The 49th
Cape Fear Regional Theatre Season
2010-2011

September - October 2010

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.
Audience Participants – Before every performance of Spelling Bee, four audience volunteers are recruited to participate on-stage as guest spellers. Each new foursome guarantees a new set of hilarious and unexpected experiences – one night is just as unique as the one before it. (Musical)

November 2010

Arthur Miller’s fiercely compelling drama about love, belonging and betrayal. Eddie Carbone, an Italian American lonshoreman who lives in Brooklyn with his wife Beatrice and orphaned 17-year-old niece Catherine, with whom he is obsessed. Beatrice’s two cousins illegally enter the country seeking a better life in America, and when Catherine falls in love with one of them, Eddie’s jealousy erupts in a rage that consumes him, his family, and his world. (Drama)

January '10 - February 2011

HAIRSPRAY delighted audiences by sweeping them away to 1960’s Baltimore, where the 50’s are out -- and change is in the air. Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, “The Corny Collins Show.” Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program’s reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair? (Musical)

Spring Comedy Considerations for April 2011

A classic farce written by French playwright Marc Camoletti. In the 1960 French play "Boeing-Boeing," the preener is an architect stationed in an apartment near Paris' Orly airport, which he's turned into a private terminal for the arrivals and departures of three stewardess girlfriends, each a secret from the others. Bernard feels perfectly in control. After all, he has a master list of airline timetables, by which he can plan the women's comings and goings. The advances of the jet age, however, are about to trim travel times and disrupt his carefully ordered world. Therein lies a terrific setup for farce, the realm where nothing is predictable and everyone must fly by the seat of his or her pants. (Farce)

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Rumors by Neil Simon is a convoluted plot involving four couples who gather to celebrate a tenth wedding anniversary of their best friends only to discover an attempted suicide - or is it? A missing wife, missing cook, a damaged car, whip lash, a reoccurring back spasm, and rumors galore add to the comedic mayhem and the situation gets progressively more difficult to sustain when nobody can remember who has been told what about whom. (Comedy)

June 2011

This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum know as “the relationship.” Act I explores the journey from dating and waiting to love and marriage, while Act II reveals the agonies and triumphs of in-laws and newborns, trips in the family car and pick-up techniques of the geriatric set. This hilarious revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, to those who have dared to ask, “Say, what are you doing Saturday night?” (Musical)

Special Events:

Public Performances December 9-19, 2010
School Performances December 7-17, 2010
Our 20th annual production of Barbara Robinson’s holiday classic has been presented for 19 years. This hilarious Christmas tale is a wonderful opportunity for our many students to perform with and for adults. Student matinees and public performances are offered.

The Classic Theatre Series Production OUR TOWN - February 2011

Meet the good citizens of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, circa 1901. An omniscient Stage Manager describes this small New England town and introduces its residents, including the Gibbs and Webb families, who live next door to each other. In three acts, audiences witness a day in the life of Grover’s Corners, celebrate the marriage of Emily Webb and George Gibbs, and hear the reflections of those who have died. This new production of Wilder’s play involves the residents of the fictional town of Grover’s Corners presenting their story in, among and around the audience.

The River Show – TBA
May 2011

8th Annual Blues ‘n Brews Festival

This popular one day event features a sampling of over 100 beers and a great taste of the Blues by some of the region’s most popular bands. Its outdoor venue at Festival Park makes for a great community gathering. Attendees bring lawn chairs or blankets. It also includes activities for children; food and other beverages are provided as well.