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Past Performances

2011-12 Season

42nd Street

This musical about a musical tells the story of staging an elaborate production at the height of the Great Depression. Winner of the 1980 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2001 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Beatrice is the single mother of two daughters, Ruth and Tillie. Together, they try to make sense of their dysfunctional family and their abysmal status in life. This is a student-directed performance.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Beatrice is the single mother of two daughters, Ruth and Tillie. Together, they try to make sense of their dysfunctional family and their abysmal status in life. This is a student-directed production.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this musical parable.

Enron

Greed, crime and recent history come alive in this play about the financial scandal at Enron.

Cabaret

Seven weekends of songs and stories. Every performance is different. Performed in an intimate cafe environment.

Medea

First produced in 431 BC, this play’s themes of passion, love and vengeance are as fresh as ever.

All My Sons

When business partners sell faulty cylinder heads to the USAAF during WWII, more than warplanes crash and burn. This play marks Arthur Miller’s first commercial success. This is a student-directed production.

A Christmas Carol

The Nebraska Wesleyan Theatre holiday tradition continues with even more Christmas cheer and carols this year.

Spring Awakening

This alternative, folk-infused rock musical is a modern adaptation of the 1891 German play that was banned in Germany for its explicit content. The show took home eight Tony Awards in 2007.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Like all plays, this one begins with rehearsal. The script, the actors complain, is weak. So when six masked characters arrive and beg the producer to find them an author for a new play or to insert them into whatever they’re working on now, what do they have to lose?

100

"100" is a play that focuses on a single memory in a person's life.

In "100," characters choose a single memory from their lives — everything else is erased. Choosing that memory is their only way of passing through eternity.

Learned Ladies

This satire on academic pretension, female education and preciousness is one of Moliere’s most popular comedies.

Henry V (traditional cast)

Nebraska Wesleyan Theatre is producing two versions of this history play at the Battle of Agincourt. One features a traditional casting while the second features a more contemporary interpretation with an all-female cast.

Henry V (female cast)

Nebraska Wesleyan Theatre is producing two versions of this history play at the Battle of Agincourt. One features a traditional casting while the second features a more contemporary interpretation with an all-female cast.

2010-11 Season

The Last Five Years

This 2002 one-act off-Broadway musical follows the five-year relationship between Jamie, a novelist, and Cathy, an actress.

Reefer Madness

This boisterous musical is a tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation of the 1936 film warning against the pitfalls of “reefer madness.”

How I Learned to Drive

This Pulitzer Prize winning play follows the relationship between Li’l Bit and her Uncle Peck.

Iphigenia

This ancient Greek story is reshaped for contemporary audiences by acclaimed Irish novelist and playwright Edna O’Brien.

The Odd Couple

This 1965 play captures the relationship between Felix Ungar, an uptight neat freak, and Oscar Madison, his slovenly and messy roommate.

The Female Odd Couple

Written in 1985, The Female Odd Couple is Neil Simon’s female version of his play The Odd Couple.

Oklahoma!

Oklahoma! is the first “book musical” ever written. Set in Claremore, Oklahoma! follows the love story of Curly McLain and Laurey Williams.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet has variously been called “the greatest love story of all time”, a “lyric tragedy”, and a “hymn to youth, to passion, to speed, to danger.”

A Christmas Carol

This classic play captures the spirit of what Christmas should be.

The Seafarer

James “Sharky” Harkin is an alcoholic who’s moved in with his blind and aging brother, Richard.

Dead Man’s Cell Phone

Dead Man’s Cell Phone is a 2008 comedy about the power that a piece of technology can have over our lives.

Company

Bobby is 35 and single. Several of his friends and ex-girlfriends come together to celebrate his birthday.

Listen to Me

Rather than a linear story, Stein envisioned a poetic landscape centering on the characters of Sweet William and his Lillian.

The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap, written by “the Queen of Crime,” is the world’s longest running play.

Charlotte’s Web

This play brings back to life the enchanting characters of E.B. White’s highly acclaimed children’s book.

Sweeney Todd

Todd, a barber, meets Mrs. Lovett who owns a pie shop beneath Todd’s old home. Both work together to get revenge on the world by killing as many people as they can and baking them into Mrs. Lovett’s pies.

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