2010 Magenta Theater Season
February 12-27, 2010
CROSSING DELANCEY by Susan Sandler. Directed by Andrea Adams.
Isabel is a modern young woman who lives alone and works in a book shop. When she is not pining after a handsome author, she is visiting her grandmother in Manhattan's Lower East Side. This delightfully nosey old lady and her friend the matchmaker have found a "good catch" for Isabel, Sam the handsome pickle vendor. The end of the play is really a beginning, ripe with possibilities for Isabel and Sam.
April 16-May 1, 2010
PRIDE & PREJUDICE by Jane Austen, adaptation by Joeseph Hanreddy and
J.R. Sullivan. Directed by Dorinda Toner.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This comedy-drama of manners set in late 18th century England, deals cleverly and artfully with the societal prescriptions of the day. A stunning new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale, that debuted at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in April 2009.
June 11-26, 2010
PRESENT LAUGHTER by Noel Coward. Directed by Jaynie Roberts
This audacious comedy was a success in New York and London. Garry Essendine, a popular and pampered actor, is busily making preparations for an extended tour. His apartment is invaded by Daphne, a beautiful but stage struck youngster. When his wife, his partners and his numerous admirers arrive, Garry is hard pressed to escape an embarrassing and easily misinterpreted situation. With typical Coward repartee and dazzling wit, he sidesteps complications and mounting confusion. Having locked Daphne in a room, he flees his flat with this wife, with whom he has been reunited.
October 1-16, 2010MURDER IN GREEN MEADOWS by Douglas Post. Directed by Jaynie Roberts.
Thomas Devereaux, a successful architect and local contractor, and his beautiful wife, Joan, have just moved into their dream house in the quiet suburban town of Green Meadows when they are visited by their new neighbors, the Symons. A friendship quickly develops, but underneath the cool middle-American exterior, something is truly rotten. This is an archly manipulative psycho-thriller, a well-made murder mystery that holds your attention like a leash.
December 3-18, 2010SHE LOVES ME by Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick.
Stage direction by Amanda Goff, Musical direction by Eric Toner.
OUR FIRST ROYALTY MUSICAL!Georg and Amalia are two feuding clerks in a European parfumerie during the 1930's who secretly find solace in their anonymous romantic pen pals, little knowing their respective correspondents are none other than each other. Funny, intelligent, honest and sentimental, "She Loves Me" is a warm romantic comedy with an endearing innocence and a touch of old world elegance and nostalgia, yet as universal and relevant as ever in this age of internet romances.
