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Thursday, October 28, 2010

This Marks the Opening Week for "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" - Our Silliest Show of the Season!





This marks the opening week for "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" which will undoubtedly be the silliest production of the year!  As always, preview tickets (October 27) are half price and that always insures an overflowing audience so reserve your seats as soon as possible!  The opening night is tomorrow (October 28) and includes the "after-party" where that opening night audience gets to mingle with the actors and designers and the director. There will be food and a cash bar and that special opening night energy in the room.  These events are always great fun - particularly after a comedy! Reserve tickets at 609-884-1341 or go online at capemaystage.com to order tickets.

This play uses the audience at times so get ready to join the fun!  You may find yourself as part of the action!!

On Sunday, October 31 PNC Arts Alive sponsors a senior matinee at three o'clock so that seniors on a fixed income can enjoy the mayhem!  Get your Halloween costume ready, come laugh at "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" and then go home to change into that costume so you can party!

Next weekend represents an important milestone for the Second Stage.  Cape May Stage strives to bring the brightest and most exciting artists from every discipline of the performing arts.  For the first time, we are bringing a major dance company on to our stage!  Jeanne Ruddy Dance has long been hailed as an important modern dance company in Philadelphia.  Jeanne Ruddy danced with Martha Graham and was on the dance faculty of the famed Julliard School in Manhattan.  Having an artist of her caliber in Cape May is a thrilling event.  She has chosen light-hearted and comic dances that are sure to entertain even as you are wowed by the technique of her extraordinary company.  Equally exciting is the news that Jeanne Ruddy will conduct a master class connected to this performance.  The word has gone out among the dance schools in the area and Cape May Stage is proud and delighted to welcome this prestigious company to our season.

November is a special time in Cape May so get prepared to come to Cape May Stage to see "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" and then see Jeanne Ruddy Dance on Sunday, November 7 at three o'clock.  Cape May Stage is the center of arts education in South Jersey and is the premier Equity theatre in the county!

Friday, October 15, 2010

On Deck: "Complete Works of Williams Shakespeare [abridged]" opens October 27-November 20!

The final four performances for Topdog/Underdog are upon us and this gripping, edgy show will close on Saturday, October 23.  These closing nights are a kind of theatrical event of their own as set walls come down and furniture is hauled away to make room for the next show.  We switch gears completely as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) gets ready to preview a week from today (Wednesday)!


Cape May Stage purposefully keeps programming entirely different theatrical styles and genres so that you can experience all kinds of theatre at the highest level!  We close a thought-provoking Pulitzer Prize winning play and change things up with pure silliness and fun!  This fast paced, improvisational play uses current topical references and popular culture interspersed with more or less "Shakespearean" dialogue for an evening of sheer delight!  And patrons will be thrilled to know this production includes matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 3PM as well as evening performances Thursdays-Saturdays at 8PM.


The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) began at the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, California and was a big hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.  Soon after, it played at the Arts Theatre in London and at the Westside Theatre Off-Broadway in New York.  Eventually, the play moved back to a full West End production at the Criterion Theatre in London.


There have been many productions of the play since then and we had to decide whether to take an already existing production or mount our own version.  We decided to start anew using the Artistic Director of the Westerly Rhode Island Shakespeare Festival to helm the show so that it would be fresh and alive and have a theatricality that comes with new people working together for the first time.  The set was shipped from Utah where Shawn Fisher is the head of the design department in the graduate school at their university.

 Get ready to laugh!  Call (609) 884-1341 for tickets today!