My Fair Lady- June 7th-23rd
by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe
Amusical adapted from the book Pygmalion, it is a satire about the class distinctions in England during the early 20th century. It centers around a cockney flower girl, Eliza Dolittle, who is taken in by linguist Henry Higgins, who bets his friend, Colonel Pickering that he can improve her speech and manners sufficiently to pass her off as a duchess in at an upcoming embassy ball. Meanwhile, Eliza’s father, Alfred Dolittle, tries to take advantage of the situation and get some money from Higgins. Eliza, Higgins, Pickering, and Higgins’ household toil endlessly to achieve Higgins’ goal. Once she has improved sufficiently, Higgins takes her to the Royal Ascot races to test her new skills. There, Freddy Eynsford Hill becomes enthralled with Eliza and tries to court her but is rebuffed. Eliza, Higgins, and Pickering go to the embassy ball where she is a triumph, and Higgins takes all the credit. Eliza leaves Higgins because he does not acknowledge her role in her accomplishments. He realizes he is attached, and she returns to him for a possible reconciliation.

August, Osage County- Sept 13th-29th
by Tracy Letts
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, the NY Times describes it as “A fraught, densely plotted saga of an Oklahoma clan in a state of near-apocalyptic meltdown. Fiercely funny and bitingly sad…[a] turbo-charged tragicomedy…”

Ride the Cyclone- Nov 8th-24th
by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
A nail-biter plot and beautiful music, it has developed an incredible fan base over the last decade, playing in regional theaters rather than Broadway. After a horrific roller coaster accident kills six members of the Uranium City High School choir, a mechanical fortune teller, the Amazing Karnak, offers renewed life to the teen who makes the best pitch. The dead students are the only gay boy in the town, a Ukrainian adoptee, a super-achiever and her doormat best friend, a spaced-out mute boy, and an unidentified girl whose head was never found. Despite the grim set-up, this musical, told in a variety of pop music styles, is a life-affirming, tender, and magical theater experience. It premiered in Canada in 2008 and in the U.S. in 2015. It recently played to sold-out audiences at The Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. This “small” musical will showcase some of our younger performers and challenge our technical and stage crews.

A Christmas Carol– Dec 13th-15th
Using the radio play script that has become a standard at Church Hill Theatre