** A Wedding to Die For **
Jan 11, 12, 13*
Murder Mystery/Dinner Theatre
(2nd Season)
A Wedding to Die For is an audience participation murder mystery. You are invited to the wedding of Preston Snobsworth, III and….who?...you mean Preston is not marrying his long-time sweetheart Jill Tedd? Just who is this Annie Moran anyway? Find out when you come to the mystery.
** Doo Wop Wed Widing Hood **
March 28, 29, April 4, 5, 11, 12 13*
It’s the 1950s, hula hoops are in high demand, and so is Little Red Riding Hood! Wise Prince Jason (winner of the Math Olympics and the Nobel Prize), Strong Prince Justin (who can bench press his own mother) and ordinary Loud Prince Frank all want to woo Red Riding Hood. So the king and queen hire the Fairy Godmother to set three tasks for the princes. Only the prince who can find the missing girl, defeat the dragon and awaken a castle visitor from her slumber earns the right to woo Wed Widing Hood… that is, Red Riding Hood! Alas, Little Red’s couch-potato parents don’t want to lose their little girl. How else will they get their cookies delivered to Grandmother? So they hire the evil queen to thwart the Fairy Godmother’s contest. Luckily, Little Red Riding Hood's two sisters—Big Green Riding Hood and Medium Purple Riding Hood—help balance out the situation. Complete with the big bad wolf and a sock-hopping ‘50s score, this adventure is guaranteed to end in happily-ever-after laughter for audiences and performers of all ages!
** Jon Kemper’s 4th of July Extravaganza **
July 5
(2nd Season)
Rockin good music
** Barefoot in the Park **
July 18, 19, 25, 26, August 1, 2, 3*
After a six day honeymoon a spanking new lawyer, who has just won his first case 6 cents in damages, and his young bride, who is as pretty and addled as they come, move into the new, high rent apartment that she has chosen for them. But the difficulty is, in order to enjoy the charming character of this apartment, one has to climb six wheezing flights. And the apartment is absolutely bare of furniture, the paint job came out all wrong, the skylight leaks snow, there isn't room for a double bed, and an outlandish gourmet who lives in a loft on the roof uses it and the window ledge as the only access to his padlocked premises. The situation is enough to break the heart and burst the lungs of any stylish young lawyer; and indeed it does, on the night he flatly refuses to join his wife in a barefoot walk through the snow in the park. She kicks him out, but he comes back not for reconciliation, but because he figures that since he's paying the rent she should be the one to go
** Kitchen Witches **
October 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19*
Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two "mature" cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Stephen Biddle dated one and married the other. When circumstances put them together on a TV show called The Kitchen Witches, the insults are flung harder than the food! Dolly's long-suffering TV-producer son Stephen tries to keep them on track, but as long as Dolly's dressing room is one inch closer to the set than Isobel's, it's a losing battle, and the show becomes a rating smash as Dolly and Isobel top both Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer!
** Readers Theatre: Dracula **
October 24, 25
(2nd Season)
A Readers Theatre adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel.
** Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus **
Nov. 28, 29, 30*, Dec. 4, 5, 6, 7*
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus tells the true story of eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, who wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun in 1897 asking if Santa Claus exists.
The letter ends up in the hands of Frank P. Church, a veteran editorial writer who knows he must answer the girl’s missive, and answer truthfully. Church’s editorial, published Sept. 21, 1897, has been reprinted thousands of times in newspapers all over the world each year. Despite its popularity, the editorial was published in the newspaper uncredited and only after Church’s death in 1906 did the Sun acknowledge that he was the author.
** New River Youth
Symphony & Chorus **
TBA
* = Matinee
** Readers Theatre Gathering will meet on a Sunday each month at 2:00pm. They will be doing classic scripts, historical novels, and other ideas that are brought forward by anyone in the group.
This is a chance to learn, read and enjoy. Everyone is invited.
Call the theatre to find out the next date!
All performances are at 8:00 p.m., except the matinees, which are at 2:00 p.m. Admission for all performances is $10.00 for adults and $7.00 for senior citizens over age 55 and children 12 and under. Group rates and season tickets are available. The Historic Fayette Theatre will offer reserved seating. To reserve seats, call (304) 574-4655 and leave a message. Phone reservations will be accepted no later than 5:00 p.m. on the day of the show (noon for matinees). Tickets must be picked up at the box office no later than 15 minutes prior to the performance. Tickets will also be available at the door and the doors open one hour before show time. If you have special needs, please give specifics at the time of your reservation.
The Historic Fayette Theatre is located on Court Street in the Fayetteville Historic District, one mile south of the New River Gorge Bridge. For more information call the theatre at (304) 574-4655.