Our 45th season
"Let Us Entertain You"
All I Really Need to Know
I Learned in Kindergarten
by Earnest Zulia, Robert Fulghum, and David Caldwell (musical)
August 16-25, 2024
Director: Scott Brister
BACP is pleased to offer its first musical since 2019! Based on Robert Fulghum's best-selling books, Kindergarten takes a funny, insightful, heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. This tightly woven adaptation has earned standing ovations from Singapore to Prague— from L.A. to D.C. It's an evening of theatrical storytelling in revue format, with monologues, dialogues, and multiple voice narration, enhanced through the use of live piano underscoring, which provides fluidity, charm, and emotional texture, and seven original songs. These stories celebrate our very existence, from the whimsy of childhood to the wisdom of old age.
by Noel Coward
October 18-27, 2024
Director: Frank Gallagher
This classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Clever,insistent and well aware of Charles' shortcomings, Elvira is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” the eccentric and flighty Madame Arcati. As everyone's personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed. She “passes over” and joins Elvira, allowing the two “blithe spirits” to haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Adapted by Joe Landry
December 6-15, 2024
Director: Quinn Blakely
Don’t touch that dial! See this beloved American holiday classic come to life on stage as a captivating 1940s radio broadcast. Actors portray dozens of characters, and sound effects are done by Foley artists. In It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds one fateful Christmas Eve. Can a stranger help him make the right choice? During the holiday season, join us for a story of hope, faith, and the power of community. The entire family will enjoy this unique spin on one of America’s favorite films!
by Ernest Thompson
April 4-13, 2025
Director: Ron Friedberg
Auditions February 10-11, 2025
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together.
Ken Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo
June 6-15, 2025
Director: Don Tabberer
Auditions April 14-15, 2025
In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend Me a Tenor, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they’re playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo, New York with five actors. On the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George’s dalliance with a young ingénue, they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee, and if he likes what he sees, he might cast them in his movie remake of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Unfortunately for George and Charlotte, everything that could go wrong does go wrong, abetted by a visit from their daughter’s clueless fiancé and hilarious uncertainty about which play they’re actually performing, caused by Charlotte’s deaf, old stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George’s body.
