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Announcing our exciting 2010-2011 Season! Call the Mesa Arts Center Box Office (480-644-6500) for tickets and season subscriptions!
~ Click here for Official Season Brochure ~
The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee
In this uproarious
musical, six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by
grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that
winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make |
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time. Music and Lyrics by William Finn. Book by Rachel Scheinkin.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is produced in cooperation with Music Theatre International.
Bye Bye Birdie One of the most captivating musical shows of our time! It is a satire done with the fondest affection, and tells the story of a rock and roll singer who is about to be inducted into the army. The Telephone Hour, What Did I Ever See in Him?, Put on a Happy Face, One Boy, A Lot of Livin' to Do, Kids, Rosie and Spanish Rose are musical theatre classics. This is the tops in imagination and good old fashion fun. Book by Michael Stewart. Music by Charles Strouse. Lyrics by Lee Adams.
Bye Bye Birdie is produced in cooperation with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.
Over the River and Through the Woods Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he's been offered a dream job. The job he's been waiting for—marketing executive—would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn't sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family's love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O'Hare as bait…we won't give the ending away here. You'll just have to come see how it turns out! Written by Joe DiPietro. Over the River and Through the Woods has been described as, "A hilarious family comedy that is even funnier than his long-running musical revue I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" by Backstage Magazine.
Over the River and Through the Woods is produced in cooperation with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Called by Time Magazine "A triumph for the stage," and by the International Herald Tribune "the best musical in twenty years," this acclaimed musical won 1998 Tony Awards for Best Score, Book and Orchestrations, and won both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical and Best Score. RAGTIME is not only a powerful portrait of life in turn-of-the-century America, but a relevant tale for today. Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens ("Once On This Island," "Seussical," "Lucky Stiff"), noted playwright Terrence McNally, ("Kiss of the Spider Woman", "Master Class"), and based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, the musical intertwines the stories of three extraordinary families, as they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and what it means to live in America. The Tony-winning score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty is just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself. It draws upon many musical styles from the ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems. Featured are such show stopping songs as "Getting Ready Rag," "Your Daddy’s Son," "Wheels of a Dream," "Till We Reach That Day," "Back To Before," and "Make Them Hear You." This thrilling musical is sure to inspire actors and audiences alike! Book by Terrence McNally. Music by Stephen Flaherty. Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. Ragtime is produced in cooperation with Music Theatre International. Man of La Mancha A truly remarkable show, and one of the great theatre successes of our time. This is a play-within-a-play, based on Cervantes' "Don Quixote." We have a poignant story of a dying old man whose impossible dream takes over his mind. The well-known classic songs It's All the Same, Dulcinea, I'm Only Thinking of Him, The Impossible Dream, I Really Like Him and Little Bird remain in your thoughts and in your soul well after you see the show. His dream is Everyman's dream. His tilting at windmills is Everyman's great adventure. Somehow, the footlights disappear, time is telescoped and the "Man of La Mancha" speaks for humankind. Winner of 5 Tony Awards! Music by Mitch Leigh. Lyrics by Joe Darion. Book by Dale Wasserman.
Man of La Mancha is produced in cooperation with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.
You ask, and we respond! At various times throughout the season, MET will continue our popular cabaret series by presenting favorite performers in a relaxed cabaret-type setting. Our first music night will feature the Women of MET singing your favorite songs from popular Broadway shows, performing September 1st exclusively! Watch our website for future Cabaret Nights... |
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