Live theatre performances are returning to Dwyer Memorial Park this summer as Cortland Repertory Theatre prepares for its 52nd Anniversary Summer Season! The season will run from June 5 – August 17 and will contain three musicals and two plays. Producing Artistic Director Kerby Thompson explains that “we always strive to select a season that falls under the umbrella as ‘something for everyone,’ and I’m very excited about this coming summer’s selections!”
TICKET INFORMATION
Cortland Repertory offers single performance tickets or season passes. Individual tickets will go on sale starting May 20, 2024. Visit the Box Office at 24 Port Watson Street in Cortland or call in your order at 800-427-6160. CRT accepts cash, check or VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express credit cards.
The Flex Pass and Subscriptions
CRT is currently selling 5-show summer subscriptions, which are $190 for center seats and $180 for side seats and allow the patron to see all five productions. Also available are Flex Pass Packs for 5 shows ($195) or 6 shows ($234) and allow the patron to choose the shows they see and when they see them. A two-pack Youth Flex Pass is also available for $40.00.
Single Ticket - Adults
Center Section: $42
Side Section: $40
Single Ticket - Seniors/Veterans/First Responders
Center Section: $40
Side Section: $38
Single Ticket - 22 and under
All seats $25
2024 SUMMER SCHEDULE
MY FAIR LADY
June 5-14, 2024
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Kicking off the season from June 5-14 is a show that has been called “one of the greatest musicals of all time”: MY FAIR LADY, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. This musical was adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play and Gabriel Pascal's movie "Pygmalion” and was originally directed and staged by Moss Hart. In this story, Eliza Doolittle is a young flower seller with an unmistakable Cockney accent, which seemingly keeps her in the lower rungs of Edwardian society. When Professor Henry Higgins tries to teach her how to speak like “a proper lady”, an unlikely friendship begins to flourish. The musical’s score is loaded with familiar songs, including The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, Get Me to the Church on Time, and I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.
THE LAST ROMANCE
June 19-28, 2024
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From June 19–28 is the CRT debut of the heartwarming comedy THE LAST ROMANCE by Joe DiPietro. CRT audiences will remember DePietro’s work from the 2005 and 2022 productions of “Over the River and Through the Woods.” This play explores the transformative power of love, no matter what age one may be. On an ordinary day in a routine life, widower Ralph takes a different path on his daily walk and meets Carol, who is sitting on a bench at a dog park. Relying on his boyish charm and a fictional dog named Rex, Ralph woos Carol, and they embark on a hilarious and touching journey that proves it’s never too late for romance. This laugh-filled comedy cleverly explores relationships between people in their golden years and how the invisible bonds of family often tie our hearts tighter than any love affair.
ESCAPE TO MARGRITAVILLE
July 3-12, 2024
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A recent Broadway musical, and the regional premiere is up next from July 3–12 with Jimmy Buffet’s ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE, with a book by Emmy Award winner Greg Garcia and Emmy nominee Mike O’Malley, and music and lyrics by Jimmy Buffett. The Pavilion stage will transform into a tropical paradise where love and laughter are the keys to ‘growing older but not up.’ The story centers around Tully, the “mayor” of Margaritaville, a part-time bartender, part-time singer, and full-time charmer who’s got life all figured out until a beautiful tourist steals his heart and makes him question everything he knows. This energetic score features Jimmy Buffett’s classics, including Cheeseburger in Paradise, Fins, Volcano, It’s Five o’clock Somewhere and many more.
WAIT UNTIL DARK
July 17-26, 2024
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Running from July 17–26 is a thrilling new adaptation of the Broadway classic that inspired the 1967 film starring Audrey Hepburn, WAIT UNTIL DARK originally written by Frederick Knott and recently adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. Murder, secret identities, and a switchblade set the stage for this white-knuckle thriller that takes place in the quaint 1944 Greenwich Village basement apartment of Susan, a blind yet capable woman and her husband Sam. While Sam is away on business, Susan finds herself threatened by a trio of men who will stop at nothing to get a stolen item hidden in the apartment. As the climax builds, Susan discovers that her blindness just might be the key to her escape, but she must wait until dark to reach the shattering conclusion.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
July 31- August 17, 2024
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Wrapping up the summer, from July 31–August 17, CRT presents their debut production of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton. This “tale as old as time” was originally directed on Broadway by Robert Jess Roth, and originally produced by Disney Theatrical Productions. Original music supervision and new arrangements are by Michael Kosarin, with dance music arrangements by Glen Kelly and orchestrations by Danny Troob. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated film, this stage adaptation includes all those wonderful songs and characters kids of all ages know and love. The story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end, and he will be transformed into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.
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