SOUTH PACIFIC

Music and Lyrics by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein                                                              Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan Based on the book TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC by James Michener

Directed by Andrea Slominski
PAC MAIN STAGE
 

PERFORMANCES

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 @ 8 PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 @ 8 PM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 2 PM                                  

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 @ 8 PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ 8 PM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ 2 PM

Based on James Michener's TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC, this dazzling Rogers and Hammerstein musical, set on a tropical island during World War II, tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples: U.S. Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Marine Joe Cable and a young local native girl Liat -- and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of the war and by their own prejudices.

Considered by many the finest musical ever written, the score's songs include such musical theater classics as "Some Enchanted Evening," "Younger Than Springtime," "Bali Ha'i," "There is Nothin' Like a Dame," and "A Wonderful Guy." The original production of SOUTH PACIFIC was the winner of nine Tony awards and a Pulitzer prize. Now in its first Broadway revival, SOUTH PACIFIC won seven 2008 Tonys and has been playing to sold-out houses since the first preview in March 2008.

FOR TICKET INFORMATION:
http://www.canyonspac.com/calendar.html

$12/$6

PAC LINK: http://www.canyonspac.com/southpacific.html

COMEDIANS

OF THE

CANYONS

Directed by Allan Trautman

NOVEMBER 8th

8PM

PCOH 202 (BAND ROOM)

ADMISSION IS

FREE!

The advanced Improvisational Performance theatre class at College of the Canyons, otherwise known as the Comedians of the Canyons, will present their second improv show of the semester. The performance is free and open to the public.

SOME GIRL(S)

by Neil LaBute

Directed by Randee Trabitz

PERFORMANCES

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 8 PM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 @ 8 PM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 @ 2 PM & 8 PM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 @ 2 PM
 

Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancée is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side -- so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, you might get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (that he's already broken up with.)

By turns, this outrageously funny and deadly serious portrait of the artist as a young seducer casts a truthful, hilarious light on a typical young American male as he wanders through the heart of darkness that is himself.
 
“The most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today.” -- David Amsden, New York Magazine. "LaBute...continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism...[His] great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not-knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying." -- John Lahr, The New Yorker.

*This play contains adult language and content is not suitable for children.
 
FOR TICKET INFORMATION:
http://www.canyonspac.com/calendar.html

$10/$5

PAC LINK: http://www.canyonspac.com/somegirls.html

A DOLL'S HOUSE

by Henrick Ibsen
 

Directed by Susan Hinshaw

AUDITIONS

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10 or WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11

6:45 PM-9:30 PM in the PAC BLACK BOX THEATRE

See SPRING 2009 AUDITION INFORMATION.pdf for more information.

PERFORMANCES

THURSDAY, APRIL 2 @ 8 PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 3 @ 8 PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 4 @ 8 PM
SUNDAY, APRIL 5 @ 2 PM

Nora Helmer is a vibrant young housewife who nonetheless suffers from a crippling dependency on her husband of eight years. He, Torvald, has always done the thinking for both of them. In order to save Torvald from a dept, and to spare his masculine pride, Nora arranges a loan without his knowledge, and does so by forging a signature. The inevitable revelation of the crime results in an unexpected reaction from Torvald in one of the most famous, and scandalous, climaxes in all of nineteenth-century drama.
 
The story of Nora and Torvald rises above simple gender issues to ask the bigger question: "To what extent have we sacrificed our selves for the sake of social customs and to protect what we think is love?"

Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for best revival. "New, raw, gut-twisting and gripping. Easily the hottest drama this season." USA TODAY. "Bold, brilliant and alive." -- WALL STREET JOURNAL. "A thunderclap of an evening that takes your breath away." TIME. "The stuff of Broadway legend." -- ASSOCIATED PRESS.

FOR TICKET INFORMATION:
http://www.canyonspac.com/calendar.html

$10/$5

PAC LINK: http://www.canyonspac.com/dollshouse.html

NOISES OFF

by Michael Frayne

Directed by Paul Wickline
PAC MAIN STAGE 
 

AUDITIONS

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10 or WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11

6:45 PM-9:30 PM in the PAC BLACK BOX THEATRE

See SPRING 2009 AUDITION INFORMATION.pdf for more information.

PERFORMANCES

THURSDAY, MAY 7 @ 8 PM
FRIDAY, MAY 8 @ 8 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 9 @ 8 PM
SUNDAY, MAY 10 @ 2 PM

A hapless provincial theater company puts on a conventional sex farce called "Nothing On." for the first few minutes, you'll watch that very farce -- but quickly realize that you're seeing a rehearsal of it, and a disastrous rehearsal at that. The set flips around to show you the chaos backstage as doors slam, plates of sardines go flying, and actors miss their cues. Back out front again, the play falls hilariously down the actors' ears.

"As side-splitting a farce as I have seen. Ever? Ever." -- NEW YORK MAGAZINE. "Spectacularly funny...a peerless backstage comedy." -- Ben Brantley, The New York Times. "A comic masterpiece." -- DAILY TELEGRAPH. "Blissful fun." -- THE NEW YORKER.

FOR TICKET INFORMATION:
http://www.canyonspac.com/calendar.html

$10/$5

PAC LINK: http://www.canyonspac.com/noisesoff.html

NEW WORKS FESTIVAL

Directed by David Stears
 

AUDITIONS

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10 or WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11

6:45 PM-9:30 PM in the PAC BLACK BOX THEATRE

See SPRING 2009 AUDITION INFORMATION.pdf for more information.

PERFORMANCES

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 @ 8 PM
THURSDAY, MAY 14 @ 8 PM
FRIDAY, MAY 15 @ 8 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 16 @ 8 PM                                       SUNDAY, MAY 17 @ 2 PM

Enjoy the face of new and often experimental theater as COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS THEATRE continues its critically-acclaimed New Works Festival. Open to the Santa Clarita Valley community and beyond, the New Works Festival takes works in progress from unheralded playwrights and puts them on the stage. Do you have a script that needs to be seen? Submit it and watch your dream become a reality!

See New Works Festival for more information.

FOR TICKET INFORMATION:
http://www.canyonspac.com/calendar.html

PAC LINK: http://www.canyonspac.com/newworksfestival.html

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