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MUSICALS and PLAYS
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"THE CHRISTMAS BRIDE" (musical) is a holiday musical based on a Charles Dickens Christmas story. Spirited young Marion becomes engaged to her father's ward but falls in love with a rakish gambler. Rather than marry on Christmas day, she runs away with her paramour, only to be abandoned on the London docks as the police close in to arrest him. As she struggles to make her way in the world, she learns about forgiveness and love, and discovers the true meaning of “home.” (BOOK; music, lyrics by Noel Katz)
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"MESMERIZED" (musical) recounts the tale of the charismatic Dr. Mesmer, who works to restore the sight of the famous blind pianist Theresa Paradies using his radical new theory of Animal Magnetism. 1777 Vienna is scandalized by their relationsihp, as gossip, sexual innuendo and the resistance of the medical establishment threaten to bring Mesmer down and destroy his life's work of healing the incurable (LYRICS; book by Al D'Andrea, music by Darryl Curry)
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"THE FREAKS' CLUB" (musical) is a lively comic drama in which a girl who cannot see and a boy who cannot touch befriend Anna, the new kid in town. Anna's ugly, fish-scale skin has brought her to Fairbridge Island for a dangerous procedure to reverse her disfigurement. Complications ensue for the trio when Anna's operation changes her from "fish" to "dish." (LYRICS, CO-BOOK; music, co-book by Thomas Adams)
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"GEORGE Q" (musical) is based on Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene. Genetic engineer George is abruptly hurled out of his enfranchised existence, and must prove his identity to the ominous entity known as CID. Through his extensive travels and travails throughout a world populated by outrageous allegorical characters, George confronts all aspects of modern society in his quest for truth and personal meaning. (BOOK, LYRICS; music by Darryl Curry)
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"CLIMBING EVEREST" (full length play). The body of a beloved brother lies in frozen silence near the summit of Everest. Mallory must battle unimaginable hardship in her quest to do the impossible - retrieve and bury her brother's body, and survive the unforgiving challenges of the death zone.
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"A MAID OF HONOR" (full length play). A promise made in childhood brings Kerstin to the upscale home of the friend she hasn't seen in 24 years, to be her maid of honor. But secrets from the past threaten to tear apart the tenuous stability of this most dysfunctional family, with comic and heartbreaking results.
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