The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has released its production calendar for the 2020 - 2021 season.
“We’d like to invite audiences to get ready to laugh with the rowdy comedy I Hate Hamlet and embrace a hopeless romantic’s zany search for ‘the one’ in Sweet Charity,” said Andrew Kato, the Theatre’s producing artistic director and chief executive. “Then travel to the luxurious French Riviera for the uproarious and hysterical comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and then to Boston, where a blue collar worker finds herself fired from her job and confronting her past in Good People. Then help us end the season with the magnificent and beloved musical about stardom, Sunset Boulevard.”
Calendar from the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
I Hate Hamlet
October 25 – November 8, 2020
In Paul Rudnick’s hilarious comedy, the ghost of legendary actor John Barrymore, dressed as Hamlet, has returned to his old apartment in New York to convince television star Andrew Rally to take an offer to play Hamlet. Andrew is torn when he receives an offer from a Hollywood friend for a lucrative part in a huge television show. Does he take on the dream role to play Hamlet or does he pursue the life of a celebrity with all of its fame and glory?
Sweet Charity
December 1 – 20, 2020
Book by Neil Simon
Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Dance hall hostess Charity Hope Valentine has had a rough time when it comes to finding “the one.” In spite of one misfortune after another, Charity is optimistic and still believes in true love. She isn’t ready to give up on her dreams of settling down with the right guy in this high-energy, dance-filled, comedic musical sensation. A Tony Award®-nominated musical, Sweet Charity captures all the humor and heartbreak of life in the Big Apple.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
January 12 – 31, 2021
Book by Jeffrey Lane
Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek
The arrival of American Soap Queen Christine Colgate in the French Riviera has attracted the attention of con-men Lawrence Jameson and Freddy Benson. The two scoundrels agree to a competition: the first to swindle $50,000 gets the right to exclusively deceive and cheat in this uproarious and hysterical Tony Award®-nominated comedic musical.
Good People
February 14 – 28, 2021
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Margie Walsh, a lifelong resident of Southside Boston, is out of a job with bills piling up. When her old high-school flame, now a successful doctor, throws a party for his affluent friends, Margie decides to crash it hoping to find work. What unfolds is a confrontation about choices and their consequences in this Tony Award®-nominated dramatic comedy about working class American struggles and hopes with a keen sense of dialogue, dynamic characters, and the right balance of hard truths with warm laughs.
Sunset Boulevard
March 9 – 28, 2021
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Book and Lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton
Based on the Billy Wilder film
It’s 1949 in Hollywood and Screenwriter Joe Gillis can’t catch a break until he meets silent film starlet Norma Desmond. Overestimating her relevance and looking to return to the spotlight, Desmond hires Gillis to edit her script. When Gillis looks for a life greater than Norma’s plaything, the dream twists into a dramatic nightmare with no way out in this three-time Tony Award®-winning musical masterpiece of fame and tragedy.
Information in this article came from a Press Release from the Maltz Jupiter Theatre.