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GUYS ON ICE

book & lyrics by Fred Alley
music by James Kaplan
Sept. 4 – 21

Meet Lloyd and Marv, two Wisconsin fisherman who are out on the lake for a day of ice fishing, beer, and deep thoughts about life, love, and the Packers. With occasional visits from Ernie the Mooch, these irrepressible, irresistible guys will win your hearts.

Lloyd’s got troubles at home. Make no mistake, he’s crazy about his wife but she wants to go out to dinner for their anniversary. And that’s fine, only… their anniversary is this Sunday…  Game Day. And Lloyd has tickets to Lambeau. The wife is steamed and Lloyd just wants to spend some time focusing on fish. Marv has romantic troubles of his own. He’s got a crush on Connie at the Pick and Save. What he hasn’t got is the nerve to ask her out. So Marv is also concentrating on fish. Don’t miss this delightful musical treat.

MISERY

by William Goldman
based on the novel by Stephen King
November 6–23

Successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon wakes up after a horrific car crash to find himself in a remote cabin being cared for by the woman who pulled him from the wreckage. Annie Wilkes proclaims herself his “number one fan” and he is grateful for her care. Until it gets weird…

Slowly, Paul begins to realize that Annie is dangerously unbalanced and has no intention of letting him leave. Ever. Trust Stephen King to have concocted this spine-tingling cat-and-mouse game. Audiences will be on the edge of their seats as the injured novelist begins writing as though his life depends on it. Because it does.

Warning: graphic violence and adult language.

“An old-fashioned chiller… The gasps and the giggles are deliciously jumbled together.” — NJ.com

CONSCIENCE

by Joe DiPietro
Mar. 12–29

Margaret Chase Smith was a woman of many firsts: the first woman elected by Maine to sit in Congress in 1940. Nine years later, she was the first woman Senator from Maine (the only female Senator at that time). A staunch Republican, she found herself defying her party when she took the floor of the Senate to publicly rebuke Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee in a fiery statement she called “a declaration of conscience.”

Don’t miss this gripping slice of history about a lone woman of conviction who denounced a bully and stood for what is right, regardless of the cost. This is must-see theater during Women’s History Month.

The MURDER at the VIcarage

by Margaret Raether
adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie
May 7–24

When Reverend Clement offhandedly remarked that anyone who did away with Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world a favor, he never dreamed how soon he would regret those words.

When Clement returns to the vicarage from visiting a parishioner, he is dreading his appointment with Protheroe. The colonel is waiting in the vicar’s study. However, he has been shot and is quite dead.

The problem is that too many people in the village wanted Protheroe dead. Fortunately for the vicar and his wife, their elderly neighbor, Miss Jane Marple, already has seven suspects in mind.

This was Miss Marple’s first case. Don’t miss this world premiere adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel.