SEASON 22!
HEAD OVER HEELS
Songs by the Go-Go’s
Based on The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney
Conceived and Original Book by Jeff Whitty
Adapted by James Magruder
July 19 - August 17
(2 Sunday matinees on July 8 & August 4)
A hilarious, exuberant celebration of love. HEAD OVER HEELS follows the escapades of a royal family on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinction – only to discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts.
This laugh out loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980’s all-female rock band, The Go-Go’s including the hit songs, “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is A Place On Earth” and “Mad About You.”
*Due to sexual innuendo, ETC does not recommend this production for 12 and under.
the odd couple
By Neil Simon
September 27 - October 12
(Sunday matinee on Sept. 29 & October 6)
Felix Ungar, a neurotic, neat freak news writer (a photographer in the television series), is thrown out by his wife, and moves in with his friend Oscar Madison, a slovenly sportswriter. Despite Oscar's problems – careless spending, excessive gambling, a poorly kept house filled with spoiled food – he seems to enjoy life. Felix, however, seems utterly incapable of enjoying anything and only finds purpose in pointing out his own and other people's mistakes and foibles. Even when he tries to do so in a gentle and constructive way, his corrections and suggestions prove extremely annoying to those around him. Oscar, his closest friend, feels compelled to throw him out after only a brief time together, though he quickly realizes that Felix has had a positive effect on him.
THE LUCKY SPOT
By Beth Henley
November 22 -December 14
(Sunday matinees on November 24. No performance on Thanksgiving)
It’s Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15-year-old Cassidy Smith is very pregnant with the child of 40ish Reed Hooker. Cassidy is desperate to marry Reed, Reed is desperate to open Louisiana’s hottest new taxi-dancing emporium, and neither are prepared for the arrival of Reed’s wife, Sue Jack Hooker, a dangerous beauty who has just been let out of the penitentiary. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley spins one of her most colorful tales.
The furst hotel
By Joanne Lopez Rock & Joyce Lopez Mink
January 24 - February 1
(Sunday matinees on January 26)
Frank and Carol, owners of The Furst Hotel, are spending one last Christmas in the inn before closing the doors for good. When a colorful group of travelers is stranded at the regional airport because of a snowstorm, Frank and Carol take them in. The zany group includes a suspicious baron, a social media influencer and her solicitous fiancé, a sportscaster, a librarian with a speech idiosyncrasy, and a social climber and her long-suffering husband. When the hotel is featured on social media, a plan to save the inn begins to form with lots of laughs and the help of Baby Jesus!
Island ETC is pleased to be producing the world premiere of this hilarious play written by two BOIs!
LEAP OF FAITH
Book by Janus Cercone and Warren Leight
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Glenn Slater
March 14- April 12
(Sunday matinees on March 23 & 30)
The "Reverend" Jonas Nightingale, an electrifying performer and con artist, is travelling with his ministry when his bus breaks down in a small Kansas town. The part-time reverend and full-time crook pitches a tent and invites the locals to a revival. The sheriff, a woman named Marla McGowan, is determined to stop Jonas from separating the townspeople from their money, and Jonas' real challenge arises when he meets the sheriff and her son, whose love forces an ultimate cynic to take a real leap of faith.
the TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
By Horton Foote
May 16 - May 31
(Sunday matinees on May 18 & May 25)
Carrie Watts may be old, but she suffers no shortage of spirit. When her carping daughter-in-law and overprotective son forbid her to travel alone from Houston to her childhood home in Bountiful, she strikes out anyway. Learning that trains no longer stop there, she takes a bus instead and en route meets a young woman with whom she shares both secrets and memories. Little does she know that her family has alerted the police.