The current season closes with ‘Mary Poppins’
Published in the March 30 – April 12, 2016 issue of Morgan Hill Life
By Staff Report
The South Valley Civic Theatre announced its lineup of theater dramas and musical shows for its 2016-2017 season.
The upcoming season opens Sept. 30 with Disney’s classic children’s musical “The Little Mermaid,” with Ariel and her underwater friends having adventures in the magical ocean kingdom ruled by her father, King Triton.
The theater group’s holiday musical opens Nov. 18 with “The 1940’s Radio Hour,” performed as a live broadcast of a “The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade” show from New York’s Hotel Astor’s Algonquin Room on Dec. 21, 1942.
The SVCT opens its teen musical “Footloose” Feb. 24, 2017. Based on the hit movie, a young man and his mother move from Chicago to a small farming town ruled by rigorous edicts, including a ban on dancing instituted by the local preacher.
The adult drama “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” opens April 21, 2017. Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play, the story is about middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia bickering and complaining about the circumstances of their lives in Bucks County, PA. Suddenly, their lives are disrupted when their movie star sister, Masha, arrives with her new “boy toy,” Spike.
The season’s family musical “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka” opens June 23, 2017. It’s the classic story of a boy named Charlie Bucket who wins a golden ticket with four other children to tour the world’s most fascinating — and worst offender of OSHA safety codes — candy factory.
The current SVCT season continues with two more shows. The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “God of Carnage” opens April 8. Set in present day New York City, the story is about two married couples who meet for the first time shortly after their respective sons have a nasty schoolyard tangle. Any attempt at having a civilized discussion about whose child is responsible for the fight, and how the parents may have influenced such destructive behavior, quickly devolves into finger-pointing, name-calling, stomping around, and throwing things.
The current season closes with the family musical “Mary Poppins” which opens June 3 and tells the story of the Banks family who reside on Cherry Lane in London and how they have their lives turned upside down when a magical nanny appears.
All SVCT performances are at the Community Playhouse in downtown Morgan Hill. For more information or to buy season tickets, visit www.svct.org.
