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2012 Festival 56 Season
Festival 56 is proud to announce our 9th Season, which will play from June 22nd through August 5th and November 9th through December 23th, 2012!
Summer Season
Respect: A Musical Journey of Women 
by Dorothy Marcic
Vanderbilt professor Dr. Dorothy Marcic created the show based on her book, RESPECT: Women and Popular Music. Combining excerpts of over sixty top 40 hits from 1900s to today, from Someone to Watch Over Me to I Will Survive, this is the journey of women told through music, from the codependence of I Will Follow Him and the anger of These Boots are Made for Walking, through the cynicism of What's Love Got to Do with It, and finally to the strength of Hero.
Show Times
- Friday June 22nd, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, June 24th, 2012 - 2:00 PM
- Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 - 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
- Thursday, June 28th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Friday, June 29th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Cast
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The Tempest 
by William Shakespeare
The magician Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda, have been stranded on an island by his jealous brother, the King of Naples. Possessing magic powers, Prospero is reluctantly served by the spirit, Ariel, and the deformed monster, Caliban. When Prospero learns that his brother is aboard a passing ship, he conjures a mighty tempest to run the ship aground and bring the brothers together once more.
Show Times
- Sunday, July 1st, 2012 - 2:00 PM
- Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 - 2:00 PM
- Sunday, July 8th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, July 15th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, July 22nd, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, July 29th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 - 2:00 PM
Cast
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The 39 Steps 
adapted from the Alfred Hitchcock film by Patrick Barlow
Alfred Hitchcock's classic story of mystery and suspense comes to life on the stage to hilarious effect as the entire film script is faithfully reenacted, complete with high speed chases, daring escapes and the occasional stabbing. This new audience favorite only recently completed its wildly successful run on Broadway!
Show Times
- Thuesday, July 3rd, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Thursday, July 5th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Friday, July 6th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, July 7th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, July 8th, 2012 - 2:00 PM
- Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Cast
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Carousel 
by Rodgers and Hammerstein
Featuring such classic songs as You'll Never Walk Alone, June is Bustin' Out All Over and If I Loved You, this lyrical and moving testament to the triumph of love over everything, even death, stands as one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most emotionally potent and dramatically powerful musicals. When Billy, a carnival barker, falls in love with the lovely Julie Jordan and marries her, he shortly finds himself bitter and unemployed, unable to provide for his young, pregnant wife. He resolves to fix his situation by taking part in a robbery which goes very wrong. Before a heavenly judge, Billy pleads for another chance to return to Earth, to redeem himself by helping his now grown-up, troubled daughter Louise.
Show Times
- Friday, July 6th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, July 7th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, July 8th, 2012 - 2:00 PM
- Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 - 2:00 PM
- Thursday, July 12th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Friday, July 13th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, July 14th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Cast
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Lend Me a Tenor 
by Ken Ludwig
World famous tenor, Tito Morelli, is performing Othello at the Cleveland Opera, and Max, a mild mannered assistant, is assigned to tend to his every need. But when Max accidentally gives Tito a double dose of tranquilizers and believes him to be dead, Max is forced by his boss to don Tito's costume and makeup and take the stage in Tito's place. One of America's most popular farces, and featuring the now famous 30-second recap of the entire show, this play will leave you rolling in the aisles!
Show Times
- Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Thursday, July 19th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Friday, July 20th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, July 21st, 2012 - 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Cast
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And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) 
by Agatha Christie
Ten strangers are brought to an island resort by a mysterious, unseen benefactor and are killed one by one, according to the verses of the popular children's nursery rhyme.
Show Times
- Friday, July 20th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, July 21st, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, July 22nd, 2012 - 2:00 PM
- Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Thursday, July 26th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Cast
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Cabaret 
Book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb
At the dawn of the 1930s in Berlin, the Nazi party quietly grows stronger. The Kit Kat Klub is a seedy cabaret, a place of decadent celebration set against the backdrop of growing Nazi terror. It's here that Cliff, a young American writer struggling with his first novel, meets and falls for Sally Bowles, a vivacious singer at the cabaret who never seems to have a care in the world and always has a glass of champagne in hand.
Show Times
- Friday, July 27th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, July 28th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, July 29th, 2012 - 2:00 PM
- Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Thursday, August 2nd, 2012 - 2:00 & 7:30PM
- Friday, August 3rd, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, August 4th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, August 5th, 2012 - 2:00 PM
Cast
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Fall Season
Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve 
adapted by David Birney
Master storyteller and towering literary figure, Mark Twain, hilariously recreates the first days in this ingenious, witty and delightful retelling of the dawn of human creation, with many a grain of truth for today's gender disputes. Adam is something of a recluse, ill prepared for the arrival of Eve, a talkative, emotional and highly-charged female. Yet in time, after some conflict, they learn to live together and come to realize that men and women can, in fact, live in harmony.
Show Times
- Friday, November 9th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, November 10th, 2012 - 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
- Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Thursday, November 15th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Friday, November 16th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, November 17th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Cast
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Almost, Maine 
by John Carianai
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend - almost - in this delightful midwinter night's dream.
Show Times
- Friday, November 23rd, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, November 24th, 2012 - 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
- Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Thursday, November 29th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Friday, November 30th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, December 1st, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Cast
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A Tuna Christmas 
by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams
Come spend the holidays with all your favorite citizens of Tuna, Texas and make some new friends while you're there. Two men, with the help of split-second costume changes, portray all 24 citizens of Texas' third smallest town, where the Lions Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. It's 24 hours before Christmas and all comic hell is about to break loose as the eccentric residents of Tuna attempt to cope with a disaster-prone production of A Christmas Carol and a yard decorating contest being sabotaged by a mysterious Christmas phantom! Bring the whole family and join in the holiday fun!
Show Times
- Friday, December 7th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, December 8th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Sunday, December 9th, 2012 - 2:00 PM
- Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Thursday, December 13th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Friday, December 14th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, December 15th, 2012 - 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
- Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Thursday, December 20th, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Friday, December 21st, 2012 - 7:30 PM
- Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 - 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Cast
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