THE 2009 - 2010 SEASON

I DO! I DO!

Runs August 7 through September 13, 2009
Fridays & Saturdays a
t 8pm, Sundays at 2pm

Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt

Directed by John Loprieno
Musical Direction by Dave Watkins

Produced by L.J. Stevens and the High Street Arts Center, in association with the Performing Arts Dept. of Moorpark College.

The High Street Arts Center is proud to present I DO! I DO! Based on the Jan de Hartog play The Fourposter, this two-character musical spans fifty years as it focuses on the trials and tribulations, laughters and sorrows, and hopes and disappointments experienced by Agnes and Michael Snow throughout their marriage.


 

The Miracle Worker

Runs October 16 through November 15, 2009
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm

Written by William Gibson

Directed by Rachel Manheimer

Produced by L.J. Stevens and the High Street Arts Center

This classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Helen, trapped in her secret world, is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence. Following scenes of intense physical and emotional dynamism, Annie's success with Helen finally comes with the utterance of a single word: "water".


 

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Runs December 4 through December 20, 2009
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm

Written by Barbara Robinson

Directed by Andrea Tate

Produced by L.J. Stevens and the High Street Arts Center

In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-- probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem-- and the fun-- when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on! Great fun for the entire family!



Romeo & Juliet

Runs February 5 through March 7, 2010
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm

Written by William Shakespeare

Directed by William Fisher

Produced by L.J. Stevens and the High Street Arts Center in association with the California Shakespeare Company

This Shakespeare classic explores the story of two young people desperately in love but kept apart by societal mores are forced to live in secret and ultimately take the most desperate measures to be together.


Driving Miss Daisy

Runs May 14 through June 13, 2010
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm

Written by Alfred Uhry

Directed by Paul Millet

Produced by L.J. Stevens and the High Street Arts Center

The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple.

 

         
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