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Footlighters' Community Theater is a non-profit theater that has provided quality, affordable entertainment to the Main Line for over 78 years!  610.296.9245 (ticket reservations).

Our 79th Season

We welcome you to our new season (2008-2009) with the following productions.  Performances are at 8 PM Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and 2 PM for Sunday matinees.

The Last Show of Our 2007-2008 Season

Rose's Dilemma

By Neil Simon
Directed by Bruce Warren

in 2008: May 29, 30, 31, June 1*, 5, 6, 7, 8*, 12**, 13, 14, 15*

Auditions March 9 & 11

In her beach house in the Hampton's, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads: she hasn't written anything new for years and money is getting short. Her former lover, literary lion Walsh McLaren, offers her-from beyond the grave-an opportunity to gross millions. It's not going to be easy and a ghost writer is required. This is a touching, funny and unpredictable romantic frolic by America's favorite Pulitzer prize winning writer of comedies. The Off Broadway premiere starred John Cullum.

Opens May 2008

 

Our 2008-2009 Season

Social Security

by Andrew Bergman
directed by Joe Cerisi

September 5, 6, 7*, 12, 13, 14*, 18**, 19, 20

Auditions June 15 & 16

This hilarious comedy tells the story of a married couple who are art dealers. Their domestic tranquility is shattered upon the arrival of the wife's goody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband and her Archetypal Jewish Mother. They are there to try to save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother hits it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is the art dealer's best client!

Opens September 2008

 


The Vampyre

by John Polidori; adapted for the stage by Tim Kelly
directed by Deanna Daugherty

October 17, 18, 19*, 24, 25, 26*, 30**, 31, November 1

Auditions June 22 & 23

The Vampyre is a darkly menacing, suspense-filled thriller which reaches back into the lives of Mary Shelley, her husband and poet, Percy Shelley, and the notorious Lord Byron. While staying on the shores of Lake Geneva, Byron suggested they and others sharing the villa each write a ghost story. John Polidori, Byron's physician, designed the novella, The Vampyre, which was published in 1819. The themes in Polidori's tale influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula and eventually the whole vampire genre. This play is an adaptation of that novella. Lord Ruthven, a suave, seductive and deadly vampyre with a taste for gambling, gains the confidence of Aubrey, a young man who is dazzled by Ruthven's worldliness. Through Aubrey, Ruthven gains entrance to the English country-side home of Aubrey's aunt, Lady Harwood. As he draws Aubrey ever more deeply into debauchery and debt, others try to loosen his hold on the impressionable youth, but to no avail. Before the evil Ruthven has sated his thirst and claimed a bride, there is murder, terror and excitement. Will this family be able to save themselves and each other before it is too late?

Opens October 2008

 


You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

by Clark Gesner
directed by Judy Pizzi

November 28, 29, 30*, December 5, 6, 7*, 12**, 13, 14

Auditions September 7 & 9

A program note says that the time of the action is "an average day in the life of Charlie Brown." It really is just that, a day made up of little moments picked from all the days of Charlie Brown, from Valentine's Day to the baseball season, from wild optimism to utter despair, all mixed in with the lives of his friends (both human and non-human) and strung together on the string of a single day, from bright uncertain morning to hopeful starlit evening. This revised version of the classic musical is a fresh approach to the 1967 original. Good ole Charlie Brown is joined by his little sister, Sally, and his pals Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, and Snoopy.

Opens November 2008

 


Our Winter Fundraiser!

Imagination's Revenge

an original play by R. Bruce Warren
directed by R. Bruce Warren

in 2009: January 16, 17, 18*, 23, 24, 25*, 30, 31

Auditions November 3 & 5

This farce tells the story of a loyal wife who thinks her husband is cheating on her, and so she decides to cheat in return, but she can't quite figure out how, even with the reluctant assistance of an experienced single woman friend. Laughs ensure as she tries over and over again to be unfaithful and can't bring it off.

An original work by local veteran thespian R. Bruce Warren.

Opens January 2009

 


Sheep on the Runway

by Art Buchwald
directed by Andrew Pavlin

in 2009: February 27, 28, March 1*, 6, 7, 8*, 12**, 13, 14

Auditions November 9th at 2PM & 10th at 7:30PM

Remember when Richard Nixon was in charge of the Free World, Communists were clearly the enemy, and presidents could be trusted? The late Art Buchwald, famous political satirist, certainly did, and his only Broadway play brings you this howlingly funny story about the tiny little country of Nonomura and their ambassador from America. When a political reporter comes in to find a story and starts a political upheaval instead, the U.S. has to step in to stop the presumed Communist threat, but can't quite figure out how. In true farce style, things go from bad to worse, between the inept Prince of the country and the corrupt commander of his army, the Ambassador's rebellious wanna-be hippie daughter, and the political reporter egging everything on.

Come see democracy in action (sort of...).

Opens February 2009

 


Crazy For You

music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, book by Ken Ludwig
directed by Tony Filipone

in 2009: April 17, 18, 19*, 24, 25, 26*, 30, May 1, 2, 3*, 7, 8, 9

Auditions December 7 & 8

Opens April 2009

 


Leading Ladies

by Ken Ludwig
directed by Kirk Paul

in 2009: June 5, 6, 7*, 12, 13, 14*, 18**, 19, 20

Auditions in 2009, March 2 & 4

A hilarious comedy about two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, who find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady's vivacious niece, Meg, who's engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there's a wide world out there, but it's not until she meets "Maxine" and "Stephanie" that she finally gets a taste of it.

Opens June 2009