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Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
Adapted by David Simpatico and Bryan Louiselle
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse on Centenary College Campus
Already a hit movie, a quadruple-platinum soundtrack, a bestselling book and a chart-topping DVD, the live version will open at MLP on July 17. Back by popular demand, High School Musical is a contemporary musical comedy about Troy, a popular high school basketball star, and Gabriella, a shy, academically gifted newcomer, who discover they share a secret passion for singing. When they sign up to audition together for the lead roles in the school musical it threatens East High's rigid social order and sends their peers into uproar. In an attempt to maintain the status quo, the jocks and brainiacs, and even the drama club regulars, are soon hatching convoluted plans to separate the pair and keep them offstage. Defying expectations and taking a chance on their dreams and each other, the couple inspires the other students to go public with some surprising hidden talents of their own.
July 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 2008 @ 8 p.m. . . . . . Matinees: July 20, 27, 2008 @ 2 p.m.
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GREATER TUNA
by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard
Location: Woman’s Department Club Auditorium
—next door to Shreveport Little Theatre, corner of Line Ave. & Margaret Place
What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, and Rev. Spikes have in common? In this hilarious send-up of small town morals and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas' third smallest town. The comedy features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna in a tour de farce of quick-change artistry, changing costumes and characterizations faster than a jack rabbit runs from a coyote. Two actors, twenty characters and a barrel of laughs, ya'll!
September 5, 6, 12, 13, 2008 at 8 p.m. September 7, 14, 2008 at 2 p.m.
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A TUNA CHRISTMAS
by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard
Location: Woman’s Department Club Auditorium
—next door to Shreveport Little Theatre, corner of Line Ave. & Margaret Place
It's Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including a hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. Many colorful Tuna denizens join in the holiday fun—some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time.
October 31, November 1, 7, 8, 2008 at 8 p.m. November 2, 9, 2008 at 2 p.m.
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RABBIT HOLE - 2007 Winner PULITZER PRIZE for DRAMA
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse, Centenary College Campus,
—corner of Wilkinson & Woodlawn.
Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. With honesty and humor, Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
“Grade: A! A transcendent and deeply affecting new play, which shifts perfectly from hilarity to grief.”
—Entertainment Weekly
December 5, 6, 12, 13, 2008 at 8 p.m. December 7, 14, 2008 at 2 p.m.
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THE LAST 5 YEARS
by Jason Robert Brown
2 PERFORMANCES ONLY! Starring: Emily Heugatter-Mathias and Jared Watson
Directed by Robert K. Darrow
December 19, 20, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Location: Woman’s Department Club Auditorium
—next door to Shreveport Little Theatre, corner of Line Ave. & Margaret Place
A contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view. Musicals about relationships are nothing new, but The Last Five Years manages to reinvent the familiar formula and offers up one of the brightest, freshest scores of the new century.
“Brimming with persistent melodies, thoughtful lyrics and a heartfelt, compelling story”
—Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press
“Unpredictably heartfelt insights, energized by a seductive, rhythmic drive”
—Linda Winer, Newsday
December 19, 20, 2008
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STEEL MAGNOLIAS
by Robert Harling
Location: East Bank Theatre
—a co-production of Shreveport Little Theatre & East Bank Theatre,
630 Barksdale Blvd, Bossier City, LA
Set in a Louisiana beauty parlor where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done, Truvy, M’Lynn, Shelby, Clairee, Annelle and Ouiser laugh, cry and compare menfolk. These women draw on their underlying strength—and love—which gives the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
May 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 2009 at 8 p.m. May 3, 20, 17, 2009 at 2 p.m.
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Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2
by David Simpatico & Bryan Louiselle
Disney’s HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2
Directed by Jared Watson
Our next Shreveport Little Theatre Academy production! Look for more information coming soon!
What time is it? Summer time – and the Wildcats are back for an all new, high-energy adventure. In the sequel to High School Musical, school's out for summer, and the East High Wildcats are ready to kick back and make it the time of their lives. If they can land decent summer jobs, all will be right with the world. Join Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Ryan and the rest of the East High gang as they dive into the enchanted world of Lava Springs Country Club and put their talent to the ultimate test!
"COMING SOON!!!"
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