Opens April 9
THE  VIOLET HOUR
By Richard Greenberg
Directed by Patrick Martin
Apr. 9,10,11,15,16,17,18,22,23,24,25

 

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Dark comedy meets Sci-Fi in 1919 New York City.
An aspiring young publisher with high literary ambitions, but only enough money to publish one book, faces a tough choice: publish his best friend's manuscript or his secret lover’s memoirs. Suddenly an unearthly printing machine with a mind of its own appears, complicating the young man's dilemma exponentially!

★ Eerie • Surreal • Thought-provoking ★
 
The Fantasticks - Opens June 11
The Fantasticks
Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Directed by Catherine Pappas
Musical Director: Samuel Heifetz
Jun. 11, 12,13 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27
One of the most durable musicals of all time. A boy, a girl, two meddling fathers, a few obstacles, lots of
misunderstanding, disillusionment, and ... does love really conquer all? Well, maybe... if one believes in small
miracles. This charmer of a play weaves the quintessential yarn of young love, with poetic language and catchy and memorable tunes.

★ Tuneful• Whimsical • Poetic ★
 


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