Anne of Green Gables is the delightful story of Anne Shirley, a teenage orphan adopted by the Cuthbert family. It is set at the turn-of-the-century in Avonlea, a tiny village in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. The musical was adapted by Donald Harron from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel originally published in...
The heroine (Ruby) is a naive young woman from Centerville, Utah, who arrives on Broadway with only a pair of dancing shoes in her lost-and-found suitcase, hoping to get a chance to dance. She immediately gets a chorus-line job as a hoofer. Of course she has some competition from Mona Kent, the long-established and most...
Set in the context of the Spanish Inquisition, Man of La Mancha is presented as a play-within-a-play. We encounter historical author Miguel de Cervantes in prison, awaiting trial by the Inquisition. When his fellow prisoners try to take Cervantes’ belongings from him, including his manuscript, Cervantes proposes a trial in which he proves the merit of...
