Theatrical Shows
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
adapted by Peter Glazer
February 8 - March 23, 2008
Stage 3 swings into our 2008 Season with the foot-stompin’, roof-raisin’, toe-tappin’ heart-breakin’, soul-soarin’ musical journey of Woody Guthrie down highways, rail lines and back roads straight into the heart of America. An exuberant musical celebration of America, “Woody Guthrie's American Song” tells the life of the rambling folk singer through his words and music. From the dust storms of Texas to the promised land of California to the streets of New York City, Guthrie spins the tale of the land that ‘was made for you and me’.
Steel Magnolias
by Robert Harling
April 18 - May 18, 2008
Both wisecracking and wise, this group of ladies in a small-town beauty parlor take Stage 3 by storm in a play that is alternately hilarious and touching—and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the banter of its characters.
In Truvy's beauty salon, all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to a p-a passel of the town's most delightfully colorful characters. When one of them risks a dangerous pregnancy, the sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad. Don’t Miss it!
Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley
June 20 - July 20, 2008
There is no ‘Doubt’ about this important work’s credentials. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Tony Awards and was voted Best Play by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. From the author of ‘Moonstruck’, this quiet and deceptively simple story of two nuns and a priest gathers a dramatic force that has audiences gasping.
Driving Miss Daisy
by Alfred Uhry
September 12 - October 19, 2008
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. Stage 3 presents this lovely tale of acceptance, tolerance and respect.
The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, must rely on the services of a chauffeur, an unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple. They both come to realize they have more in common than they ever believed possible—and that times and circumstances would ever allow them to publicly admit.
A Thousand Clowns
by Herb Gardner
November 21 - December 21, 2008
An offbeat comedy about love, family and hope featuring one of the funniest non-conformists of the stage. Murray Burns is an unemployed children’s TV writer who has found himself raising his sister’s son when she went out for a pack of cigarettes and never returned. This unlikely arrangement has worked for the last 7 years until Social Services finally decides to pay a call. What happens next threatens to destroy the only home the child has known and break up the happy home. “A Thousand Clowns” is a delightfully warm screwball comedy certain to cheer up everyone’s holiday season.