Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre Announces Season Nine Schedule

August: Osage County, A Tuna Christmas, and more have been announced for the Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre's ninth season.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Oklahoma native Tracy Letts Featuring Pam Dougherty, Stacey Logan, Jonathan Beck Reed, Michael Jones, and D. Lance Marsh
October 7-10, 2010
The Freede Little Theatre in the
Civic Center Music Hall

A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters with shady
little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad's disappearance at the Oklahoman homestead, a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets erupt. Mix in a touch of Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you have a major, new play that unflinchingly - and uproariously - exposes the dark side of a Midwestern family. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Play. Named the BEST PLAY OF THE DECADE by Entertainment. Rated R

A TUNA CHRISTMAS
By Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Starring Jonathan Beck Reed and Donald Jordan.
Nov. 19-Dec. 12, 2010
The CitySpace Theatre
in the Civic Center Music Hall

For your holiday enjoyment CityRep presents our perennial audience favorite, A TUNA CHRISTMAS, the hilarious sequel to GREATER TUNA. It's Christmas in the third-smallest town in Texas and everyone is in an uproar over the Christmas Phantom wreaking havoc and confusion everywhere. Some of the familiar colorful folks from GREATER TUNA and some new quirky characters get together to join in the fun. CityRep veterans Jonathan Beck Reed and Donald Jordan reprise their roles in this laugh-a-minute tour de force. Rated PG

THE SANTALAND DIARIES
By David Sedaris
Adapted by Joe Mantello
Starring Shawn Churchman
December 16-22, 2010
The CitySpace Theatre
in the Civic Center Music Hall

THE SANTALAND DIARIES is essayist, humorist and NPR contributor David Sedaris' account of his stint as an elf at Macy's Santaland. At first the job is simply humiliating, but after thousands of visitors pour through Santa's workshop and weeks of drunken and lecherous Santas, our hero become battle-weary and bitter. Just when he thinks the end of his horrible job is in sight someone special startles our hero into an uncharacteristic moment of goodwill. THE SANTALAND DIARIES offers sly, slightly subversive adult entertainment as an alternative to the usual saccharine holiday offerings. Rated PG

BILOXI BLUES
By Neil Simon
A Co-Production with
Theatre OCU
March 4-20, 2011
The CitySpace Theatre in the Civic Center Music Hall

BILOXI BLUES is the second in Neil Simon's Pultizer Prize-winning trilogy of plays about growing up and coming of age during the Depression and World War Two. In BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, first in the trilogy, Eugene Jerome was coping with adolescence in 1930's Brooklyn. Now, Eugene is a young army recruit sent to Biloxi, Mississippi for basic training, and learning to cope with fellow soldiers from all walks of life, falling in love and losing his virginity under less than ideal circumstances, all while navigating around the eccentricities of a very peculiar drill sergeant. Rated PG

THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL
Music & Lyrics by David Nehls
Book by Ketsy Kelso
A Co-Production with UCO and Broadway Tonight
May 13-15, 2011
Mitchell Hall on the UCO Campus
May 20-22, 2011
The Freede Little Theatre in the Civic Center Music Hall

Direct from off-Broadway, this one-of-a-kind musical is sure to heat up your spring! There's a new tenant in town and she's shaking up Armadillo Acres, Florida's most exclusive trailer park. When stripper on the run Pippi comes between Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband Norbert, the storm begins to rumble - and we ain't talking just any ol' Florida hurricane! The script is cheeky and the score is infectious, think Jerry Springer set to music! Rated R

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