Season Subscriptions at Playhouse 22

Season subscriptions and individual tickets are now available at Playhouse 22.

The shows in this season will be the musicals "Putting it Together," "Mame," and "Urinetown;" "A Christmas Carol;" and plays "Doubt, A Parable," "Amadeus," "Ladies of the Camillas," and "Last Night of Ballyhoo." Following is a brief description of each show.

"Putting it Together" features many hit songs from some of Sondheim's biggest hits, including "Lovely" (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), "More" (Dick Tracy), "Pretty Women" (Sweeney Todd), "The Ladies Who Lunch" (Company). Performances will occur at 8 p.m. Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays Sept. 13-28, and at 8 p.m. Sept. 12 and 26.

"Mame" tells the story of the madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and how her bohemian, intellectual arty lifestyle is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. This show will run at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays Nov. 7-23.
December will bring Playhouse 22's annual production, "A Christmas Carol," with performances at 8 p.m. Fridays, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays Dec. 12-21.

With the new year will come "Doubt, A Parable," a play for mature audiences. Set in the fictional St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx during the fall of 1964, the show opens with a sermon by Father Flynn, a beloved and progressive parish priest, addressing the importance of uncertainty. The school's principal, Sister Aloysius, a rigidly conservative nun vowed to the order of the Sisters of Charity, insists upon constant vigilance. The play will run at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays Jan. 9-18.

"Amadeus" is a highly fictionalized account of the lives of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. At the opening of the tale, Salieri is an old man, having long outlived his fame. Speaking directly to the audience, he claims to have used poison to assassinate Mozart, and promises to explain himself. The show will run at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays Feb. 20-March 8.

A hilarious farce about an imagined meeting in Paris, 1897, between the famous theater divas Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse, "Ladies of the Camillas" will run at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays March 13-22.

Next is "Last Night in Ballyhoo," a comedy that takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. The show will run at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays April 17-May 3.

The season concludes with the musical "Urinetown," which takes place in a Gotham-like city where a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides he's had enough, and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom. This interesting show will run at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays June 12-28.

To purchase tickets for any of the above shows, click here. To purchase a season subscription, click here. Playhouse 22 is located at 721 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick.