Sweet Charity

Music by Lyrics by Book by

Cy Coleman Dorothy Fields Neil Simon

Original Direction & Choreography by Bob Fosse

March 18-20 & 26-27 @ 7pm

The Gloria Auditorium for Performing Arts

(Salem High School)

 Synopsis:

Have you ever known a girl who wanted something so badly, that she tried too hard to get it? Meet Charity, the girl who wants to be loved so much, that she has lost sight of who she is. Charity sings, dances, laughs and cries her way through romances with the "animal magnetism" hero, the "ultra-chic continental" hero, and the "impossible-to believe-but-he's-better than nothing" type hero. Her world is the all too real world of Times Square, and the people who pass through her world are as deceptively charming a group as ever swept across any stage. From her cynical, hard-core trio of girlfriends at the dance hall, to the phony evangelist, the Coney Island "fun people", the Central Park "strollers" and the YMHA "self-improvers," every character is interesting. This is a bright and sophisticated show in every sense. Cy Coleman has captured the rhythms and sounds, and Dorothy Fields the vernacular and fun of New York. It's a comedy in every sense of the word. Neil Simon has a particular talent for looking at the truly amusing side of life. It's a dancing show too, with great opportunity for use of dramatic movement. Wonderful musical numbers include Big Spender, If My Friends Could See Me Now, Too Many Tomorrows, There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This, I'm a Brass Band and Baby, Dream Your Dream.

Check Please &

Check Please: Take 2

2 Comic Shorts

by Jonathan Rand

The Village Theatre at Cherry Hill

December 1, 2009 7pm

Noises Off

by Michael Frayn

The Gloria Logan Auditorium for Performing Arts (Salem High School)

November 5, 6, 7, 2009 @ 8PM

Noises Off follows the on-and off-stage antics of an acting troupe as they stumble from bumbling dress rehearsal to disastrous closing night. Everything that can go wrong does, as actors desperately try to hang on to their lines, their performances and the furniture. Add a slippery plate of sardines and many slamming doors, and you have the most hilarious backstage farce ever written.

"The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy...A spectacularly funny...peerless backstage facre...[This] dizzy, well-known romp...[is a] festival of delirium."--The New York Times

"The funniest farce ever written...Never before has side-splitting taken on a meaning dangerously close to the non-metaphorically medical."--New York Post