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Alice in Wonderland – Egelston Akers Black Box at Willow Bend Center of the Arts

September 22 - September 30

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Showtimes

Friday, September 22, 7:15PM
Saturday, September 23, 2:15PM & 7:15PM
Sunday, September 24, 2:15PM

Thursday, September 28, 7:15PM
Friday, September 29, 7:15PM
Saturday, September 30, 2:15PM & 7:15PM

Synopsis

Follow that rabbit to a delightful, entertaining world of childhood fantasies. Alice journeys into a world of talking animals, comic royalty and races where the contestants run in circles! There are also the Mad Hatter’s frantic tea party, the watch-carrying White Rabbit, and talking flowers. Along the way Alice must deal with a sneezing duchess and a baby that turns into a pig! The finale has Alice watching a trial, but she suddenly finds herself the accused! The play gives a modern view to an old classic, where nonsense makes quite good sense.

Credits

Adapted by Tim Kelly
Based on the book by Lewis Carroll

Winnie the Pooh, KIDS – Frisco – Starcatchers Theatre at Willow Bend Center of the Arts

September 28 - October 1

Showtimes

Thursday, September 28, 7pm
Friday, September 29, 7pm
Saturday, September 30, 1pm
Saturday, September 30, 6pm
Sunday, October 1, 1pm
Sunday, October 1, 6pm

Synopsis

Disney’s Winnie the Pooh KIDS is a delightful show based on the beloved characters of A.A. Milne and the 2011 Disney animated feature film. Featuring favorite songs from the film, as well as new hits by the Academy Award-winning Robert and Kristen Lopez (Frozen), this honey-filled delight is as sweet as it is fun.

Welcome to the Hundred Acre Wood, where Winnie the Pooh is once again in search of honey. Along the way, he meets his pals, Tigger, Piglet, Rabbit and Owl, but soon discovers that Christopher Robin has been captured by the mysterious Backson! As they prepare for a rescue operation, the animals learn about teamwork, friendship and, of course… sharing snacks.

Credits

Music and Lyrics by
Music Adapted & Arranged and Additional Music & Lyrics by
- Will Van Dyke
Book and Additional Lyrics by
- Cheryl Davis

Based on the stories of A.A. Milne and the 2011 Disney Animated feature film.

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In The Heights – Plano – Rodenbaugh Theatre, Willow Bend Center of the Arts

September 28 - October 1

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Showtimes

Thursday, September 28, 7:15 PM
Friday, September 29, 7:15 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2:15 PM
Saturday, September 30, 7:15 PM
Sunday, October 1, 1:15 PM
Sunday, October 1, 5:15 PM

Synopsis

In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood – a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind.

Credits

Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Sweeney Todd: School Edition – Dallas – Brodie Copeland Theatre at Willow Bend Center of the Arts

October 5 - October 8

Showtimes

Thursday, October 5, 7:15 PM
Friday, October 6, 7:15 PM
Saturday, October 7, 2:15 PM and 7:15 PM
Sunday, October 8, 1:15 PM and 6:15 PM

Synopsis

An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth-century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up… and the carnage has only just begun!

Credits

Music and Lyrics By
- Stephen Sondheim
Book by
- Hugh Wheeler

Based on an adaptation by Christopher Bond

Young Frankenstein – Rodenbaugh Theatre at Willow Bend Center of the Arts – NTPA Repertory

October 6 - October 15

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NTPA Repertory Theatre continues its tradition of bringing professional quality productions with adult stage veterans to Plano and North Texas.

It’s alive! The electrifying adaptation of Mel Brooks’ monstrously funny film will leave you in stitches.

From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein!

Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced “Fronk-en-steen”) inherits his family’s estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced “Eye-gore”), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. “It’s alive!” he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather’s. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.

Every bit as relevant to audience members who will remember the original as it will be to newcomers, Young Frankenstein has all the of panache of the screen sensation with a little extra theatrical flair added. With such memorable tunes as “The Transylvania Mania,” “He Vas My Boyfriend” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” Young Frankenstein is scientifically proven, monstrously good entertainment.

Showtimes

Friday, October 6, 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 7, 2:30 PM
Saturday, October 7, 7:30 PM
Sunday, October 8, 6:30 PM *

Thursday, October 12, 7:30 PM
Friday, October 13, 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 14, 2:30 PM
Saturday, October 14, 7:30 PM
Sunday, October 15, 2:30 PM

*ASL interpreted performance – recommended seating to view the interpreter is on stage right

Credits

The Mel Brooks Musical

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Book byMEL BROOKS and THOMAS MEEHAN| Music and Lyrics byMEL BROOKS

Original Direction & Choreography by Susan Stroman

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All Shook Up Young@Part – Brodie Copeland Theatre at Willow Bend Center of the Arts

October 12 - October 15

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Showtimes

Thursday, October 12, 7:00pm
Friday, October 13, 7:00pm
Saturday, October 14, 2:00pm
Saturday, October 14, 7:00pm
Sunday, October 15, 1:00pm
Sunday, October 15, 5:00pm

Synopsis

It’s 1955, and into a square little town rides a guitar-playing young man who changes everything and everyone he meets. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, this hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy will have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with such classic rock and roll songs as “Teddy Bear,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Hound Dog,” and “Jailhouse Rock.” With great roles and an irresistible rock ‘n’ roll pedigree, this Broadway hit is an unforgettable thrill for performers and audiences alike.

Credits

nspired by and featuring the songs of ELVIS PRESLEY® Book by JOE DIPIETRO

Adapted by Marc Tumminelli

Originally produced at Broadway Workshop in New York City.

Anything Goes – Collegiate Pursuits – Rodenbaugh Theatre at Willow Bend Center of the Arts

October 19 - October 22

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The performance on Saturday, October 21, 12:00PM will be ASL Interpreted.

Showtimes

Thursday, October 19, 7:15 PM

Friday, October 20, 7:15 PM

Saturday, October 21, NOON – ASL Interpretation

Saturday, October 21, 5 PM

Sunday, October 22, 1:15 PM

Sunday, October 22, 6:15 PM

Synopsis

Music, dance, laughs and the age-old tale of boy meets girl… Anything Goes is delightful, delicious and de-lovely. The 2022 revival has twice as much dance as the original and includes the hits “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “You’re the Top,” “Friendship,” “It’s De-Lovely” and the title song, along with “Easy to Love,” “Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye” and “Buddie, Beware.”

Credits

Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Original Book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton
and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
New Book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman

Goosebumps the Musical – Brodie Copeland Theatre at Willow Bend Center of the Arts

October 20 - October 28

Showtimes

Friday, October 20, 7:15pm
Saturday, October 21, 2:15pm
Saturday, October 21, 7:15pm
Sunday, October 22, 2:15pm
Sunday, October 22, 6:15pm

Thursday, October 26, 7:15pm
Friday, October 27, 7:15pm
Saturday, October 28, Noon
Saturday, October 28, 7:15pm

Synopsis

Brooke and Zeke have been cast as the leads in the school’s new production of an old play about a Phantom. Strange things start disrupting rehearsals and they have to wonder: is this someone’s idea of a joke? Or is the Phantom real?

Credits

R.L. Stine’s GOOSEBUMPS: Phantom of the Auditorium
Adapted for the stage with
Book and lyrics by John Maclay, music and lyrics by Danny Abosch
Orchestrations and Arrangements by Danny Abosch
Book, Lyrics, Songs, All Arrangements & All Orchestrations ©2016. 2017 Scholastic Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Bright Star – Rodenbaugh Theatre at Willow Bend Center of the Arts

November 2 - November 5

Showtimes

Thursday, November 2, 7:15 PM
Friday, November 3, 7:15 PM
Saturday, November 4, 11:00 AM
Saturday, November 4, 3:00 PM
Sunday, November 5, 2:15 PM
Sunday, November 5, 6:15 PM

Synopsis

Bright Star is the story of one woman at two different points in her life: the first, when she is a wild young thing growing up barefoot and carefree in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina; the second, when she is a well-to-do magazine editor in Asheville, 22 years later. Her story is inevitably woven with that of an idealistic young man named Billy, with whom she shares a mysterious connection. As a young teen in Zebulon, North Carolina, Alice Murphy is hopelessly in love with small town heartthrob Jimmy Ray, the mayor’s son. Although their love was pure, it falls victim to the interference of ambitious parents, and their infant son is whisked away before their happy ending could ever begin. More than two decades later, Alice is the successful editor of The Asheville Southern Journal, and meets a promising young writer named Billy. Eventually they realize that they share a hometown, and when Alice sees the handmade sweater she knitted for her baby 20 years before in his personal belongings, she realizes that he is the son she lost so long ago. Their happiness is compounded at the end of the story with a Shakespeare-esque double wedding.

Credits

Book by Steve Martin
Music by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell
Lyrics by Edie Brickell

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Annie JR – Dallas – Starcatchers Theatre at Willow Bend Center of the Arts

November 9 - November 12

Showtimes

Thursday, November 9, 7:15pm
Friday, November 10, 7:15pm
Saturday, November 11, 2:15pm and 7:15pm
Sunday, November 12, 1:15pm and 6:15pm

Synopsis

Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony Award winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie JR. features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure.

With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

Credits

Music by
- Charles Strouse
Lyrics by
- Martin Charnin
Book by
- Thomas Meehan

Based on “Little Orphan Annie” by permission of The Media Tribune Services, Inc.

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Aladdin KIDS – Frisco – Brodie Copeland Theatre at Willow Bend Center of the Arts

November 9 - November 12

Showtimes

Thursday November 9, 7:00PM

Friday November 10, 7:00PM

Saturday November 11, 1:00PM & 6:00PM

Sunday November 12, 1:00PM & 6:00PM

Synopsis

Based on the iconic animated film, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s Aladdin KIDS is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure.

When the street urchin, Aladdin, vies for the attention of the beautiful princess, Jasmine, he uses a genie’s magic power to become a prince in order to marry her. Iago, Jafar, the Genie, and more are here in Disney’s Aladdin KIDS, a musical adventure filled with magic, mayhem and the power of love. Specific to Disney’s Aladdin KIDS are the Djinn, a group of unique stage magicians who execute the magical moments of the show.

Credits

Music by
- Alan Menken
Lyrics by
- Howard Ashman
- Tim Rice
Book by
- David Simpatico
Music Adapted and Arranged by
- Bryan Louiselle

Based on the 1992 Disney film, Aladdin