Full Season
Welcome to the 2013/14 30th Anniversary Season
The 2012/13 season winds up with Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Then, in September, the new season begins with The Music Man. Click on the show titles for a description of the production, show times, ratings and show sponsor. Also, you may search our full season of shows via the rating system by simply unchecking or adding a check to the genre of your interest. The rating system will automatically show only the productions that match your genre of choice.
At the bottom of the page enjoy a short video on the Producer's Take of the Season of Silver Linings, which provides highlights and what to expect for each show.
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Meredith Wilson
An affectionate look at Smalltown, U.S.A. of a bygone era, Meredith Wilson's award-winning, critically acclaimed Broadway classic is an all-American institution. Thanks to its quirky characters, charmingly predictable dramatic situations, and one-of-a-kind, nostalgic score of rousing marches, barbershop quartets and sentimental ballads which have become popular standards. The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize - this despite the fact he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain's fall. By turns wicked, funny, warm, romantic and touching, The Music Man is family entertainment at its best.
by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, & Jamie Wooten
Five North Carolina women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. They meet at the same beach cottage on the Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other's lives. The Dixie Swim Club focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. As their lives unfold these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges: men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging that life flings at them. When fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of "teamwork," rally 'round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction. The Dixie Swim Club is a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever.
by Stuart Ross
Offers the best of Forever Plaid tied-up in a nifty package with a big Christmas bow on top! Filled with Christmas standards that have all been “Plaid-erized,” our boys are back to do their Christmas Special. At first Francis, Jinx, Smudge, and Sparky aren’t sure why they’ve returned to Earth for another posthumous performance, but a phone call from the heavenly Rosemary Clooney lets them know that they’re needed to put a little harmony into a discordant world. Sprinkled among the Christmas offerings are audience favorites like their riotous three minute and eleven second version of “The Ed Sullivan Show” - this time featuring the Rockettes, the Chipmunks and The Vienna Boys Choir, and a Plaid Caribbean Christmas which puts the “Day-O” in Excelsis! This truly "heaven-sent" holiday treat will lift audiences' spirits and remind youngsters that not all good music has to be auto-tuned.
by Frank Higgins
Featuring beautiful a cappella renditions of little-known American folk songs, Black Pearl Sings! chronicles a powerful story about being a woman in a man’s world, being black in a white world, and fighting for one’s soul in a world where anyone can be a commodity. Memories may fade, but songs from our early years stay close. In Frank Higgins’ heartwarming, feisty Black Pearl Sings!, African folk songs open a door to history, and lead one woman out of prison. In the 1930s Susannah, a white woman from a privileged New York family, travels the South recording folk songs and indigenous music. When she hears Pearl singing in a Texas high-security lockup, she knows she’s tapped a rich vein of treasured music reaching into the past. She wants the songs, but Pearl needs something from her in return, and as the two negotiate an exchange, friendship grows. Susannah bargains for Pearl’s parole and arranges for several public performances. The two women soon find themselves walking a delicate line between exposure and exploitation.
by Connie Ray
Wildly funny you will be laughing, singing, rooting for the family, and clapping along. Smoke on the Mountain tells the story of a Saturday Night Gospel Sing at a country church in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains in 1938. The show features two dozen rousing bluegrass songs played and sung by the Sanders Family, a traveling group making its return to performing after a five-year hiatus. Pastor Oglethorpe, the young and enthusiastic minister of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, has enlisted the Sanders Family in his efforts to bring his tiny congregation into "the modern world." Between songs, each family member "witnesses" - telling a story about an important event in their life. Though they try to appear perfect in the eyes of a congregation who wants to be inspired by their songs, one thing after another goes awry and they reveal their true and hilariously imperfect natures. By the evening's end, the Sanders Family has endeared themselves to us by revealing their weaknesses and allowing us to share in their triumphs.
by K.J. Forgette
Someone has stolen the letters Lillie Langtry exchanged with the Prince of Wales and now she is being blackmailed! Only Sherlock Holmes can solve the case, while Watson falls in head over heels for the Jersey Lily and a wicked professor attempts to bring the Crown to its knees. The show keeps many secrets and presents many twists which will catch the audience by surprise. There is much laughter and suspense as the mystery craftily unfolds. This production emerges as a wonderful family-friendly evening of theater, suspense, comedy, drama, even a second-act swordfight!
by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Right meow, we can't tell you what it is, but you're going to love it. We think it's the purr-fect way to close the season. There will be absolutely no dogs allowed in the theatre for this production. Stay tuned...
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A So Clover creation.