2023-24 Season
Note: Performances will be held at the Regent Theater Complex, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse. For tickets, please refer to the links with each show. Flex 4Pack tickets are also on sale.
GUYS AND DOLLS
Based on story and characters by Damon Runyon | Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser | Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows | Directed and Choreographed by Banji Aborisade | Music Direction by Brian Cimmet
Oct. 6 – 15 | Opening Night: Oct. 7
Topping Entertainment Weekly’s list of the ‘Greatest Musicals of All Time’, Guys and Dolls is everything we love about musical theater. Nathan Detroit needs serious dough to keep his craps game afloat and his marriage-minded girlfriend, Adelaide, happy. When Nathan makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson, his problems appear to be solved. Featuring unforgettable showtunes like “Luck Be a Lady” and the irrepressible “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat,” Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
By Charles Dickens | Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David DeBerry with music orchestration by Gregg Coffin | Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson | Featuring 2 Ring Circus | Co-Produced with Syracuse Stage
Nov. 24 – Dec. 31 | Opening Night: Dec. 1
This holiday season brings a tried-and-true family favorite to Syracuse, Charles Dickens’ beloved, A Christmas Carol, the greatest ghost story ever told! Melissa Rain Anderson directs the treasured production, which is co-produced with Syracuse Stage and runs from November 24 until December 31. Featuring the awe-inspiring 2 Ring Circus from New York City, this beautiful and timeless message of generosity’s triumphing over greed is sure to warm your heart and fill your soul when the weather turns cold.
HEAD OVER HEELS
Conceived by and Original Book by Jeff Whitty | Adaptation by James Magruder | Directed by Kiira Schmidt-Carper and Kathleen Wrinn | Music Direction by Brian Cimmet
Mar. 1 – 9 | Opening Night: Mar. 2
A hilarious and sexy celebration of love in all its infinite varieties, this bold and fierce modern musical comedy comes from the visionary minds that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q, and Spring Awakening. Told through the story of a royal family embarking on an extravagant journey and set to the iconic music of the 1980s all-female band The Go-Go’s, it includes such hit songs as “We Got the Beat,” “Vacation,” and Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth.”
RANDY’S DANDY COASTER CASTLE
By Alexander Perez | Directed by Kathleen Capdesuner
Mar. 29 – Apr. 14 | Opening Night: Mar. 30
It’s always a great day at Randy’s…unless you work there! Randy’s Dandy is a darkly comedic play following the lives of five co-workers of a small, run down amusement park in the Florida Panhandle. The highs and lows of working at “Randy’s” are no joke, but it’s also too funny and too relatable not to break your heart and leave you laughing throughout. Randy’s Dandy explores class, capitalism, and the American dream through the colorful lens of a deeply flawed and human group of people.
THE DROLL (OR, A STAGE-PLAY ABOUT THE END OF THEATRE)
By Meg Miroshnik | Directed by Celia Madeoy
Apr. 19 – 28 | Opening Night: Apr. 20
In 2011, playwright Meg Miroshnik pondered the question, “What would it have been like to discover a passion for acting during the 18 years in which theater was illegal and considered an abomination in 17th-century Puritan England?” She also posed the question: “What is it like to fall in love with theater today in the face of anxieties about its future and future audiences?” This daring and darkly funny play celebrates our need to come together in the act of collective storytelling.