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Curtains School Edition

CURTAINS School Edition has been adapted from the original Broadway Production. The School Edition has been carefully edited, with additional director’s notes throughout, to make the show more producible for high school groups. In some cases problematic language has been changed, while in others an alternate choice is offered at the discretion of the director. Additional casting opportunities for female roles has been provided. It’s the brassy, bright, and promising year of 1959. Boston’s Colonial Theatre is host to the...

Curtains Young@Part®

CURTAINS Young@Part® is the authorized 60 minute edition of the Broadway musical for elementary and middle schools, and youth theatres. Through a series of workshops with industry professionals and actual kids, the Young@Part® musicals are tailor-made for younger actors. Song keys are changed where needed, songs and scenes are edited for time and content, while keeping the spirit of the original Broadway show intact. There are great parts for girls, boys and can feature any size ensemble/chorus, who are featured...

Different Fields

Aaron James, a football superstar, discovers what money and power can't buy, as he confronts the temptations and pressures of life off the field, and how they shape his relationship with a twelve year-old boy who idolizes him. This richly melodic opera is a poignant exploration of individual accountability, the myth of celebrity, and single parenting.

Enter the Guardsman

Only six months into the marriage of two world-renowned actors, alas, the bloom is off the rose, and what was thrilling has already become routine. But invention is the actor's stock-in-trade, so cue the anonymous roses, the amorous letters and...enter the Guardsman!

Falling For Eve

Creation is going exactly according to plan: Eve, curious about what lies beyond the garden, and positively perplexed with the idea of something that’s forbidden, eats the apple.  Then Adam...doesn’t.  Eden, we have a problem.  How exactly God is going to get his children together so they can create the human race is anybody’s guess.  At times hilarious, at times poignant, FALLING FOR EVE is an unconventional retelling of the world’s first love story.  Filled with unexpected twists and turns,...

Flashdance the Musical

Dance like you’ve never danced before! FLASHDANCE THE MUSICAL tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of 18 year-old Alex, a welder by day and “flashdancer” by night, who dreams of going to the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy and becoming a professional dancer. When a romance complicates her ambitions, she harnesses it to drive her dream. Based on the Paramount Pictures film (Screenplay by Tom Hedley and Joe Eszterhas, story by Tom Hedley), this is an inspiring musical about the power...

Flight of the Lawnchair Man

Jerry Gorman is a regular guy from Passaic, New Jersey who just wants to fly. The neighbors think he's nutty and his mother disapproves. But his girlfriend Gracie believes in him. Loosely based on a true story, Jerry soars to 16,000 feet with nothing but a lawnchair and 400 helium balloons. Flight of the Lawnchair Man is a musical that reminds us that dreams can come true if you believe in yourself.

Flight of the Lawnchair Man School Edition

FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN School Edition has been carefully edited, with additional director’s notes throughout, to make the show more producible for high school groups. In some cases problematic language has been changed, while in others an alternate choice is offered at the discretion of the director.Jerry Gorman is a regular guy from Passaic, New Jersey who just wants to fly. The neighbors think he’s nutty and his mother disapproves, but Jerry soars to 16,000 feet with nothing but...

Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits

In this long-running Off-Broadway hit musical revue, Broadway’s greatest musical legends meet Broadway’s greatest satirist in this hilarious, loving, and endlessly entertaining tribute to some of the theatre’s greatest stars and songwriters.

Game Show

Set during a "live broadcast" of a fictional, long-running TV game show, GAME SHOW places the theater audience in the role of the TV studio audience, in which members are picked as the contestants to play the trivia-based game and win actual prizes. In addition to watching and playing during the "broadcast" - where anything can and does happen - the audience also witnesses all the backstage, back-stabbing antics "behind the scenes" that go on during the "commercial breaks" of GAME SHOW.