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IRON STREET PRODUCTIONS, L. L.C.
Empowering artists to express their creative vision , "from the page to the stage”
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IRON STREET PRODUCTIONS, L. L.C. Empowering artists to express their creative vision , "from the page to the stage”
Sponsored in part by:
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THEATRICAL SEASON 2008
JANUARY 2008 - NEIL SIMON'S "PROPOSALS" This memory play delightfully recalls the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. Burt Hines, a 55 year old recovering workaholic convalescing from a second heart attack, eagerly anticipates the arrival of the ex wife he still loves. His daughter Josie has just broken her engagement to an intense Harvard law student and pines for his buddy Ray, an aspiring writer with whom she once had a brief fling. Clemma, the black housekeeper at the center of the action (played to acclaim on Broadway by L. Scott Caldwell), is dreading a visit from the husband who deserted her years before. A model with a strikingly dim intellect shows up on Ray's arm, and a young Miami gangster with a gift for malapropisms brings comic hilarity to the gathering
JUNE 2008 - "PURLIE" - THE MUSICAL Music by: Gary Geld Lyrics by: Peter Udell Book by: Ossie Davis, Philip Rose and Peter Udell Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee is dead. His glorious funeral shakes the halls of Big Bethel, the church he sought to destroy. But it wasn't long ago when Purlie arrived with Lutiebelle and a scheme to deceive the Ol' Cap'n into giving him money that rightfully belonged to his mother; money that would buy Big Bethel. Ol' Cap'n is holding the inheritance due to a long-lost cousin. Purlie has searched the country for a look-alike that would fool the Ol' Cap'n. When the girl, Lutiebelle, realizes the danger in the plan she tries to run away; it's her love of Purlie, not money or any church, that brought her here. But Purlie and Aunt Missy, wife of Purlie's brother Gitlow, persuade her to go through with the hoax. Auditions: March 2008 Click here to LISTEN to music samples of the show
SEPTMEBER 2008 - "EQUUS"- Directed by Jeff Corriveau By: Peter Shaffer Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious/sexual fascination with horses. Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a teenage boy who blinded six horses. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play is essentially a detective story, with the psychiatrist trying to understand the cause of the boy’s actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose.
Auditions: June/July 2008 Click here to READ excerpts from the script
DECEMBER 2008 - "BEFORE IT HITS HOME" - WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT By: Cheryl L. West Wendal, a jazz musician who has never managed to make it big, has just been diagnosed with having the AIDS virus. He returns home to his mother and father, but upon confiding the truth to them, he is abandoned by his mother who, in a wrathful explosion of raw emotion, indicts Wendal for immorality and takes with her, his teenage son from a previous marriage. Wendal's father, however, overcomes his facade of masculine pride and takes up caring for Wendal in his final days.
Auditions: September 2008
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