Weathervane Theatre Mainstage

Weathervane Theatre Mainstage

What's Playing and When ?

Our 2010 Season Schedule is still in the planning stages, but our 2009 calendar offers an example of our signature ALTERNATING/ROTATING repertory schedule.

We produce seven Mainstage shows in just eight weeks, adding and alternating shows so that audiences can have an opportunity to see up to four different production in a single week! 

Our special opening night (Bubble & Squeak) and closing night (Best of) are one-of-a-kind productions that showcase our entire summer performance Company, from our AEA (Actors' Equity) members, to staffers, to our summer interns.

And our Interns offer a performances schedule of their own with Patchwork Players shows on Fridays & Wednesdays.

Mainstage Performances, Monday through Saturday at 8:00 p.m., with select August Saturday matinees added at 2:00 p.m. as shown.

 

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MAINSTAGE 2009 included:

HAIRSPRAY Book: Mark O'Donnell & Thomas Meehan; Music & Lyrics: Marc Shaiman; additional lyrics by Scott Wittman
Baltimore is sweeping out the fifties and swingin' in the sixties -- music is in the air and blasting the airwaves with winds of change.  The musical version of John Waters' quirky tale of Tracy-Turnblad-turned-celebrity puts the 'boffo' in 'bouffant' -- and the entire cast dances right into audience hearts with energy, enthusiasm, and pre-'High School Musical' hijinx!  Recommended for everyone

 

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'  Music: Thomas "Fats" Waller; Lyrics: Various artists.  Based on an idea by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Before the Detroit sound, Harlem of the 1930s vibrated with the original soul music of Fats Waller and others.  In an era of honky-tonk dives, impromptu rent parties, Cotton Club elegance, and emergent swing, Wallter's brilliant take on the era provides the strut and strumming that makes for the ultimate revue-style show.  In addition to the title song, get ready for the beat of an earlier generation that is remarkably current -- and an evening of toe-tapping, comic and crooning tunes.
Recommended for everyone . . .
Thanks to First Night Sponsor Littleton Coin Company for helping bring you this production.

 

DOUBT, a parable   By: John Patrick Shanley
Winner of a 2005 Pulitzer and multiple Tony Awards - and recently a major film - DOUBT is a taut drama of nuanced conversations and questions that poke at the ambiguity surrounding its four characheters like a shroud.  Father Flynn teches 8th grad boys about manhood; Sister James their lessons; and principal of St. Nicholas School, Sister Aloysius, bears responsibility for them all; and young Robert Muller's mother is willing to look aside if her son is prepared for a better high school. Fueled by half-truths and gossip that prove more powerful than a sermon, the four characters interact in a chess game of deception with young Muller as a pawn. 
Recommended for thoughtful, mature audiences.

 

The PRODUCERS  Book: Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan;
Music & Lyrics: Mel Brooks
Bialystock and Bloom:  names familiar to followers of (like Hairspray) another cult film turned musical....in this case, Mel Brooks' hilarious comedy "The Producers."  At first reluctant to turn his classic film into a musical, Brooks -- and Broadway -- ended up with the most-winning musical ever, and 12 Tonys, awarding sudiences with high humor from low characters.  Flop producer Bialystock partners with bean-counter Bloom to create a sure-fire flop designed to bilk investers while making big bucks for the larcenous pair....instead, they get a back-fire of a hit from their creation "Springtime for ''Hitler."  Who knew?  And what fun getting there!! 
Recommended for tweens, teens, and fun-loving audiences of all ages. 
Thanks to First Night Sponsor Presby Environmental for helping bring you this production.

 

CURTAINS   Book: Rupert Holmes; Lyrics: Fred Ebb; Music: John Kander
The leading lady's performance is murdering the Boston opening of a new musical "Robbin' Hood" when she (thankfully for the cast and creators) collapses before the curtain falls.  A temporary solution is considered, only to find they need a more permanent one: the lady is dead.  enter Lt. Frank Cioffi, homicide detective and amateur thespian.  While Cioffi investigates, continued poor reviews and a second death dog the production.  With dogged determination of his own, all Cioffi has to do is piece together the clues, unmask the killer, intervene before the next victim is set . . . and, oh, find a new finale for the show!  All set to a great score by legendary team Kander and Ebb.  A multiple award-winning who-dun-it of a musical. 
Recommended for everyone.

 

BLITHE SPIRIT, An Improbable Farce  By: Noel Coward 
Wartime wit from one of Britain's finest.  Coward gives us Charles Condomine, who while researching his latest novel engages the services of spiritulist medium Madame Arcati.  Inadvertantly, she conjures up the late - and first - Mrs. Condomine, to the dismay of the second - and current - wife Ruth.  Classic farce meets ghost story in three-way repartee, as only Charles can 'see' first wife Elvira.  English mannered comedy: think cucumber sandwiches, dry martinis, and one-liners served up with elegance.
Recommended for all fans of the classic comedy of a bygone (but by golly not forgotten) era.

 

SWEENEY TODD, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street  
Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim;  Book: Hugh Wheeler. 
Based on a version of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond.
Sung-through, the score and lyrics paint a vivid picture of the barbaric, seedy side of 19th century London as this musical thriller unfolds a suspenseful, heart-pounding tale.  Unjustly exiled, and now returned home, the Barber Sweeney plies his trade with a vengeance -- and revenge for the lecherous judge who framed him, and ravaged his young wife.  Sweeney's thirst for blood is only matched by the enthusiasm of the resourceful pie-shop proprietress who soon has all London lining up to sample her mysteriously delicious meat pie recipe.  Dark, yet brilliant, the musical offers sophisticated fun, uncompromising intensity broken only by flashes of humor that explode with needed relief. 
Fairly intense, with mature themes, recommend this experience for a mature audience.