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CIVIC THEATRE
CELEBRATES 85 YEARS
OF EXCELLENCE!

Come celebrate 85 spectacular years of quality entertainment with The Evansville Civic Theatre this year! Not only is this a momentous anniversary for the theatre company this season, but our cozy little historical building at the corner of Fulton and Columbia celebrates its 100th birthday this year as well!

To celebrate our dual anniversary, we have an amazing array of wonderful shows and exciting new additions cooked up specially for you, our loyal patrons!

Our Main Season Package this year kicks off with the brand new and hilarious Tony Award winning musical
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, one of the most unique and interactive musicals to hit Broadway in recent years. A modern Christmas classic makes an appearance on stage with our good buddy Ralphie and his Red Ryder BB Gun in A Christmas Story! A timely tale of suspicion and morality makes its Evansville debut with Doubt: A Parable. And finally, the Main Season comes to a close with a raucous comedy featuring five southern women gather for a series of yearly meetings on the shores of North Carolina for some gossip, laughter, and friendship in The Dixie Swim Club!

Supersize your package this year with our summer production of the show all about Ann Landers,
The Lady With All The Answers where we get to learn as much about ourselves as we do this great American icon. Closing out the season is the family friendly musical about faith, love, and devotion - Children of Eden!

Although our regular Adult single show tickets are going up to $18 this year, our Season Ticket prices remain the same! This means extra savings for you if you choose one of our Season Ticket Packages this year!

In addition to our Main Stage Season, we have some more exciting shows to offer and great discounts for our season ticket holders for the productions of Love Letters featuring Jack and Sue Schriber, and Bad Dates with Kris Zinn,

This year marks another first for the theatre as we announce a whole alternative season of shows at our black box style theatre in Washington Square Mall featuring four edgy shows in our aptly named Underground at the Annex! The Underground season will open with the raucous musical The Wild Party. A familiar group of characters return to the stage as bawdy teenagers in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. The spring brings a strange and disturbing tale of The Pillowman, and things get a little bit crazy with the musical version of Reefer Madness!

Check out our Behind the Scenes webisodes for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee!

Click here for episode 1

 

A play by David Rambo
 

THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS
July 23, 24, 25*, 30, 31, August 1* - 2010
FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 8:00 PM
*SUNDAYS 2:00PM

“Dear Ann Landers...” For decades this renowned advice columnist answered countless letters from love-lorn teens, confused couples and a multitude of others in various stages of personal crisis. No topic was off limits, including the proper way to hang toilet paper, sibling rivalries, religion, sex in a motorcycle helmet, and nude housekeeping. An ironic turn of events confronts our heroine with a looming deadline for a column dealing with a new kind of heartbreak: her own. As she shares her struggles with us, we learn as much about ourselves as we do about this wise, funny, no-nonsense American Icon.

Music and Lyrics - William Finn
Book by Rachel Scheinkin
 

THE 25TH ANNUAL
PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Sept. 17, 18, 19*, 24, 25, 26*, October 1, 2, 3* - 2010
FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 8:00 PM
*SUNDAYS 2:00PM

A musical tale of overachievers’ angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders in the throes of puberty (hilariously portrayed by adult actors!) vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime! The show’s Tony Award winning team has created a hit musical about the most unlikely of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom the spelling bee is one place where they can stand out for the first time. The show presents a triumphant tribute to the art of competition and the glory of youth, proving that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser!

by Jean Shepherd
adapted by Philip Grecian
 

Jean Shepherd's
A CHRISTMAS STORY
December 3, 4, 10, 11, 12*, 17, 18, 19* - 2010
FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 8:00 PM
*SUNDAYS 2:00PM

“You’ll shoot your eye out!” The modern Christmas classic tale of 9 year old Ralphie Parker’s quest for his coveted Red Ryder BB Gun hits the stage! All of your favorite memories from the beloved motion picture are here - the family’s temperamental exploding furnace, Scut Farkas the school bully, the search for the perfect Christmas tree, the wet tongue cold lamppost experiment, the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin, Ralphie’s father winning the glorious fish-net stocking leg lamp, and all of Ralphie’s fantasy scenarios! Bring the whole family to enjoy this very special Christmas celebration that everyone knows and loves!

by John Patrick Shanley
 

DOUBT
February 11, 12, 18, 19, 20*, 25, 26, 27* - 2011
FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 8:00 PM
*SUNDAYS 2:00PM

Fresh from the Academy Award nominated film that featured Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt is a Pulitzer Prize winning play that walked away with a Tony Award in its original Broadway run. A Catholic school principal, Sister Aloysius takes matters in her own hands when she suspects Father Flynn of an inappropriate relationship. A gripping tale of suspicion that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. Blunt, yet subtle, manipulative but full of empathy for all sides, the play is set in 1964, but could not be more timely in its subject matter.

by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, & Jamie Wooten
 

THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB
April 8, 9, 10*, 15, 16, 17*, 22, 23 - 2011
FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 8:00 PM
*SUNDAYS 2:00PM

Five southern women who met years ago on their college swim team set aside a long weekend every August on a North Carolina beach to recharge their relationships free from their husbands, kids, and jobs. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women rely on each other through gossip, laughter, advice and raucous repartee with a healthy dose of meddling thrown in for good measure to get through the challenges life has flung at them. The Dixie Swim Club is the story of these five unforgettable women and a hilarious and touching comedy the proves some friendships can last forever.

Book by John Caird
Music and Lyrics by
Stephen Schwartz
 

CHILDREN OF EDEN
A NEXTWAVE PRODUCTION

May 6, 7, 8*, 13, 14, 15* - 2011
FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 8:00 PM
*SUNDAYS 2:00PM

A joyous and inspirational musical about parents, children and faith, not to mention centuries of unresolved family business! Freely based on the story of Genesis, Children Of Eden is a frank, heartfelt and often humorous examination of the age-old conflict between parents and children. Adam, Eve, Noah and the "Father" who created them deal with the headstrong, cataclysmic actions of their respective children. The show ultimately delivers a bittersweet but inspiring message: that the hardest part of love is letting go. Bring the entire family for a wonderful evening celebrating the power of love and devotion!

by A. R. Gurney
 

LOVE LETTERS
October 23 - 2010

A SPECIAL ONE NIGHT ONLY ENGAGEMENT
AT THE OLD NATIONAL ATRIUM DOWNTOWN
FEATURING JACK AND SUE SCHRIBER!

Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, both born to wealth and position, are childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards. Romantically attached, they continue to exchange letters through the boarding school and college years—where Andy goes on to excel at Yale and law school, while Melissa flunks out of a series of “good schools.” While Andy is off at war Melissa marries someone else, but her attachment to Andy remains strong and she continues to keep in touch as he marries, becomes a successful attorney, gets involved in politics and, eventually, is elected to the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, her marriage in tatters, Melissa dabbles in art and gigolos, drinks more that she should, and becomes estranged from her children. Eventually she and Andy do become involved in a brief affair, but it is really too late for both of them. However Andy’s last letter, written to her mother after Melissa’s untimely death, make it eloquently clear how much they really meant, and gave to, each other over the years—physically apart, perhaps, but spiritually as close as only true lovers can be.

 

by Theresa Rebeck
 

BAD DATES
March 11, 12, 13 - 2011

A ONE WEEKEND - ONE WOMAN COMMAND PERFORMANCE
FEATURING KRIS ZINN

Haley has been single-handedly raising a kid and running a restaurant for five years; it's time to go out on a date. A hilarious one-woman show that answers the age-old question "Do men and women really need each other?" with a resounding yes.