FERGUSON’S BROADWAY SERIES ANNOUNCED
2008-2009 SERIES TO FEATURE
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Nunsense
starring Sally Struthers
NOVEMBER 14-15, 2008
Sweeney Todd
MARCH 13-14, 2009
Pajama Game
APRIL 3-4, 2009
Ain't Misbehavin'
starring Ruben Studdard
MAY 1-3, 2009
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Nunsense has been translated into 21 languages and is described by The New York Times as “A hail of fun and frolic…a bona fide institution.” Nunsense stars Sally Struthers, the Emmy Award winning actress best known for her role as Gloria in the groundbreaking television sitcom, All in theFamily. Nunsense begins when the Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, has accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters, and they are in dire need of funds for the burials. The sisters decide the best way to raise the money is to put on a variety show, so they take over the school auditorium, which is currently set up for the eighth grade production of Grease. Featuring star turns, tap and ballet dancing nuns, audience participation and comic surprises, Nunsense is an international phenomenon.
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Director John Doyle’s Sweeney Todd won two 2006 Tony Awards and four Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical. The legendary demon barber, hell-bent on revenge, takes up with his enterprising neighbor in a delicious plot to slice their way through England's upper crust. Justice will be served - along with lush melodies by internationally renowned, award-winning composer Stephen Sondheim. Filled with audacious humor and bloody good thrills, The New York Times describes Sweeney Todd as ‘thrilling and ferociously inventive.”
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Bright and riotously funny, The Pajama Game is a Tony Award winning, Broadway smash hit, where the dangers of a workplace romance are explored to hysterical effect. Conditions at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory are anything but peaceful, as sparks fly between new superintendent Sid Sorokin and Babe Williams, leader of the union grievance committee. Their stormy relationship comes to a head when the workers strike for a pay increase, setting off not only a conflict between management and labor, but a battle of the sexes as well. The original production opened in 1954, and recently finished a successful 2006 revival in New York starring Harry Connick, Jr.
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This 30th Anniversary Tour of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Ain’t Misbehavin’ will star 2003 American Idol Winner Ruben Studdard and Frenchie Davis, 2003 American Idol contestant and star of Rent on Broadway. Richard Maltby. Jr., the Tony Award-winning author and director ofthe 1978 premiere Broadway production, will re-create his original direction for this new national tour. The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930’s Harlem is showcased in this rollicking and swinging revue set to the music of the legendary Fats Waller. Ain’t Misbehavin’ is still considered one of the most well-crafted Broadway shows of all time.
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