Our 47th season is "Fun You Can Afford!" Tickets are generally available at the Decatur Civic Center Box Office 4 to 6 weeks before a show opens. More information is available on the Tickets page. For audition information, visit the Auditions page.
SUDS - the Rockin' 60's Musical Soap Opera
November 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 2010
Created by Melinda Gilb, Steve Gunderson, and Bryan Scott
Directed by Nancy Sullivan and Marla Ewers
SUDS is the delightful story of a young teenage girl and the guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. It takes place in a Laundromat during the sensational 60's. With a musical score that includes songs from Aretha Franklin, Burt Bacharach, James Brown, the Beatles, and Nancy Sinatra, the girls fluff and fold their way back to happiness. SUDS is loaded with good clean fun, bubbling energy and over 50 well-known songs that topped the charts of that decade.
Blithe Spirit
February 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 2011
Written by Noel Coward
Directed by Eleanor Wood
The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium," one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-worldly) personalities clash, Charles' current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, "passes over," joins Elvira, and the two "blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
Play On!
April 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 2011
Written by Rick Abbot
Directed by E. Andrew Curry
Play On is a behind the scenes comedy in the tradition of Noises Off. This is a hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong does. When the authoress decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax with a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.