CCT's 2011-2012 Season

MUSICAL
SEPTEMBER 9 – OCTOBER 2, 2011

The Fantasticks

by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

The Fantasticks tells the story
of a young boy and girl who fall
madly in love at the hands of their
meddling fathers. The Fantasticks
is a quintessential celebration of
love in all its gorgeous simplicity
and heartbreaking complexities.
If you’ve never seen this classic
romantic fable—or if you’ve seen
and loved it—now is the time to
fall under the spell of The Fantasticks again. Since its opening
in New York in May 1960, The Fantasticks is the longest running
production of any kind in the history of the American Theatre.

THRILLER
November 4 – 27, 2011

Sleuth

by Anthony Shaffer

Sleuth is a 1970 play written
by Anthony Shaffer. The play is
set in the Wiltshire, England
manor house of Andrew Wyke,
an immensely successful mystery
writer. He lures his wife’s lover,
Milo Tindle, to the house and
convinces him to stage a robbery
of her jewelry, a proposal that sets
off a chain of events that leaves
the audience trying to decipher
where Wyke’s imagination ends
and reality begins.

HEART WARMING DRAMA
February 3 – 26, 2012

The Trip to Bountiful

by Horton Foote

The play, set in the 1940s, tells the
story of a woman, Carrie Watts, who
wants to return home to the small
town where she grew up, but is stopped from leaving Houston
by her daughter-in-law and an overprotective son. Mrs. Watts
is determined to return to her childhood home and eventually
boards a bus to a town near her home. Her son and daughterin-
law track her down, but with the help of the local sheriff
who takes pity on her yearning to visit her home, Carrie Watts
does get The Trip to Bountiful. Geraldine Page won an Oscar for
Best Actress in the 1985 film.

COMEDY
April 13 – May 6, 2012

RED, WHITE, and TUNA

by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears And Ed Howard

The hilarious third installment in the Tuna trilogy brings back perennial favorites and introduces new denizens who burst into the 4th of July High School Class Reunion. Fireworks and fun from the land where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.

COMEDY
June 1 – 24, 2012

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

by Neil Simon

Inspired by Simon’s early career
experience as a junior writer along
with Rob Reiner and Mel Brooks,
the play is a memoir told by Neil
Simon’s alter ego, Lucas. The writers
try to top each other with gags while
competing for the attention of the head man (the Sid Caesar
character) on the popular 1950’s TV show, Your Show of Shows.
“Comedy, comedy all the way,” Newsweek.