The 2012 Season
Over 36 Years of Productions
Read the following to discover more about the shows of the 2012 Season...
7:30 PM Curtain for our Evening Performances
2:00 PM Curtain for our Matinee Performances
The Ladies Man
A farce by Charles Morey
A free adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s Tailleur Pour Dames, 1886
Directed by Jerry Miller
The comedy revolves around the respected Parisian Dr. Molineaux's frantic efforts to keep his young wife Yvonne from learning about an indiscreet meeting he has had with one of his patients, Suzanne, an attractive woman who happens to be married to Gustav, a very jealous, duel-hungry Prussian soldier. When Molineaux's friend and patient, the pathological lisper Bassinet, gets involved in the Doctor's intrigues, along with a couple of servants and Yvonne's overbearing mother, everything goes haywire in true bedroom farce fashion.
Performance Dates
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
January 19 through February 12
Matinees January 29, February 5 & 12
Kimberly Akimbo
A comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Marla O’Brien
Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, Kimberly Akimbo is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love. “A wacky, touching and totally charming dark comedy that gives a whole new meaning to a coming-of-age story. There have been many comedies about dysfunctional families, but this is one of the funniest.” ~ NY Daily News.
Audience Advisory: This production contains explicit language
Performance Dates
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
March 22 through April 15
Matinees March 25, April 1 & 15
Twentieth Century
A comedy by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
In a new adaptation by Ken Ludwig
Based on a play by Charles Bruce Millholland
Directed by Judy Clemens
Bankrupt, with his career on a downslide, egomaniacal Broadway director Oscar Jaffe boards the luxury Twentieth Century Limited, and encounters his former paramour and ex-chorus girl Lily Garland, now a temperamental Hollywood star on the train traveling from Chicago to New York's Grand Central Terminal. Oscar, desperately in need of a hit, pulls out all the stops in persuading Lily to return to Broadway. He is determined to sign her for his new show, and Lily is just as determined to ignore his advances, both professional and personal. "Perfection!! A nostalgic moment of flawless parody….if you need to laugh, don't miss this one! ~ NY Times
Performance Dates
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
May 31 through June 24
Matinees June 10, 17 & 24
The Diviners
A play in two acts and elegies by Jim Leonard Jr.
Directed by Richard Lauson
In the small farm community of Zion during the Great Depression, water and faith are in short supply. A charismatic but back-sliding preacher drifts into town and meets a gentle yet misunderstood boy graced with the gift of divining or water-witching. The two seeming outcasts find a common bond and begin to help each other divine for truth, faith and hope. Written with a distinctive style and incisive view of the human condition, Jim Leonard Jr.’s earthy, funny, poignant and profoundly moving play has echoes of John Steinbeck’s classic Depression era work. The Diviners is, at once, a lyrical fable and a fascinating drama that bristles with complex psychological undercurrents and hints at Greek tragedy. Leonard’s intriguing, bucolic characters are simple but good people searching for hope and something in which to believe.
Performance Dates
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
September 6 through September 30
Matinees September 16, 23 & 30
Hooray for Holywood: Nunset Blvd
A new musical comedy by Richard Lauson & Jerry Miller
Directed by Jerry Miller / Musical Direction by Carol Lane
Bowing to requests every year to “bring back those nuns” …. TOTR’s own Board President (Mr. Lauson) and Artistic Director (Mr. Miller) have risen to the challenge to pen a new, collaborative, original “nun musical.” As the story goes, a disparate group of Nuns from various orders find themselves beneficiaries of a deranged Hollywood mogul's bizarre bequest. They find themselves the "owners" of an abandoned film studio which may just be "haunted." Tinsel Town has its predictable effect on all the Sisters, as all vie for the nun “most ready for her close-up, Mr. DeMille.”
Performance Dates
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
November 8 through December 9
Special Holiday shows November 23 & 24
(No performance Thanksgiving Day)
Matinees November 18, December 2 & 9
