Announcing our new season! All performances scheduled for the Garner Historic Auditorium.
The Fantasticks
January 16, 17, 22, and 23 at 8:00 p.m.
January 17 and 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Talk about a time-proven audience-pleaser! The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world, and with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. The result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be nostalgic and universal at the same time. “The Fantasticks” is an intimate show engaging the audience's imagination and showcasing a strong ensemble cast. Its moving tale of young lovers who become disillusioned, only to discover a more mature, meaningful love is punctuated by a bountiful series of catchy, memorable songs, many of which have become standards.
The Hallelujah Girls
April 18, 23, 24, 25 at 8:00 p.m.
April 19 at 6:00 p.m.
April 25 at 2:00 p.m.
The Towne Players will present The North Carolina premiere of the newest show from the playwrights who brought you last season's hit Christmas Belles - Jones, Hope and Wooten! This hilarious story introduces the ladies of Eden Falls, Georgia who aspire to open their own day spa, Spa-Dee-Dah! in a run down old church. In a series of funny vignettes, they struggle to keep the business going while learning quite a bit about living life to the fullest.
Seussical Jr.
August 13, 14, 15 at 8:00 p.m.
August 15 at 2:00 p.m.
The Towne Players Teens and The Towne Players Kids will lovingly bring to life the characters of Dr.Seuss, including Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and all of the Whos of Whoville!These classic, colorful tales are seamlessly woven together by Jojo, a young boy and “thinker of strange and wonderful thinks”! The score emerges as a Seussian gumbo of musical styles, ranging from Latin to pop, swing to gospel, and R&B to funk! So let your toes tap, your fingers snap, and your imagination run wild in this magical, marvelous musical!
The Nerd
October 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, at 8:00
October 17 at 2:00 p.m.
Now an aspiring young architect in Terre Haute, Indiana, Willum Cubbert has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved has life after he was seriously wounded in Vietnam. He has written to Rick to say that, as long as he is alive, "you will have somebody on Earth who will do anything for you"—so Willum is delighted when Rick shows up unexpectedly at his apartment on the night of his thirty-fourth birthday party. But his delight soon fades as it becomes apparent that Rick is a hopeless "nerd"—a bumbling oaf with no social sense, little intelligence and less tact. And Rick stays on and on, his continued presence among Willum and his friends leading to one uproarious incident after another, until the normally placid Willum finds himself contemplating violence—a dire development which, happily, is staved off by the surprising "twist" ending of the play.
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