The Wizard of Oz Adapted by John Kane from the Motion Picture Screen Play for the Royal Shakespeare Company, with music and lyrics of the MGM motion picture score by Harold Arlen and E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and background music by Herbert Strothart. Vocal arrangements by Peter Howard; orchestration by Larry Wilcox. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM: October 27 (includes Opening Night reception), October 28, November 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, and 18, 2000. Sunday Matinees at 2:30 PM: November 5, 12, and 19, 2000. The November 5 performance will be sign interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired. Single ticket prices: $13 (Saturdays), $11 (adults, Fridays and Sundays), $9 (senior citizens and students, Fridays and Sundays). After a tornado whisks Kansas farm girl Dorothy away to the magical land of Oz, she teams up with the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion to avoid the clutches of the Wicked Witch of the West. At last she finds the omnipotent Wizard, who helps her understand, "there is no place like home." Don't miss what is sure to be a stunning live version of the film classic we all know and love, with favorites "Over the Rainbow,"Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," and "If I Only Had a Brain." Directed by Martha Lynch. Reservation information and directions to the theatre are available. Presented by special arrangement with and the music and dialogue material furnished by Tams-Witmark Musical Library, Inc., 560 Lexington Ave., New York, NY. A collection of vocal selections from The Wizard of Oz is available for online purchase, in association with Amazon.com. See our online bookstore page for more details. Eric Gjovaag's is just one of the 110 sites in the Wizard of Oz web ring.   Communicating Doors By Alan Ayckbourn. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM: January 26 (includes Opening Night reception), January 27, February 2, 3, 9, and 10, 2001. Sunday Matinee at 2:30 PM: February 4, 2001. The February 3 performance will be sign interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired . Single ticket prices: $12 (Saturdays), $10 (adults, Fridays and Sundays), $8 (senior citizens and students, Fridays and Sundays). When dominatrix Poopay Dayseer arrives at a hotel to oversee "a bit of fun and pain," she finds herself confonted by two men: one wants to confess to the murder of two wives, and the other wants to kill her. She tries to escape by way of a unique set of hotel doors, but finds herself twenty years in the past only to meet Wife Number Two on the night of her murder! Can they rewrite history before it's too late? Find out in this hilarious time-traveling suspense comedy. Directed by Don Paul Smith. Reservation information and directions to the theatre are available. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., New York, NY. The text of Communicating Doors is available for online purchase, in association with Amazon.com. See our online bookstore page for more details.   Man of La Mancha Written by Dale Wasserman; music by Mitch Leigh; lyrics by Joe Darion; original production staged by Albert Marre. Originally produced by Albert W. Seldon and Hal James. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM: March 9 (includes Opening Night reception), March 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, and 31, 2001. Sunday Matinees at 2:30 PM: March 18 and 25, 2001. The March 18 performance will be sign interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired. Single ticket prices: $13 (Saturdays), $11 (adults, Fridays and Sundays), $9 (senior citizens and students, Fridays and Sundays). The aging Miguel de Cervantes, poet and playwright, awaits his trial by the Spanish Inquisition for crimes against the Church. His fellow prisoners, thieves and cutthroats, try to confiscate his most prized possession, an uncompleted manuscript of a novel called "Don Quixote." Before their eyes, Cervantes is transformed into this romantic hero, tilting at windmills, passionately confronting his darkest foe, the Enchanter, and loving his dream-ideal as he sings to the beautiful Dulcinea. Join us for this dramatic conquest of American musical theater and be inspired by "The Impossible Dream" and the stirring "Man of La Mancha." Directed by Sue Pinkman. Reservation information and directions to the theatre are available. Produced by arrangement with and the music and dialogue material furnished by Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., 560 Lexington Avenue, New York. You can learn about the scholarly Cervantes Project 2001; take a tour of the region of La Mancha; or read Dale Wasserman's article on Cervantes as theater. Snapshots from the production! Click on any thumbnail above to see a larger image. More pictures are available at a site set up by Chris Schweitzer.   Much Ado about Nothing By William Shakespeare. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM: May 4 (includes Opening Night reception), May 5, 11, 12, 18, and 19, 2001. Sunday Matinee at 2:30 PM: May 13, 2001. The May 12 performance will be sign interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired. Single ticket prices: $12 (Saturdays), $10 (adults, Fridays and Sundays), $8 (senior citizens and students, Fridays and Sundays). Love, humor, and deception. Centering on the on-again, off-again relationships of two couples, this plot has it all. Will young Claudio and Hero find true love in spite of the jealous machinations of the estranged half-brother Don John? Can anyone reconcile the jaded Benedick and Beatrice, whose mutual animosity (or is it affection?) has become legendary throughout all of Messina? Does good ultimately triumph over evil? Be there to experience some of the most delectable dialogue in one of Shakespeare's most polished and poignant works. Directed by Adam Konowe. Reservation information and directions to the theatre are available. Snapshots of the production, courtesy of Robert Knight. The performance text of Much Ado about Nothing is available for download in PDF format (approximately 133K). To read this document format, you need Acrobat Reader version 4, which is available at no cost from Adobe. Gala Opening Nights! There is always a reception for our audience, cast, and crew after the opening night performance of each production. As a season ticket holder, you are cordially invited to attend these receptions, even if your tickets are for another performance. Send comments about this site to webmaster@restonplayers.org (no ticket orders, please). This page was last updated on Sunday 30 March 2003. ©2003 Reston Community Players. All rights reserved.

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