Join Connecticut Stage Company on Saturday, October 17th from 5:30-6:30 at the Farmer’s Grind in New Canaan Library for a pre-show cocktail party to help raise funds for their fourth season. There will be festive food, drinks, music and a silent auction with tickets to a Broadway show, and tickets to a taping of Watch What Happens Live. Stay after the party for the opening night performance of CSC’s My Fair Lady, featuring actors direct from Broadway! (My Fair Lady tickets sold separately). Tickets for the Opening Night Party and My Fair Lady can be purchased at www.connecticutstagecompany.org
In this installment of 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Connecticut Stage Company co-founders Lorah Haskins and Kate Simone. The New Canaan-based nonprofit organization is opening its fourth season with “My Fair Lady, presented in partnership with New Canaan Library. The show will run at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18 at the library.
On June 14th, to celebrate America’s 250th, and in partnership with New Canaan Library, Connecticut Stage Company presents playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play that breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. *This show is recommended for those ages 12+ due to some mature language and content
What the Constitution Means to Me is free, thanks to New Canaan Library. Visit www.connecticutstagecompany.org to reserve your tickets.
Connecticut Stage Company continues its third season with the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, Next to Normal. With an electrifying pop/rock score by Tom Kitt and an honest, gut-wrenching book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, Next to Normal explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Dad’s an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling bipolar disorder for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family’s story with love, sympathy and heart.
Join Connecticut Stage Company for their the first concert in their new Broadway Concert Series. Broadway star Kara Lindsay will perform and an exclusive, one-night only concert at The Carriage Barn on Saturday, March 7th at 7pm. On Broadway Kara Lindsay starred in Wicked (Glinda), Newsies (Katherine Plumber), Beautiful the Carole King Musical (Cynthia Weil) and Once Upon as Mattress (Princess Winnifred). She’ll be singing hits from Funny Girl, Wicked, Guys & Dolls, Carole King and more! Darien native Dan Micciche (music director and conductor of Wicked) will accompany Kara on piano.
