Theatre in the Mist, Inc. announces its 2011 – 2012 Season!
Book by Thomas Meehan
Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Presented at Niagara Falls High Performing Arts Center, September 16-24, 2011
“Annie” is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
Comedy by: Jessie Jones,
Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
Presented at Stella Niagara, December 3-11, 2011
It’s Christmas-time in the small town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle Sisters—Frankie, Twink and Honey Raye—are not exactly in a festive mood. A cranky Frankie is weeks overdue with her second set of twins. Twink, recently jilted and bitter about it, is in jail for inadvertently burning down half the town. And hot-flash-suffering Honey Raye is desperately trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb’s Christmas Program from spiraling into chaos. But things are not looking too promising: Miss Geneva, the ousted director of the previous twenty-seven productions, is ruthless in her attempts to take over the show. The celebrity guest Santa Claus—played by Frankie’s long-suffering husband, Dub—is passing a kidney stone. One of the shepherds refuses to watch over his flock by night without pulling his little red wagon behind him. And the entire cast is dropping like flies due to food poisoning from the Band Boosters’ Pancake Supper. And when Frankie lets slip a family secret that has been carefully guarded for decades, all hope for a successful Christmas program seems lost, even with an Elvis impersonator at the manger. But in true Futrelle fashion, the feuding sisters find a way to pull together in order to present a Christmas program the citizens of Fayro will never forget. Their hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure-filled Christmas Eve is guaranteed to bring joy to your world!
The Valiant
Drama by: Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass
Presented at Stella Niagara, February 3-12, 2012
As a man awaits in a prison for his execution; unknown, except as a killer in his final day on earth, a girl comes to see him thinking he may be her long lost brother. The prisoner recognizes her, but she is unsure of him even as he sends her back to their mother happy in the belief her brother died a War hero as he valiantly faces his own execution.
Musical
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Presented at Stella Niagara, April 20-29, 2012
