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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 


Magic City Actors Theatre © 2009