Chickasaw Civic Theatre
www.cctshows.com
801 Iroquois, Chickasaw, Alabama 
The site of the former National Guard Armory.
Curtain times: Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30pm; Sundays, 2:00pm
Tickets: $15.00; seniors (over 60) and students, $10.00 (cash and local checks) FOR RESERVATIONS: Phone (251) 457-8887or e-mail theatre@cctshows.com

2008 - 2009 Season Schedule
 

Rumors
By Neil Simon
Directed by Leonora Harrison
Performances: September 12 - 13 and 19 - 21, 2008
Synopsis: Neil Simon's Rumors chronicles the 10th wedding anniversary of a high-ranking New York City official and his wife. However, the happy occasion soon sours -- the deputy mayor shoots himself in the head, (no need to worry, it's just a flesh wound), his wife is missing and his lawyer, a guest at the party, decides it's time for a cover-up. More guests arrive and soon nobody can remember who has said what about whom. The cover-up unravels in a storm of slamming doors and hilarity. 

 

Jane Eyre, The Musical
By John Caird and Paul Gordon
Based on the book by Charlotte Bronte
Directed by Jeffrey Williamson
Auditions: September 14 and 15
Performances: November 14 - 16 and 21 - 23, 2008
Synopsis: Jane Eyre is the story of an orphan girl who overcomes an abusive childhood and the death of her best friend to become the governess of Thornfield Hall. At Thornfield Hall, she falls in love with Edward Rochester, an Earl with a dark secret. On their wedding day she discovers his secret: he already has a wife, an insane lunatic hidden in the attic. Shocked, Jane flees to her childhood home, to find that her aunt is dying. Even though her Aunt had treated her cruelly as a child, Jane forgives her. In her absolution of her aunt, and the realization that she is someone who can love and be loved in exchange, she returns to Thornfield Hill, only to discover it has burned to the ground and Rochester has been blinded. Jane and Rochester are married and soon Rochester's sight partially returns so that he is able to see his new-born son.


Nunsense
By Dan Goggin
Directed by Leonora Harrison
Auditions:  November TBA
Performances: January 9 - 11 and 16 - 18, 2009
Synopsis: Nunsense begins when the Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook has accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters, and they are in dire need of burial funds. The sisters decide to raise the money by staging a variety show, so they take over the school auditorium, which is currently set up for a production of Grease. Characters such as Reverend Mother Regina, a former circus performer and the delightfully wacky Sister Mary Amnesia, the nun who lost her memory when a crucifix fell on her head fill this show which has become an international phenomenon with more than 5,000 worldwide productions, it has been translated into 21 languages.


The Foreigner
By Larry Shue
Directed by Nedra Bloom
Auditions: January 11 and 12
Performances: March 6 - 7 and March 13 - 15, 2009
Synopsis: The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer,
a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named
Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he shouldthe evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiance is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made
with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.


The Secret Garden
Music by Lucy Simon
Book & Lyrics by Marsha Norman
Directed by Mike Box
Auditions: March TBA
Performances: May 29 - 31 and June 5 - 7, 2009
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden tells the story of Mary Lennox, a lonely little girl who is sent to live with her uncle Archibald in Yorkshire after being orphaned by a cholera epidemic in India. Still grieving over the loss of his beloved wife Lily who died ten years earlier during childbirth and distraught over the condition of his bedridden son, Archibald casts a dark shadow over the manor until Mary discovers a secret garden that had once belonged to Lily. By nursing this garden back to life, Mary somehow restores life to her grieving uncle and his sick son.




Chickasaw Civic Theatre
www.cctshows.com
801 Iroquois, Chickasaw, Alabama