Oliver!

Music, Lyrics and Book by Lionel Bart
Licensed by Arrangement with Oliver Productions, Ltd.
and Oliver Promotions, Ltd.

June 18-21

Nothing works on the stage like a well-crafted tale, and the Tony Award-winning OLIVER! is just such a show with something to please everyone. It is one of the most beloved British musicals (currently running to great acclaim in London’s West End), vividly bringing to life Dickens’ timeless characters with its ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more. It will engage you with its pathos and drama, while delighting everyone with its outstanding musical numbers. The sensational score is full of Lionel Bart’s irresistible songs including “Food, Glorious Food,” “I'd Do Anything,” “Where is Love?,” “Consider Yourself,” “As Long As He Needs Me,” “Who Will Buy,” and “Reviewing the Situation” and many more. Directed by Summer Lyric Theatre’s Artistic Director B. Michael Howard, choreographed by Diane Lala, and starring local favorite Ricky Graham as Fagin, OLIVER! promises to be spectacular!

COMPANY

Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Book by GEORGE FURTH

Originally Produced  & Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince

July 9-12

There is nothing fragile about the Tony Award-winning COMPANY.  The clashing sounds and pulsing rhythms of New York City underscore this landmark "concept" show, considered by many to have inaugurated the modern era of musical theatre. “As smooth as the steel-and-glass buildings of midtown Manhattan and as jumpy as an alley cat, it is Broadway's first musical treatment of nerve ends. Brilliance is all in this show,” wrote Douglas Watt of Daily News. COMPANY is a funny, sophisticated exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor. COMPANY follows five married, once married, or soon to be married couples and their mutual friend, Robert. On the night of his 35th birthday, Robert contemplates his unmarried state. In vignette after hilarious vignette, we are introduced to "those good and crazy people," his married friends, as Robert weighs the pros and cons of married life. With a wise and witty Stephen Sondheim score including “Another Hundred People,” “Side by Side by Side,” "Getting Married Today," "The Ladies Who Lunch," and "Being Alive," this Tony Award-winning show offers musical comedy at its finest. The Wall Street Journal wrote, “It is by turns brassy, brittle, sympathetic, cynical, romantic, calculating and alive - oh so very much alive.” The recent Broadway revival swept all the major theatre awards for Best Revival of a Musical and was said to be a stunning reinvention of a beloved era-defining classic. Directed by Summer Lyric Theatre’s Artistic Director B. Michael Howard, COMPANY shows us that while relationships aren't perfect, they are a necessary part of "Being Alive."

South Pacific

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan
Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener

July 30- August 2

From the moment the 30-piece orchestra begins to play those first unmistakable notes of “Bali Ha’i” in the South Pacific overture, you know you are about to watch a musical theatre masterpiece. Now back on Broadway for the first time in over 50 years, South Pacific has been playing to sold-out houses. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Few Broadway musicals can match the songs of South Pacific for their beguiling tunes and meaningful lyrics. Whether addressing such varied subjects as love at first sight, race prejudice or lost possibilities, they speak a rare yet simple language." Although well known for its extraordinary score -- the songs include “Some Enchanted Evening,” “Younger than Springtime,”  “Bali Ha'i,”  “There Is Nothin' Like A Dame,” and “A Wonderful Guy” -- South Pacific is also a deeply felt drama. Its portrayal of Americans stationed in an alien culture in wartime is as relevant in 2009 as when it first thrilled audiences in 1949. This Pulitzer Prize and multi-Tony Award winner was described as, "The finest kind of balance between story and song, hilarity and heartbreak" by the New York World Telegram. Summer Lyric will present you with a South Pacific that is poignant and relevant. South Pacific will be directed and choreographed by Diane Lala and will have you singing “Some Enchanted Evening” all the way home.

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