Our 2008-2009 Season - "The Premiere Season "

In the Cabaret

In the Annex

1)

TELL ME

(formerly THE CHOCOLATE TREE)

First Fully Staged Production

Sept. 19 - Oct. 11, 2008
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm

ACE is delighted to present the first ever fully staged production of TELL ME, an award winning work which was selected in 2007 by the National Alliance for Musical Theater as one of the most promising new musicals on the New York scene. Jessie is a feisty young girl with a sharp wit and an out-sized imagination, which she uses to help herself and her family cope with her terrible illness. But can she go further and use her fantasy world to cause positive change in the real world? With a soaring score by an extremely gifted young composer, TELL ME takes audiences on an emotional, thought-provoking journey filled with humor and wonder, and leaves them uplifted and deeply inspired by the story of one girl’s indomitable spirit and courage.

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2) THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW

at Actors Cabaret

Oct. 30 - Nov. 8, 2008
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm

Let’s do the time warp again ... a limited engagement just in time for Halloween!!

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3) FOREVER PLAID:

PLAID TIDINGS

at Actors Cabaret

Nov. 21 - December 14, 2008

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4) A CHRISTMAS CAROL

(The Broadway Version)

at the Hult Center's Soreng Theater

December 19 -21, 2008

RETURNING FOR THE FOURTH SEASON AFTER THREE SOLD OUT YEARS!!

Charles Dickens' classic with Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Past, Present & Future get the full Broadway treatment in Alan Menken’s-Lynn Ahrens’-Mike Okrent's adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. This is the version that leaves New Yorkers and tourists alike gasping in wonder and merriment every year as the story unfolds on the stage at Madison Square Garden. In 2004, this version became the basis of a NBC television spectacular featuring Kelsey Grammer as Scrooge, surrounded by an array of stars including Jason Alexander, Jesse L. Martin, Jane Krakowski, Geraldine Chaplin, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ruthie Henshall. Alan Menken (Little Shop Of Horrors) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime The Musical, Once On This Island) have collaborated on a score that is filled with beautiful melodies and emotional lyrics. Their song "A Place Called Home" has become a holiday standard.
There are many adaptations of A CHRISTMAS CAROL out there, but only one Broadway version! Now this holiday treat can delight audiences as it has annually in New York City for so many years.

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5) WHERE THE HECK'S THE PLOT

at Actors Cabaret

World Premiere Production of a new musical from Charles Nathan

January 9 - 18, 2009

6) ALTAR BOYZ

at Actors Cabaret

January & February, 2009

7) THE PRODUCERS

March & April, 2009

8) FORBIDDEN BROADWAY

May & June, 2009

9) CURTAINS

June & July, 2009

View the 2007 Season

1) Pigs In Love

World Premiere Production

Dates: Nov. 14 - 29, 2008
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 2:00pm

Don’t miss the world premiere of Dorothy Velasco’s smart and sassy comedy at ACE’s Annex.

Reva Kaufman directs PIGS IN LOVE, a heart-felt comedy about self-awareness and the consequences of living a lie. Who do we think we are, who are we really, and does it matter at all?  In case you’re wondering, the play contains two of the funniest roles for pigs ever to appear onstage, along with a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter co-existing more-or-less peacefully on a small, suburban farm.

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2) A Christmas Truce

World Premiere Production

December 5 - 14, 2008
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm

Sunday at 2:00 PM

PLUS MORE COMING SOON!!

ACE Junior Theater

1) William Shakespeare's

Love's Labour's Lost

Taught & Directed by Gaylord Walker Starting January, 2009

Performance Dates:

March 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 & 15, 2008

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PLUS MORE COMING SOON!!