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Copenhagen
  Written by Michael Frayn
Directed by Darice Clewell
September 1-2, 3m, 7-9, 10m, 14-16, 17m, 21-23, 24m, 24e, 28-30, 2006

In 1941, two friends - a mentor and his able protégé` - take a brief walk on a chilly evening in Copenhagen. The mentor returns home alone in a furious state. The friendship is over. Copenhagen smartly begins as a study into the end of a friendship, but grows into something more powerful and evocative.

No one really knows what was said on that evening when two of the world's leading physicists met in 1941. While living in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen, Neils Bohr was visited by his former student, German atomic scientist Werner Heisenberg. The two went for a walk in order to talk without being monitored by the Gestapo. Bohr angrily returned home without Heisenberg. Heisenberg returned to his work developing atomic power (and possibly weapons) for Nazi Germany. Bohr was eventually smuggled to Sweden and later worked in America on the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.

Michael Frayn's play speculates on the contents of that fateful conversation. Bohr, his wife Margrethe and Heisenberg unite to reveal what might have been said during the events of that evening, intertwining the complex languages of physics, uncertainty, and human emotion. Copenhagen was the winner of the Tony award for the Best Play of 2000.
 

Jake's Women
 Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Beverly Hill van Joolen

October, 20-21, 22m, 26-28, 29m, November 2-4, 5m, 9-11, 12m, 12e, 16-18 2006

 

In this autobiographical comedy by American theater's master of the one liner, we are introduced to Jake, a writer, and through his habit of thinking of and conversing with them in his mind, the important women in his life: his deceased first wife, Julia; his current wife, Maggie, who is leaving him; his daughter, Molly, at age 12 and at age 21; his sister Karen; and his therapist Edith. As he argues, explains and ruminates on his fate with them, he gradually comes to terms with the losses that have kept him from trusting them. This unusual Neil Simon comedy blends his usual ambushing wit with wistful insights into the tricky business of loving.


 

A Christmas Carol
  Play and Lyrics by Richard Wade
Music by Dick Gessner
Directed by Mark Hildebrand
Choreography by J.B. McLendon

 December 7-10,14-17, 2006

Performances Thursdays, December 7th and 14th at 8:00 P.M., Fridays,
December 8th and 15th at 7:00 P.M. and 9:00 P.M., Saturdays, December 9th
and 16th at 2:00 P.M., 4:00 P.M., and 8:00 P.M., and Sundays December 10th and 17th at 2:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M.

Tickets go on sale November 18, 2006
 

An Annapolis tradition returns for its 26th year. Written specifically for Colonial Players, this musical version of the holiday classic remains faithful to Charles Dickens' original. The story of the spiritual transformation of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is retold with a bright score and brisk pace that brings the Christmas spirit to one and all.

A Moon for the Misbegotten
 Written by Eugene O¹Neill
Directed by Bob Bartlett
January 12-13, 14m, 18-20, 21m, 25-27, 28m, 28e, February 1-3, 4m, 8-10, 2007

O¹Neill¹s last play was never successful during his lifetime, but regarded as his greatest theatrical achievement. A Moon for the Misbegotten weaves comedy, tragedy, and O'Neill's own life to create an endearing work of transformation and redemption. A sequel to O'Neill's autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night, the play revolves around three characters: Josie, a towering, quick-tongued Irish woman; her father, Phil Hogan, a tenant farmer; and their drunken landlord and friend, Jim Tyrone, a character based on O'Neill's brother Jamie. Jim has promised to sell the Hogans the farm at a reasonable price, but the father fears Jim will back out of his promise and sell to a far richer neighbor. Father tricks daughter into setting a trap to ensure Jim's sale of the property to Phil. Instead, the scheme reveals their bond and the heartbroken guilt that is killing Jim. The night in the moonlight unites them and sets Jim on a possible path to redemption. As it travels through the landscape of human emotion, A Moon for the Misbegotten reveals an uncommon yet astonishingly beautiful love story.

Jekyll and Hyde
Book and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Music by Frank Wildhorn
Directed by Craig Allen Mummey
 March 2-3, 4m, 8-10,11m, 15-17, 18m, 22-24, 25m, 25e, 29-31, 2007

A new telling of a classic tale transports the audience to the foggy, dark surroundings of Victorian London where a demon lurks in the shadows. This sweeping musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella follows the tragic transformation of the well intended Dr. Jekyll into the murderous Mr. Hyde. Yet the show is more than a simple adaptation of Stevenson's examination of psychopathology and duality. Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical adds an element of love (and love lost) to this dark epic of good versus evil, spinning it into a spine-tingling adventure of mayhem and song.

Moon Over Buffalo
Written by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Edd Miller
April 27-28, 29m, May 3-5, 6m, 10-12, 13m, 17-19, 20m, 20e, 24-26  2007

Overacting (and drunk) thespians, slammed doors, and overactive imaginations drive this comedy set in 1950 in Buffalo's Erlanger Theatre. In Moon Over Buffalo, by the Tony Award winning author of Lend Me a Tenor, the double-takes, one-liners, startled en- trances and sudden exits come at a panicked pace. George and Charlotte Hay, traveling actors described by the New York Times' Vincent Canby as "hams past their prime:' are performing an alternating schedule of Cyrano de Bergerac and Private Lives. Word has come that the legendary Frank Capra is on his way to see a performance and offer the Hays a last chance at stardom in his new film. The problem is that George has disappeared and Charlotte has quit. When he is finally located, George is hopelessly drunk. Joined by their daughter and Paul, the long-suffering stage manager, we watch as they struggle to get the show on. New romances and old flames, a hard-of-hearing old lady, a pot of black coffee liberally laced with scotch, the Cyrano nose and the expectation of Capra's arrival all contribute to this madcap comedy.