We've got Hitchcock firmly in hand as Harold tells us about The 39 Steps - Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers…
We've got Hitchcock firmly in hand as Harold tells us about The 39 Steps - Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers…
Hamlet has been called the greatest play ever written, so it will be hard for Harold to mess this one up. A story of passion, revenge, and intrigue. When Prince Hamlet learns that his father, the King of Denmark, has been murdered and that his mother, the Queen, has married his father’s brother, he is driven to near madness. Or is he? Called the closest thing to a perfect play, Hamlet is the quintessential Shakespearean drama.
Winner of the Tony Awards equivalent to the “Triple Crown” this musical took home the awards for for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book in 2003. AVENUE Q is part flesh, part felt and packed with heart. AVENUE Q is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets Kate (the girl next door), Rod (the Republican),…
Harold gives us the scoop on The Last Night of Ballyhoo, TCT's latest production. It takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Will Boo succeed in snaring Peachy Weil, a member of one of the finest Jewish families in the South? Will Sunny…
Harold bends over forwards to bring us the scoop on TCT's latest production. Welcome to the world of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a story we all know and love, now set to music overflowing with Christmas feelings to carry in our hearts all year long. Charles Dickens’ classic gets the full Broadway treatment by the team of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Okrent. Called by The New York Times “a tonic for adults, and for children a transfixing…
A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.
Harold tells us about TCT's seventy-sixth season opener, Crimes of the Heart. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. The play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future–but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in…
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The musical adaptation of James M. Barrie's classic story
Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne
Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French
Peter, Wendy, John, Michael, Tiger Lily, Captain Hook, and of course, Tinkerbell take flight once again as TCT audiences share in the thrilling exploits of the boy who won’t grow up! Families will love the fun-filled songs including…
Harold Fingerstoff is Topeka Civic Theatre's backstage entertainment reporter bringing you the latest gossip and important info on their most recent stage productions.
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