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2008-2009 “Lucky 7” Season
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Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, named “Best Theater” in the Dallas Observer’s 2007 “Best of Dallas” issue, has chosen six plays for the 2008-2009 season, the company’s seventh.
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On Golden Pond
By Ernest Thompson
Directed by Michael Serrecchia
October 3-26, 2008
Ernest Thompson’s beloved comedy is the perfect play to launch our seventh season. Ethel and Norman Thayer return to their summer house in New England for the 48th time, after as many years of marriage, their delight in one another still evident. But their happiness contrasts with the situation of their restless, divorced daughter, who plans a trip to Europe with her latest fiancé, and leaves his teenage son to stay with Norman and Ethel. This initially awkward situation gives way to an idyllic one for the surrogate grandparents and “grandson” alike. Jerry Russell, star of Visiting Mr. Green and director of Right Ho, Jeeves, returns to CTD to play Norman.
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Closer Than Ever
By Richard Maltby Jr. & David Shire
Director: René Moreno
Music Director: James McQuillen
December 5-31, 2008
Lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. and composer David Shire (the team behind the musicals Big, Baby and Starting Here, Starting Now) fashioned this delicious musical revue with songs that stand alone—each a mini-musical in itself—but also add up to a unifying theme of growing up, falling in love, and trying to hold on to happiness through life’s curves and changes, from the bawdy hilarity of “Miss Byrd” to the poignant longing of “She Loves Me Not.” Director Rene Moreno, noted for his work on major dramas including CTD’s A Streetcar Named Desire, takes a lighter turn with Closer Than Ever.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
By Dale Wasserman, based on Ken Kesey’s novel
Director: Marianne Galloway
February 6-March 1, 2009
The stage version of Ken Kesey’s masterful novel is just as potent and intense as the Oscar-winning movie. In a mental hospital ruled with an iron fist by the soft-spoken, steely Nurse Ratched, the rebel patient McMurphy—who has faked mental illness to get out of a prison sentence—tries to rewrite the rules. Authority and freedom, sanity and madness, male and female all clash in this powerful classic. Marianne Galloway, director of Shadowlands at CTD, returns to stage Cuckoo’s Nest.
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The Cemetery Club
By Ivan Menchell
Director: Susan Sargeant
April 17-May 10, 2009
In this poignant comedy, the basis for a hit film of the same name, three elderly Jewish widows have a standing date to visit their husband’s graves together. The contrasting personalities of sweet-tempered Ida, would-be party-girl Lucille, and uptight Doris make a solid, unified team until they meet Sam the butcher, with whom Ida becomes smitten, to her friends’ chagrin. Susan Sargeant, director of The Women and Sylvia at CTD, returns to direct this charming comedy.
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Chapter Two
By Neil Simon
Director: Cynthia Hestand
June 19-July 12, 2009
It’s never to late to fall in love again in Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical comedy about second chances. George, a recently widowed New York writer, fends off his brother Leo’s matchmaking efforts until Jennie, a lovely divorcée, wins his heart. But falling in love is just the beginning for these two, who bring heavy baggage to the dating scene. Chapter Two was made into a hit movie starring Marsha Mason and James Caan. Cynthia Hestand (Steel Magnolias, Marvin’s Room, Lone Star/Laundry and Bourbon and The Oldest Living Graduate at CTD) directs.
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The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
By Preston Jones
Director: René Moreno
August 14-September 6, 2009
René Moreno, who directed Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, our first foray into Preston Jones’ Texas Trilogy, returns to complete the trio with this hilarious comedy set in Bradleyville, Texas, just like Lu Ann and The Oldest Living Graduate. This time World War I veteran Colonel J. C. Kinkaid is presiding over the meeting of his socially irrelevant lodge, populated by the most eccentric, damaged and ornery citizens of this dusty West Texas town.
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Ticket Prices: Season Ticket
packages vary in price from $88 to $154 (different pricing for floor & balcony).
Single tickets vary in price from $22 - $32 (different pricing for floor & balcony).
Location: 5601 Sears St. ,
Dallas, TX 75206 (one block west of lower Greenville behind
the Arcadia Theatre). Click for directions.
Contemporary Theatre of Dallas is a nonprofit
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For information, photos or interviews, please
contact managing director Tom Sime at 214-828-0094 or
email him at tom@contemporarytheatreofdallas.com.
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