Carrollwood Players Announce 2013-14 Season: NOISES OFF, NUNSENSE, & More!

The Carrollwood Player have announced their 2013-14 season, featuring nine shows, and two additional musicals. Check out the full schedule below!

Fame, Jr
Conceived and Developed by David De Silva
Book by José Fernandez
Lyrics by Jacques Levy
Music by Steve Margoshes
Aug 16 - Aug 25, 2013
Director Carlyn Postle
Set during the last years of New York City's celebrated High School for the Performing Arts on 46th Street (1980-1984), FAME JR. is the bittersweet but ultimately inspiring story of a diverse group of students as they commit to four years of grueling artistic and academic work. With candor, humor and insight, the show explores the issues that confront many young people today.
(Musical - Not part of the Season Ticket Package)

Nunsense
by Dan Goggin
Sept 6 - Sept 28, 2013
Director Jim Russell
Producers James Cass / Frank Stinehour
Winner! Four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Off Broadway Musical in its original New York production, this hilarious international hit was revived in New York with a male cast Nunsense A Men!
The show is a fund raiser put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God).
(Musical - Not part of the Season Ticket Package)

Murder is Announced
Agatha Christie
adapted by Leslie Darbon
Oct 11- Oct 27, 2013
Director Frank Stinehour
Producer James Cass
The announcement in the local paper states time and place of a murder to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of several occupants, temporary and permanent, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death, a determined Inspector grimly following the twists and turns, and Miss Marple on hand to provide the final solution at some risk to herself in a dramatic confrontation scene just before the final curtain.

Behind Closed Doors
by Marc Sanders
Nov 8 - Nov 16, 2013
Director Marc Sanders
Producer Carlyn Postle
In this original play, four vignettes showcase the various tenants of an apartment building's fifth floor as their personal struggles are exposed and their lives intersect over the course of a five year period.

A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Show
adapted by Joe Landry
from the screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra, and Jo Swerling
Nov 29 - Dec 21, 2013
Director Jim Johnson Producer Judith Sachs
This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.

Who Maid Who?
by David Lassig
Jan 10 - Feb 1,2014
Director Dee Ford
Producer Rae Schwartz
Joe's mischievous weekend get-away with his would-be mistress at his lake cabin goes horribly wrong when his wife shows up and catches Joe with his new "French maid." As if this situation weren't sticky enough, Joe's parents have a weekend of their own planned at the cabin. With an inquisitive cop, a chef, a gardener, and a variety of young and old maids, how will Joe manage to sort everything out?

Social Security
by Andrew Bergman.
Feb 14 - Mar 8, 2014
Director James Cass
Producer Frank Stinehour
Written by one of Hollywood's top comedy screenwriters and directed by the great Mike Nichols, this hilarious Broadway comedy starred Marlo Thomas and Ron Silver as a married couple who are art dealers. Their domestic tranquility is shattered upon the arrival of the wife's goody goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband, and her archetypal Jewish Mother. They are there to try to save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother hits it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is the art dealer's best client!

Bermuda Avenue Triangle
by Joseph Bologna & Renee Taylor
Mar 21 - April 12, 2014
Director Robin New
Producer MaryAnn Bardi
This outrageous comedy by the authors of Lovers and Other Strangers and other uproarious hits starred Nanette Fabray and the authors on Broadway. It concerns the adventures of a Jewish widow and an Irish widow whose successful daughters move them to Las Vegas, where they share a retirement village condo. On an excursion, they are saved from a mugger by a charming if not quite sober gambler who is short on cash. They allow him to curl up on the living room floor and he manages to sweet talk his way into both ladies' beds. Each situation is rife with the outrageous, excessive comedy that endears these playwrights to audiences everywhere.

The Amorous Ambassador
by Michael Parker
April 25 - May 17, 2014
Director Mike Cote
Producer Jim Johnson
"Hormone" Harry Douglas from The Sensuous Senator is back to his old shenanigans again, but this time as the American Ambassador to Great Britain. He tells his wife Lois, that he has arranged a golf outing in Scotland for the weekend. Lois in turn tells Harry that she too will be gone for the weekend at a spa, and that their daughter Debbie will be gone visiting a girlfriend. Each then tells Perkins, their newly hired butler in their country home, of their plans. He stoically watches as each of them leave for the weekend.
Meanwhile, Harry, secretly returns to the empty house, having planned a romantic rendezvous with a sexy, next-door neighbor Marianne. Debbie returns with her boyfriend Joe, believing they have the house to themselves for the whole weekend. Harry's secretary, Faye Baker, and Captain South of the U.S. Marine Corps arrive in the wake of a bomb threat at the embassy, and must set-up embassy communications in Harry's country home. Captain South places a squad of marines around the perimeter, and everybody is sealed in.

One Act Weekend
May 30 - June 1,2014
Producer Eric Edington
A series of never-produced-before plays staged by Carrollwood Players. Plays will be selected in early 2104.

The Cemetery Club
by Ivan Mitchell
June 13 - June 28, 2014
Director MaryAnn Bardi
Producer Ann Lehman
Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife's grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt stricken when this nearly breaks Ida's heart.

Noises Off
by Michael Frayn
July 11 - Aug 2,2014
Director Carlyn Postle
Producer Keith Postle
Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off presents a manic menagerie as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing's On. Doors slamming, on and backstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious and classically comic play.

Since 1981, Carrollwood Players, Tampa's oldest community theatre company, has provided quality entertainment for the Tampa Bay area. In addition to special events, Carrollwood Players produces nine plays as part of their main stage season: dramas, bedroom farces, mysteries and much more. Season productions typically run for four weekends. Tickets start at $18 and customers can reserve the seats online; season tickets are also available. Carrollwood Players also offers a range of ticket options for those looking for culture and great local theater.

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