Amarillo little theatre academy5/21/2023 The Neil Simon comedy is an autobiographical look at his childhood and will feature a cast of adults and child actors from the ALT Academy. 1 to 18 on the Mainstage.Ģ017 opens with a revival of Brighton Beach Memoirs, last produced in 2003. But we've done some huge shows of late, and it just doesn't scare me now the way it did." were flabbergasted that I thought we could do it. "I had to convince my staff to a certain degree because some of them. Then comes the season's centerpiece: Young Frankenstein, the Mel Brooks musical adaptation of the 1974 comedy classic. A few final survivors are holed up inside a remote cabin, tormented by the ever-present pecking and scratching of the deadly birds outside, and "a power struggle taking place inside the house becomes violent," Shankles said. In this, the avian menaces aren't the only thing to watch out for. Up next is one that sounds particularly intriguing: The Birds, a theatrical adaptation (by Irish playwright Conor McPherson) of the same Daphne du Maurier short story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller. 15 to 25 on the ALT Mainstage, 2019 Civic Circle. 3 or 4 or whatever day our country is going to change forever," Shankles said. "We'd have to do it in the fall or not do it at all because it's going to be irrelevant after Nov. The season continues with Gore Vidal's The Best Man, a 1960 drama that still sounds distressingly timely: It takes place during the presidential primaries, with an ethical candidate and an unscrupulous one vying for the sitting president's endorsement. 18 to 28 in the Adventure Space, 2751 Civic Circle. I'm pretty sure he means the nudity, because - yes - the men do take it all off by the end, though staging tricks generally mean the audience only gets a slightly cheeky view. "We've toyed with The Full Monty in the past and had been a little bit reluctant because of different scenes in the show we would have to create in the smaller environment (of the Adventure Space), but we're committed to finding a way to make that work." "The sleeper hit of the season could be Full Monty," ALT artistic/general director Allen Shankles told me. 18 with The Full Monty, a musical adaptation by Terrence McNally and David Yazbek of the 1997 British comedy about a group of unemployed men who become unlikely strippers. We’ll take you from auditions through productions, from costume and set sketches to construction, from the parting of the curtains on opening night to the final bows at curtain call of the last show of the season.Ĭheck out the video for a taste of what's to come - and speaking of: what, exactly, is to come at ALT this year? To kick it off, we're following ALT as it celebrates its 90th season, making it one of the longest continually operating community theaters in the country. In webisodes, blog posts and segments on our Live Here television show, The Season will explore every aspect of what it takes to stage performance and mount exhibitions, one arts group at a time. I'm kicking off today with Amarillo Little Theater and a special announcement for our readers and viewers.īeginning this month, Panhandle PBS is going deep inside Amarillo's vibrant art groups, both performing and visual, to tell the full story of one season develops. Over the next several weeks, I'll take a look at the upcoming 2016-17 seasons for all of Amarillo's major arts groups. By Chip Chandler - Digital Content Producer
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