CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES, IS HE DEAD? and More Set for Wayside Theatre's 2013-14 Season

Wayside Theatre has announced its 2013-14 season, including Church Basement Ladies, Boeing Boeing, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Frankenstein, Southern Crossroads, Mark Twain's Is He Dead?, and A Christmas Carol. Scroll below for details!

Church Basement Ladies
Book by Jim Stowell & Jessica Zuehlke, Music & Lyrics by Drew Jansen
June 1 - June 30, 2013

If you thought the ladies of Steel Magnolias were tough, wait until you meet the Church Basement Ladies. It's a combo of laughter and heart tugging moments in this musical comedy about the ladies who make the meals and make this Lutheran Church run from below the house of God. Based on the humorous novel Growing Up Lutheran by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson.

Boeing Boeing
By Mark Camoletti, Translated by Beverly Cross & Francis Evans
July 13 - August 11, 2013

Make sure your seat belts are buckled before take ofF. Bernard is an American businessman, living in Paris, who has it all, including love affairs with three stewardesses. It's all perfect until his friend decides to visit, and Boeing's new jets change the flight schedules and the ladies all end up in his flat at the same time. It's a high-flying bedroom farce that might have you reaching for your oxygen mask from laughing so much.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Book & Lyrics by Joe DiPietro, Music by Jimmy Roberts
August 24 - September 22, 2013

Love and marriage. Whether you're falling in love for the first time or been together for a lifetime of happiness, this delightful musical is a date night you'll treasure for the rest of your life. Dating, marriage, children, in-laws, romance, husbands, wives, this musical comedy will hit you where you love.

Frankenstein
A New Adaptation of the Story by Mary Shelley
October 5 - November 3, 2013

When science and reason do battle with God and Nature there are always fireworks. In this new adaption of Mary Shelley's classic tale of horror, the Monster is reborn in a frightening tale that will leave you haunted for years to come.

Southern Crossroads
By Warner Crocker & Steve Przybylski
January 25 - March 16, 2014

It's music, it's mayhem, its down-home theatre magic when the Greene Family Singers reunite for a return to the Wayside Theatre original, Southern Crossroads--now playing at theatres across the country. You'll cheer the heroes and boo the villains, as the Greene Family takes on the greedy bankers and brings New Hope to a town crippled by the Great Depression.

Mark Twain's Is He Dead?
Adapted by David Ives
March 29 - April 27, 2014

Did you know that America's greatest humorist, Mark Twain wrote a play? Well he did. Discovered and published in 2003, Is He Dead?, in a new adaptation by America's funniest contemporary playwright, David Ives, tells the farcical tale of a painter who fakes his death and disguises himself as his sister. As a dead painter, his works are more valuable than when he was alive. But when he falls in love, can he somehow resurrect himself to marry his true love and collect the fortune due to him? Comic twists abound in this resurrected comic delight.

A Christmas Carol
Story by Charles Dickens, Adapted by Warner Crocker & Steve Przybylski, Music & Lyrics by Steve Przybylski
November 30 - December 24, 2013
NOT PART OF THE SUBSCRIPTION SEASON

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old curmudgen with a thorough distaste for Christmas. However, he begins to see things in a new light after being visited by a variety of spirits on a dark Christmas Eve night. This classic tale, with book and music by Wayside Theatre's own Warner Crocker and Steve Przybylski, will put audiences in the perfect mood for the Christmas season.

For more information, visit www.waysidetheatre.org.

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