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GALA OPENING NIGHT—MEET THE
SURFLIGHTERS
A Musical Revue
featuring our 2003 resident company of Actors.
This show is the best way to get a preview of our season,
and then meet our company at a Gala reception immediately
following the performance.
May
24 & 25 (Saturday & Sunday) at
8:00 PM
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HELLO DOLLY
Book by Michael Stewart
Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Based on the play “The Matchmaker” by Thornton Wilder
Sponsored in part by Commerce Bank
Jerry Herman’s masterful score recalls the
hysterically funny story of matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi as she
makes a match for herself with Horace Vandergelder.
One of Mr. Herman’s best scores includes Put on Your
Sunday Clothes, Before the Parade Passes By, It Only Takes a
Moment, So Long, Dearie and perhaps the most famous song in
Musical Theatre History, Hello, Dolly!
"Surflight's
troupe took to the stage and delivered a rousing rendition of the Great
White Way's favorite...the scenery and costumes at the Surflight are
incomprable...the talent at the Surflight continues to attract and
cultivate." ...Bre Golden, Ocean County Observer
May 28(Wednesday)-June
7(Saturday) at 8:00 PM; May 29 (Thursday), June 3(Tuesday) &
June 8(Sunday) at 2:00 pm; No performance Monday, June 2
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MY FAIR LADY Book
& Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play
and Gabrial Pascal’s film “Pygmalion”
Sponsored in part by East Bay PC
Professor
Henry Higgins,
England
’s
leading phonetecist, remakes Eliza Doolittle, a cockney gutter
sparrow into the Belle of the Embassy Ball.
Lerner & Loewe’s fabulous score includes With a
Little Bit of Luck, The Rain in
Spain
, I
Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, Get Me
to the Church on Time and
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.
Some performances are sure to sell out.
Get your tickets early.
June
11(Wednesday)-June 21 (Saturday) at 8:00 PM; June 12 (Thursday),
June 17 (Tuesday) and June 22 (Sunday) at 2:00 PM; No performance
Monday, June 16 |
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EVITA
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Argentina
’s
controversial first Lady Eva Peron – saint to the working class,
reviled by the aristocracy and mistrusted by the military – was
destined to leave a fascinating political legacy.
Told through a compelling score that fuses haunting
chorales with exuberant Latin, pop and jazz influences, EVITA
creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman
herself. Thought by
many to be Mr. Lloyd Webber’s finest effort, including the hit Don’t
Cry for Me
Argentina
.
June
24 (Tuesday)-July 6(Sunday) at 8:00 PM; June 26 (Thursday) &
July 1 (Tuesday) at 2:00 pm; No performance Friday, July 4;
Special Monday performance June 30 at 8:00 pm
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CRAZY FOR YOU Music
& Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Book by
Ken Ludwig
Inspired
by material by Guy Bolton & John McGowan
Gershwin meets the Wild West in this hilarious
musical comedy. Bobby
Child, a banker who would rather sing and dance, must travel from
New York
to
Deadrock
,
Nevada
to
foreclose on a theatre. He
ends up falling in love with the owner’s daughter and puts on a
show to save the theatre. Gershwin’s
magnificent score includes Someone to Watch Over Me,
Embraceable You, They Can’t Take That Away From Me, But Not For
Me and the show-stopping I Got Rhythm.
July
8(Tuesday)-July 20(Sunday) at
8:00 PM
; July 10 (Thursday)
& July 15 (Tuesday) at
2:00 PM
; No performance Monday,
July 14 |
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A CHORUS LINE Conceived
by Michael Bennett
Book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Edward Kleban
The ultimate backstage musical chronicles the
audition process as experienced by Broadway Gypsies.
As we experience their audition we learn about their lives.
A Chorus Line departs from the usual glossy musical by
presenting a true picture of what it’s like to be in the
theatre, truly summed up by the anthem What I did For Love.
July
22(Tuesday)-August 3(Sunday) at
8:00 PM
; July 24
(Thursday) & July 29 (Tuesday) at
2:00 PM
; No
performance Monday, July 28
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FOOTLOOSE
Stage Adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie
Based on the original screenplay by Dean Pitchford
Music by Tom Snow
Lyrics by Dean Pitchford
Additional music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar,
Kenny
Loggins and Jim Steinman
Sponsored in part by T.J. Maxx 'n More
Based
on the 1984 hit movie, this Broadway Hit from 1999 comes to
Surflight in the New Jersey Professional Premiere Production.
Footloose
is the story of a young man from the city living in a puritanical
small town where dancing and rock 'n' roll are forbidden. The
wonderful pop score includes Almost
Paradise
, Let's
Hear It for the Boy, Holding Out for a Hero and, of course, Footloose. A
New Jersey
Professional Premiere.
August
5 (Tuesday)-August 17 (Sunday) at
8:00 PM
; August 7
(Thursday) & August 12 (Tuesday) at
2:00 PM
; No
performance Monday, August 11 |
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Based on Sholem Aleichem stories
by
special permission of Arnold Perl
Book by Joseph Stein
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Based on stories by Sholem Aleichem, this classic
musical tells the story of Tevye, a poor dairyman who tries to
instill in his 5 daughters the traditions of his tight-knit Jewish
community in the face of changing social mores and the growing
anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia.
This incredible Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick score features Tradition,
Matchmaker, If I were a Rich Man, To Life and the hauntingly
beautiful
Sunrise
,
Sunset.
August
19(Tuesday)-August 31(Sunday) at 8:00 PM; August 21 (Thursday)
& August 26 (Tuesday) at 2:00 PM; No Performance Monday,
August 25 |
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NUNSENSE
By Dan Goggin
The nuns are back, this time in the original musical
comedy that launched an entire industry.
Join the Little Sisters of Hoboken at Mount St. Helen’s
Academy in this hysterical show that ran for over 10 years in
New York
and
spawned 5 sequels. If
you see this show and don’t like to laugh, you haven’t a
prayer!
September
3 (Wednesday)-September 13 (Saturday) at
8:00 PM
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September 10, 11 & 14 (Wednesday, Thursday & Sunday) at
2:00 PM
; No
performance Monday & Tuesday, September 8 & 9
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I
DO, I DO
Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Based on “The Fourposter” by Jan de Hartog
The story of a marriage is at the center of this
intimate and nostalgic musical by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt,
the authors of The Fantasticks.
The show begins with Michael & Agnes on their wedding
day and traces their life together through 50 years of wedding
night jitters, raising a family, negotiating mid-life crises,
quarrels & reconciliation, but in the end we know why they
sing My Cup Runneth Over.
September
17 (Wed)-September 20 (Sat) at
8:00 PM
;
September 18 & 21 (Thurs & Sun) at
2:00 PM
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BRIGHTON
BEACH MEMOIRS
(Last produced in 1986) By Neil Simon
This is the first part of Neil Simon’s
autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a
Brooklyn
teenager in 1937. His mind
is full of fiercely fantasized dreams of baseball and dimly
fantasized images of girls. The play captures a few days in the
life a struggling lower middle class Jewish household.
One of Neil Simon’s funniest, richest and consequently
most affecting plays.
September
24 (Wed)-September 27 (Sat) at
8:00 PM
;
September 25 & 28 (Thurs & Sun) at
2:00 PM
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LEND
ME A TENOR (Last produced in 1991) By Ken Ludwig
Join us for the funniest play of the season.
Through a hilarious series of mishaps, world famous opera
tenor Tito Morelli is given a double dose of tranquilizers, which
mix with the booze he has consumed, and he can’t go on.
A replacement is found, but Tito wakes up.
Meanwhile two women are vying for Tito’s affection, but
neither woman knows there are two Titos.
This farce is one of the funniest plays ever. Get
ready to laugh!
October
1 (Wednesday)-October 4 (Saturday) at
8:00 PM
; October
2 & 5 (Thurs & Sun) at
2:00 PM
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DRACULA (Last produced 1988) By Hamilton
Deane & John L. Balderston,
From Bram Stoker’s novel
Sponsored
in part by T.J. Maxx 'n More
This is one of the great mystery thrillers of all
time. Lucy Seward has
been attacked by a mysterious illness.
Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes the girl is the
victim of a vampire, a certain Count Dracula.
Mystery, suspense and a scare or two await you in this
incredible adaptation of Bram Stoker’s famous novel.
October
8 (Wednesday)-October 11 (Saturday) at
8:00 PM
; October
9 & 12 (Thurs & Sun) at
2:00 PM
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TALES BY TWAIN Adapted from the
writings of Mark Twain
By
Gayle Stahlhuth
Music by Stephen Foster and Others
World
Premiere
(Co-production
w/ East Lynne Theatre Co.)
This World Premiere play with music includes
selections from Mark Twain’s famous books and short stories that
reflect his sublime storytelling technique.
Several songs from the turn of the (last) century played
and sung by the Actors will help highlight Twain’s high regard
for humanity and his hatred of injustice, imperialism and
stupidity - with a pen dipped in humorous, satiric and, sometimes,
poisonous ink.
October
15 (Wednesday)-October 18(Saturday) at
8:00 pm
; October
16 & 19 (Thurs & Sun) at
2:00 pm
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EBENEZER-A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS CAROL
Book by Ian Desmond
Music by William Mearns
Lyrics by Rosemary Novellino-Mearns
This musical re-telling of Dickens’ classic tale
about Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas
Past, Present and Future has one of the most beautiful scores we
have found. Coupled
with a book that is culled directly from the original “Ghostly
Little Book” by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer is the best version of
this story we have seen. Don’t
miss it!
December
5, 6, 12, & 13 at
7:30 PM
; December
6, 7, 10, 11, 13 & 14 at
2:00 PM
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