January 25 - February 10, 2008
Directed by Clair M. Freeman

The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (known locally as "Miss Hot Tamale") is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest—hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory. The unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner, (who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children) complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain's eccentric brother, Delmount, (recently released from a mental institution) to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans. But, aided by a touchingly awkward seamstress named Popeye (who is hopelessly smitten by Delmount) and several other cheerfully nutty characters, Carnelle perseveres—leading to a denouement of unparalleled hilarity, compassion and moving lyricism as all concerned finally escape their unhappy pasts and turn hopefully toward what must surely be a better future.

March 28 - April 13, 2008
Directed by Bill Mutimer
Music Direction by Joseph Fink

At the turn of the century in Indian Territory, a young ranch hand, Curly is infatuated with Laurey. Unfortunately, they are both too proud to admit they love each other. Just to spite Curly, Laurey accepts an invitation to the local dance from the evil Jud Fry. Meanwhile, Will Parker has returned early from his trip to Kansas City. Unfortunately, his girlfriend, Ado Annie, just can't seem to say no to other men. Eventually, Curly and Jud duel it out, with Jud ending up falling on his own knife and dying. In the end, Curly and Laurey are married. Likewise, Will and Ado Annie tie the knot, and all is well.

May 30 - June 15, 2008
Directed by Ralph Montesano

A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched, among the most coldly monstrous villains in [stage] history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward. Based on Ken Kesey's acclaimed bestseller, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [is a] classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system.

August 1 - 17, 2008
Directed by Sue Raesly
Music Director - Nancy Shumaker

Charles Dickens' touching tale of an orphan boy who runs away from the orphanage and tries to pick a pocket or two for Fagin, but gets caught. As Fagin tries to save him, all Oliver wants to do is go to his uncle, and live a good life.
 

October 3 - 19, 2008
Directed by Bill Mutimer

Meet Charity Hope Valentine - an eternal optimist, and the unluckiest
romantic in New York City. She's a 'dance hall hostess' who always gives her heart, and her earnings, to the wrong man. After flings with the stud, the film-star and the sleaze-ball, things suddenly start to look rosy when she's stuck in an elevator with Oscar, a nerdy-but-nice neurotic. Neil Simon's take on the Fellini film Nights of Cabiria, Sweet Charity is a sassy and streetwise take on the things we do for love. This salute to 60's New York features Cy Coleman's hit musical numbers 'Hey, Big Spender', 'If My Friends Could See Me Now', 'The Rich Man's Frug', and the funky 'Rhythm of Life'

December 5 - 21, 2008
Directed by Gary Boyer

Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. The "lower class" but very much up and coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an architect neighbor. Next there are the architect and his wife in their neglected, untidy flat. Then the bank manager and his wife are in their large, slightly modernized, old Victorian style kitchen. Running like a dark thread through the wild comedy of behind the scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts to material prosperity and independence and the decline of the others. In the final stages the little man is well and truly on top, with the others, literally and unnervingly, dancing to his tune.