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Upcoming Events 2013
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9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL
Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton, Book by Patricia Resnick
 The hit 1980 film gets the musical treatment by one of its Grammy Award-winning original stars in this show with big heart and even bigger show-stopping songs! Jaded matriarch Violet, buxom backwoods secretary Doralee, and mistreated newcomer Judy are all under the employ of the overbearing womanizer Franklin Hart, Jr. These three unlikely cohorts team up and hatch a plan to get even with their egotistical, tyrannical boss. All of the madcap hilarity of the movie is intact, intertwined with Dolly Parton’s score that is part Broadway and part pop, a little bit country, and all toe-tapping fun!
May 3-19
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman, Book by Harvey Fierstein
 Welcome to the home of Zaza and the notorious Les Cagelles, where glitz, glamour, and “A Little More Mascara” are the norm. Georges, the manager, and Albin, the star of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, a premier drag nightclub, are faced with a dilemma when their son Jean-Michel announces his engagement to a girl – a girl whose father’s mission is to take down the club in the name of tradition, family, and morality. This often hilarious and genuinely touching musical puts family ties to the test, as sequins and saintliness clash and everyone struggles to bravely declare, “I Am What I Am.”
Summer Repertory: June 27-August 29
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RADIO GAGA: A GLEE-FUL MUSIC EVENT
 With musical theatre taking over TV screens across America, it’s only fitting that Clear Space brings you a live version to rock out with all summer long! This musical revue, with a brand-new concept, takes today’s biggest radio hits and gives them the Broadway treatment, with new arrangements, orchestrations, and significance. Pop music’s hottest artists – Adele, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Beyonce, and more – will take over the stage through our talented ensemble of vocalists. An entirely new sound for us, we know if you tune into the radio, you’ll go gaga for this show!
Summer Repertory: July 12-September 7
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THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Music by RichardRodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
 First a Broadway Musical featuring Mary Martin, then an Academy Award winning film starring Julie Andrews; now Clear Space will mount this worldwide classic her at the beach this summer. The staunch Captain Von Trapp takes on a new governess, Maria– a nun too free spirited for any convent– to look after his over-disciplined children. She soon introduces the rebellious brood to art and freedom– commodities largely foreign in this militaristic household– and eventually wins the affections of the entire Von Trapp family. Told through countless musical theatre standards, such as “Edelweiss”, “My Favorite Things”, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”, “Do-Re-Mi”, and the title song “The Sound of Music”, experience an evening of family, friends and love with this iconic musical.
Summer Repertory: July 1-August 31
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THE FOREIGNER
by Larry Shue
 Bashful Brit Charlie Baker is on holiday with his friend Froggy at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia. Charlie is so shy, in fact, that he can’t speak to the strangers sharing the lodge. So, Froggy con-vinces everyone that Charlie is from a strange, exotic land and doesn’t understand English. His timidity backfires when the other visitors confide in him their deepest, darkest secrets – like the fact that the minister’s young fiancé is pregnant, or the plan by a local redneck to turn to the lodge into a meeting house for the KKK. That Charlie does understand them only fuels the hilarity of the play, and leads to the ultimate comic downfall of the bad guys!
September 27-October 13
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THE MOUSETRAP
by Agatha Christie
 The longest-running play in history, celebrating its 60th anniversary in London this year, THE MOUSETRAP will bring murder and intrigue right here to the beach this winter. A group of strangers are snowed in at a stately manor in the English
countryside. A murderer on the loose has already claimed two lives, and has now infiltrat-ed the house, in search of his (or her?) third victim. Who could it be – the owners of the manor? The skittish young architect or the cranky old spinster? The retired Army Major or the man whose car mysteriously crashed in a snow drift? The master of mystery Agatha Christie will keep you guessing until the very end, with a twist ending that you’ll be sworn to secrecy to keep!
February 8-24
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler
 This spring, Clear Space is diving head-first into one of the most musically intricate crea-tions of America’s greatest musical theatre composer. A tangled web of lust and love, new and rekindled, some legitimate and most illicit, is at the center of this beautiful waltz. Aging starlet Desiree Armfeldt, already engaged in an affair with the married Count Carl-Magnus, is brought face-to-face with an old flame, Fredrik Egerman, who in turn is recent-ly married to the young and innocent Anne, with whom Fredrik’s son, Henrik, is madly in love. A weekend in the country at Desiree’s mother’s residence brings all of the gossip and tension to a head, as the summer night smiles three times: on the young, the fools, and the old. Lavish music and romantic comedy blend beautifully in this stunning musical – Clear Space’s first venture into the work of Stephen Sondheim!
March 29-April 14
REALLY ROSIE
Book and Lyrics by Maurice Sendak, Music by Carole King
 Our most talented students perform their own full length musical under the direction of professionals in this family friendly musical. The story follows a typical summer day in the life of the Nutshell Kids, a group of several neighborhood friends, including Pierre, Alliga-tor, Johnny and Chicken Soup from the Nutshell Library books, and Rosie and Kathy from The Sign on Rosie’s Door. Rosie, the self-proclaimed sassiest kid on her block of Brooklyn’s Avenue P, entertains everyone by directing and starring in an “Oscar-winning” movie based on the exciting, dramatic, funny (and slightly exaggerated) story of her life. An evening of heartwarming fun for the whole family that will give you a taste of the young talent knocking at the stage door.
April 19-21
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 This program is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Office and participation in all activities, programs and benefits of Clear Space Theatre Company, Inc. shall be open without regard to age, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin.
Clear Space Theatre Company, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All contributions are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Tax Identification number 20-1712916.
 Clear Space Theatre Company partners with Art-Reach to “Share the Experience” providing free or discounted tickets or admissions to Art-Reach member agencies that serve people with disabilities or economic disadvantages.
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