In the blink of an eye, Judson Theatre Company’s Summer Theatre Festival is about to enter its third year. It feels like we started the festival just yesterday. This season was actually easy to program: with two seasons behind us, Artistic Director Daniel Haley and I know better than ever exactly what we want the mix of shows each season to be. Daniel and I were excited about the same short list of shows, and then all we had to do was pick three and put them in order.
We’ll open with They’re Playing Our Song. It’s the Neil Simon-Marvin Hamlisch-Carol Bayer Sager smash hit that has been making audiences happy since it began its long Broadway run in 1979. It runs July 19-28 in Bradshaw Performing Arts Center’s McPherson Theater. Click here for tickets.
Linda Purl (The Office, Happy Days, Matlock) returns to JTC in the second show Jeffrey Hatcher’s delicious comedy Mrs. Mannerly, also starring Jordan Ahnquist (Shear Madness). It’s about a small-town etiquette teacher with a past and a young student whose life she changes for the better. It runs August 2-11. Click here for tickets.
The festival will conclude with JTC’s first Andrew Lloyd Webber show, Tell Me on a Sunday, an intimate, lovely musical about an English girl who moves to New York to make her way in the world. It runs August 16-25. Click here for tickets.
All in all, it’s definitely a summer to look forward to—join us: JudsonTheatre.com