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Arsenic and Old Lace January 10 - 26 (2020)
Party for the Playhouse Feb. 22 (2020)
The Pirates of Penzance March 13 - 29 (2020)
Sex Please, We're Sixty May 1 - 10 (2020)
The Three Musketeers June 19 - 28 (2020)
Curtains (Musical Comedy)BOOK Rupert Holmes Directed by Bryan Bergeron November 8 - 24 (2019) It’s a Musical! It’s a Comedy! It’s a Mystery!It’s a Musical Comedy Mystery!From the creators of “Chicago” and “Cabaret”, Curtains will tickle the fancy bone of lovers of Cozy Mysteries and Broadway glitz alike.
Boston, 1959. At the Colonial Theatre, the cast of Robbin’ Hood takes their bows on opening night. Just as the curtain falls, so does Jessica Cranshaw, the profoundly untalented leading lady of the production. Enter Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, a fast-talking cop with a love for musical theatre. He quarantines the cast and crew inside the theatre while he searches for clues. But Cioffi doesn’t just investigate the murder--he also offers advice and insight into improving Robbin’ Hood. The musical will open again in 24 hours with a new leading lady, so the clock is ticking to find the killer and put on a killer show. Who could it be? Carmen Bernstein, the sassy and brassy producer? Christopher Belling, the campy and egotistical director? Georgia Hendricks, the lyricist who replaces Jessica onstage? Niki Harris, the ingenue with a secret? Everyone is a suspect, and only Cioffi can make sense of the evidence. Curtains is a musical-theatre parody of whodunnit classics, with numbers ranging from the classic musical theatre song-and-dance “A Tough Act to Follow” to the heartfelt “I Miss the Music.” A comedic send-up suitable for all ages, Curtains will have the audience laughing until the last curtain falls. |
Annie Kids (Children's Theater)
Friday, December 6th 7:00pm
Saturday, December 7th 2:00pm
Directed by Eva Knowles
Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony Award-winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie KIDS features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure.
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
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Arsenic & Old Lace (Comedy)
by: Joseph Kesselring
January 10 - 26 (2020)
Directed by Bryan Bergeron
All families are funny...Well, maybe not this funny.
Murder, Nayhem, and Mystery!
Mortimer Brewster is living a happy life: he has a steady job at a prominent New York newspaper, he’s just become engaged, and he gets to visit his sweet spinster aunts to announce the engagement. Mortimer always knew that his family had a bit of a mad gene -- his brother believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt and his great-grandfather used to scalp Indians for pleasure -- but his world is turned upside down when he realizes that his dear aunts have been poisoning lonely old men for years! When Mortimer’s maniacal brother, Jonathan. (who strangely now resembles Boris Karloff) returns on the night that the aunts were planning to bury the newest victim, Mortimer must rally to help his aunts and protect his fiancé -- all while trying to keep his own sanity. as well.
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Party for the Playhouse (Fundraiser)
February 22, 2020
5:30 – 9:30 PM
Cocoa Beach Hilton
1550 N Atlantic Ave, Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
Join us in celebrating our 60th season! This fundraising event includes a pre-dinner assortment of cheese/fruit/vegetables, dinner, dessert, and ice tea/coffee. A cash bar will be available. Our actors will perform a live musical number from an upcoming show. Join in on the fundraising silent auction, dancing, and fun! Thank you for supporting Surfside Playhouse.
Dinner choices:
Steak
Mahi
Mushroom Vegetarian
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Pirates of Penzance
by W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
March 13 - 29 (2020)
Directed by Bryan Bergeron
The Classic Operetta filled with Pirates, maidens and sailors. Performed with Surfside’s special blend of comedy. Not your father’s Gilbert and Sullivan!
The Pirates of Penzance. On the coast of Cornwall, a gang of pirates play and party as Frederic (a pirate apprentice) reminds the pirate king that his obligation to the gang is soon over. ... He is a slave of duty and, when no longer a pirate, it will be his duty to destroy them.
Now take this classic tale, add Surfside's unique interpretation and you have an evening of unexpected surprises. Surfside's Pirates of Penzance will provide a fun packed evening for the whole family!
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Sex Please, We're Sixty (Comedy)
by Michael Parker & Susan Parker
May 1 - 10 (2020)
Directed by Bryan Bergeron
Mrs. Stancliffe’s Bed & Breakfast has been successful for many years. Her guests (nearly all women) return year after year. Her next-door neighbor, the elderly, silver-tongued Bud “Bud the Stud” Davis, believes they come to spend time with him in romantic liaisons. The prim and proper Mrs. Stancliffe steadfastly denies this but really doesn’t do anything to prevent it. She reluctantly accepts the fact that “Bud the Stud” is, in fact, good for business. Her other neighbor and would-be suitor, Henry Mitchell, is a retired chemist who has developed a blue pill called “Venusia,” after Venus the goddess of love, to increase the libido of menopausal women. The women mix up Bud’s Viagra pills with the Venusia, and we soon discover that it has a strange effect on men: it gives them all the symptoms of menopausal women, complete with hot flashes, mood swings, weeping, and irritability! When the mayhem settles down, all the women find their lives moving in new and surprising directions.
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The Three Musketeers Fractured (Comedy with Music)
Based on a Novel written by Alexander Dumas
June 19 - 28 (2020)
Adapted and Fractured by Bryan Bergeron
This is the fourth in our popular series of Fractured season finallies! The Three Musketeers Fractured includes our beloved musketeers, Athos, Aramis, Porthos & D'Artagnan, but with a twist!. This faced paced comedy answers the question that is on the lips of everyone: "Why is it called the Three Musketeers when there are four of them?!"
Filled with song, dance and a rollicking tribute to sketch comedy, The Three Musketeers Fractured will delight audiences of all ages. But mostly, we promise you it will be Fun Fun Fun!
