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 How to Make a Rope Swing
by Shawn Fisher
A World Premiere Production
May 17 - June 7, 2013
Wednesday-Saturday 8PM | Sunday 3PM
The South Jersey town of Oakbranch is replacing the old schoolhouse. Two local elders have been selected to decide on a person after whom the new building should be named. As they come together, they rediscover the circumstances of their first meeting- a time when the school was first integrated and the region earned its nickname, “The Mississippi of the North”. Within the brick walls of the century-old building, a long-suppressed moment in the town’s history surfaces and threatens to change the memory of the town and these people, forever.
- Half-price Preview Performance: 5/17 , 8PM
- Official Opening/Press Night: 5/18, 8PM
- Half-price senior (62+) Matinee: 5/26, 3PM
- Pay What You Can Night: 5/31, 8PM
Running time
2 hours with intermission
Age guidance
12+
Co-Sponsor
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 Lend Me A Tenor
by Ken Ludwig
June 12 - July 26, 2013
Tuesdays-Sundays, 8PM
Winner of 3 Tony and 4 Drama Desk awards, this side-splitting comedy will have you singing its praises! When a fiery-tempered, world famous Italian opera star comes to town, he finds himself in a compromising situation giving an unexpected star the chance of a lifetime. Confusion and utter chaos ensue as the audience is in on the ultimate game of “who’s who”. Passion, double entendres, mistaken identities, and absolute hilarity send this award-winning farce to comedic heights!
- Half-price Preview Performance: 6/12, 8PM
- Official Opening/Press Night:
6/13, 8PM
- Half-price senior (62+) Night:
6/30, 8PM
- Pay What You Can Night:
6/21, 8PM
Running time
2 hours, with intermission
Age guidance
6+
Sponsor
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 Boeing Boeing
by Marc Camoletti
Translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans
July 31 - September 13, 2013
Tuesdays-Sundays, 8PM
Bernard is engaged to Gloria. And to Gabriella. And to Gretchen. His supersonic lifestyle hits turbulence when all three invade his swanky bachelor pad in this high-flying farce from the swinging sixties. This 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play, is an uproarious jet-propelled comedy that had audiences and critics cheering in London and on Broadway. Grab your boarding pass for a rollicking good time because "Boeing Boeing" is coming in for a landing this summer at Cape May Stage!
- Half-price Preview Performance: 7/31, 8PM
- Official Opening/Press Night: 8/1, 8PM
- Half-price senior (62+) Night: 8/18, 8PM
- Pay What You Can Night: 9/3, 8PM
Running time
2 hours, with intermission
Age guidance
13+
Co-Sponsor
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 Freud's Last Session
by Mark St. Germain
September 18 - October 19, 2013
Tuesdays-Sundays, 8PM
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud pioneered the Id, the Ego and the Superego. Writer C.S. Lewis created The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Two men, both brilliant, yet vastly different: Freud the atheist, Lewis the believer. In this new play, which has been drawing record-breaking crowds in New York, they meet in 1939 as England goes to war against the Nazis. Their evening of electrifying conversation about God, love, sex, and the meaning of life will spark controversy long after the show is over.
- Half-price Preview Performance: 9/18, 8PM
- Official Opening/Press Night: 9/19, 8PM
- Half-price senior (62+) Night: 10/2, 8PM
- Pay What You Can Night: 10/10, 8PM
- Coffee & Conversation with playwright
Mark St. Germain: 9/21, 5PM
Running time
2 hours, no intermission
Age guidance
15+
Co-Sponsor
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 A Walk in the Woods
by Lee Blessing
October 23 — November 16, 2013
Thursdays-Saturdays, 7PM | Saturdays & Sundays, 3PM
Lee Blessing's Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama, filled with unexpected humor and extraordinary humanity, is an absorbing, revealing, and brilliant debate on the eternal hope and relentless futility of high-stakes politics. Two superpower arms negotiators— one a witty but cynical Russian veteran and the other an idealistic American newcomer — meet informally in the woods after long frustrating hours at the bargaining table. "A work of passion and power with the ring of political truth." —Time
- Half-price Preview Performance: 10/23, 7PM
- Official Opening/Press Night: 10/24, 7PM
- Half-price senior (62+) Matinee: 11/3, 3PM
- Pay What You Can Night: 11/8, 7PM
Running time
2 hours, with intermission
Age guidance
15+
Co-Sponsor
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 Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol
by Tom Mula
November 29 — December 29, 2013
Thursdays-Saturdays, 7PM | Saturdays & Sundays, 3PM
We all know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge...but what ever happened to Jacob Marley? Chained and shackled, Marley is condemned for all eternity, but when a malicious little evil sprite offers a desperate Marley one chance to free himself, he accepts. To escape his own chains, he must first redeem Scrooge. So begins a journey of laughter and terror, redemption and renewal. This irreverent, funny, and ultimately, deeply moving story retells Dickens' classic with warmth and infectious zest. This thrilling performance is sure to become a holiday classic for generations to come!
- Official Opening/Press Night:
11/29, 7PM
- Half-price senior (62+) Matinee:
12/8, 3PM
- Pay What You Can Matinee: 12/14, 3PM
(There is no preview performance for this production)
Running time
2 hours, with intermission
Age guidance
5+
Sponsors
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 The Santaland Diaries
by David Sedaris directed by Roy Steinberg
November 30 — December 29, 2013
Performed at:
Congress Hall
200 Congress Place, Cape May, NJ 08204
Thursdays-Saturdays, 8PM | Sunday, 3PM
A struggling young writer takes a job as a Christmas elf at Macy's in New York City, and offers a sardonic, witty, irreverent accounting of elf training, bad Santas, abusive customers, and humiliating conditions. Go deep into the heart of CHristmas as it exists in our consumerized world and get our holiday in high gear with this hilarious one-man show,
Running time
90 minutes
Age guidance
Mature Elves Only
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