9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL
SEPTEMBER 8 - 24, 2023
Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton
Book by Patricia Resnick
Based on the Twentieth Century Fox film
"Three unlikely friends take control of their office and learn there is nothing they can't do, even in a man's world."
Based on the seminal 1980 hit movie, 9 To 5 The Musical
is the hilarious story of friendship and revenge
in the Rolodex era.
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH*
OCTOBER 19 - 29, 2023
Written by John Cameron Mitchell
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask
This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock ‘n’ roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just “an angry inch.”
*Stageworks Off-Script production, not included in the standard season subscription.
HOLIDAY FOLLIES 2023
DECEMBER 7 - 17, 2023
The most popular ticket of the season! The whole family will be dazzled by this bold and colorful show that celebrates the entertainers who brought magic to the Holiday season. Taking inspiration from Vaudeville and Follies shows of the late 19th century through the 1970s, you’ll laugh, tap your toes, and be amazed as we entertain you with some of the best performers in Houston.
BLITHE SPIRIT
JANUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Written by Noel Coward
A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Clever, insistent and well aware of Charles' shortcomings, Elvira is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” the eccentric and flighty Madame Arcati. As everyone's personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed. She “passes over” and joins Elvira, allowing the two “blithe spirits” to haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
THE REVOLUTIONISTS*
FEBRUARY 15 - 25 2024
In the Fischer Studio
Written by Lauren Gunderson
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges; assassin Charlotte Corday; former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette; and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
*Stageworks Off-Script production, not included in the standard season subscription.
GYPSY
MARCH 1 - 17, 2024
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
Considered one of Broadway’s all-time triumphs, Gypsy tells the story of ambitious showbiz mother Rose who treks her two daughters across the country in a cheeky, musical Vaudeville act. Rose begins to feel left behind as Vaudeville dies off and her children grow to resent her. Finally, she has to face that it is her own drive for success and not her children’s that has fueled her life’s choices and led to her loneliness.
JANE AUSTEN'S LADY SUSAN
APRIL 19 - MAY 5, 2024
by Rob Urbinati
Jane Austen’s comic novella about a young widow’s brilliant scheming in turn-of-the-century English society comes to life in Rob Urbinati’s delightfully witty stage adaptation. Lady Susan flees London and arrives at the country home of her obliging brother-in-law and his suspicious wife. Soon to come – uninvited – are an eligible suitor, her willful daughter, her chatty confidante, and a dimwitted bachelor. Lady Susan schemes, but all does not go according to plan as she and her daughter become rivals for the same man. Most suitable for ages 12 and up.