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The doors are open, audiences are back in the seats, actors are back on the stage and we couldn’t be more thrilled to announce this wonderful line-up for our 107th Season!
Stop Kiss
By Diana Son
Directed by Belle Burr
September 9–25, 2022
What can be more powerful and moving than a tale of enduring love that miraculously survives a shocking assault? Diana Son’s remarkable play traces Callie and Sara’s journey together through a world that is alternately funny and serious, warm, tender, and brutal.
“To love is to declare oneself, and STOP KISS should speak to anyone who has had to search deep within to find the strength and conviction to join hands with another. I can’t remember a love story that has moved me more.” - L.A. Times
SHOUT! The Mod Musical
Created by Phillip George and David Lowenstein
Continuity by Peter Charles Morris and Phillip George
Directed by Lou Otero
October 21 – November 20, 2022
With its irresistible blend of hip-swiveling hits, this pulse-pounding, raucous musical takes audiences back to the music, style and freedom of the 1960’s with such classic numbers as “Downtown,” “To Sir With Love,” “Son of a Preacher Man,” “Goldfinger,” “I Know A Place” and many more. Join five groovy gals as they come of age during those glorious days that made England swing.
“SHOUT! is without a doubt a celebration of the music and an homage to the women who made it great.” - BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway Bound
By Neil Simon
Directed by Steve Goldklang
January 6–29, 2023
Broadway’s King of Comedy brings his young alter ego, Eugene, back to Brighton Beach as he and his brother, Stanley hilariously struggle to break into show business as comedy writers for CBS, and watch helplessly as their parents’ marriage implodes. Simon’s Tony Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-nominated comedy provides a potent mix of laughter and tears.
“BROADWAY BOUND contains some of its author’s most accomplished writing to date.” - N.Y. Times
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
By Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield
Directed by Daniel Douek
February 17 – March 12, 2023
Egad and forsooth! Take three wild’n’crazy actors plus Shakespeare’s 37 plays, cram ‘em all into 97 minutes, and you’ll learn more about The Bard (through songs, raps, interpretative dancing and even a cooking show!) than you ever did while you were asleep in English class. MEDICAL ALERT: “THE COMPLETE WORKS….” could be injurious to your funny bone.
“If you like Shakespeare, you’ll love this show. If you hate Shakespeare, you’ll love this show!” - The Today Show
The Mountaintop
By Katori Hall
Directed by Dwight R.B. Cook
March 31 – April 23, 2023
Hall’s Olivier Award-winning drama begins as a deceptively simple account of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final night on Earth, but then explodes into a powerful rumination on race, politics, life and death that connects King’s legacy to all of us.
“THE MOUNTAINTOP is soul-stirring and eye-opening.” - New York Daily News
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
By Dale Wasserman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey
Directed by Audra M. Mullen
May 19 – June 11, 2023
Renegade criminal Randle P. McMurphy wages a titanic battle against his arch nemesis, Nurse Ratched, and the state-sanctioned tyrannies of the American psychiatric establishment in the not-so-distant 1960’s. Funny and gripping, this thought-provoking story of a rebel with an outrageous cause is a great American classic.
“The play is an emotional button-pusher, wringing tears and cheers with precision.” - Variety
Vagabond Players rounds out its 106th season with the world’s longest running musical, The Fantasticks (Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt). This magical show was suggested by a play, Les Romanesque, by Edmond Rostand. Originally slated for our 104th season, we are thrilled to welcome back and present this production post-pandemic.
There’s always time to remember this legendary romance about a boy, a girl, their two conniving fathers who plot to keep them apart, and a love that transcends all boundaries and expectations. Filled with one of the finest scores ever written for the stage, (“Try to Remember,” “Soon It’s Gonna Rain,” “They Were You,”) The Fantasticks is a bewitching comedy and haunting love story has entranced generations of theatre-goers, and will be sure to enchant and captivate Vagabond audiences for a long time to come.
The Fantasticks runs Friday, May 20 and runs through Sunday, June 19, with weekly performances Fridays/Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Special performances include: a New for 2022 Saturday matinee on June 4 at 2 p.m. and a special $16 Thursdays on Broadway performance on June 16 at 8 p.m.
The Fantasticks is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com
DISGRACED
By Ayad Akhtar
Congratulations to the wonderful cast and crew of DISGRACED on a successful run. Thank you for your hardwork and dedication to this thought-provoking production!
Check out what reviewers had to say:
“Akhtar’s material is incendiary, yet ethically complex and even subtle in a lot of ways…Under Mitchell’s guidance, these five actors deliver a powerhouse ensemble performance.” – MD Theatre Guide
Check out the full review at MDTheatreGuide.com
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“Akhtar’s work is one of intense emotional depth and the production at Vagabond Players is delivered with stunning sincerity…A powerful, evocative, and moving sort of work, DISGRACED at Vagabond Players is a powder-keg of relevancy for today’s society.” – TheatreBloom