THE 2007-2008 SEASON

“’S Wonderful! ‘S Marvelous!”

Hershey Felder as
George Gershwin Alone
Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Book by Hershey Felder
Created and performed by Hershey Felder
Directed by Joel Zwick

Tucson: September 12 – October 2, 2007
Phoenix: October 11 - 28, 2007

An international hit makes its Arizona premiere when multi-talented Hershey Felder kicks off our season with his widely-acclaimed musical play. Evoking Gershwin’s famous radio broadcasts of the 1930s, George Gershwin Alone explores the life, talent and spirit of the legendary composer – from his early days as an audacious Tin Pan Alley novice, to his breakthrough success with Rhapsody in Blue, to fame and fortune as a songwriter during the glamorous era of the 1930s Broadway and Hollywood, and finally to the deeply felt social consciousness if masterpieces like Porgy and Bess. A Steinway Concert Artist, actor and playwright, Hershey Felder is the only individual to whom the Gershwin heirs have granted permission to create the role of George Gershwin on stage.

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“Touch the names and remember and release the pain in your heart so long held.”

Touch the Names
Letters to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Conceived by Randal Myler and Chic Street Man
With original music by Chic Street Man
Directed by Randal Myler

Tucson: October 16 – November 4, 2007
Phoenix: November 8 – 25, 2007

We must forever honor and never forget the sacrifices made in our name. Touch the Names is a deeply powerful tribute to the men and women whose names live forever on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. In a stirringly theatrical reminder of every war’s human toll, we hear the voices of the survivors as they honor and celebrate the all-too-brief lives of spouses, parents, friends and strangers. Taken verbatim from the thousands of letters and mementos that have been left at the base of the wall since 1982, this play is an eloquent portrait of the many lives that were touched by the Vietnam War. Touch the Names offers a rare opportunity to set aside our differences and share a moment of understanding, as politics fade into the background and love takes center stage. Created by the man who brought us Love, Janis, Hank Williams: Lost Highway and It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues, Randal Myler’s stunning creativity is accompanied by the soulful poetry of live music written and performed by the renowned Chic Street Man.

“Hey there, you with the stars in your eyes, Love never made a fool of you. You use to be too wise.”

The Pajama Game
Music and Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell
Directed by David Ira Goldstein

Tucson: November 24 – December 15, 2007
Phoenix: December 31, 2007 – January 20, 2008

Bright and brassy. Sexy and sassy. There’s unrest at the Sleep Tite pajama factory when Sid and Babe sit on opposite sides of the negotiating table clashing over a seven-and-a-half cent raise. But love threatens to shut down the plant as the battle of the sexes plays out in this rollicking classic from the Golden Age of musical comedy. The Pajama Game is a hit parade of irresistible songs including “Steam Heat,” “Hernando’s Hideaway” and “Hey There (You with the Stars in Your Eyes).” Stitched together for ATC by the same creative team who delighted us with the sold-out hits My Fair Lady and The Pirates of Penzance, The Pajama Game is a rambunctious pillow fight full of jazzy songs, hot dance and exuberant laughter.

“I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde.”

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Jeffrey Hatcher
From the story by Robert Louis Stevenson
Directed by David Ira Goldstein

Tucson: January 12 – February 2, 2008
Phoenix: February 7 - 24, 2008

What happened the night that Henry Jekyll died? Against the backdrop of Victorian London, the respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city’s streets, committing assault and murder under the cloak of darkness and the dismal London fog. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll’s friend and lawyer confronts the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a series of Rashomon-like scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. Nationally renowned playwright and ATC favorite Jeffrey Hatcher (Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Turn of the Screw, Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright, Tuesdays With Morrie, Ella) brings Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of inner demons and evil unchecked to ATC’s stage in a theatrically intense, intimate and fiendishly clever world premiere. This new spin on one of literature’s great masterpieces will be directed by ATC Artistic Director David Ira Goldstein, who previously directed the world premieres of two other Victorian classics for ATC, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure and Dracula.

"You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them."

To Kill a Mockingbird
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee
Adapted by Christopher Sergel
Directed by Samantha K. Wyer

Tucson: March 1 – 22, 2008
Phoenix: March 27 – April 13, 2008

A great American classic and one of the most beloved coming-of-age stories ever written, Harper Lee’s moving tale of life in rural Alabama during the Depression is filled with heartache and joy, conflict and conciliation. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout, a six-year-old tomboy, grows up quickly as her father, Atticus Finch, defends a legal battle that reveals fired of prejudice burning through the South where black and white, rich and poor, young and old struggle to find common ground and survive. To Kill A Mockingbird is the first production in ATC’s AMERICA PLAYS! Celebrating Great American Stories initiative. This ambitious multi-year series of American classics will include special public forums, readings, education programs and state-wide community-based events.

“When I was a child I thought: if the floor is dirty, look at the ceiling. It is always clean.”

The Clean House
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Jon Jory

Tucson: April 5 – 26, 2008
Phoenix: May 1 - 18, 2008

Matilde is the child of the two funniest people in Brazil. She has gotten a job as a cleaning woman for an American doctor with no sense of humor – which doesn’t really matter since all her jokes are in Portuguese anyway. And even though she’s a complete failure at dusting, ironing and vacuuming, she is still a catalyst for cleaning up the lives of the people she meets. The Clean House is a mischievously comic look at the dark secrets we sweep under the rug. This off-Broadway hit was written by Sarah Ruhl, who this year was a McArthur Genius Award-winner and is one of the brightest new playwriting talents of the American stage. The New York Times called it, “One of the finest and funniest new plays you’re likely to see this season … a play that keeps revealing surprising insights, whimsical images and layers of rich feeling as it goes along.”
Contains mature themes and language

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