2011 - 2012 Season

The Santa Network

A Short Comedy by Danilo Stapula

Directed by Robyn Cuppett

Santa decides it's time for a change, Christmas carolers, lighted trees, and lawn displays are just not enough anymore.  In this day n age, Christmas needs it's own 24x7 network, The SANTA Network!   Move over Oprah... the big man and his friends are coming to your local cable channel :)

Performances: March 16, 17, 18 2012

Zombie Prom

Lyrics and Book by John Dempsey, Music by Dana P Rowe

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Auditions: September 2011

Performances: December 2011

30 Reasons NOT to be in a PLAY

a comedy by Alan Haehnel

Directed by Kathy Rhem | Stage Managed by Evan Hawker

Stage kisses, pinkeye, inciting World War III -- these are only a few of the many things that can go wrong during the production of a play. In a series of hilarious examples, this play proves that drama can be a very dangerous thing and it must be avoided at all costs.

Performances: September 9 & 10 @ 8  pm - Lake Braddock SS, Burke, VA

Directed by Danilo Stapula, Music Direction by Walter McCoy

Set in the 1950s Zombie Prom is a campy, rollicking, romp through America's "Atomic Age" and the "Golden Age" of horror comic books. Here's the story...

Set in the fabulous '50s, this is the tale of a sweet teenage girl named, TOFFEE and her "rebel without a cause" boyfriend, JONNY. The two meet at Enrico Fermi High School and fall in love, but the principal, MISS DELILAH STRICT (Stalin in pumps and a dress!) intervenes, persuading the indecisive young Toffee to break up with Jonny. Tortured by the betrayal, Jonny drives his motorcycle to the nearby Francis Gary Powers Nuclear Power Plant and flings himself into a nuclear cooling tower!

Guilt ridden and alone, Toffee mourns the loss of her love, until one day when Jonny returns, risen from the dead - AS A TEENAGE NUCLEAR ZOMBIE! The mass of decomposing flesh professes his love and tells Toffee that he wants her back. He plans to clean up his act, finish school and take her to the senior prom - if she'll have him. Toffee is racked with indecision, but worst of all Miss Strict refuses to allow "zombie scum" in her fine institution. She clearly states that "The satanic walking dead are strictly prohibited at Enrico Fermi High." She even threatens to cancel the senior prom if anyone is caught supporting the "cadaver's cause."

At the same time, word of this conflict reaches EDDIE FLAGRANTE, a slick sensationalist TV show host, who loves a lost cause. Eddie arrives at the school with his film crew to cover the story and make a "cause celebre" out of Jonny - "This sounds like a clear-cut case of Zombie Civil Rights!" But once he arrives, we see that he and Miss Strict share a past, shrouded in an elusive mystery.

As crisis takes hold of the school, the following questions are raised - Will Toffee take Jonny back? Will Miss Strict let Jonny come back and finish school, or will she cancel Senior Prom, ruining the most important night in the lives of the students of Enrico Fermi High!?

DeathTrap

a thriller in 2 acts by Ira Levin

Directed by Elyse Smith

Possibly Ira Levin's best play, this is up there with "Rosemary's Baby." It is a very suspenseful and surprising story of a down-on-his-luck playwright, his wife, and an amateur writer who plays an important role.

Auditions: March 2012

Performances: May 2012