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Premier Community Theatre in Naperville, Illinois

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2008 Season

The Secret Garden

Arsenic and
Old Lace

Guys and Dolls

2007 Season

A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum

Book by:
Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart
Music & Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim

Directed by David Belew
Produced by Steve Zeidler

June 15-24

"Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight!"
Broadway's greatest farce is light,
fast-paced, witty, irreverent and one
of the funniest musicals ever written
– the perfect escape from life's troubles.
“A Funny Thing Happened
On The Way To The Forum” takes
comedy back to its roots, combining
situations from time-tested, 2000-year-old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville. The result is a non-stop laugh-fest in which a crafty slave (Pseudolus) struggles to win the hand of a beautiful but slow-witted courtesan (Philia) for his young master (Hero), in exchange for freedom.

(Female Version)

by Neil Simon

Directed by Tom Ulbrich
Produced by Matt Colbert

July 6-15

Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Ungar and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon's hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms.Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pigeon sisters have been replaced by the hilarious Constanzuela brothers. This version is even more hilarious than the original!

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West SIde Story

Based on Conception of : Jerome Robbins
Book by: Arthur Laurents
Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim
Music by: Leonard Bernstein

Directed by Kevin Bellie (BIO)
Produced by Lynn Hodak,
Heather Hutchison, & Ted Waltmire

July 27-Aug 12
SPECIAL WEST SIDE STORY
SING ALONG August 8 at 7PM
The world’s greatest love story takes to the streets in this landmark Broadway musical that is one of the theatre’s finest accomplishments. Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” is transported to modern-day New York City, as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, the “American” Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice is one of the most innovative, heart-wrenching and relevant musical dramas of our time.

.2006 Anniversary Season

June 16 to 25, 2006*
Book- Mark Bramble
Music- Cy Coleman
Lyrics- Michael Stewart

Directed by Heather Hutchison

July 7 to 16, 2006
by Harper Lee
adapted for the stage by
Christopher Sergel

Directed by Tom Lindsay

This is the moment
A benefit concert April 1, 2006

July 28 - Aug 13, 2006
Music- Tom Snow
Lyrics- Dean Pitchford
Book- Walter Bobbie

Directed by Timothy Mullen

2005 Season

She Loves Me
June 17-26, 2005
Book by Joe Masteroff
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by: Stacey Lind
and John Chambers

Cheaper
By The Dozen
July 8-17, 2005
Dramatized by
Christopher Sergel
Directed by: Diane Fisher

Jekyll and Hyde
July 29 - Aug 14, 2005
Book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Music by Frank Wildhorn
Directed by: Jim Heatherly

2004 Season

Book by John Wiedman
Music by David Shire and
Richard Maltby, Jr.
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Directed by Alan Weiger
June 18-27

By Robert Harling
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Directed by Randy Knott
July 9-18

Book by Joseph Stein and
Sheldon Harnick
Music by Jerry Bock
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Directed by Frank Merle
July 30-August 15

2003 Season

A Chorus Line
Book by Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Edward Kleban
June 20-29, 2003

Moon Over Buffalo
by Ken Ludwig
July 11-20, 2003

Rodgers & Hammerstein's
South Pacific
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Oscar Hammerstein
and Joshua Logan
July 25- August10, 2003

2002 Season

You're a Good Man,
Charlie Brown
June 21, 22, 23
and 28, 29, 30

Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof
July 12, 13, 14
and 19, 20, 21

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Anything Goes
July 26, 27, 28 &
August 2, 3, 4
and 9, 10, 11

*2001 Season*	*2001 Season*	*2001 Season*	*2001 Season*
"Run For Your Wife" by Ray Cooney February,16-18 and 23-2	"1776" by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone June 15-17 and 22-24	"The Foreigner" by Larry Shue July 6-8 and 13-15	"Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim July 27-29, August 3-5 & 10-12
*2000 Season*	*2000 Season*	*2000 Season*	*2000 Season*
THE FANTASTICKS	GREASE	NUNSENSE	MAME
*1999 Season*	*1999 Season*	*1999 Season*	*1999 Season*
Rainmaker	Godspell	Light Up The Sky	Annie
*1998 Season*	*1998 Season*	*1998 Season*	*1998 Season*
"Love Rides the Rails" Was hilarius Feb. 13-22, 1998	" Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?"	"The Little Foxes"	"42nd Street"
*1997 Season*	*1997 Season*	*1997 Season*	*1997 Season*
"The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" (February 1997)	"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"	" I Hate Hamlet"	"The Sound of Music"