July 8th - August 1st
In-the-Round at MBT’s Walton Theatre
Tickets available at the Mount Baker Theatre Box Office, (360) 734-6080, and online at:
http://mountbakertheatre.s65151.gridserver.com/events
Student Rush and Group discounts available.
Directed by Mark Kuntz, award-winning WWU Theatre Arts professor, these three plays are presented in theatre-in-the-round on a rotating schedule by four professional actors. These playful, witty shows make for a perfect summer evening night out.
DOUBT
Starring: Patrick Dizney, Gretchen Krich, Rashawn Scott, DeLisle Merrill
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
Starring: Zachary Harrison, Heather Dudenbostel, Jake Millgard, Gretchen Krich
STAR-SPANGLED GIRL
Starring: Jake Millgard, Heather Dudenbostel, Zachary Harrison
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE is a Tony Award nominated comedy that ran for 1128 performances on Broadway. This playful tale focuses on a young blind guitarist who moves into an apartment in the city to escape his controlling mother and makes the acquaintance of an off-the-wall, liberated actress. As their relationship grows the talented young songwriter learns how to convey emotion, while the actress learns that seeing isn’t everything. This uncommon love story, written by Leonard Gershe and adapted for film in 1972, earned Eileen Heckart an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Edward Albert a Golden Globe, and Goldie Hawn an early nod in her career.
THE STAR-SPANGLED GIRL is an established Neil Simon comedy that originally featured Anthony Perkins, Richard Benjamin, and Connie Stevens in its Broadway premiere. The story describes a love triangle between two activists who run a political magazine and an all-American southern belle who moves into the apartment next door. It’s love at first sight (or, as the play has it, first smell) but, in this comedy of errors, the love interest threatens to destroy the magazine and the men’s friendship. The film adaptation in 1971 was directed by Jerry Paris and featured Sandy Duncan as the lead female role.
DOUBT, A PARABLE is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and long-running Broadway play by John Patrick Shanley. Set in a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, this thrilling drama follows the suspicions of strong-minded principal Sister Aloysius, the defense of Father Flynn, a priest with more liberal ideas, and a young teacher, Sister James, who is caught between the two. The acclaimed 2008 film adaptation, also directed by Shanley, starred Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams in Academy Award-nominated roles. Captivating with its themes of intrigue, implication, and distrust, The New York Times calls Doubt “an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama.”
