season

Sugar Creek Players
2010-2011 Season

CHICAGO
Adult musical
AUGUST 5-7 AND 11-14, 2011

Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins

The hit of the 1997 Broadway season, Chicago has won six Tony Awards including Best Revival and later an Academy Award for Best Picture.
In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream": fame, fortune and acquittal. This sharp edged satire features a dazzling score, one show-stopping-song after another, heart-pounding dance numbers and everything that makes Broadway great....all that jazz!

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2011-2012 Season

A FEW GOOD MEN
Adult play
October 7-9 & 14-16, 2011
By Aaron Sorkin
In this dramatic Broadway thriller which was later made into an Acadamy Award nominated film........ Lt. Daniel Kaffee, a Navy lawyer who has never seen the inside of a courtroom, defends two Marines on trial for their lives. Implicated in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay, Lt. Kaffee expects the men to make a plea bargain. However, he and a female member of his defense team eventually uncover a high level conspiracy that throws into question the Marine code of honor and what it means to defend and protect.

YES VIRGINA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS
All ages play
  December 2-4 & 9-11, 2011
By Andrew J. Fenady
A Christmas classic inspired by a simple, poignant letter written over 100 years ago by 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon to the editor of the New York Sun - and by the timeless editorial response printed on the front page of the Sun newspaper. Virginia wondered and wrote:
"Dear Editor, I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says if you see it in the Sun, it's so. Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa
Claus?"
Ed Mitchell, the Sun's editor, gives the assignment of answering Virginia's letter to Frank Church who, until his wife and baby died last Christmas Eve, was the Sun's best and most dependable reporter. Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus is a play for young and old, magically reaffirming life's highest beauty and joy "the eternal light with which childhood fills the world."

TREASURE ISLAND
Youth play
  February 17-19 and 24-26, 2012
Adapted by Phil Willmott from Robert Louis Stevenson
Based on the masterful adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the tropical seas. The story begins at an inn on the Devon coast of England in 1775 and quickly becomes an unforgettable tale of treachery and mayhem featuring a host of legendary swashbucklers. In an wonderful new twist, this is the first adaptation of Treasure Island with both male and female pirates afoot. Inspired by real-life female adventurers, the author has changed the gender of several of the central characters without compromising the spirit of Stevenson's classic novel. This high-spirited tale brings out all the comedy and jolly adventure of this ever-popular story. Searching for lost treasure has never been so much fun!

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
All ages play
  April 13-15 and 20-22, 2012
By Tennessee Williams
In a plantation house in the steamy Mississippi Delta, a dysfunctional southern family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of patriarch Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety. Greed, sins of the past and a desperate eagerness not to believe in the truths that surround them, spar with clawing hopes for the future. As the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds, the characters try to escape from the loneliness of their private lives and into some form of understanding.Tennessee Williams pulitzer prize winning masterpiece is a delicately wrought exercise in human communication.

DISNEY'S BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Youth musical
  June 8-10 and 15-17, 2012
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton
Step into an enchanted world based on the Academy-Award winning Disney animated feature, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Brainy and beautiful Belle yearns to escape her provincial life...and her brute of a suitor, Gaston. However, Belle gets more adventure than she bargained for when she becomes a captive in the Beast's enchanted castle! Dancing flatware, menacing wolves, and singing furniture fill the stage with thrills in this beloved fairy tale about very different people finding strength in one another and learning how to love.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC
All ages musical
  August 3-5 and 10-12, 2012
Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Richard Rodgers
Suggested by "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"
Based upon a true-life story, Maria is a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to bring love and music to the home of Captain von Trapp and his seven children. Maria's joy at her newfound family is shortlived, however, as her native Austria is soon invaded by Nazi Germany. The family's narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre. With such wonderful songs as "My Favorite Things," "Do Re Mi," "Climb Every Mountain," and the title tune, THE SOUND OF MUSIC has deservedly become the most beloved stage and movie musical
of all time.