2009
- 2010 Season
September
18-27, 2009
Book by David Simpatico
Songs by
Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil, David N. Lawrence
and Faye Greenburg
Randy Peterson and Kevin Quinn, Jamie Houston, Bryan
Louiselle, Andy Dodd and Adam Watts, Antonio Armato
and Tim James
Sep 18, 19, 24, 25 & 26 at 7:30 PM
Sep 20 & 27 at 2:30 PM
In Collaboration with Shades Valley Theatre
Academy
Directed and Choreographed
by Carl Dean
Featuring
The 2008 -2009 Alabama Teacher of the Year
Roy Hudson
Think you have seen High School Musical
2? Well think again!
Forget EVERYTHING you've seen on the film or in any
other stage production you may have seen 'cause Magic
City Actors Theatre is about to blow the roof off what
you think you know about HSM2! MCAT's Artistic Director,
Carl Dean, will Direct and Choreograph Magic City's
production of HSM2 and you are not going to know what
hit you! Dean's choreography has been hailed as "a
work of art" by Alec Harvey of the Birmingham News,
and what he has in store for this show is going to blow
your mind! His full throttle attack will rock your senses
and leave you dancing in the aisles! So if you think
you know HSM2 - make sure you don't miss MCAT's 2009
season opener - cause you ain't seen nothin' yet, folks!
Magic City Actors Theatre &
The University of Montevallo
Present
November 6-15, 2009
Book by: Alfred Uhry
Music & Lyrics by: Jason Robert Brown
Co-Conceived by Harold Prince
Based on the true story of the trial and lynching of
Leo Frank.
Nov 6, 7, 12, 13 & 14 at 7:30 PM
Nov 8 and 15 at 2:30 PM
Directed by
David Callaghan
Choreographed by
Carl Dean
After collaborating on a production of Company last
year, MCAT's Artistic Director Carl Dean, a University
of Montevallo Alum, and Dr. David Callaghan, University
of Montevallo's Theatre Department Chair reunite to
bring Jason Robert Brown's innovative and bold musical
Parade to the Birmingham stage. In an exciting venture,
MCAT and UM's Theatre Department join forces to present
the tragic, true story of a man wrongly accused of murder.
With a book by acclaimed playwright Alfred Uhry (Driving
Miss Daisy), this daring work took home Tonys in 2000
for Best Book and Best Score. Its subject matter offers
a moral lesson about the dangers of prejudice and ignorance
that should not be forgotten.
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 Feb
12 -21, 2010
Book by
Moisés Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater
Project
Martha Moore Sykes Studio
Feb 12, 13, 18, 19, & 20 at 8:00 PM
Feb 14 & 21 at 2:30 PM
On Oct. 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound
to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely
beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate
that shocked the nation. Mathew Shepard's death became
a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people
of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it is
their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theatrical
experience. The Laramie Project chronicles the life
of the town in the year after the murder using eight
actors to embody more than sixty different people in
their own words - from rural ranchers to university
professors. The result is a complex portrayal that dispels
simplistic media stereotypes and explores the depths
to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion
of which we are capable.
June 18 - 27,
2010
Music by
Alan Menken
Book & Lyrics by: Howard Ashman
Based on the film by Roger Corman, screenplay by
Charles Griffith
Directed & Choreographed by
Carl Dean &
Leah Faulkner
June 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 at 7:30 PM
June 20 & Jun 27 at 2:30 PM
"Feeeeeeeed me Seymour!" MCAT
gets a little bloodthirsty as Audrey II, the man-eating
doo-wopping, giant plant invades the Virginia Samford
Theatre in June. This show has a bite every bit as big
as its bark, and you don't want
to miss it. Follow the misadventures of Seymour
as he tries woo Audrey away from the twisted Dentist
and keep his job at Mushnik's Flower
Shop, all while raising a 400 pound maneating plant!
Packed with show stopping tunes like "Suddenly
Seymour," "You'll Be a Dentist," and
“Somewhere That's Green," this stage
adaptation of the 1960 Roger Corman B-Movie horror classic
is a rollickingly twisted good time! This show is a
favorite of MCAT co-founders Carl Dean and Leah Faulkner's
and you're sure to
enjoy it too!
Produced by Special Arrangement with Music Theatre International
GET YOUR
SEASON TICKETS NOW
by calling 205-251-1206
Magic City Actors Theatre will be performing its third
season at the Virginia
Samford Theatre on both the Mainstage and
Martha Moore Sykes Studio.
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