Coconut Grove Playhouse 50th Season!-also at Parker Playhouse

2005-2006 Season

Coconut Grove Playhouse: Sep. 20 - Oct. 9 • Opening Night: Sep. 23
 
Parker Playhouse: Nov. 29 – Dec. 18 
HAL LINDEN in
Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher

A constant on the New York Times Bestseller List with more than five million copies sold, Tuesdays with Morrie is the inspirational, autobiographical story of career-obsessed journalist Mitch Albom and his former college professor Morrie Schwartz. 

Sixteen years after graduation, when Mitch learns that Morrie is battling Lou Gehrig's disease, he reunites with his old professor for a final visit that turns into weekly pilgrimages and an extraordinary 'last class' on the meaning of life. 

"A touching, life-affirming, deeply emotional drama with a
generous dose of humor." —New York Daily News

About the star:  Hal Linden is a Tony Award-winner for the hit-Broadway musical The Rothschilds and is well-known as the title character in the long-running television sitcom "Barney Miller."
 
 
 
Coconut Grove Playhouse: Oct. 18 – Nov. 6 • Opening Night: Oct. 21
 
Parker Playhouse: Nov. 8 – Nov. 13 
Passin' It On - America's Musical Pastime
Book by Larry Atlas • Music & Lyrics by Terry Cashman

For Sig McCartney baseball has always been as American as apple pie. The owner of a baseball-themed sports bar in a small South Florida town, Sig earns a modest living that is rich in family, friendship and love.

A hardworking man, Sig's life is simple but happy. But when the local baseball spring training camp moves north and the tourists follow, Sig learns happiness can come at a steep price.  With few patrons, bills mounting and a daughter who has sacrificed her life for her father's passion, Sig must choose between his childhood dream or his family's survival.
 
 
 
Coconut Grove Playhouse: Nov. 8 – Nov. 27 • Opening Night: Nov. 11
 
Parker Playhouse: Mar. 28 – Apr. 2 
The Good Body
written by and starring Eve Ensler

Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a "good body."

Tackling everything from skirmishes with Ab Rollers to fascist personal trainers, The Good Body is joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions and celebrations of their bodies are laid bare. These inspiring and true stories are ultimately a personal wake-up call from Eve to love the "good bodies" we inhabit.

"Eve Ensler can soar to Rabelaisian heights or
move us with quiet compassion. –Time

About the star: Eve Ensler is an internationally-acclaimed playwright and the Obie Award-winning author of the smash-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues.
 
 
 
Coconut Grove Playhouse: Dec. 6 – Dec. 24 • Opening Night: Dec. 9
 
Parker Playhouse: Dec. 27 – Jan. 1 
Neil Simon's
Lost in Yonkers
winner of Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award

Winner of four Tony Awards, Lost in Yonkers is the often-comical story of two young brothers grappling with the loss of their mother and their new life in Yonkers.  Surrounded by colorful family members – steel-hearted Grandma Kurnitz; bubbly but chronically forgetful Aunt Bella; and tough-talking Uncle Louie - the boys learn that love and affection can often be found in the most unusual places and with the most unusual people.  Full of laughter and tears, Lost in Yonkers is a bravura performance. 

"Neil Simon has done it again, with a craftsmanship and
skill probably unmatched in the contemporary
English-speaking theater." – New York Post

About the playwright: Neil Simon is an internationally renowned and award-winning playwright.   Among his most popular plays are Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues and Brighton Beach Memoirs.
 
 
 
Coconut Grove Playhouse: Jan. 10 – Jan. 29 • Opening Night: Jan. 13
 
Parker Playhouse: Jan. 31 – Feb. 5 
I Am My Own Wife
2004 winner of Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award
by Doug Wright

I Am My Own Wife is Doug Wright's fascinating – and true – story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an openly-gay German transvestite that survived the tumultuous ministrations of Hitler's Gestapo to emerge a cultural icon and hero. 

Told through the voices of 35 characters (all portrayed by the same actor), Charlotte unleashes tales of genocide and prison camps that lead to an astonishing twist: Is Charlotte's 'true life' so true after all?

"Doug Wright's fascinating New Play is the most stirring
new work to appear on Broadway." -The New York Times 

About the playwright: Doug Wright is the Obie Award-winning playwright and Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter of Quills. His play I Am My Own Wife took Broadway by storm in 2004, winning two Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
 
 
 
Coconut Grove Playhouse: Feb. 7 – Mar. 5 • Opening Night: Feb. 10
 
Parker Playhouse: Mar. 7 – Mar. 12 
Dixie Carter & Hal Holbrook in
Southern Comforts
by Kathleen Clark

When long-time widow Amanda Cross visits a small northern New Jersey town, she isn't prepared to have her peaceful life turned upside down.  Then she meets Gus Klingman, a cantankerous widower.  Beautiful and deliciously southern, Amanda peels away the rough layers of Gus' unhappy heart to reveal the silenced passions of a man and a lover.  Can love between opposites last?

About the stars:  Dixie Carter is well-known to millions as the sweet talking 'Julia Sugarbaker' of Designing Women.  With a career that has spanned nearly five decades, she has earned the love of fans everywhere.

Hal Holbrook is a Tony Award winner for Mark Twain Tonight.  He has appeared in over 100 stage, film and television productions, including Broadway's The Glass Menagerie and Man of La Mancha.
 
 
 
Coconut Grove Playhouse: Mar. 14 – Apr. 9 • Opening Night: Mar. 17
 
Parker Playhouse: Apr. 14–Apr. 23 
Theodore Bikel in
About Time
by Tom Cole

Faced with the reality of aging, a long-time married couple spends a humorous and sentimental day from breakfast to lunch to dinner to a late night snack, talking about everything under the sun. 

As the day goes by, the couple bickers over everything from meal preparations, their absent-adult children, and their ever-diminishing sex life, revealing in the process a love that is both complex and extraordinary. 

A refreshing comedy, Tom Cole's About Time is a true celebration of love. 

About the star: Theodore Bikel is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated actor with more than 100 stage, film and television credits.
 
 
 
Coconut Grove Playhouse: Apr. 18 – May 7 • Opening Night: Apr. 21
 
Parker Playhouse: May 9 – May 14 
Lucie Arnaz in
Sonia Flew
by Melinda Lopez

Set between post-revolutionary Cuba and post-9/11 America, Sonia Flew explores the powerful tale of Sonia, a Cuban-American woman smuggled as a child out of Cuba and into the United States as part of Operation Pedro Pan.

A successful public defender, Sonia lives with her Jewish husband and their two children.  Secure in a world filled with parental duty and Jewish tradition, Sonia's existence is fragile, yet peaceful. But when terrorism strikes American soil and Sonia's only son enlists in the military, Sonia must find a way to come to terms with her past or risk losing everything she loves. 

"Sonia Flew represents an extraordinary achievement
by an emerging playwright." – Boston Herald

About the star: Lucie Arnaz is an Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe-nominated actor. A Coconut Grove Playhouse favorite, she appeared in last season's Ann & Debbie.
 
 
 
(All shows, stars and dates subject to change)   
 
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