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Musical Compositions of Rodgers and Hart
Compiled and Directed by Vic Hyde
Produced by Lawrence Bonanno
An original musical revue of Rodgers and Hart’s Broadway hits!
The Lady is a Tramp – Blue Moon – My Funny Valentine
and many more…
Production Dates: April 21, 22, 27, 28, 29 May 4, 5, 6 2000
A drama by Terrence Rattigan
Directed by Tom Mackan
Produced by Michelle Spanik
It is 1912 in England. The government strains to introduce far-reaching social legislation to heavy opposition, women struggle for the basic right to vote, Ireland’s revolutionary fuse burns menacingly, the German war mongerers rattle their sabres, and Ronnie Winslow, just 14, a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, in 1912, is accused by his superiors of stealing a five shilling postal order and is sent home in disgrace. The Winslows are so ordinary a British family, you look up ordinary in the dictionary, there they are. But in the common ordinariness of their father, Arthur Winslow, burning like a pilot light, a sense of justice abides. Stirred, he begins a journey to see that wrong is righted, a journey that almost ruins his family and his health, and eventually leads him to face choices he never dreamt would arise. Terence Rattigan bases his story on a real event of that period. He reconstitutes the tale but the essential facts remain: A government is brought almost to a standstill, a whole nation is transfixed, and the Crown itself is brought to trial. And all is told as a simple story of an ordinary family doing what ordinary families do in the face of dramatic conflicts… live their lives and trust that right will be done. This play, written in 1946, is considered by many to be one of centuries finest achievements by an extraordinarily skilled writer. Burlington Little Theatre is proud to be giving it its area premier.
Production Dates: Winter 2000 (specific show dates unknown)
Directed by Rainer Noack
Produced by Trevor Bonanno
Set by Trevor Bonanno
The Bliss family – recently-retired Judith, the once glittering star of the London stage; David, an egocentric novelist; and Sorel and Simon, their two Bohemian adult children – are incapable of sharing the spotlight. Unconventional, risqué, and often downright rude, they are everything a respectable English family should not be. When each member of the family invites a guest to their rural retreat, the unassuming visitors are thrown into a living melodrama. Misjudged meetings, secret seductions and scandalous revelations proliferate during one outrageous weekend in Berkshire.
Noël Coward’s hilarious comedy of bad manners has been a favourite amongst theatregoers ever since it first dazzled London’s West End in 1925.
Production Dates: September 18, 19, 24-26, October 1-3 1998
A comedy/drama by Neil Simon
Directed by Ian MacPherson
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
Production dates – September 17-18, 23-25, 30 & October 1-2. 1999
Presented by BLT Workshop
Produced by: Alana & John Newstead
An exploration of the darker side of humanity, through drama & comedy.
An evening of scenes, performed and presented by the 1998/99 workshop group.
Production Dates: June 4, 5 1999
A black comedy by Joe Orton
Directed by Peter Lloyd
Produced by Inez Hayes and Chuck Learn
Production Dates: April 23-24, 29-30, May 1, 6-8, 1999
By Joan MacLeod
Directed by Ian MacPherson
Produced by Trevor Bonanno
Jhana, a mentally-handicapped teenager, lives with her mother and a cheerfully morose poet. Jhana’s estranged father – a professional Elvis impersonator – arrives unexpectedly. What follows is an exploration of fragmented identities and fractured understandings.
Production Dates: February 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14*, 18, 19, 20 1999
* matinee @ 2:00 pm
By Agatha Christie
The play is set in 1920 in Sir Claude Amory’s house near London and features the usual array of characters, suspicions,evil deeds, red herrings and romance which Agatha Christie serves up in her mysteries so reliably and well. It features Hercule Poirot, the dapper Belgian detective who figures so prominently in Christie’s plays, novels and stories for over half a century. Some of the plot elements include a stolen formula for an atomic weapon, an infamous ring of international spies, the blackmail of a beautiful woman who hopes to keep her past a secret, the seething frustrations of the son of a wealthy man and, of course, the murder (by poison) of the scientist who might have unleashed atomic power two decades before it actually happened.
Production Dates: Fall 1997
Dramatized by Elizabeth Fuller Chapman
Directed by Barbara Winther
Produced by Linda Hamilton & Rosemary Rhodes
Annual Children’s Show – Based on the Frank Baum books, a show to delight the young ones.
Production Dates : December 11th – 7:30pm, 12th – 11am 1pm 3pm, and 13th – 11am 1pm 1998