This Season's Plays
Auntie Mame
October 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19 & 20, 2007
Fridays & Saturdays, 8:00 pm
Sundays, 1:30 pm
$20 gold circle, $15 general admission,
$10 senior/student
Directed by Ken Kahle, this fabulously successful hit hardly needs introduction. Besides being the source for one of America's most popular musicals, AUNTIE MAME set a standard for Broadway comedy that's been sought after ever since. "Auntie Mame was a handsome, sparkling, scatterbrained and warm-hearted lady who brightened the American landscape from 1928 to the immediate past by her whimsical gaiety, her slightly madcap adventures and her devotion to her young nephew, who grew up to be Patrick Dennis.
Through fortunes that rose and fell and a pleasant but brief marriage to a likable Southerner, who had the bad luck to tumble down from the Matterhorn, Auntie Mame's chief concern was that nephew, whom she raised…[the play's] central figure is a woman of spirit, innate kindness and undefeatable courage.
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On Golden Pond
February 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 22 & 23, 2008
Double feature shadow performances on
February 16, 2008 @ 2pm & 8pm
Fridays & Saturdays, 8:00 pm
Sundays, 1:30 pm
$20 gold circle, $15 general admission,
$10 senior/student
Directed by a newcomer to CCT, Caryol Gebhardt, this is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits. CCT will hold a double feature on Saturday, February 16, 2008, with performances at 2pm and at 8pm. Both performances on February 16th will be shadow interpreted for the deaf and hard of hearing, in cooperation with Valley Center of the Deaf.