Bedside Manor

Laughter is contagious in this tune-filled romp through the wackiest hospital around, Bedside Manor! The silly staff and comical patients are bound to leave your audience almost dying with laughter. Wacky gypsies sing and dance in their own delightful song. A lovable Skid Row Man croons about his life. Dr. Fred tunefully tells about his longing to be the hospital's head honcho. Besides all of this madness, Dr. Huggems may be heading back to his job at the car wash if he can't stop passing out when he sees blood. The Band Aides, those lovable volunteers, have their eyes fixed on their favorite TV program, "Of Human Bandage," while a film crew roams through the halls making a documentary, "This Was Your Life." Additional songs include the health-promoting toe-tapper, "Eat, Eat, Cream of Wheat", and the hilarious "Humor Overdose." So watch out! Your audience may become delightfully acute with laughter and applause as the curtain falls on Bedside Manor!

This show takes us back to a time before answering machines and high technology, when a real person answered your ringing telephone for you, if you couldn't do it yourself. Welcome to Susanswerphone, where the lines are blurred between doing a job and eavesdropping. The story and musical numbers are delightful and uplifting. Just in Time, Better Than a Dream, Drop That Name and A Simple Little System keep actors and audiences smiling.

On a farm in the Kentish countryside, the clash of cultures between Kentish locals, London cockneys, and a Romany gypsy tribe spells tragedy for an unlikely romance between a gypsy boy and a beautiful cockney girl. A heart-rendering examination of the dangers of prejudice, with an ending and message as powerful and poignant as "West Side Story."

Best Beware My Sting

Our ever-popular Taming of the Shrew from the Globe Theatre Series has now been enriched with the radiant music of Christiansen and Kittleson. All the young gentlemen in Padua are in love with the lovely Bianca, but she cannot marry until her older sister, Katherine, is wed. But Katherine is short-tempered and unmannerly, and no man will have her. Petruchio, a gentleman from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of a well-to-do wife. Katherine is certainly prosperous, but in her typically irritable and curt way, she warns Petruchio to "best beware my sting!" Petruchio, however, biased by her handsome dowry, is willing to tame her shrewish character. The delightful music adds much charm and Italian flavor to this classic story. With room for a large chorus of men or women, songs include "Here In Padua," "What Should a Suitor Do?" and of course, "Best Beware My Sting."