Thursday, August 12, 2021

BlackBox Foundation's 2021 / 2022 Season!





A Kind of Love Story 
by Jenelle Riley
August 26 – September 4, 2021

This hilarious and heartfelt play both skewers and pays homage to the romantic comedy genre. Mark is a nice guy who never gets the girl, while Ally can’t seem to shake the world’s worst boyfriend. Both have built their romantic ideals on Disney heroes, fairy tales, and Cameron Crowe movies. They’re perfect for each other, but there’s just one problem: they’ve never met. As we follow their overlapping lives, we see all the ways these two are true soulmates and wait for the moment they will find each other… if they find each other. 

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm 

Adults - $15.00 each 
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each 

BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St. 
 

Picnic 
by William Inge
October 1 - 10, 2021

On a sweltering Labor Day morning, the women of a quiet neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks are preparing for the annual picnic. Watchful mother Flo Owens has hopes that her beautiful daughter Madge will get a proposal from Alan, the local millionaire’s son. Younger sister Millie, the “smart one”, yearns to grow up and leave her small town behind. Good-natured Mrs. Potts is happy to get a break from taking care of her aged mother. And spinster schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney cheerfully keeps her boyfriend Howard at arms’ length. This seemingly placid feminine environment is disrupted when Hal Carter, a muscular and charming young drifter who happens to be a former fraternity brother of Alan’s, hops off the freight train, and straight into Mrs. Potts’ hospitable home. Hearts are broken and lives are changed in the following twenty-four hours, as Hal’s lively, dangerous, masculine energy wakes up the sleepy community. A small Kansas town in the 1950s is the setting for William Inge’s bittersweet melodrama Picnic, which explores themes of sexuality, repression, rites of passage, and disappointment. 

Friday & Saturdays - 7pm, Sundays – 2pm 

Adults - $15.00 each 
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each 
Children - $10.00 each 
Sunday Matinees - $10.00 each 

BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St. 

 

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical 
by Frank Wildhorn & Leslie Bricusse 
October 29 – 31, 2021 

Murder and chaos are pitted against love and virtue in this sweeping gothic musical. The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon, Jekyll & Hyde. Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi-Grammy- and Tony-nominated Frank Wildhorn and double-Oscar- and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse, Jekyll & Hyde has mesmerized audiences the world over. 

Friday & Saturday - 7pm, Sunday – 2pm 

Tickets Sold by Central Arizona College 

Pence Center - Signal Peak Campus 8470 N Overfield Rd, Coolidge 


Alice in Wonderland 
by Jason Pizzarello 
November 6 - 14, 2021

Based on the beloved classic by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland is a reimagining of Wonderland, with an unexpected twist ending. When Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole, she is immersed into a fantastical, wacky land. Filled with zany characters, Alice in Wonderland is the perfect play for young and old audiences alike. Get lost in Wonderland with Pizzarello’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. You’ll never want to leave the tea party! 

Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm
Tickets: $10.00 each 

BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St. 


Miracle 
by Frank Maguire 
December 10 - 18, 2021

Original musical based on Miracle on 34th Street. 

Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm 

Adults - $15.00 each 
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each 
Children - $10.00 each 
 
BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St. 


Plan 9 From Outer Space  
by Mark Landon Smith 
January 21 - 29, 2022

This is it! The stage adaptation of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space, considered by many to be the worst movie ever made! Packing B-Movie thrills into 65 hair-raising minutes, the story goes something like this: visiting space soldiers use a magic-electro-space-ray-gun to resurrect a recently deceased (and perfectly ghoulish) human couple, putting ‘Plan 9’ into action. The aliens must stop mankind from developing ‘Solaramite,’ a substance that could set off a chain reaction of cosmic explosions that would destroy the entire universe. With ‘Plan 9’ activated, the space aliens step up the action. Flying saucers invade! Hollywood reacts! The Pentagon responds! Even Colonel Sanders tries to stop the aliens and, well, this was absolutely the worst movie ever made. 

Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm 

Tickets: Adults - $15.00 each
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each 
Children - $10.00 each 

BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St. 


Casa Grande’s Dirty Laundry A Melodrama
February 11 - 27, 2022 

Fridays & Saturdays - 7pm, Sundays – 2pm 

Adults - $15.00 each 
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each 
Children - $10.00 each 
Matinees - $10.00 each 

BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St. 


Death of Robin Hood  
by J.S. Puller 
March 11 - 26, 2022

When the life of Will Scatheloke is in danger, the minstrel Alan-a-Dale invents a character, Robin Hood, to take the fall for his friend’s crimes. But when the Sheriff and his wife Lady Marian become convinced that their lies are reality, Alan realizes that the only way to escape the story is by making it into a legend. And there’s only one way a legend can end. 

Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm,  

BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St. 

Adults - $15.00 each 
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each 
Children - $10.00 each 

A Midsummer Night's Dream 
by William Shakespeare
April 8 -9, 2022

A story of order and disorder, reality and appearance and love and marriage. Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons are to be married and great celebrations are planned.

Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm

Pence Center, Central Arizona College, 8470 N Overfield Rd., Coolidge, AZ

Tickets: sold by Central Arizona College         

       

Spamalot  
Book and Lyrics: Eric Idle, Music: John Du Prez  
May 13 - 21, 2022

Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur’s quest to find the Holy Grail. Inspired by the classic comedy film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical also diverts a bit from more traditional versions of the legend. Instead, Spamalot features shenanigans including a line of beautiful dancing girls, flatulent Frenchmen, and killer rabbits. Outside, there is plague with a 50% chance of pestilence and famine. Throughout the show, Arthur, traveling with his servant Patsy, recruits several knights to accompany him on his quest, including Sir Bedevere, Sir Robin, Sir Lancelot, and Sir Galahad. Besides the rabbits and farting Frenchman, they meet such characters as the Lady of the Lake, Prince Herbert, Tim the Enchanter, Not Dead Fred, the Black Knight, and the Knights who say Ni.

Fridays and Saturdays: 7pm

Adults - $15.00 each 
Students/Seniors - $10.00 each 
Children - $10.00 each 

BlackBox Theatre, 407 N Sacaton St. 

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