"Jingle Bell Follies"

Theatre 8:15 is proud to present our upcoming production of 

Honk! 

The Musical

SYNOPSIS:

Ugly looks quite a bit different from his darling duckling brothers and sisters. The other animals on the farm are quick to notice and point this out, despite his mother's protective flapping. Feeling rather foul about himself, the little fowl finds himself on an adventure of self-discovery, all the while unknowingly outwitting a very hungry Cat. Along the way, Ugly meets a whole flock of unique characters and finds out that being different is not a bad thing to be.

PERFORMANCE DATES: 

April 28 - May 7, 2023
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15pm / Sundays @ 2:15pm

PERFORMANCE DATES: 

September 16 - September 25, 2022
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15pm / Sundays @ 2:15pm

July 15 - July 30,2022

Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15pm / Sundays @ 2:15pm

Charlotte's Web

Adapted by Joseph Robinette 

Based on the book by E.B. White

Directed by Lisa M. Sommers

PERFORMANCE DATES:

 "Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC 

PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois"

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER 

The Musical

The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world–so when they 

crash Sunday school and demand parts in the Christmas pageant, the whole 

town panics. There’s not supposed to be biting or cigar-smoking in Bethlehem, 

and while these kids have never even heard the Christmas story, they definitely 

have rewrites! Soon everyone is calling for reluctant director Grace Bradley to 

cancel the whole thing. It’s up to Bradley and the Reverend to help their 

community see the Christmas story and the Herdman kids through new eyes 

in this buoyant musical adaptation of the funny and touching holiday classic.

Directed by Jared Sparks 

PERFORMANCE DATES: 

December 10 – December 19, 2021
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15pm / Sundays @ 2:15pm

Monty Python's Edukational Show 

A Collection of Sketches, Songs & Animations from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"

MONTY PYTHON’S EDUKATIONAL SHOW is the only authorized collection of Monty Python sketches and songs available for performance. This brand new show is the genius of Monty Python in a hilarious 80 minute musical revue, written for performance by young actors in North America, grades 8 through college. Elementary, middle, high schools and universities can license this show. “Cheese Shop,” “Argument Clinic,” “Gumby Flower Arranging”, “Lumberjack Song,” “Dead Parrot,” “Galaxy Song,” and many more Python gems are included, with a decidedly irreverent ‘edukational’ theme. “MONTY PYTHON’S EDUKATIONAL SHOW is available to license in North America for Schools, College/University programs and Youth Theatres with students 18 years and younger.

Directed by Jim Volkert 

PERFORMANCE DATES: 

October 15 – October 24, 2021
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15pm / Sundays @ 2:15pm

Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical 

The story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a 

sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny.

Directed by: Dawna Kornick & Rhonda Gallagher

Musical Director: Nicole Graham

Choreographer: Andrea Anderson

AUDITION DATES:

Sun Dec 8th 5:00pm-7:00pm / Mon Dec 9th 6:30pm-8:30pm
** Call backs (if needed) Weds May 11th - 6:30-8:30 pm **

PERFORMANCE DATES:

February 21 - March 1, 2020
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15pm / Sundays @ 2:15pm

** Tickets are available through our on line Box Office **

Roald Dahl's Mattilda the Musical is presented through special arrangement with 

Music Theatre International (MTI).  All authorized performance material are also supplied by MTI. http://www.mtishows.com/

PERFORMANCE DATES:

October 11 - October 19
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15 pm

* Special Performance November 16th @ Raintree Country Club 

(see theater 8:15's website or the City of Green events/Facebook page for tickets/reservations - includes banquet dinner and cash bar)

** Tickets are available through our on line Box Office **

Disney’s High School Musical

Directed by Dawna Kornick

Assistant Director Caitlin Allshouse

Choreographer - Andrea Anderson

Musical Director Nicole Graham

Disney Channel’s smash hit movie musical comes to life on your stage! Troy, Gabriella and the students of East High must deal with issues of first love, friends and family while balancing their classes and extracurricular activities.

It’s the first day after winter break at East High. The Jocks, Brainiacs, Thespians and Skater Dudes find their cliques, recount their vacations and look forward to the new year. Basketball team captain and resident jock, Troy, discovers that the brainy Gabriella, a girl he met singing karaoke on his ski trip, has just enrolled at East High. They cause an upheaval when they decide to audition for the high school musical that is being led by Ms. Darbus. Although many students resent the threat posed to the “status quo,” Troy and Gabriella’s alliance might just open the door for others to shine as well.

Disney’s High School Musical is fun for the whole family. Its large cast size and upbeat numbers make it the ideal show for middle and high school productions or the highlight of any community theatre’s season!

PERFORMANCE DATES:

July 12 - July 27, 2019 

Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15 pm

Sundays @ 2:15 pm

** Tickets are available through our on line Box Office **

Disney's High School Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance material are also supplied by MTI.

http://www.mtishows.com/

The Boys Next Door

Directed by Ron Church 

Assistant Director - Morgen Kyser

The Boys Next Door is set in a group home in a New England city where four mentally challenged men live under the supervision of an earnest but increasingly ‘burned out’ social worker named Jack. Each of the four men have different disabilities, and their stories are woven into scenes where ‘little things’ can become momentous (and often very funny) events, and they are mixed with moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, were are reminded that ALL people want only to love, laugh, and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time we are allotted on this earth.

 PERFORMANCE DATES:

May 10 - May 25, 2019

Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15 pm

Sundays @ 2:15 pm

** Tickets are available through our on line Box Office **

Disney's Frozen JR.

The enchanting modern classic from Disney is ready for your Broadway Junior stars! Frozen JR. brings Elsa, Anna, and the magical land of Arendelle to life onstage. The show features all of the songs from the animated film, plus five new songs written for the Broadway production.

With a cast of beloved characters and loaded with magic, adventure, and plenty of humor, Frozen JR. is sure to thaw even the coldest heart!

Directed by: Dawna Kornick

Musical Director: Angelina Seemann

Choreograhers: Andrea Anderson

Stage Manager: Nicole Graham

Production Assistant: Cory Ott

❄️❄️ Performance Dates ❄️❄️️

April 5 - April 14, 2019

Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:15 pm

Sundays @ 2:15 pm

** Tickets are available through our on line Box Office **

Disney's Frozen JR is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance material are also supplied by MTI.

http://www.mtishows.com/

Featuring

Ron Church & Tammy Carder

Two strangers, a man and a woman, board a San Francisco BART train at 4:30 a.m. They're alone in the car, each is married, both are doing the New York Times crossword. She's an organized, sensible psychologist. He's a free-spirited, unemployed ad exec. She is a crossword pro, he always quits. When he tosses his puzzle away, she snaps, "Crosswords are a metaphor for life, those who finish, succeed, those who don't, fail." Now he vows to finish. Why?  He's a competitor and she happens to be lovely. This starts an eighty-minute ride described by critics as "Hilarious," "Witty," "Romantic," "Poignant," and "Wonderfully entertaining." Two opposites in an enclosed space, attacking each other's values but also being swayed and intrigued by them. They each have serious life problems that the other helps solve. Their trip is filled with unpredictable, but believable, surprises, even a passionate kissing embrace or two. As the train ride ends, it's obvious each of them has been changed for the better. 

 PERFORMANCE DATES:

** Tickets are available through our on line Box Office **

“2 Across” is presented by special arrangement with

SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

Music by Tom Snow | Lyrics by Dean Pitchford | Stage Adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie | Based on the original screenplay by Dean Pitchford | Additional Music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins and Jim Steinman

One of the most explosive movie musicals in recent memory bursts onto the live stage with exhilarating results. When Ren and his mother move from Chicago to a small farming town, Ren is prepared for the inevitable adjustment period at his new high school. What he isn't prepared for are the rigorous local edicts, including a ban on dancing instituted by the local preacher, determined to exercise the control over the town's youth that he cannot command in his own home. When the reverend's rebellious daughter sets her sights on Ren, her roughneck boyfriend tries to sabotage Ren's reputation, with many of the locals eager to believe the worst about the new kid. The heartfelt story that emerges is of a father longing for the son he lost and of a young man aching for the father who walked out on him. To the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated top 40 score (the soundtrack album reached number one on the Billboard charts and has sold over 15 million copies!) and augmented with dynamic new songs for the stage musical, FOOTLOOSE celebrates the wisdom of listening to young people, guiding them with a warm heart and an open mind.

 PERFORMANCE DATES:

September 21 - September 30, 2018

Fridays and Saturdays @ 8:15 pm

Sundays @ 2:15 pm 

AUDITION DATES:

Sunday, July 29, 2018

6:30 - 8:30 pm pm

Monday, July 30, 2018

 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Tickets: Adults $15 - Seniors / Students $ 12

** Tickets are available through our on line Box Office **

For more information call (330) 896-0339 or email tickets@theatre815.com

FOOTLOOSE is presented through special arrangements with R & H Theatreicals:www.rnh.com.

Consider yourself at home with Lionel Bart's classic musical based on Charles Dickens' novel, Oliver Twist. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning show is one of the few musicals to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and is widely hailed as a true theatrical masterpiece by actors and audience members alike.

The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance amongst a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin. When Oliver is captured for a theft that he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, threatening Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of a family.

Directed by Ben Gavitt

 The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP. The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a wide variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events; a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother's infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn't recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her marriage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home, etc. Dovetailing swiftly and smoothly, the varied scenes coalesce, ultimately, into a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity.

“The Dining Room is presented by special arrangement
with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.”

"YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN"

Based on the Comic Strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schultz
Book, Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner

Directed by Adam Leventhal 

Assistant Directors - Andrea Anderson & Melissa Shanks
 
Charlie Brown is currently celebrating its 50th Anniversary! With charm, wit, and heart, YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and his friends in the Peanuts gang. This revue of songs and vignettes, based on the beloved Charles Schultz comic strip, is the ideal first show for those who would like to do a musical. Musical numbers include “My Blanket and Me,” “The Kite,” “The Baseball Game,” “Little Known Facts,” “Suppertime,” and “Happiness.” Guaranteed to please audiences of all ages!

Performance Dates

March 2 - March 11, 2018

Fridays & Saturday @ 8:15pm
Sundays @ 2:15pm

Tickets: Adults $13 - Seniors / Students $ 10

** Tickets are available through our on line Box Office **

For more information please call (330) 896-0339 or email tickets@theatre815.com.