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Subject: Redondo Music Theatre's season change

REDONDO MUSIC THEATRE'S

2008-2009 season has changed!

Due to national tours of Fiddler On The Roof and Chicago coming to Tucson, the publishers have exercised their right of first-run performances. We are therefore proud to present two replacement offerings in our season:

CAROUSEL
by Rodgers & Hammerstein
In 1999, Time magazine in its "Best of the Century" list,

named Carousel the Best Musical of the 20th century.

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive mill worker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent "up there." Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love. It's easy to understand why, of all the shows they created, CAROUSEL was Rodgers & Hammerstein's personal favorite.

November 6, 7, 8 at 7.30pm
November 9 at 2.00pm



DAMN YANKEES
by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop,
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

Faust meets professional baseball in this Broadway classic from the creators of "The Pajama Game."

Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil (the charming but devious Mr. Applegate) for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. As young baseball sensation Joe Hardy, he transforms the hapless Washington Senators into a winning team, only to realize the true worth of the life (and wife) he's left behind. With the help of a handy escape clause and a guilt-ridden temptress named Lola, Joe outsmarts Applegate, returns to his former self and shepherds the Senators to the World Series.

Light, fast-paced and devilishly clever, "Damn Yankees" is a home-run hit whose all-American subject matter and irreverent sense of humor have brought many a sports fan into the theatre. In addition to its many strong male roles, the show features a scene-stealing role in Lola (originally played by a relatively unknown Gwen Verdon), plenty of opportunities for dance, and a catchy score filled with rousing production numbers and popular favorites like "Heart" and "Whatever Lola Wants."

March 20, 21 at 7.30pm
March 22 at 2.00pm

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
by Richard Morris, Dick Scanlan and Jeanine Tesori

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a high-spirited musical romp that has all of New York dancing the Charleston. It's the zany new 1920's musical that has taken Broadway by storm!

Taking place in New York City in 1922, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city in search of a new life for herself. It's a New York full of intrigue and jazz - a time when women were entering the workforce and the rules of love and social behavior were changing forever. Based on the popular movie, the stage version of Thoroughly Modern Millie includes a full score of new songs and bright dance numbers.

Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon-lady of a villainess audiences will love to hate, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a perfectly constructed evening of madcap merriment. And with the role of Millie Dillmount, musical theatre has found a new heroine for the ages in Thoroughly Modern Millie.

May 7, 8, 9 at 7.30pm
May 10 at 2.00pm

For more information please visit our web site at www.redondomusictheatre.com

or call our production office at 615-1130.

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