Miracle Theatre! 2006-7 Season-Coral Gables, Florida

Actors' Playhouse Presents
The 2006-2007 Season
See it Up Close and Personal at the Miracle Theatre!

Coral Gables, FL (March 3, 2006)- South Florida's award-winning musical powerhouse Actors' Playhouse, plans a spectacular Mainstage season of four musicals and two plays for its 2006-2007 season at the Miracle Theatre. One WORLD PREMIERE written by Miami playwright Susan Westfall, and the first regional production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, set the pace for the thrilling six-show season.
Barbara S. Stein, executive producing director, says, "We are energized about presenting this exciting season line-up. Each year we up the ante' on talent, production values, and the kind of shows our audiences enjoy the most. We're especially pleased to present new and exciting works in our season, as well as some old favorites."
 
Making its South Florida Premiere is MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS (October 11-November 12, 2006) a delightful play that takes audiences into the inner sanctum of 1939 Hollywood in a fun, fast-paced South Florida Premiere comedy. Movie mogul David O. Selznick has just shut down production on his epic movie, Gone With The Wind, and locked himself in his office with screenwriter Ben Hecht and director Victor Fleming -- whom he dragged off The Wizard of Oz set -- to rewrite the script. The three of them work for seven days straight re-tooling the adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's celebrated novel, wrestling over every detail, from the shape of the plantation pillars to Rhett Butler's famous final words to Scarlett O'Hara. This funny and fascinating behind-the-scenes piece comes to vivid life as three icons of the film industry battle over what became one of greatest movies ever made.
         
It's going to SNOW in Coral Gables this holiday season when Actors' Playhouse presents at the Miracle Theatre the first regional production of the staged musical of Irving Berlin's White Christmas from November 15-December 31, 2006. The classic holiday tradition White Christmas will feature Irving Berlin's beloved songs, Blue Skies, Sisters, I Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, and the unforgettable title song White Christmas. Irving Berlin's White Christmas tells the story of two showbiz buddies putting on a show in a magical Vermont Inn, and finding their perfect mates in the bargain. Full of dancing, laughter, and some of the greatest songs ever written, Irving Berlin's White Christmas promises to be a merry and bright theatrical experience for the whole family. Once a tradition on film, now a theatrical wonderland on stage!
 
The musical sensation, I Love You Because (January 17-February 11, 2007) sets the pace for life's romantic sketches on relationships in the 21st century. A gender-reversed modern day musical retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, I Love You Because is set in New York City and follows Austin Bennet, a young greeting card writer whose life is turned upside down when he finds his long-term girlfriend Catherine in bed with another man. Forced back out into the treacherous New York dating scene, Austin meets Marcy Fitzwilliams, a flighty photographer whose spontaneity is matched only by her ability to drive him insane. This new musical comedy explores the 'rules' and nuances of dating and learning how to love someone, not in spite of their differences, but because of them. A modern day musical love story, I Love You Because is the newest Off-Broadway hit musical since I Love You, You're Perfect Now Change.
 
As a long running Paris boulevard comedy, later as a highly original classic film, and now as a major musical theatre hit recently revived on Broadway, La Cage Aux Folles (March 7-April 8, 2007) has millions of fans for its endearing heartwarming story. Jerry Herman's music and Harvey Fierstein's book bring to life new dimensions of the relationship between two men lovers whose twenty years of domestic tranquility are shattered when a son, fathered during a one night heterosexual fling, decides to marry a daughter of a politician. The hit film Bird Cage featuring Nathan Lane and Robin Williams is another version of the play, which was filmed in our own South Beach. La Cage Aux Folles features great Jerry Herman hits like I Am What I Am and The Best of Times.

Miami playwright Susan Westfall has written The Boy From Russia that will have its WORLD PREMIERE (May 9-June 3, 2007) at the Miracle Theatre. The Boy From Russia is a heartwarming story of a husband and wife's journey to fulfill their dreams to expand their family. Jack Goldman and Beth Marshall impulsively decide to adopt an orphaned boy they see on a video. Leaving the doubts of friends and family behind, their journey to find the child takes them to a wintry Russian village where they find themselves in a lonely hotel room…waiting. Although warned of unexpected surprises, they are unprepared for what awaits, and at odds with the people they must trust.  As events spiral beyond their control, Beth and Jack discover the risk they have taken could cost them the boy and each other.
 
NO FOOLERY! Tom Foolery returns to the Miracle Theatre July 11-September 2, 2007 after a decade of peace. You just need a healthy dose of attitude to enter the witty, wicked, offbeat and thoroughly twisted world of famed satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer. In concerts, television appearances and a series of now-classic recordings, the Harvard-educated math professor delighted millions of fans during the 1950s and '60s with his dry, cynical but good-humored attacks on the A-bomb, racism, pollution, pornography, the military, the boy scouts and, of course, mathematics. Nothing is sacred in this hysterical revue featuring such Lehrer favorites as Poisoning Pigeons In The Park, When You Are Old And Grey, The Masochism Tango, The Old Dope Peddler, The Vatican Rag and an unforgettable Gilbert and Sullivan-esque recitation of the table of elements, linked together with his own inimitable concert patter. Rediscover the man and songs that have delighted and skewered the world for over forty years.                                                                                          
Season subscriptions for the 2006-2007 season are on sale now, with prices ranging from  $150 for preview performances, $203 for Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday matinees, $240 for Friday and Saturday evenings, and $255 for VIP Flexible/Anytime tickets for best seats in any performance. Opening night tickets, including a gala party and Bacardi bar, are $390. Miracle Maker donor subscriptions, including two tickets to opening nights, donor acknowledgement, and two tickets to the annual Reach for the Stars Gala Auction 2007 are $1250. Subscriptions for children 18 years and younger with a full paid adult subscription, and college students, are $100 (restrictions apply). Group rates are available for fifteen people or more through the group sales department. Actors' Playhouse subscribers receive guaranteed best seating and pricing, lost ticket insurance, generous membership benefits to Coral Gables' finest restaurants and establishments, discounts off single tickets, among other benefits.
  
Actors' Playhouse, the resident theatre company and managing agent of the Miracle Theatre, has an agreement with Actor's Equity Association, the union of professional actors, New York. Under the leadership of executive producing director Barbara S. Stein and artistic Director David Arisco, Actors' Playhouse is one of eight major Florida professional theatre companies, and one of twenty major cultural institutions in Miami Dade County, Actors' Playhouse is renowned for its artistic excellence by being nominated for 32 Carbonell Awards by the South Florida critics and the Carbonell Committee for its 2005-06 season productions. In addition to its Mainstage season, Actors' Playhouse produces a year-round season of Musical Theatre for Young Audiences, a National Children's Theatre Festival, and a Theatre Conservatory and Summer Camp Program.
 
For further information call 305-444-9293 or visit the theatre's website at www.actorsplayhouse.org