Las Cruces Community Theater is proud to announce the 2010 - 2011 LCCT Season!
Once again we're presenting a full season of the best entertainment in
Las Cruces!
Order your season tickets on-line using this
form, order by mail (you can download our season ticket brochure
here - you'll need a PDF viewer such as
Adobe Reader
to view it), or buy your season tickets at any
performance of Nunsense!
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Nunsense
August 6 - 28, 2010
An LCCT Musical Production!
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by Dan Goggin
Directed for LCCT by Art Haggerton
HELD OVER! NUNSENSE WILL HAVE TWO EXTRA PERFORMANCES AUGUST
27 AND 28 AT 8:00 PM!
Nunsense begins when the Little Sisters of
Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, has
accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters, and they are in dire need
of funds for the burials. The sisters decide that the best way to
raise the money is to put on a variety show, so they take over the
school auditorium, which is currently set up for the eighth grade
production of Grease. Here we meet Reverend Mother Regina, a
former circus performer; Sister Mary Hubert, the Mistress of
Novices; a streetwise nun from Brooklyn named Sister Robert
Anne; Sister Mary Leo, a novice who is a wannabe ballerina; and
the delightfully wacky Sister Mary Amnesia, the nun who lost her
memory when a crucifix fell on her head. Featuring star turns, tap
and ballet dancing, an audience quiz, and comic surprises, this
show has become an international phenomenon. With more than 5000
productions worldwide, it has been translated into 21 languages.
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Out of the Darkness
September 3 - 4, 2010
An LCCT Special Event!
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Featuring Daniel McKinley and Robert Lopez
Las Cruces' Premier Illusionist Duo are at it
again! Daniel McKinley and Robert Lopez present their newest stage
magic show, for two nights only!
Anything is possible when these two are on stage and in your mind. You
will see illusions unlike any you have seen before. They will be doing
anything from walking barefoot on broken glass to reading your
minds. There will be magic for kids and adults alike. This isn't
your everyday "magic show"; this is truly a must see for the whole
family.
Throughout the show, you will be taken on a journey from excitement to
fear, sadness to joy, and wonder to laughter.
This show really has it all!
Note: due to the special nature of this production, seating will
be on a first-come first-served basis.
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Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play
October 1 - 17, 2010
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by Joe Landry
Directed for LCCT by Les Boyse
Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play
is an evening of adaptations of three early films directed by
Alfred Hitchcock: "The Lodger," "Sabotage" and "The 39 Steps."
These stories come to life in the style of a 1940s radio
broadcast, with five actors playing dozens of characters, live
sound effects and musical underscoring.
The Lodger: A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the
loose in London, murdering blonde women. A mysterious man
arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a
room to rent. The Bunting's daughter is a blonde model and is
seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The
detective becomes jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect
he may be the avenger.
Sabotage: Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs
operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his
wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing
of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to
work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the
gang.
The 39 Steps: Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's
London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets
Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign agents. He
takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and
later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run
to break the spy ring and thus prove his innocence.
Synopses copyright IMDB
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Greetings!
December 3 - 19, 2010
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by Tom Dudzick
Directed for LCCT by Ken Eastlack
Andy has a sweet Catholic mother, a sour
Catholic father and a severely retarded younger brother named
Mickey. When he brings his Jewish atheist fiance to meet the
folks on Christmas Eve, his worst fears about family blow ups
are realized. But Mickey, whose entire vocabulary is "oh boy"
and "wow," suddenly says "Greetings!" An ancient, wise and
witty spirit who is set upon healing the family has borrowed
Mickey's body.
"Hilarious." New Yorker.
"A comic jewel.... Stunning and touching. ... A joyful holiday lift." N.Y. Newsday.
"A loving holiday wonder.... Deserves a shelf life long after Christmas." N.Y. Post.
"Glows with ... warmhearted emotion." AP.
"A winner." Albany Times Union. " Greetings! should become as much a part of the fabric of the winter holiday season as It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol." Berkshire Eagle.
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One-Act Play Festival
January 7 - 16, 2011
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The Las Cruces Community Theatre (LCCT) is now accepting submissions for our
One-Act Play Festival. The Festival is part of the LCCT 2010-2011
Season and will
have the full support and resources of the LCCT and its board of directors as
do all other LCCT productions of the season. Plays should be family oriented
and no longer then thirty (30) minutes in running time. Deadline for
submissions is September 15, 2010.
Interested directors should send submissions with their name and contact
telephone number to
Las Cruces Community Theatre
P. O. Box 1281
Las Cruces, NM 88004
ATTN: One-Act Play Selection Committee
Submissions can also be dropped off at the Theatre at 313 Downtown Mall (next
to COAS Book store). If no one is at the theatre, you may leave it
next door with Flo at the Blue Gate Gallery. You can email southam97@gmail.com with inquiries.
Please submit scripts (synopses will not be accepted). Directors are
encouraged to make multiple submissions. Each committee member will read all
plays. Selected plays will be announced no later than November 30,
2010. Production performance dates are scheduled for 2
weekends, January 7.8,9 and 14, 15, 16.
Each play selected will perform on all days scheduled.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
February 11 - 27, 2011
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by Neil Simon
Directed for LCCT by James Jensen
Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a
high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and
he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over,
then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution
killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment
paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors
private lives things can't seem to get any worse...then he's
robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his
money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a
nervous breakdown and it's the best thing that ever happened
to him...
"A gift for taking a grave subject and, without losing sight of its
basic seriousness, treating it with hearty but sympathetic
humor...A talent for writing a wonderful funny line...full of
humor and intelligence. Fine fun."-New York Post
"Creates an atmosphere of casual cataclysm, an everyday urban
purgatory of copelessness from which laughter seems to be
released like vapor from the city's manholes."-Time
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The Return of Herbert Bracewell; Why Am I Always Alone When I'm With You
April 1 - 17, 2011
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by Andrew Johns
Directed for LCCT by larrychandler
It's 1909 and Herbert Bracewell has retired to
the attic of his New York home with plans to stage a comeback
in a one-man review of his long, if undistinguished career. He
assembles five antique match-lit footlights to mark a playing
area and proceeds to ad-lib ideas for his show, straining to
pull down dusty manuscripts from atop overflowing shelves of
vintage souvenirs, using a stunt dummy to play off of, and
conferring often with his pet, a stuffed crow. Herbert's wife,
Florence, thirty years his junior and once a great success as
an actress, comes to call her husband to bed and is caught up
in his production plans, first with good-humored derision,
then with the suggestion that she join him in the comeback
attempt.
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Avanti! Or a Very Uncomplicated Girl
June 3 - 19, 2011
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by Samuel Taylor
Directed for LCCT by Joe Pfeiffer
Sandy Claiborne is a young American businessman
in Rome on a sad errand: his father was killed in an
automobile accident while on his annual one-month
"sabbatical" in Italy, and Sandy needs to bring the body
home for burial. Unfortunately, Italian red tape is
insurmountable... enter Alison Ames, a young British woman
whose mother was killed in the same accident (wait, what?),
and Baldo, an Italian who can provide anything —
anything — for a price. Avanti! is a
witty comedy where what happens in Rome needs to stay there!
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| Single Show Prices |
| Adults | $10 |
| Students/Seniors/Military | $9 |
| Groups of ten or more | $8/seat |
| Children six and under | $7 |
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| Season Ticket Prices |
| Regular | $50 |
| Senior/Student/Military | $45 |
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