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FAMILIAR STORIES | NEW PERSPECTIVES<br />
17/18<br />
SEASON<br />
FREEFALLTHEATRE.COM
White Fang<br />
a world premiere by Jethro Compton<br />
inspired by the novel by Jack London<br />
The Little Prince<br />
by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar<br />
based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry<br />
Take a seat.<br />
We’re expecting you.<br />
Eric Davis / Artistic Director<br />
Unexpected.<br />
Daring.<br />
Authentic.<br />
Our <strong>2017</strong>/<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Season</strong> of plays<br />
and musicals is driven by a love<br />
of familiar stories, with an eye<br />
fervently trained on the horizon.<br />
These are plays rooted in the<br />
past, from perennial classics to<br />
rediscovered gems to playful sendups.<br />
From our inception, <strong>freeFall</strong> has built<br />
a reputation for bringing a fresh,<br />
sometimes irreverent, but always<br />
forward-looking interpretation to<br />
familiar stories. This season, we<br />
embrace that approach with both<br />
arms to present a widely varied<br />
assortment of plays, curated to shed<br />
an enlightening, entertaining, and<br />
sometimes brutally honest light on<br />
what it means to be alive in <strong>2017</strong><br />
by revisiting stories from our past.<br />
The Glass Menagerie<br />
the American classic by Tennessee Williams<br />
Daddy Long Legs<br />
music & lyrics by Paul Gordon<br />
book by John Caird<br />
based on the novel by Jean Webster<br />
The Machine Stops<br />
by Eric Davis<br />
based on the story by E.M. Forster<br />
Musical of Musicals<br />
music by Eric Rockwell | lyrics by Joanne Bogart<br />
book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart<br />
August 6 - 13, <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>freeFall</strong> Travel Club<br />
It’s not only Shakespeare...<br />
Our annual trip to the Oregon Shakespeare<br />
Festival gives <strong>freeFall</strong> patrons the<br />
opportunity to experience the largest<br />
professional repertory company in the<br />
U.S. during a fun, informative, and deeply<br />
enriching week, led by <strong>freeFall</strong> Artistic<br />
Director, Eric Davis.<br />
For more information, visit our website or<br />
call: 727.498.5205
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Legacy gifts form a strong<br />
foundation from which <strong>freeFall</strong><br />
can continue to grow and thrive,<br />
enriching our community for<br />
generations.<br />
Patrons who notify us of their<br />
planned gift will be included in our<br />
newly formed Legacy Society. We<br />
will honor your generosity with<br />
acknowledgment in our playbills<br />
and annual report, as well as at a<br />
special annual event.<br />
Please contact Development<br />
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free programming<br />
to enrich your<br />
theatre-going<br />
experience<br />
<strong>freeFall</strong> 411//<br />
These brief talks one hour prior<br />
to most performances (excluding<br />
opening weekend) are led by an<br />
actor or other artist working on<br />
the show. Topics usually focus<br />
on the personal and professional<br />
background of the artist, giving<br />
you special insight into their work<br />
prior to seeing the play.<br />
Talk-backs//<br />
After Friday evening performances<br />
these talks with members of<br />
the cast and creative team, moderated<br />
by James Rayfield, give the<br />
audience an opportunity to hear<br />
about the artists’ process and ask<br />
questions about what they’ve just<br />
seen.<br />
<strong>freeFall</strong> Foreword Series//<br />
These more in-depth talks with<br />
our resident dramaturg, Timothy<br />
Saunders, give insight into the<br />
history and background of the authors,<br />
settings, themes, and other<br />
aspects of the plays we produce.<br />
These talks are offered one hour<br />
prior to select Sunday matinees.<br />
See our online calendar of events<br />
at freefalltheatre.com for specific<br />
dates and times.
<strong>freeFall</strong> <strong>Theatre</strong> and Jethro Compton Productions present<br />
White Fang<br />
by Jethro Compton<br />
inspired by the novel by Jack London<br />
September 30 - October 22, <strong>2017</strong><br />
A world-premiere production transferring to London in Winter <strong>2017</strong><br />
presented by Bill Ward | sponsored by Michael Miller & Robert Jenkins<br />
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1898. Northwestern Canada. Deep in the forests of the Yukon<br />
Territory. After the massacre of her tribe, a young girl is rescued<br />
from the snow by an old huntsman from a nearby settlement who<br />
offers shelter and the strength to survive. Torn from centuries<br />
of tradition, facing a new and violent land, she struggles to find<br />
her path in the world. An outsider to all, she discovers hope<br />
in the friendship of an abandoned wolf, White Fang. With this<br />
newfound alliance, the two unite with the land, learning the ways<br />
of her ancestors. Lethal with blade and bow, there are few who<br />
can match her skill in the wild. But when the time comes, and she<br />
faces the greatest challenge of all, will these skills be enough to<br />
make a difference? Will they be enough to survive? An epic story<br />
of love, loss, and redemption – red-written in the snow – from<br />
Jethro Compton, writer and director of The Man Who Shot Liberty<br />
Valance. Inspired by the classic novel by Jack London, author of<br />
The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf, this exciting world-premiere<br />
co-production with Jethro Compton Productions will transfer<br />
directly from <strong>freeFall</strong> to London’s Park <strong>Theatre</strong>.<br />
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The Little Prince<br />
by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar<br />
based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry<br />
November 25 - December 24, <strong>2017</strong><br />
The intoxicating childhood classic in a vibrant new production<br />
presented by Kate Tiedemann & Ellen Cotton | sponsored by Marion Rich<br />
community partner Rick Behnke & Robert Newell<br />
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An aviator crashes his plane in the Sahara Desert. There<br />
he meets a little prince who has left his home on Asteroid<br />
B-612 and its only other inhabitant, his beloved rose.<br />
Along the way he discovers a parade of extraordinary<br />
individuals from a king to a businessman to a fox.<br />
Each peels back another layer of what it means to be<br />
alive, ultimately revealing the importance of personal<br />
connection and sacrifice in a world that seeks to diminish<br />
that which connects us. The most translated book in the<br />
French language, this allegory remains a beautiful example<br />
of personal struggle manifesting itself as transcendent<br />
art. Saint-Exupéry’s fantastical musing, inspired by the<br />
fall of France to fascist Germany, is at once delightfully<br />
imaginative and deeply philosophical. “All grown-ups were<br />
once children... but only few of them remember it.”<br />
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The Glass Menagerie<br />
by Tennessee Williams<br />
January 27 - February 18, <strong>2018</strong><br />
The seminal masterpiece by one of America’s greatest playwrights<br />
presented by Al May and Michael Miller & Robert Jenkins<br />
Amanda Wingfield dwells in memories of her idealized<br />
youth, when she entertained gentleman callers who,<br />
according to her, rivaled over her hand in marriage.<br />
With a smothering love for her children, she has driven<br />
Tom into a fantasy world of his own where he escapes<br />
into movies and solitude, wandering the midnight<br />
streets of St. Louis. His physically and emotionally<br />
fragile sister, Laura, escapes into her collection of small<br />
glass animals. This pressure cooker is released when<br />
Tom invites an acquaintance over for dinner. Amanda<br />
immediately maneuvers, seeing him as a possible husband<br />
for Laura. Will salvation for all three come from this<br />
fateful dinner with Laura’s very own gentleman caller?<br />
Or will the delicate world they’ve built around each<br />
other come toppling down? This deeply personal semiautobiographical<br />
work marked Tennessee William’s arrival<br />
as one of America’s greatest playwrights and is universally<br />
regarded as one of the most powerful and important<br />
plays of the Twentieth Century.<br />
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Daddy Long Legs<br />
music & lyrics by Paul Gordon book by John Caird<br />
based on the novel by Jean Webster<br />
March 17 - April 8, <strong>2018</strong><br />
The charming novel that became a classic film in a new musical adaptation<br />
presented by Kate Tiedemann & Ellen Cotton<br />
sponsored by Marion Rich and Diane Bailey Morton, Attorney<br />
Jerusha Abbott is the “Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home”<br />
until a mysterious benefactor decides to send her to college to be<br />
educated as a writer. Required to write him a letter once a month,<br />
she is never to know the benefactor’s identity – so she invents<br />
one for him: Daddy Long Legs. Although she knows that he will<br />
never respond to her letters, she grows more and more fond of<br />
this elusive and kindly “old” gentleman. But another relationship<br />
soon begins to develop in Jerusha’s life. Jervis Pendleton is the<br />
well-to-do, “youngish” uncle of one of Jerusha’s roommates, who<br />
introduces her to a world of literature, travel, and adventure.<br />
Through her correspondence with Daddy Long Legs and her<br />
growing intimacy with Jervis, Jerusha’s letters chronicle her<br />
emergence as a delightfully independent “New American Woman.”<br />
Yet, there is one startling fact that Jerusha has yet to uncover – a<br />
fact that will change her life forever. This witty and romantic tale<br />
in the vein of Jane Austen, The Brontë Sisters and Downton Abbey<br />
features music by the composer of Broadway’s Jane Eyre and a<br />
book by the Tony-winning librettist/director of Les Misérables.<br />
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The Machine Stops<br />
by Eric Davis<br />
based on the story by E.M. Forster<br />
May 5 - May 27, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Forster’s prescient 1909 story that predicted our reliance on the internet<br />
presented by Sylvia Rusche | sponsored by Bill Ward<br />
E.M. Forster’s prescient short story,<br />
penned in 1909, predicts a world with<br />
chilling similarities to our own. Set in a<br />
dystopian future where people live isolated<br />
from one another in identical rooms<br />
and only interact through The Machine,<br />
Forster’s story seems to astutely predict<br />
technologies that evoke the internet, text<br />
messaging, and social media. For The<br />
Machine is an omnipotent technology<br />
that provides everything one could want,<br />
eliminating the need to ever leave one’s<br />
room. Vashti is content with life as it is, but<br />
her son Kuno believes there must be more<br />
to life, and ventures to the surface. What<br />
he finds there will change him forever. This<br />
important early sci-fi masterpiece is seen<br />
by many as the forebear to such works as<br />
Logan’s Run and Orwell’s 1984.<br />
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New<br />
Inspiration<br />
December 2015
The Musical of Musicals<br />
The Musical!<br />
music by Eric Rockwell lyrics by Joanne Bogart<br />
book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart<br />
June 23 - July 15, <strong>2018</strong><br />
A musically musical musical inspired by the musical writers that brought us musicals<br />
sponsored by Marion Rich | community partner Cherie Willard<br />
I can’t pay the rent! You must pay the rent! I’ll pay the rent!<br />
From this humble, classic American plot come not one,<br />
not three, but FIVE musical adaptations as though they<br />
were written by five of the most influential musical theatre<br />
writers or writing teams of all time. There is a Rodgers &<br />
Hammerstein version, set in Kansas in August, complete with<br />
a dream ballet; a Sondheim version, featuring the landlord<br />
as a tortured artistic genius who slashes the throats of his<br />
tenants in revenge for not appreciating his work; a Jerry<br />
Herman version, as a splashy star vehicle; an Andrew Lloyd<br />
Webber version, a rock musical with themes borrowed from<br />
Puccini; and a Kander & Ebb version, set in a speakeasy in<br />
Chicago. This hilarious musical pays loving tribute to the<br />
traditions of musical theatre while mercilessly lampooning<br />
them to shreds. The irreverent finale to our season was the<br />
longest-running show in the York <strong>Theatre</strong>’s history prior to its<br />
extended off-Broadway run.<br />
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