TCT announces 2023-24 season
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Temple Civic Theatre staff announced its lineup today for the 2023-2024 season, and the new season will include six mainstage productions, three youth workshops, a summer youth musical and a new addition — the Central Texas New Playworks Festival.
The new season was crafted and curated by TCT Artistic Director Natasha Tolleson, who will be starting her second season at the local community theater company. The new season is inclusive, innovative and imaginative.
“Featuring works by classic and award-winning writers, this upcoming season’s lineup promises theater favorites as well as brand new titles,” Tolleson said.
Here’s a glimpse of the 2023-24 season:
The Addams Family — A Musical (Oct.19-29 2023) is a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
A Christmas Carol — A Musical Play(December 7-17 2023). A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. The Christmas classic based on the book by Charles Dickens with classic Christmas carols throughout.
Cinderella — A Family Musical ( February 15-25 2024). The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale. .Rodgers and Hammersteins’s Cinderella is history's most enduring princess musical , complete with a Fairy Godmother, a glass slipper and a handsome prince.
The Mountain Top — A new play (March 7-10 2024) is written by Katori Hall, a gripping reimagination of events the night before the assassination of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 3, 1968, after delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious stranger arrives with some surprising news, King is forced to confront his destiny and his legacy to his people.
The Grapes of Wrath (April 26-May 6 2023) is the story of the Joad family and their flight from the dust bowl of Oklahoma. Desperately proud, but reduced to poverty by the loss of their farm, the Joads pile their few possessions on a battered old truck and head west for California, hoping to find work and a better life. The play is a moving affirmation of the indomitability of the human spirit and of the essential goodness and strength that—then as now—reside in the hearts and minds of the “common man,” throughout the world.
Jekyll and Hyde-A Musical ( June 20-30 2024) is the epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon, Jekyll & Hyde. Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi-Grammy- and Tony-nominated Frank Wildhorn and double-Oscar- and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse, Jekyll & Hyde has mesmerized audiences the world over.
Mean Girls Jr. — Summer Youth Musical (August 2-4 2024) is the Plastics have deemed Broadway Junior worthy of their presence in Mean Girls JR! This "fetch" musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde) and composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) is packed with keen wit, an undeniably catchy score, and a sincere message for everyone.
Youth Series-(2023-24) workshops featuring the new Temple Civic Youth performances:
Broadway Babies-classes for ages 4-7
Broadway Kids-classes for ages 8-11
Broadway Bound -classes in Musical Theatre performance-ages 8-18
New this coming season is the Central Texas Playworks Festival, which is Aug. 12-18 and features the plays of local playwrights.
“We will put out a call for plays, and the playwrights will send them in,” Tolleson said. “We will review the plays in December. Some of those selected will be staged, others will be read. We’re hoping to have five to 10 readings and about five staged shows.”
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