South Park Theatre recently announced their six show 2023 season. Its too early for a lot of details regarding auditions, cast and creatives, as the first show doesn’t open until May 4th. We have however pulled together a short synopsis of each show following the show poster below. You can visit their site here
The Gods of Comedy | May 4 to 20
What do you do when you’re a Classics professor at one of the greatest universities in America and find a long-lost manuscript by Euripides that will make you famous throughout the world?
You lose it, of course. And then you call on the Ancient Greek Gods of Comedy to get you out of the mess.
The first surprise for young professor Daphne Rain is that the gods show up. And the second surprise is that any two people – even if they are gods – can wreak so much havoc on one university.
The Ivy League will never be the same as a pair of screwball deities encounters the carnal l complexity of college coeds, campus capers, and conspicuous consumption.
Sylvia | June 1-17
Greg is a middle age man, a restless empty-nester, tired of his job in finance, looking for meaning in his life. Sylvia is an exuberant and beautiful lab/poodle mix, astray in Central Park, looking for a new home. When they meet, it is love at first sight.
But his wife Kate, a busy rising star in the public school system, is looking forward to some independence now that the couple no longer has children to care for, and is less than thrilled by the clever and coquettish canine who jumps, slobbers, sits on her couch, and takes Greg’s attention away from his marriage.
A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia is a smart, silly, sophisticated, and occasionally salty comedy about relationships, nature, and growing older.
She Loves Me | June 29 to July 15
She Loves Me is a euphoric romantic comedy with a soaring score. Amalia and Georg work together at a modest Hungarian perfumery and have disliked each other from the very beginning.
He thinks she’s stuck up, and she thinks he’s arrogant and mean. But each rapturously writes to a lonely heart’s pen pal when the work day is done, and it doesn’t take long for the audience to see that they’re in love without realizing it. Inevitably through some of the most iconic songs in the musical theatre canon (“Vanilla Ice Cream,” “She Loves Me,” “Will He Like Me?”), Georg and Amalia discover the truth and rejoice in their love for each other at the story’s sweet and musically delightful conclusion.
These Shining Lives | July 2- August 12
These Shining Lives is set in 1922 in a factory in Chicago. It is based on the story of female employees of the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois. Because of women’s fine motor skills, they were ideal for the meticulous work of hand painting the radium dials and numbers on clocks. They regularly licked the brushes to get a finer point, which led to terrible consequences.
The play dramatizes the danger women faced in this workplace and highlights the broader lack of concern companies had for protecting the health of their employees.
Lettice & Loveage | August 24 – September 9
Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is a tireless but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of London’s stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of Lotte Schon, a fact-conscious inspector from the Preservation Trust, who eventually fires her. Not one to go without a fight, Lettice engages the stoic, conventional Lotte in a battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown.
Three Viewings | September 21 – Oct 7
A funeral parlor in a small Midwestern town is the setting for these three darkly funny and touching short plays. In Tell Tale, we enter the private thoughts of a respectable married mortician, lost in passion for a beautiful real estate broker who markets to the bereaved. In Thief of Tears, we meet Mac, the attractive daughter of an upper-class WASP family who frequents the Viper Room and steals jewelry from corpses. And in Thirteen Things about Ed Carpolotti, a newly widowed suburban matron finds her world crashing about her only to be rescued by love from beyond the grave.
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