CONCERTS AT THE GALION: Oolong Gurus
The Wild Women of Winedale
This joyful and exuberant, yet ultimately touching, comedy focuses on three women at crossroads in their lives—the Wild sisters of Winedale, Virginia—Fanny and Willa and their frustratingly quirky sister-in-law Johnnie Faye. This feisty and fun-loving trio has supported and cheered one another through life’s highs and lows through the years, including the early demise of two of their husbands. And they really need each other now, as Fanny experiences a hilariously inappropriate reaction to her 60th birthday, while Willa is so stressed out from her nursing job she resorts to vodka and speed-knitting to cope, and Johnnie Faye, determined to put her year of fraught widowhood behind her, desperately tries to find a man—preferably a man with a house, since hers is somewhere at the bottom of a Florida sinkhole. These women’s lives are further upended by the responsibility of caring for their free-spirited, ailing aunt and the realization that they are drowning under loads of family keepsakes and possessions nobody wants—especially them!
With equal doses of hilarity and heart, these extraordinary women come up with delightful and surprisingly unorthodox ways to clear the clutter from their lives, their homes and their relationships so they can move their lives forward. Together they prove it’s never too late to take another one of life’s paths for a grand new adventure. This Jones Hope Wooten comedy is guaranteed to drive you wild with laughter—and motivate you to keep hounding the kids to please take that stack of quilts and Granny’s Christmas china!
CAST LIST: Nancy Herman, Rachel Jarvis, Kristina Karbula, Jessica Mercurio, Kelly Sorgenfrei, & Jennifer A. Tesso
DIRECTED BY: Tony Baer & Sandy Hoffer
Tickets for this production go on sale to members on Monday, January 24th. Non-Member tickets go on sale beginning Monday, January 31st.
“An Afternoon With the Stars”
Join us in welcoming our 2022 Eagle Dance Center Competition Team to their Season Debut!
18 dancers, aged 8 to 18, will take the stage for the very first time this season before traveling to 4 regional and 1 national level competition. This will be the first time EDC’s dancers are able to take the stage locally with a live audience since February of 2020, and we are so ready to fill the seats with local support once again.
Dancers will showcase a total of 33 dance routines in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, contemporary, and musical theatre genres. Routines will vary from solos, to duets and trios, to small and large groups.
Team members began their season training in June of 2021 - being in class 2 to 5 days per week through the season - strengthening their technique and learning new choreography. Team members and instructors put in countless hours to produce high quality routines each season, and we can’t wait to share the amazing local talent these hard working artists possess.
Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Monday, February 7th.
CONCERTS AT THE GALION: The Hitchhiker Band
CONCERTS AT THE GALION: The Crazy Gringos
Chicago
In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess," Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream": fame, fortune, and acquittal. This sharp-edged satire features a dazzling score that sparked immortal staging by Bob Fosse.
AUDITIONS: Sunday, April 10th & Tuesday, April 12th (details TBA)
DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED BY: Beth Anne Jarvis
MUSIC DIRECTOR:
Tickets for this production go on sale to members on Monday, May 23rd. Non-Member tickets go on sale beginning Monday, May 30th.
CONCERTS AT THE GALION: Bullit Band
Seussical
Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Tony winners, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once on This Island, Ragtime), have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination – Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.
The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant.
AUDITIONS: Details TBA
DIRECTED BY: Amy Jarvis
MUSIC DIRECTOR:
CHOREOGRAPHER: Beth Anne Jarvis
Tickets for this production go on sale to members on Monday, June 27th. Non-Member tickets go on sale beginning Tuesday, July 5th.
CONCERTS AT THE GALION: Tom's Kitchen Table
White Christmas
Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil's former army commander. With a dazzling score featuring well-known standards including “Blue Skies,” “I Love A Piano,” “How Deep Is the Ocean” and the perennial title song, White Christmas is an uplifting musical worthy of year-round productions.
AUDITIONS: Details TBA
DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED BY: Beth Anne Jarvis
MUSIC DIRECTOR:
CONCERTS AT THE GALION: Paul Martin's Jazz Quintet
