Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park
2010-2011 Season
Ticket prices for our 2010-2011 season:
$18.00 General Admission
$15.00 Senior Citizens
$12.00 Students
All performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. (unless otherwise specified)
Sleuth, the Anthony Shaffer drama
July 2-18, 2010
directed by Ken Rush
starring: Benjamin Dixon Rush and Torey Scarbrough
The ultimate game of cat-and-mouse is played out in a cozy English country house owned by celebrated mystery writer, Andrew Wyke. Invited guest Milo Tindle, a young rival who shares not only Wyke's love of the game but also his wife, has come to lay claim. Revenge is devised and murders plotted as the two plan the ultimate whodunnit.
Winner of the Tony and Drama Critics Circle awards as Best Play of the Season.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,
the Ntozake Shange drama
July 23-August 1, 2010
directed by Daniel Boisrond
starring: Charmion Sparrow, Debra Foxx, Evelyn Tyler, Felichia Wright, Kisha Peart, Shellita Boxie, and Vanessa Valdez
For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, referred collectively as a "choreopoem", performed through a cast of nameless women, each known only by a color. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion.
Nominated for Best Play at the 1977 Tony Awards.
August 6-22: Children of Eden, the Stephen Schwartz musical
directed by Wade Hair
From Stephen Schwartz ("Wicked", "Godspell" and "Pippin") and John Caird of "Les Miserables" comes a joyous and inspirational musical about parents, children and faith... not to mention centuries of unresolved family business!
Freely based on the story of Genesis, "Children Of Eden" is a frank, heartfelt and often humorous examination of the age-old conflict between parents and children. Adam, Eve, Noah and the "Father" who created them deal with the headstrong, cataclysmic actions of their respective children. The show ultimately delivers a bittersweet but inspiring message: that "the hardest part of love... is letting go."
The Sugar Bean Sisters, the Nathan Sanders comedy
September 10-19, 2010
directed by Joshua Eads-Brown
Stuck in a Florida swamp near Disney World, the Nettles sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood by hopping the next spaceship out of town, and they're not going to let the arrival of a snake charmer, a handsome Mormon Bishop and a mysterious bird woman stand in their way.
This is the night they will make contact!
Catholic School Girls, the Casey Kurtti comedy
October 1-17, 2010
directed by Tara Corless
This satire of Catholic school life in the 1960's uses four actresses to play the nuns and the first through eighth grade girls at St. George's School in Yonkers. As they experience bonds of friendship, reprimands from authority figures and pressures from home and they react to the Beatles, the Addams Family, the Supremes and the election of a Catholic president, an amusing portrait of girls maturing to the threshold of adolescence delightfully emerges. Between classroom scenes monologues give free rein to the students' decidedly secular ambitions.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the William Finn musical
November 5-21, 2010
directed by Wade Hair
Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, the Barbara Robinson play
December 3-12, 2010
directed by Tara Corless
In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-- probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem-- and the fun-- when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!
Best of Broadway: 1990-1999, a musical revue
January 14-30, 2011
directed by Wade Hair
This musical revue features songs from all the Broadway musicals that won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Musical Revival from 1990-1999.
Baby, the Maltby and Shire musical
February 18-March 6, 2011
directed by Amy Cucarro
Is there anything more exciting, frightening and utterly transformational than impending parenthood?
"Baby" tells the story of three couples on a university campus as they deal with the painful, rewarding and agonizingly funny consequences of this universal experience. There are the college students, barely at the beginning of their adult lives; the thirty-somethings, having trouble conceiving but determined to try; and the middle aged parents, looking forward to seeing their last child graduate from college when a night of unexpected passion lands them back where they started.
Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will, the Del Shores comedy
March 18-April 3, 2011
directed by Wade Hair
Buford Turnover is going to heaven...his family is going through hell. Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed in this black comedy.
Closer Than Ever, the Maltby and Shire musical
April 22-May 8, 2011
directed by Wade Hair
In this brilliant hit revue, Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire have written twenty-four funny, wise and witty "songs of experience."
Each song in "Closer Than Ever" is a story: an intimate, insightful tale about love, security, happiness-and holding onto them in a world that pulls you in a hundred directions at once. Maltby and Shire bring their celebrated craft and contemporary sensibility to songs about aging, mid-life crisis, second marriages, and role reversals with parents, as well as wicked satirical jabs at Muzak, working couples and unrequited love.
The Star Spangled Girl, the Neil Simon comedy
June 17-July 3, 2011
directed by Joshua Eads-Brown
Set in San Francisco in the 1960s, the play is a story of a love triangle mixed with politics. Andy and Norman are radical liberals struggling to make a living working on their magazine, Fallout, which is dedicated to fighting "the system" in America. Sophie, a former Olympic swimmer, is an all-American, Southern girl who moves into the apartment next door. Norman immediately falls in love with Sohpie but his feelings are not reciprocated. Norman's obsession with Sophie makes Andy hire her just to keep the magazine going. When Sophie falls in love with Andy, the magazine and the men’s friendship are threatened.
$18.00 General Admission
$15.00 Senior Citizens
$12.00 Students
All performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. (unless otherwise specified)
Sleuth, the Anthony Shaffer drama
July 2-18, 2010
directed by Ken Rush
starring: Benjamin Dixon Rush and Torey Scarbrough
The ultimate game of cat-and-mouse is played out in a cozy English country house owned by celebrated mystery writer, Andrew Wyke. Invited guest Milo Tindle, a young rival who shares not only Wyke's love of the game but also his wife, has come to lay claim. Revenge is devised and murders plotted as the two plan the ultimate whodunnit.
Winner of the Tony and Drama Critics Circle awards as Best Play of the Season.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,
the Ntozake Shange drama
July 23-August 1, 2010
directed by Daniel Boisrond
starring: Charmion Sparrow, Debra Foxx, Evelyn Tyler, Felichia Wright, Kisha Peart, Shellita Boxie, and Vanessa Valdez
For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, referred collectively as a "choreopoem", performed through a cast of nameless women, each known only by a color. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion.
Nominated for Best Play at the 1977 Tony Awards.
August 6-22: Children of Eden, the Stephen Schwartz musical
directed by Wade Hair
From Stephen Schwartz ("Wicked", "Godspell" and "Pippin") and John Caird of "Les Miserables" comes a joyous and inspirational musical about parents, children and faith... not to mention centuries of unresolved family business!
Freely based on the story of Genesis, "Children Of Eden" is a frank, heartfelt and often humorous examination of the age-old conflict between parents and children. Adam, Eve, Noah and the "Father" who created them deal with the headstrong, cataclysmic actions of their respective children. The show ultimately delivers a bittersweet but inspiring message: that "the hardest part of love... is letting go."
The Sugar Bean Sisters, the Nathan Sanders comedy
September 10-19, 2010
directed by Joshua Eads-Brown
Stuck in a Florida swamp near Disney World, the Nettles sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood by hopping the next spaceship out of town, and they're not going to let the arrival of a snake charmer, a handsome Mormon Bishop and a mysterious bird woman stand in their way.
This is the night they will make contact!
Catholic School Girls, the Casey Kurtti comedy
October 1-17, 2010
directed by Tara Corless
This satire of Catholic school life in the 1960's uses four actresses to play the nuns and the first through eighth grade girls at St. George's School in Yonkers. As they experience bonds of friendship, reprimands from authority figures and pressures from home and they react to the Beatles, the Addams Family, the Supremes and the election of a Catholic president, an amusing portrait of girls maturing to the threshold of adolescence delightfully emerges. Between classroom scenes monologues give free rein to the students' decidedly secular ambitions.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the William Finn musical
November 5-21, 2010
directed by Wade Hair
Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, the Barbara Robinson play
December 3-12, 2010
directed by Tara Corless
In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-- probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem-- and the fun-- when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!
Best of Broadway: 1990-1999, a musical revue
January 14-30, 2011
directed by Wade Hair
This musical revue features songs from all the Broadway musicals that won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Musical Revival from 1990-1999.
Baby, the Maltby and Shire musical
February 18-March 6, 2011
directed by Amy Cucarro
Is there anything more exciting, frightening and utterly transformational than impending parenthood?
"Baby" tells the story of three couples on a university campus as they deal with the painful, rewarding and agonizingly funny consequences of this universal experience. There are the college students, barely at the beginning of their adult lives; the thirty-somethings, having trouble conceiving but determined to try; and the middle aged parents, looking forward to seeing their last child graduate from college when a night of unexpected passion lands them back where they started.
Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will, the Del Shores comedy
March 18-April 3, 2011
directed by Wade Hair
Buford Turnover is going to heaven...his family is going through hell. Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed in this black comedy.
Closer Than Ever, the Maltby and Shire musical
April 22-May 8, 2011
directed by Wade Hair
In this brilliant hit revue, Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire have written twenty-four funny, wise and witty "songs of experience."
Each song in "Closer Than Ever" is a story: an intimate, insightful tale about love, security, happiness-and holding onto them in a world that pulls you in a hundred directions at once. Maltby and Shire bring their celebrated craft and contemporary sensibility to songs about aging, mid-life crisis, second marriages, and role reversals with parents, as well as wicked satirical jabs at Muzak, working couples and unrequited love.
The Star Spangled Girl, the Neil Simon comedy
June 17-July 3, 2011
directed by Joshua Eads-Brown
Set in San Francisco in the 1960s, the play is a story of a love triangle mixed with politics. Andy and Norman are radical liberals struggling to make a living working on their magazine, Fallout, which is dedicated to fighting "the system" in America. Sophie, a former Olympic swimmer, is an all-American, Southern girl who moves into the apartment next door. Norman immediately falls in love with Sohpie but his feelings are not reciprocated. Norman's obsession with Sophie makes Andy hire her just to keep the magazine going. When Sophie falls in love with Andy, the magazine and the men’s friendship are threatened.
