ENCORE THEATRICAL COMPANY

2008 Mainstage Season

SEEING IS BELIEVING!

Encore Theatrical Company, the Lakeway Area's newest performing arts organization, is pleased to announce its second Mainstage season and educational programs for 2008. The 2008 Mainstage season combines an excellent mixture of musicals and non-musicals, comedies and dramas, traditional and newer works. The Encore 2008 Mainstage season has something for everyone. Click here for season ticket order form.

The show must go on!

Chaos reigns on and offstage in this Tony Award-winning backstage farce. The Cleveland Grand Opera Company has imported the world-famous tenor Tito Morelli to launch its season with a performance of Verdi's Otello, only to discover their special attraction has passed out cold in his dressing room from taking too many tranquilizers. The company manager scrambles to make sure the show, as always, goes on. Who will perform? Will the audience notice? This crowd-pleasing comedy will fill the theatre with mistaken identities, romantic intrigue, a cascade of slamming doors, and enough laughter to have you "singing" its praises for weeks to come.

February 8, 9, 14, 15 & 16 at 7:00 PM
February 10 & 17 at 1:00 PM
A Dinner theatre production Rose Center Prater Hall

A Comedy by Ken Ludwig Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
General Tickets on sale Monday, January 14
Season subscription holders may reserve their seats beginning January 3.

The sun will come out…tomorrow!

Leaping Lizards! America's favorite little orphan takes center stage! Based on a popular comic strip, Annie is a spunky depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy. Filled with memorable musical numbers such as "It's a Hard Knock Life," "Maybe," "Easy Street," and the ever-popular "Tomorrow," bet your bottom dollar that you and your family will love Annie!

April 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 8:00 PM
April 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 & 20 at 2:00 PM
Walters State Community College Inman Humanities Theatre

Book by Thomas Meehan Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Music by: Charles Strouse
Original Broadway Production Directed by Martin Charnin
Produced by Irwin Meyer, Alvin Nederlander Associates, Stephen R. Freidman, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lewis Allen, Icarus Productions Based on the Tribune Media Service Comic Strip, :Little Orphan Annie
Produced through special arrangement with Music Theatre International
General Tickets on sale Monday, March 17
Season subscription holders may reserve their seats beginning March 3.

There is a time, there is a place when love should conquer all…

An enslaved Nubian princess. A privileged daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh. The soldier they both love. And a love triangle that could alter history forever. Based on Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera, Elton John and Tim Rice's Tony and Grammy-winning pop-rock powerhouse turns the legendary tale of AIDA into an exhilarating and rousing musical event. Bursting with energy and teeming with vibrant song and dance, AIDA is an epic tale of loyalty, betrayal, and forbidden love you will never forget.

June 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 & 21 at 8:00 PM
June 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 & 22 at 2:00 PM
Walters State Community College Inman Humanities Theatre

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang
Produced through special arrangement with Music Theatre International
General Tickets on sale Monday, May 12
Season subscription holders may reserve their seats beginning May 1.

Mrs. Carrie Watts lives in captivity, but a sky that stretches to heaven is in her eyes.

The Trip to Bountiful is a gentle, poignant story of Mrs. Watts, an aging widow living with her son and daughter-in-law in a three-room flat in Houston, Texas. Fearing that her presence may be an imposition on others, and chafing under the watchful eye of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Watts imagines that if she can get away and return to her old home in the town of Bountiful, she is sure to regain her strength, dignity and peace of mind. Carrie's quest to return to Bountiful is the universal search for self and meaning in an ever-changing world. Bountiful is an extraordinary journey to an unforgettable dream.

September 5, 6, 12, & 13 at 8:00 PM
September 7 & 14 at 2:00 PM
Walters State Community College Inman Humanities Theatre

By Horton Foote
Produced through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
General Tickets on sale Monday, August 18
Season subscription holders may reserve their seats beginning August 7.

Gonna take a sentimental journey…

Swinging sounds of big band music and hilarious backstage antics in The 1940's Radio Hour. The world may be locked in the titanic struggle of World War II, but inside the studio of the WOV radio station, the show must go on! Their weekly broadcast of The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade lifts the spirits of our boys overseas and the families they left behind. This musical comedy takes place in a small 5000-watt New York City radio station (WOV) and is centered around a group of performers and their attempts to make it to the "big time" in show biz. The radio program is seen through the eyes of the theatre audience who become the actual 1940s radio station audience. This fun production includes such old time greats as "Blue Moon," "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "Old Black Magic," "Ain't She Sweet," "Kalamazoo," "I'll Be Seeing You," "Our Love is Here to Stay" and other numbers from that era. With its tuneful score, high energy comedy, and nostalgia for a bygone era, this is a show for the entire family just in time for the holidays.

December 12, 13, 19 & 20 at 8:00 PM
December 13, 14, 20 & 21 at 2:00 PM
Walters State Community College Inman Humanities Theatre

Book by Walton Jones.
Based on an idea by Walton Jones and Carol Lees.
Music by various composers.
Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
General Tickets on sale Monday, November 17.
Season subscription holders may reserve their seats beginning November 6.

ENCORE'S MASTERWORK SERIES
proudly presents
An Evening with Liz Callaway in Concert!
Friday, May 9 at 8:00 PM
Walters State Community College

Award-winning actress, singer and recording artist Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. She received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Baby, and for five years, sang Memory as Grizabella in Cats. She has also starred in the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, and The Look of Love.

Off-Broadway, she received a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in The Spitfire Grill, and also appeared in No Way to Treat a Lady, Marry Me a Little, Godspell, and Brownstone. Other New York appearances include Hair in Concert, the legendary Follies in Concert at Lincoln Center , A Stephen Sondheim Evening, and Fiorello! at Encores! She also starred as Venus in the Chicago Ovations! production of One Touch of Venus, and in Elegies at Reprise! in Los Angeles .

The award-winning Sibling Revelry (created with sister Ann Hampton Callaway) was presented to great acclaim at the Donmar Warehouse in London . Originally produced at New York's Rainbow and Stars, the show was recorded live by DRG Records. Relative Harmony, also created with her sister opened to rave reviews in New York and Los Angeles . She had the pleasure of co-starring with Jimmy Webb & Paul Williams in their critically acclaimed engagement at Feinstein's in New York . Her extensive concert and symphony work includes appearances at The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, and on tour with the Boston Pops. Worldwide, she has performed in China, Iceland, Estonia, Germany, France, and Slovenia .

Liz sang the Academy Award-nominated song "Journey to the Past" in the animated feature Anastasia. Liz is also the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney's The Return of Jafar, and Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Other film work includes the singing voice of the title character in The Swan Princess, Lion King 2:Simba's Pride, Beauty and the Beast, and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.

She received an Emmy Award for hosting Ready to Go, a daily, live children's program on CBS in Boston . Other TV credits include In Performance at the White House, Inside the Actor's Studio: Stephen Sondheim, Christmas with the Boston Pops, The David Letterman Show, and Senior Trip (CBS Movie of the Week).

Liz has released 3 solo recordings: The Beat Goes On (featuring music of the 60's), The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On and Off-Broadway, and Anywhere I Wander (The music of Frank Loessor). Her numerous other recordings include Unsung Sondheim, Unsung Irving Berlin, Lost in Boston, The Maury Yeston Songbook, and Hair in Concert.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

Theatre for Young Audiences:
Our 2008 School Touring Show!

Oh the thinks you can think!

If you open your mind, oh the thinks you will find lining up to get loose! Oh, the thinks your can think when you think about Seuss!" So says the mischievous Cat in the Hat at the onset of this fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! All of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters are brought to life including Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and all of the Whos of Whoville! This show is our annual touring production to the area schools.

March & April, 2008
Educators: Bookings for school performances will begin January 14, 2008. Call Encore to book this performance into your school!

Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Book by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens
Co-conceived by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Eric Idle
Based on the works of Dr. Seuss
Produced through special arrangement with Music Theatre International

Encore's Student-Only Production!

Any Dream will do…

The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Joseph is a boy blessed with prophetic dreams, and his father's favorite son. When he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and taken to Egypt, Joseph endures a series of adventures in which his spirit and humanity are continually challenged. Set to an engaging cornucopia of musical styles, from country-western and calypso to bubble-gum pop and rock 'n' roll, this Old Testament tale emerges both timely and timeless.

Coming Summer, 2008!
This show is open to students up through high school to audition.

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Produced through special arrangement with Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatricals