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Lady Day
This Wonderful Life
Souvenir
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Social Security
Visiting Mr. Green
 
 
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
by Lanie Robertson
November 5 - November 22

Wednesdays - Sundays at 8PM
   
In a seedy bar in South Philadelphia, legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday gives one of her last performances before her death in 1959. While indulging her talent as well as her addictions, she recalls her beginnings scrubbing steps in Baltimore through her rise to fame. Featuring more than a dozen songs that made Lady Day an American icon, including "God Bless the Child," "Strange Fruit," "Where Our Love Has Gone," and "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do."
   

Visit NJCape May Stage received funding in 2008 from the New Jersey Department of State Division of Travel and Tourism to market this production of “Lady Day” to potential audiences in the greater Philadelphia area.  This funding allowed CMS to target areas outside of Cape May and Atlantic County thereby further supporting our ongoing audience development diversification initiatives and promoting tourism to New Jersey.

   
"...beautiful and heartbreaking." –Star Tribune
"Original and riveting." –London Times

Co-sponsored by Curran Investment Management
   
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This Wonderful Life by Steve Murray,
Conceived by Mark
Setlock
November 28 - December 28
Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8PM,
Sundays at 3PM
Holiday Schedule
   
After a sell-out run in 2006, This Wonderful Life returns to Cape May Stage to delight audiences once again. Share the hope and humor of Frank Capra's adored Classic Christmas film It's A Wonderful Life in this delightful stage adaptation. The plight of George Bailey is seen in a fresh light as one actor portrays Clarence the Angel, Mary, Old Man Potter, and twenty more of Bedford Falls' finest citizens. Make this heartwarming family experience a part of your holiday tradition this season.
   
Co-Sponsored by The Blue Pig Tavern at Congress Hall and
The Ebbitt Room at the Virginia
   
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Souvenir by Stephen Temperley
May 20 - June 20 2009
Wednesdays - Sundays at 8PM
   
Souvenir In 1944, Florence Foster Jenkins, an eccentric, real life New York socialite who considered herself the greatest opera diva of her age, performed a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall ... unfortunately, she could not sing two consecutive notes in tune!
Florence’s story is told through the eyes of her talented accompanist, Cosme McMoon, who chronicles her unlikely rise to fame — and his gradual admiration of her passionate will — in this hilarious and poignant musical.
   

"A beguiling comic jewel with a heart." -Variety

"You won't have to try to keep your body from shaking or stuff your handkerchief into your mouth to hide your laughter. And laugh you will. Till you cry. SOUVENIR is downright hilarious!" -The Boston Globe

   
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Say Goodnight Gracie by Rupert Holmes
June 24 - July 18 2009
Tuesdays- Sundays 8PM
   
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Adapted from the reminiscences of George Burns, the multimedia tour-de-force presentation traces the comedian-raconteur's life from his childhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to his early career in vaudeville to his momentous meeting and subsequent personal and professional relationships with wife Gracie Allen. "Say Goodnight Gracie" is a hit Broadway play that invites you to spend a hilarious, heart-warming evening in the uplifting company of the world's favorite and funniest centenarian.
   

"George Burns came alive again for 90 wonderful, endearing minutes. A performance that's nothing short of astonishing" -WNBC-TV

"You'll be in heaven yourself, at least for an hour and a half." -NY TIMES

"VERY, VERY FUNNY! An adorable show biz valentine."-STAR-LEDGER

   
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Social Security by Andrew Bergman
July 22 - August 29 2009
Tuesday- Sunday at 8PM
   
Social Security
In the trendy world of 1980's Manhattan, hyper chic art dealers, David and Barbara Kahn, are riding high until their life is shattered at the arrival of her dreary sister and uptight brother-in-law, who have come to save their college age daughter from the horrors of living only for sex, and have brought along her crotchety, critical septuagenarian mother. The mother meets the Kahn's best client - a ninety-eight-year-old European icon, and sparks start to fly where none were thought possible. Revel in all the delightful silliness, glitz, music, fashions and pretensions of the 80s, from giant shoulder pads to "blank" paintings!
   

“An eloquent and provocative investigation of truth and consequences. A gripping mystery, tightly written.” —Time Out

 
   
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Visiting Mr. Green by Jeff Baron
September 2 - September 26 2009
Wednesday- Sunday 8PM
   
Visiting Mr. Green
Mr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive. The young man is given a community service of helping the recent widower once a week for six months. What starts as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a gripping and moving drama as they get to know each other, come to care about each other, and open old wounds they've been hiding and nursing for years. Translated into 22 languages, with over 200 productions in large and small venues, it has won numerous best play and best actor awards throughout the world.
   
"It is doubtful you are likely to encounter a play more enjoyable, more honestly funny and in the end, more moving than this delightful two-hander by Jeff Baron."-Johannesburg Citizen  
   
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