2019 - 20 Season
Driving Miss Daisy
August 23 - September 7, 2019
by Alfred Uhry
Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play returns to the Pollard stage after nearly twenty years with a dream cast of Pollard veterans returning to the beloved and iconic roles. With Brenda Williams as Daisy Werthan, Albert Bostick as Hoke Colburn, and James Hughes as Boolie Werthan, Pollard audiences are set to experience a beautiful production of this iconic tale of pride, changing times, and the power of friendship through one of the most beloved American plays all-time.
Evil Dead: The Musical
October 11 - November 2, 2019
Book and Lyrics By George Reinblatt
Music By Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt
Additional Music by Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt
Just in time for Halloween, the musical inspired by Sam Raimi's ‘80s cult classic returns to the Pollard stage. EVIL DEAD tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like just a horror, it's way more! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive.
Mature Audience
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
November 29 - December 22, 2019
adapted by Joe Landry
This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.
Love Letters
February 14 - 29, 2020
by A.R. Gurney
A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters a funny and emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love. Two friends, rebellious Melissa Gardner and straight-arrow Andrew Makepeace Ladd III have exchanged notes, cards, and letters with each other for over 50 years. From second grade, through summer vacations, to college, and well into adulthood, they have spent a lifetime discussing their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats. But long after the letters are done, the real question remains: Have they made the right choices or is the love of their life only a letter away?
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
April 10 - May 2, 2020
based on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schultz
Book, Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer
Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (Revised) is a fresh approach to the all-time 1967 classic, based on the beloved comic strip by Charles Schulz. Sally Brown joins Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, and Snoopy in this charming revue of vignettes and songs. Two new songs, “Beethoven Day” and “My New Philosophy,” have been added to the twelve numbers from the original version to creating a funny and heart-warming musical treat that is perfect for the entire family.
PUFFS, OR: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
June 7 - 29, 2019
concept by Seth Rudetsky
written by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick
For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world. The New York Times proclaims PUFFS, “A FAST-PACED ROMP through the ‘Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic.’ For POTTERphiliacs who grew up alongside Potter and are eager to revisit that world, ‘PUFFS’ exudes a jovial, winking fondness for all things Harry!”
