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Happy New Year from Mohonk Mountain Stage Company!
We invite you to THINK AGAIN in 2008.
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Greetings!
All of the good folks here at MMSC are wishing you every happiness this Holiday Season and prosperity in the New Year. We are thankful for your support and we look forward to many new and exciting theatrical adventures in 2008. |
Winter '08 Think Again Encore Series
 We invite you to join us for our '08 Winter Encore Series @ Unison. Three chances to Think Again!
Get out that calendar. Pencil us in.
- An encore from our recent 2007 season. Many of you wrote to ask that we give you another chance to see - Tuesdays With Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom
- A real blast from the MMSC past - a decade ago! An encore from our 1998 season - A Celebration of Shakespeare's Sonnets with Don Wildy
- AND FINALLY, from our 2001 season - one of our very favorites - Ancestral Voices - A Family Story by A R Gurney
BUT WAIT - there's more! In March we are proud to bring you the regional premiere of an exciting new award-winning play from one of Canada's best playwrights
- Half Life by John Mighton
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Encore 1 - Tuesdays With Morrie
by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom
 An encore from MMSC's 2007 season.
"I was unprepared for how moving and powerful "Tuesdays With Morrie" turned out to be....On this ground, the flowers of humanity grow." NY Post
Directed by Christine Crawfis
Featuring William Connors and Michael Frohnhoefer
This is the true-life story of popular sports columnist Mitch Albom, who reluctantly interrupted his chaotic and hectic life to visit Morrie Schwartz, his beloved and ailing former college professor. A gentle reminder to appreciate the little things in life, Tuesdays with Morrie ultimately becomes a "class where life's greatest lessons are taught." Adapted from Albom's best-selling book.
Friday & Saturday - January 25 & 26 - 8 pm at Unison Theater
$12 Unison members / $16 non-members - Read more.
SAVE A SEAT!
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Encore 2 - A Celebration of Shakespeare's Sonnets
An encore from MMSC's 1998 season.
Featuring Don Wildy.
The most celebrated of English sonneteers is William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Written in the 1590s but not published until 1609, the 154 sonnets are his most personal and romantic work, tempting generation upon generation to speculate upon the identities of the young man and "Dark Lady" to whom they are addressed.
In our 1998 season Don Wildy performed all 154 sonnets in a five-part multi-evening program. Each and every evening was a "sell-out" with many audience members bringing copies of the sonnets to follow along.
In February 2008, a decade later and just in time for Valentine's Day, Don will once again perform this rarely seen MMSC program. Each evening's performance will be recorded by MMSC Sound Productions and will be available on a special multi-CD set for purchase later in the spring.
Friday & Saturday - February 8 & 9 - 8 pm at Unison Theater - Read more.
$12 Unison members / $16 non-members
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Encore 3 - Ancestral Voices, a family story
by A R Gurney
An encore from MMSC's 2001 season.
One of our very favorites - don't miss it.
"A beautiful chamber work. This lovely play is an elegy for Buffalo. The texture of life in Buffalo is heartbreakingly evoked in ways reminiscent of The Magnificent Ambersons.... This is a magical play, a nuanced reminiscence full of time and change and loss and suffering--as well as joy."
Donald Lyons, New York Post
Before writing Indian Blood, A R Gurney wrote of his boyhood and family and lessons learned in Buffalo in Ancestral Voices, a family story.
Directed by Robert G. Miller
Featuring Don Wildy, Ruth Berg, Christine Crawfis, Gerry Brooks and Michael Frohnhoefer
Friday & Saturday, February 22 & 23 - 8 pm at Unison Theater - Read more.
$12 Unison members / $16 non-members
SAVE A SEAT! |
AND IN MARCH...
the regional premiere of
Half Life
Can the heart remember what the mind has forgotten?
MMSC is proud to produce the regional premiere of this new award-winning play by one of Canada's most successful playwrights, John Mighton.
This elegantly constructed play is a gentle and humourous exploration of the power of love to invigorate every human - no matter how old. Half Life portrays the relationship between an elderly man and woman in a nursing home and the way this relationship affects their respective middle-aged son and daughter - a Romeo and Juliet for seniors.
A philosopher and mathematician first, Mighton is able to address questions about the nature of the human mind, memory, and what remains of our "souls" when memory starts to fade away.
WINNER of Canada's prestigious 2005 Governor General's Award for Drama, the Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre and the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. "If you like theatre, don't miss it. And that goes double if you hate it, because Half Life is that all too infrequent play capable of winning new converts for the fragile art of live drama" Montreal GazetteFriday and Saturday, March 14 & 15 and 21 & 22 - 8 pm at Unison Theater - Read more.$12 for Unison members and $16 for non-members
SAVE A SEAT! |
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There will be more to come in Spring 2008, including a special co-production with Actors & Writers, new literary evenings of poetry and short stories and a two week-end Checkov mini-festival.
Stay tuned. Join us.
Start 2008 by sharing the unique magic of MMSC - bring a friend to one of these special winter performances.
Sincerely,
Robert Miller, Producing Director
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