Opening Gala  

Sponsored in part by Barefoot Wine

Meet the Surflighters in a Musical Revue featuring our 2007 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.

8:00 PM Show: May 26 & 27

Kismet

A musical tale of grandeur and fate, a pageant conjuring up all the delights of the Arabian Nights. From the brilliant Bazaar of the Caravans to the moonlit gardens of Baghdad, it’s a romantic story of an impoverished poet who becomes an emir in a single miraculous day.  Weaving a lush tapestry of romance and melody, the score includes Baubles, Bangles and Beads, This is My Beloved and Stranger in Paradise

2:00PM Matinee: May 31, June 1, 3, 5, 10

A high spirited musical romp set in 1922, it’s the story of a young women from Kansas who arrives in New York City to make a new life.  Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon lady of a villainess, the show is perfectly constructed madcap merriment.  The memorable score includes Not for the Life of Me, Forget about the Boy and Only in New York.

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2:00PM Matinee: June 14, 15, 19, 21, 24, 26, July 1

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Sponsored in part by The Causeway Family of Dealerships

and Callan & Moeller Construction

and AmerGen/Oyster Creek Generating Plant

With its family friendly storyline, universal themes, and catchy music, the Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable.  Joseph’s 11 brothers become jealous of the favored son and sell him into slavery.  A series of misfortunes befall him until his gift of interpreting dreams raises him to great power and reunites them with those he loves. Andrew Lloyd Weber’s music, composed in a variety of styles, includes Any Dream Will Do, One More Angel In Heaven and Go, Go, Go Joseph.

8:00PM Show: July  5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Aida

Sponsored in part by Lackland Self-Storage

and Quality Tire & Muffler in Manahawkin & Barnegat

and Musgnug & Associates

Elton John and Tim Rice's  Aida draws us back into ancient Egypt to tell the story of a love triangle involving the daughter of a powerful pharaoh, a beautiful slave girl and an Egyptian prince. Set against a backdrop of loyalty, betrayal, and forbidden love, Aida is the story of three people who are forced to make difficult choices that will alter history forever. A big, bright show with luscious Elton John melodies, the Tony and Grammy Award winning score includes Written in the Stars, Elaborate Lives and Enchantment Passing Through.

8:00PM Show: July 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, August 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

1776 - Sponsored in part by East Bay PC

and Joseph Zaccardo, CRPC, Associate Financial Advisor, Gioia & Associates, A financial advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services,Inc.

A high energy, musical retelling of the quest to create the Declaration of Independence.  More than a history lesson, this fast-paced show portrays our nation’s founding fathers as real people with feelings, moods and flaws. You’ll be seeing stars and stripes as Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams humorously battle over every detail as a new country is born. The compelling score includes Sit Down, John; Piddle, Twiddle and Resolve; He Plays the Violin and  Cool, Cool, Considerate Men. 

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8:00PM Show: August 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring John Davidson

Sponsored in part by Commerce Bank N.A.

and by Pinziminio Marketplace

and by Standard Motor Products

In this hilarious musical farce, a cunning roman slave tries to win his freedom by helping his master’s son woo the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, the young lady in question belongs to a buyer and seller of women, who lives next door. And she’s been promised to a soldier who turns up to claim his bride. Misunderstanding, mix-up and mayhem ensue. The terrific score with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim includes Comedy Tonight, Lovely and Everybody Ought to Have a Maid.

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They're Playing Our Song

Sponsored in part by Solstice Gallery

and by Ocean First Bank

With a witty script by Neil Simon, this romantic comedy tells the tale of an established composer and his relationship with a zany young aspiring female lyricist. At work and at play, this is a winning couple whose professional and personal successes and difficulties lead to one hilarious scene after another. The fabulous score by Marvin Hamlisch includes the hit songs I Still Believe in Love and They're Playing Our Song.

2:00PM Matinee: September 20, 23, 26, 27, 30

The Miracle Worker

Sponsored in part by State Farm Insurance, Lisa Patchell, Agent

and Ron Jon Surf Shop

and Atlantic City Electric

Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence, love and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.

Driving Miss Daisy

Sponsored in part by The Sandpaper

and Summerville at Stafford

and  Ocean First Bank

An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Sponsored in part by Holiday Inn, Manahawkin

and State Farm Insurance, Kristen Tomey, Agent

and Lackland Self-Storage

A delightful farce revolving around Mortimer Brewster who must deal with his crazy family and local police as he debates whether to go through with marrying the woman he loves. His relatives include two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering old men by poisoning them with arsenic, a brother who believes he's Teddy Roosevelt, and a criminally murderous brother who - due to botched plastic surgery to evade the authorities - now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff.

Book & Lyrics by Mary Bracken Phillips

Music by Jack Murphy

Surflight Theatre is proud to produce a new musical work, never before seen on stage.  Directed by noted Broadway director Scott Schwartz, Silver Dollar is the true story of an infamous triangle of love and scandal on the American frontier.  In a cabin above a deserted mine, the ghost of Augusta Tabor and eighty three year old Baby Doe Tabor, are bound together by their sins, courage and passion for silver king Horace Tabor, who's first wife's brain was his fortune and who's second wife's beauty was his downfall.  As Baby Doe's death is imminent, the women realize they must settle their "unfinished business" or be stuck on a mountaintop forever.  They decide to compare diaries and their story enfolds in a series of flashbacks.   East versus West, gold versus silver, banker against farmer. Fortunes lost and dreams that died. The Tabors epitomized the best and worst of human nature, just as the Colorado goldrush epitomized the best and worst of the American dream.  And in this age of greed, political betrayal and disillusionment, their story has a particular message:  Those who cannot learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. Just as in "Silver Dollar", two women in a lone cabin will either redeem each other or be condemned to relive their mistakes forever.

8:00PM Show: October 26, 27, 31, November 1, 2, 3