Disney's High School Musical

It burst onto the cultural landscape first as a smash hit Disney Channel Original Movie and the soundtrack climbed to the top of the Billboard charts. Now, get ready for the start of something new! Disney Theatrical Productions, the producers of THE LION KING and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, has created an exciting stage version of the phenomenal Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. It's the irresistible story of two teenagers - Troy Bolton, super-popular captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez, super-smart transfer student and a genius in science class - who try to navigate the tricky currents of peer pressure to follow their dream and score the leads in the big school show. The production includes all of the favorite characters and songs from the movie, plus two new songs written especially for the stage. All this combines to make HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL a top-drawer Disney production and a must-see for every fan of the movie and theatre-goers alike. So, getcha head in the game! And get ready for Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Words and Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Tim Rice

The play opens with the Narrator finding an old book, picking it up, blowing off the dust, and starting to read. The story she relates is of a young dreamer, a man named Joseph-the same Joseph whose story is told in the Book of Genesis.

Joseph, as you may remember, was born into a family of twelve boys, all the sons of Jacob. Joseph is Jacob's favorite son, and, to show everyone that he is pleased with him, Jacob gives Joseph a splendid multi-colored coat. However, this coat, along with Joseph's talk of dreams he has had showing he will be the ruler of his brothers, arouse the jealousy of the other eleven. They decide to kill him, but before they get the chance, they meet up with the group of Ishmaelites traveling to Egypt. A plan is hatched, and they sell their brother as a slave instead.

So Joseph is taken off to Egypt, and his brothers return to tell their father that his favorite son is dead, producing his wonderful coat-which they have stained with the blood of a goat-as proof.

Potiphar, a powerful man in Egypt, takes Joseph into his household as a slave. While there Joseph works so hard and is so honest, that Potiphar begins to admire him greatly. Unfortunately, he also catches the eye of his master's wife, who tries to seduce him. When Potiphar catches them together, he assumes the worst (even though Joseph is innocent) and sends Joseph to prison. While there Joseph meets two of Pharaoh's servants, a butler and a baker, both of whom have had strange dreams. Joseph interprets their dreams, correctly telling their future.

In the meantime, Pharaoh, the most powerful man in Egypt, has also been having unusual dreams. No one can interpret these dreams, so Pharaoh is intrigued when he hears of the young slave's ability. He immediately has Joseph brought before him to interpret his dreams.

Joseph offers his interpretation, that seven years of bounty will be followed by seven years of famine, and Pharaoh is so impressed that he appoints Joseph to a post in the government. He will be in charge of storing food for the upcoming hard times.

When the famine does hit, Joseph's father and brothers in Canaan are ill-prepared. They hear that there is food available in Egypt, so the brothers travel there to beg for assistance. Once there, they are brought before Joseph who recognizes them immediately even though they do not know him. He tests their honesty and humility by planting a golden chalice in the sack of his brother, Benjamin, to see what they will say. When confronted with the supposed evidence of theft, the brothers maintain the boy's innocence and offer to let themselves be taken prisoner instead.

Joseph sees that his brothers have changed, so, to everyone's great joy, he reveals his true identity. Finally, Jacob is brought to Egypt to join his family and to again see his beloved son at last.

Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun

A Playmill favorite...

The Drowsy Chaperone

A musical within a comedy ...

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Act 1

The musical opens at a Casino near the French Riviera showing a con-artist, Lawrence Jameson, tricking wealthy women out of their money with his "bodyguard" Andre (Give Them What They Want). Andre warns Lawrence that a con-artist, known as .the Jackal., is in the area. In a side story, one woman named Muriel and a few other women realize that Lawrence is not who he says he is (What Was a Woman To Do). While on a train, Lawrence watches an American named Freddy Benson swindle money out of a woman, but making much less money than Lawrence does. Lawrence ends up bringing Freddy to his lavish mansion, where Freddy envies how Lawrence has made a living out of swindling. Then he talks of all the things he wants when he.s rich (Great Big Stuff). Freddy asks Lawrence to .show [him] his ways.. Andre thinks Freddie is unworthy of Lawrence's attention, and compares Freddie to a (Chimp in a Suit). Lawrence doesn.t think much of it until Jolene Oakes, one of the women he is with, tells him that they are unexpectedly getting married and moving to Oklahoma (Oklahoma?), at which point Lawrence decides to use Freddy.s help. Freddy poses as Lawrence.s mentally challenged brother Ruprecht (All About Ruprecht). When Jolene is introduced to him she calls off the wedding and breaks up with Lawrence.

Lawrence begins to think that there isn.t enough room in town for the both of them. They make a deal: The first to get $50,000 out of a woman gets to stay in town, while the other has to leave the town, which is the perfect location for what they do. Immediately after making the deal the arrival of .The American Soap Queen, Christine Colgate" is announced (Here I Am). They simultaneously decide on her for the scam. Freddy creates an alias as a man paralyzed from the waist down. She and Freddy become deep in conversation and he says there is a therapist, Dr. Shuffhausen, that can help him, but he doesn.t have the money that Dr. Shuffhausen charges, $50,000. Christine tells him to keep his hopes up (Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True). She tells Freddy she has the money to pay for the therapist, as Freddy had hoped (The Miracle). She then tells him that Dr. Shuffhausen is at the hotel. Freddy is shocked when he sees it is none other than Lawrence.

Act 2

After a quick reintroduction (Entr'Acte), Lawrence performs several torturous tests on Freddy.s legs who has to endure them silently while in front of Christine (Ruffhousin' Mit Shuffhausen). In the side show Muriel meets Andre and the two fall in love (Like Zis/Like Zat). Lawrence is trying in every effort to get close to Christine (The More We Dance), when he realizes that Christine is not as rich as they thought. Lawrence tells Freddy that he thinks they should call off the deal. Freddy reluctantly agrees the bet will be changed to whether or not he sleeps with her, then hires two sailors to kidnap Lawrence so that he can get Christine alone.

Freddy meets back with Christine at the hotel where he tells her he needs motivation to get out of his chair. She says she.ll be his motivation (Love is My Legs). She sits on the bed till he is finally able to stand up out of his chair and walk to her on the bed (where he "accidentally" falls on top of her in exhaustion), when Lawrence shows up and it turns out to be a test planned by him and Christine. Lawrence has the same two sailors kidnap Freddy while he takes Christine to the train station so she can leave (Love Sneaks In). Freddy shows up, having escaped the sailors too late to get to Christine.

The next day Freddy meets Christine back at the hotel who says she couldn.t leave .without seeing you again.. (Son of Great Big Stuff) The two get in bed together before the scene is switched to Lawrence.s mansion where Christine shows up, telling him tearfully how she came back to see Freddy, how they made love, and then when she woke up all her money was gone: .I.m beginning to think he was never really paralyzed.. Out of remorse, Lawrence packs 50 thousand dollars in a suitcase and tells her to take it. Christine takes it, but returns and gives him back the suitcase saying, .I.ll have something so much better to remember you by. before leaving.

A few minutes later Freddy shows up in his underwear. Lawrence is angry at him for taking Christine.s money. Freddy, however, claims that they never made love at all; they were about to when she knocked him out. When he woke up all his belongings were gone. Lawrence then opens up the suitcase to find the money gone, replaced by Freddy.s clothes and a note that reads, .Goodbye boys. It was fun! Love, 'The Jackal'., thus revealing that she knew about their scam the entire time, and instead ended up scamming them (The Reckoning). A while later Christine returns to Lawrence's chateau, bringing several other people with her. The guys finally admit the scam was a good adventure for them (Dirty Rotten Number) and they hatch a scheme to scam the crowd of people together in the Finale.