2008-2009 Theatre Season

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan
New Music by Jeanine Tesori, New Lyrics by Dick Scanlan
Original Story and Screenplay by Richard Morris
Bowlus Fine Arts Center
October 9-11, 7:30 p.m.
Co-produced by the Theatre and Music Departments
The 2002 Tony Award winner for Best Musical and Best Score, Thoroughly Modern Millie is the high-spirited 1920's musical romp that has everyone dancing the Charleston!
Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon-lady of a villainess audiences will love to hate, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a perfectly constructed evening of madcap merriment!

It Runs In The Family
By Ray Cooney
Allen College Theatre
December 4-6, 7:30 p.m.
            This fast-paced British farce mixes wacky characters, mistaken identities and outrageous situations into a delightful, door-slamming comic stew.  Dr. Mortimer is trying to prepare for prestigious lecture his hospital is hosting, but instead must fend off an ex-girlfriend, a punkish son he never knew he had, his wife, the police and convivial physicians practicing for the annual Christmas gala!

Student One-Acts
Allen College Theatre
February 19-21, 7:30 p.m.
Allen College sophomores direct and these short plays, always creating a provocative and amusing evening of entertainment.

Our Town
By Thornton Wilder
Allen College Theatre
April 16-18
Thornton Wilder’s homage to small-town life is being presented as part of Iola’s year-long Sesquicentennial Celebration.  Both community and college actors will be featured in this touching and powerful drama, one of our most revered American plays.

Summer Theatre in the Park
The Great Ice Cream Scheme . . .Or, Robin Baskins to the Rescue!
By Billy St. John
Riverside Park
June 19-20, 7:30 p.m.
Funded by the Sleeper Family Trust
Our 10th Anniversary Production!  Pop Sicle’s Ice Cream Parlor serves the best ice cream in town.  When that cold-hearted villain, I. C. Custard decides to steal Pop’s recipe, things get a little sticky, till Robin Baskins saves the day and wins the love of Marsha Mellow, the sweet young waitress.   Audiences love these tongue-in cheek melodramas and enjoying live theatre under the summer skies in Riverside Park. Free Admission