Next Season

The Fredericktowne Players is proud to announce its 2010-2011 season, our 42nd year! The shows have been chosen to appeal not only to our audiences but also to directors, performers and those with technical interests. A complete description of the shows is below.

If you are not interested in directing for us at this time, please keep in mind that the
the Play Selection Committee is currently working on the 2011-2012 season. (Can you believe it?) Should you have any suggestions or comments, please contact Rich Cole.



Fall 2010



The Kitchen Witches
Written by Caroline Smith.
Comedy, 2 Acts, 2 males and 2 females

Synopsis: Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two "mature" cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Stephen Biddle dated one and married the other. When circumstances put them together on a TV show called The Kitchen Witches, the insults are flung harder than the food! Dolly's long-suffering TV-producer son Stephen tries to keep them on track, but as long as Dolly's dressing room is one inch closer to the set than Isobel's, it's a losing battle, and the show becomes a rating smash as Dolly and Isobel top both Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer!

This show is new to FtP.

Director's Presentation: April 28, 2010

Tentative Show dates: October 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 2010 (Pending contract negotiations with FCC)



Winter 2011



California Suite
Written by Neil Simon.
Comedy, 2 Acts, 2 males and 3 females

Synopsis: The show is divided into four parts with each being an episode from the same suite in a Beverly Hills hotel: Visitor from New York , Visitor from Philadelphia , Visitors from London and Visitors from Chicago. In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband "en flagrante delicto" with a drunken hooker. Visitors from London brings a British star as Academy Award nominee. Diana returns from the ceremony empty-handed to husband Sidney whose homosexuality will be no comfort tonight... The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should not have shared.

This show was previously performed by FtP in 1981.

Director's Presentation: May 26, 2010

Tentative Show dates: January 28, 29, February 4, 5, 6, 2011 (Pending contract negotiations with FCC)



Summer 2011



Curtains
Music and Lyrics by Kander and Ebb, Book by Rupert Holmes.
Musical-Comedy, 2 Acts, 8 males and 5 females plus an Ensemble)

Synopsis: This 2007 Best Musical Tony nominee is the story of a backstage murder mystery set in 1959 Boston. In "Curtains" the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound musical all become suspects after the show's leading lady mysteriously drops dead onstage while taking her final bow to the sound of applause. The lead detective on the case, Frank Cioffi, is a community theatre ham who is thrilled to be rubbing elbows with the performers and who takes great joy in solving both the murder and the problems with the production.

This show is new to FtP.

Director's Presentation: June 30, 2010

Tentative Show dates: July 22, 23, 29, 30 and 31, 2011 (Pending contract negotiations with FCC)