77th Season 2010 - 2009 | "Keeping the Faith"

A Season of Hope: "Keeping the Faith"...dedicated to the ambitious, talented and devoted people who began MLT 77 years ago and rededicating ourselves to their original mission statement: to provide our community with quality theatre "of the people, by the people and for the people."

• Swing!
  July 9th - 18th 2010
  
  Macon Little Theatre is excited to begin the season with the smash music and dance hit Swing! This celebration of America's most enduring feel good music and dance resonates with life, love and the pursuit of happiness. Featuring such beloved songs as "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing","Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "In the Mood" and"I'll Be Seeing You, this is a musical dance review with no pretensions. It's all about good, old-fashioned fun."
  
  
  
  
  
• Honky Tonk Angels
  September 3rd - 12th 2010
  
  If you liked “Always…Patsy Cline”, you’ll love “The Honky Tonk Angels” It follows the journey of three women who are fed up with their lives and set out to chase their dreams of becoming country music stars. They meet on a bus on their way to Nashville where they strike up a friendship and decide to pursue their dream together as a trio. The show uses many country music classics by artists such as Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, and Willie Nelson, including “Nine to Five,” “Harper Valley PTA,” “Stand By Your Man,” “Coal Miner's Daughter,” “Amazing Grace,” and many, many more.
  
  
• Deathtrap
  October 15th - 24th 2010
  
  One of the great popular successes of recent Broadway history, this ingeniously constructed play offers a rare and skillful blending of two priceless theatrical ingredients—gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter. Dealing with the devious machinations of a writer of thrillers whose recent offerings have been flops, and who is prepared to go to any lengths to improve his fortunes, it provides twists and turns and sudden shocks in such abundance that audiences will be held spellbound until the very last moment. The New York Post says, "It is a classic thriller, a genre with a style, a manner and an audience of its own. If you like thrillers, do see it. I promise you that it is vintage."
• Annie
  December 3rd – 12th 2010
  
  Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world's best-loved musicals. "Annie" is a spunky, Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
  
• A Streetcar Named Desire
  February 4th - 13th 2011
  
  This well-known and well-loved Tennessee Williams play about beautiful, sensitive, troubled Blanch DuBois and the resentment and passion she arouses in her brutish brother-in-law Stanley requires no further introduction. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critic’s Circle Award, it enjoyed a long and successful run on Broadway and was subsequently made into an Academy Award winning 1951 film. It is a tragic and effective drama which ranks as one of the world’s greatest in the theatre.
  
  
  
• The Velveteen Rabbit (Musical)
  April 8th – 17th 2011
  
  Though the most modest toy in the nursery, the Velveteen Rabbit earns the love of a young boy and learns about the joys and pain of becoming "Real." Margery Williams' classic book springs to magical life in this enchanting musical about love, loss and self-esteem. The musical moves between the worlds of the toy closet and the nursery and is sprinkled with songs which bring responses from total laughter to misty eyes. An inspirational treat for audiences of all ages, the message of “The Veleteen Rabbit” will never diminish as long as people search for the magic of love.
  
• A Bad Year for Tomatoes
  May 20th – 29th 2011
  
  Fed up with the pressures and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny New England hamlet of Beaver Haven and settles down to write her autobiography. In an attempt to shoo them away, and gain some privacy, Myra invents a mad, homicidal sister—who is kept locked in an upstairs room, but who occasionally escapes long enough to scare off uninvited visitors. The ruse works well, at first, but complications result when the local handyman develops an affection for "Sister Sadie" and some of the more officious ladies decide it is their Christian duty to save the poor demented Sadie's soul. The uproarious doings will keep audiences laughing right up to the final curtain, and then some.