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MUSICAL
directed by Minna Badanes
Funny Girl is a successful stage and film musical that features a score by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, along with a book by Isolbel Lennart.
The musical is semi-autobiographical and is based on the life and career of Fanny Brice, the Broadway star and personality. Her stormy relationship with Nicky Arnstein is played out through a flashback, which incorporates her rise to fame.
The musical is perhaps best known because of the film adaptation starring Barbara Streisand who reprised her role from the stage.
Songs include People, Don't Rain on My Parade, You Are Woman I am Man, The Music That Makes Me Dance, and more.
MUSICAL
directed by Minna Badanes
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a stage musical that features music and lyrics by William Finn and a book by Rachel Sheinkin.
The show is a comedy that centers on an spelling bee competition set in a fictional junior high school. The contest is attended by a number of quirky school students (played by adults) and is managed by a pair of mismatched larger than life adult personalities.
A set section of the show is improvised each night, and four audience members are invited to take part in the spelling bee. They are eliminated throughout the piece, but not before some fun for all!
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DRAMA / October 24-25-26
Portville Central School Aud.
directed by Kathy Malick
An important, brilliantly executed and strikingly original play, A Walk in the Woods brings deep perception and unexpected humor to its probing examination of the superpower negotiations on nuclear disarmament.
Written by acclaimed playwright Lee Blessing, it was a long-running Broadway success and nominated for both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
"It is a marvelous piece of theatre as well as a great treatise on the nature of mankind, and should take its place as a classic of dramatic literature." —Drama-Logue.
"…a work of passion and power with the ring of political truth. It is not only the best of the few dramas to reach Broadway this season, it is also the funniest comedy." —Time Magazine.
