07-08 Season

Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings

By Stuart Ross

Original Forever Plaid Vocal and Musical Arrangement by James Raitt
Vocal and Musical Arrangement by James Raitt, Brad Ellis, Raymond Berg, David Snyder
Musical Continuity and Supervision by David Snyder

September 28, 29, 30,

October 5,6,7

CPCC Theatre is proud to present the Charlotte premier of this wonderful new show :Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings. Plaid Tidings is a brand-new show that offers the best of Forever Plaid tied-up in a nifty package with a big Christmas bow on top! Filled with Christmas standards that have all been “Plaid-erized,” the boys are back to do their Christmas Special. At first they aren’t sure why they’ve returned, but a phone call from the heavenly Rosemary Clooney lets them know that they’re needed to put a little harmony into a discordant world. Sprinkled among the Christmas offerings are audience favorites like their riotous three minute and eleven second version of “The Ed Sullivan Show” - this time featuring the Rockettes, the Chipmunks and The Vienna Boys Choir, and a Plaid Caribbean Christmas which puts the “Day-O” in Excelsis! This is one holiday treat that is truly “heaven-sent!” Don’t miss this chance to get Plaid for the Holidays!

Dearly Beloved

By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten

November 9, 10,16,17,18

From those wonderful folks who brought you more humor than you knew existed at a funeral home in Dearly Departed, Dearly Beloved will take you places at a wedding you didn’t know existed. The Futrelle Sisters, Frankie, Honey Raye and Twink, are throwing a wedding. Frankie has almost made herself sick with elaborate preparations for her daughter Tina Jo’s antebellum-inspired wedding, and the rumor mill in their small town of Fayro, Texas, is working overtime. No surprise there, the Futrelle Sisters have never been strangers to gossip. After all, they did survive the scandalous breakup of their almost-famous gospel singing trio, The Sermonettes. But Twink’s desperate attempts to get her boyfriend of fifteen-and-one-half years down the aisle, Frankie’s ongoing conversations with their dead mother, and Honey Raye’s tendency to race to the altar at every opportunity have kept tongues wagging for years. Don’t miss this hilarious send up of everything that can go wrong at a wedding. Surely Dearly Beloved has all the makings of a happily ever after good time.

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice

February 15, 16, 17,22,23,24

By popular demand, CPCC Theatre brings back one of our audience’s all time favorites – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Dreamcoat has been delighting audiences since the 1960s. Set to an engaging cornucopia of musical styles, from country-western and calypso to bubble-gum pop and rock 'n' roll, this Old Testament tale emerges both timely and timeless. This award winning family musical started Andrew Lloyd Webber on his road to success. John Peter of the Sunday Times called it an ”… enchanting musical (that) explodes like glittering fireworks. A brilliant celebration of words, music and colour. The best kind of feel-good show, unashamed, warm-hearted and irresistible.” Don’t miss this musical highlight of our 2007-08 season.

April 25, 26 May 2, 3, 4

CPCC Theatre is proud to present this stirring dramatization of the real life story of Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker is one of the most successful and warmly admired plays of the modern stage. Blind and mute, nobody knows what Helen's fate might have been had she not come under the tutelage of Annie Sullivan, an Irish girl who had been born blind. Little Helen, trapped in her secret world, is bitter, violent, spoiled and almost animal like. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind waiting to be rescued from that dark, tortured silence. Annie's success with Helen comes only after some of the most turbulent, violent, and emotion packed scenes ever presented on the stage. Join CPCC Theatre for an evening the NY Daily Mirror called – “Magnificent theatre.”