BERWICK — Hackmatack Playhouse producer Michael Guptill has announced the 2014 show schedule for this summer, the 43rd year of the playhouse. The shows planned for this summer are: “Arsenic and Old Lace,” “The Music Man,” Monty Python’s “Spamalot,” and “The Trip to Bountiful.”
“Arsenic and Old Lace” opens the season Friday, June 20 through Saturday, July 5. Joseph Kesselring’s famous comedy about the crazy Brewster family is the “chestnut” of American theater. Drama critic Mortimer Brewster must deal with his homicidal aunts, a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt, an uncle who is a Boris Karloff look-a-like and the Brooklyn police as he questions his promise to marry the woman he loves.
“The Music Man” will be next, Wednesday, July 9 through Saturday, July 26, This is an affectionate look at Smalltown USA. The Music Man is the story of a fast-talking salesman as he cons the good people of River City, Iowa. Meredith Wilson’s score includes timeless American music classics including “Til There was You,” “Trouble in River City,” “Wells Fargo Wagon” and, of course, “76 Trombones.”
Hackmatack audiences will love “Monty Python’s Spamalot” being presented Wednesday, July 30 through Saturday, Aug. 16. Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Spamalot” retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of show girls, cows, a killer rabbit and many French people.
The Hackmatack 2014 season will wrap with “The Trip to Bountiful,” scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 20 through Saturday, Aug. 30. This story set in the 1940s is of an elderly woman who desires to visit the town where she grew up but is stopped by her meddling daughter-in-law and overprotective son. Determined, Carrie makes the trip and finds new friends along the road, but discovers that the town she once knew is no more.
Tickets and 2014 Hackmatack Playhouse flexi-passes are now available as this show season announcement is made. Hackmatack Playhouse continues a tradition of affordable ticket prices with student, senior and group discounts.
Tickets and more information are available on-line at www.hackmatack.org or by phone, 698-1807.
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