by Matthew Falduto
City Circle - At their membership meeting in November, City Circle announced a list of shows they are considering for their next two seasons. They are asking directors to contact them by emailing Megan Sands if they are interested in directing a particular show. The 2011-12 season includes the first show that will be presented at the new Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. There are many very different options on the list which is unsurprising from the theatre that brought Coralville both the intense serial killer play Frozen and the various Nunsense musicals.
Of particular note is the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the 2005 Tony award winning musical which has not been produced in this area. On the non-musical side, City Circle lists God of Carnage, the 2009 Tony award winning play, as well as Frost/Nixon, another Tony award winner from a few years ago. Of course, there are community theatre staples on list as well, such as Guys and Dolls and the ambitious Noises Off.
Nunsense is also on the list. Apparently there is some talk of bringing it back for the first show at the new Coralville Performing Arts Center since it was City Circle's first show. Speaking on behalf of only myself... City Circle, we all loved Nunsense and the actresses were wonderfully funny... but please look to the future. Give us a big splashy musical to open the new space. Or maybe a Noises Off to show off what you can do with a great performance venue.
UPDATE: Sources tell me Nunsense won't be the new space opener. Whew!
Musicals
1776
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
42nd Street
A Funny Thing Happened. . . Forum
Aida
Anything Goes
Celebration
Curtains
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Drowsy Chaperone
The Fantasticks
Forever Plaid
Godspell (High School)
Guys and Dolls
Jesus Christ Superstar (High School)
Kiss Me, Kate
Legally Blonde
Les Mis (High-School)
Mame
Meet Me in St. Louis
Music Man
Nine
Nunsense
Once On This Island
The Producers
Songs For A New World
South Pacific
Sweeney Todd
Thoroughly Modern Millie
West Side Story (High School)
White Christmas
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown
Peter Pan
Rent
Rent (High School)
Hairspray
Plays
A Tuna Christmas
Absurd Person Singular
Amadeus
Black Comedy
Blithe Spirit
Charley’s Aunt
Copenhagen
Frost/Nixon
Harvey
Importance of Being Earnest
Love, Valor, Compassion
Noises Off
Oleanna
Our Town
Proof
Ragweed Cowboy Joe
Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead
The Boys in the Band
The Butler Did It
Twelve Angry Men
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe
Blackbird
Look Homeward Angel
Catchin' The Babies
God of Carnage
Richard III
Diary of Anne Frank
Little Dog Laughed
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2 comments:
"The Little Dog Laughed" and "R&G Are Dead" are both great choices on the play side with low set needs that would suit CCTC well; "The Drowsy Chaperone" is also a good fit. "Once on This Island" is wonderful, but I don't know if CC has a large enough casting pool. The only sour note on the list is "Oleanna": it's David Mamet's least interesting play; an angry, one-sided, feminists-are-evil revenge thriller masquerading as a "thought-provoking drama. Mamet does great work, and if you want underseen Mamet, "Lakeboat" is a wonderful ensemble drama, "Romance" a fantastic farce, and "Cryptogram" a haunting family drama. Hopefully if CC gets a Mamet jones they'll do one of those three (or Glengarry) and avoid Oleanna like the plague.
SPELLING BEE is a truly wonderful show; a fantastic musical that will make you laugh, cry, and fall in love. City Circle would do well to include it in their season.
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