2006 - 2007 Main Stage Season

CELEBRATING OUR 38TH SEASON OF GREAT LIVE THEATRE IN RAPID CITY!

Anything Goes
Anything Goes

Sept. 22 - Oct. 8, 2006
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

The age-old tale of Boy-Meets-Girl and the complications that ensue will intrigue every audience,and no musical puts it on stage better than Anything Goes. This show is an amusing story wrapped around one of Cole Porter’s magical scores, featuring “I Get A Kick Out Of You”, “You’re The Top”, and “It’s De-Lovely”. It’s a wonder that all the romances are sorted out and disaster is averted aboard the magical ship where Anything Goes!

 

The ForeignerThe Foreigner
Nov. 3 - 19, 2006
by Larry Shue

What happens when a group of devious characters must deal with a stranger who they think doesn’t know English? Complete hilarity! This play by Larry Shue is the winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. This inspired comic romp is equal in hilarity to the author’s classic comedy The Nerd. Hang onto your sides, and don’t miss this ”side-splitting” comedy!

 

Steel MagnoliasSteel Magnolias
Feb. 2 - 18, 2007
by Robert Harling

This comedy/drama is a first play by Robert Harling and received immediate critical and popular acceptance at its premier production. Revolving around a group of gossipy Southern ladies in a small town beauty parlor, the play alternates between funny and touching and culminates in the deeply revealing strength and purposefulness of the characters.

 

CopenhagenCopenhagen
Mar. 16 - April 1, 2007
by Michael Frayn

Winner of 3 Tony Awards, this play by the prominent British playwright Michael Frayn offers intriguing speculation about what may have transpired in 1941 during the meeting of German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his former mentor and colleague Niels Bohr. The two had revolutionized atomic science in the 1920s, but ended on opposite sides of a war that unleashed atomic weapons on the human race. What actually happened?

 

Smoke On The MountainSmoke on the Mountain
May 4 - 20, 2007
Book by Constance Ray,
Conceived by Alan Bailey, Musical arrangements by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick

This musical takes place in 1938 in Mt. Pleasant, NC. It’s Saturday night, and Reverend Oglethorpe has invited the Sanders Family singers to provide “an upliftin’ evening of singin’ and witnessin’.” The audience is invited to pull up a pew and join in the rollicking good time!