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CityRep
Announces the 2008-2009 Season
Season Flex Passes, which offer a substantial discount over single ticket prices, may be purchased by calling the CityRep Hotline at 405-848-3761. The Laramie Project In October of 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. The Laramie Project is the product of this labor of compassion. CityRep is proud to partner with The Pollard Theatre to present this breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion to which we can rise. “One of the ten best plays of the year. A pioneering work of theatrical reportage and a powerful stage event.” – Time Magazine A Tuna Christmas In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's Christmas in the third-smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey's production of "A Christmas Carol" is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. A Tuna Christmas is a total delight for all seasons, performed by two quick-changing comedians playing a host of zany characters. "A hoot!"-NY Times. "The hilarity ... never lets up."-Village Voice Hay Fever Hay Fever is one of Coward’s best-known comedies, in which we spend a weekend with the self-absorbed Bliss family. On this particular holiday each family member has invited an unsuspecting romantic prospect without informing the others and when rain traps the family and their guests indoors, hilarity ensues! A co-production with Oklahoma City University’s TheatreOCU. “An evening of intoxicating escape.” – New York Times. “Light, luminous, and charming…and hilariously funny.” – New York Post Zombie Prom This girl-loves-ghoul, rock and roll, off-Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950’s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee’s heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. The principal orders him to drop dead while a scandal reporter seizes on him as the Freak du Jour. History comes to his rescue while a tuneful selection of original songs in the 50’s style keeps the action rocking! A co-production with the University of Central Oklahoma’s Department of Opera and Music Theatre. “If you liked GREASE…you will love ZOMBIE PROM. A blast….Slick fun for the whole nuclear family.” – New York Daily News All productions run on the following schedule:
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