Little Theatre announces their new season
The Little Theatre of Tuscarawas County 2024-25 season will feature four musicals and three comedies.
The Little Theatre of Tuscarawas County 2024-25 season will feature four musicals and three comedies. Kicking off the year with the fall show, Kathy Blair Bergstrom will direct “On Golden Pond” Sept. 27-29, Oct. 4-6 and Oct. 11-13. Auditions will be held Sunday and Monday, Aug. 4 and 5.
A comedy love story, “On Golden Pond” portrays the lives of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year. A visit from their divorced, middle-aged daughter and fiance, who go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer, changes their lives, bringing them new perspectives.
“White Christmas,” directed by Rex Huffman, will open Thursday, Dec. 5 and run for eight days through Sunday, Dec. 15. Auditions will be held Sunday and Monday, Sept. 29 and 30.
Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis follow two singing sisters to a Vermont lodge where romance abounds. With a score featuring well-known standards including “Blue Skies,” “I Love a Piano,” “How Deep Is the Ocean” and the title song “White Christmas,” it is an uplifting, wholesome musical for all ages.
Mary Maxwell will direct the fall Black Box production, “The Last Five Years.” Auditions will be held Sunday and Monday, Nov. 3 and 4, with eight performances starting Thursday, Jan. 9 and ending Sunday, Jan. 19.
“The Last Five Years” is a musical about two New Yorkers in their 20s who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show’s unconventional structure consists of Kathy telling her story backward while Jamie tells his story chronologically. They only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.
Auditions for “Emma,” a pop musical, directed by Jared Sparks-Lee, will be held Sunday and Monday, Dec. 8 and 9. The production, which is sponsored by Mike and Elizabeth Lauber, will run nine days from Friday, Feb. 21 through Sunday, March 9.
Emma, a senior at Highbury Prep, is certain she knows what’s best for her classmates’ love lives and is determined to find the perfect boyfriend for shy sophomore Harriet by the end of the school year. Based on Jane Austen’s classic novel, this new musical features the hit songs of girl groups and female singers from The Supremes to Katy Perry.
Don Irvin will direct “The Sweet Delilah Swim Club” with nine performances starting Friday, April 25 and ending Sunday, May 11. Auditions are scheduled for Sunday and Monday, Feb. 23 and 24.
“The Sweet Delilah Swim Club” is the comedic story of five unforgettable women whose friendships began on their college swim team. Every August they meet to recharge their relationships. As their lives unfold, they increasingly rely on one another through advice and repartee to get through the challenges of life.
The final show of the season is the musical “Young Frankenstein,” directed by Tom Morris. Performances will run June 27-29, July 5 (two performances) 6, and July 11-13. Auditions are Sunday and Monday, April 27 and 28.
Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, inherits his family’s estate in Transylvania. In this spoof he finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors as he brings a monster to life.
The community “Variety Show,” directed by Kait Gallagher-Wilsterman, will be held March 29, and the children’s workshops will continue in July and August.
Two more shows remain in the 2023-24 season, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” directed by Mary Maxwell, June 28 through July 14, and “The Outsiders,” Aug. 15-25, under the direction of Pat Potter.
The new season sponsor is TuscoMFG. Little Theatre Board of Trustees secretary Kait Gallagher-Wilsterman said the group is still seeking season and individual production sponsors. Call 330-308-6400.