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Please don’t miss our fall production You Can’t Take It With You by Kaufman and Hart, presented in the beautiful Harriett Coleman Center for the Arts!  Hooray!! 

This rollicking, romantic comedy—and 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner—is about the Sycamores, one of the zaniness families in American theatre. 

As wildly funny as it is, the story is inspired by the New Testament verse:  “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out” (I Timothy 6:7).  Please make time to join us in celebration of this time we share. 

Wed. 10/15—Sat. 1/18   

7pm curtain

$8 ticket ($5 with LHP Student I.D.)

Reserve general admission tickets at: www.lhps.org/tickets

 

 

2007 - 2008 US Drama

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The Playboy of the Western World

By J. M. Synge

     John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World can be called ‘Irish-Shakespearean’ for its rich diction and language, the humanity of the characters and the coming-of-age themes that shine through this darkly comic Irish classic.  The play is a comedy with satiric and tragic elements for Synge wanted us to laugh at his characters, but also to value their humanity—they have their gifts and their flaws.  For instance when the play was written in early 20th Century Ireland, the word playboy referred to a light-hearted, whimsical hoaxer or trickster; a compliment and condemnation in one.   

 

 

 

 

The Sound of Music

By Rodgers & Hammerstein

The famous story at the heart of The Sound of Music is based on the memoir of Maria Rainer, who as a postulate of Nonnberg Abbey in Austria in 1938 was sent to be governess to the children of Captain Von Trapp. Once there she discovers the life God truly intended for her as she falls in love with Captain Von Trapp and becomes his wife. This romantic story occurs in Austria in spring 1938 when the Nazi Party is on the rise and the world is on the brink of World War II.

 

In the beautiful tradition of Rodgers and Hammerstein, this play underscores life’s dangers with glorious melodies and lyrics. In this story, Maria struggles to find the life she was born to live, but it is in her loneliest hour that courage and faith sustains her as she becomes the heart and inspiration of the Von Trapp Family.

 

A bell is no bell till you ring it,

A song is no song till you sing it,

And love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay-----

Love isn’t love till you give it away.