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Last updated 06-26-2009

Fountain Square Players
Announces Its 31st Season
2009 - 2010

Since 1978, Fountain Square Players has been providing the highest possible quality community theatre to Bowling Green and South Central Kentucky. Our first offering this season, Bus Stop marks the beginning of our 31st season. Our organization has been a creative outlet for many people in the region with an interest in any of the phases of theatrical production, whether on-stage as a performer, or as a costumer, set designer, stage manager, and even director. We are constantly welcoming newcomers. Last season many persons were in their first Fountain Square Players production, along with some familiar previous players. Please join us in our 31st season as either an audience member or as a cast or crew member for any or all of our productions.

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Remainder of 2008-2009 Season

2009 - 2010 Season

Production Performance Dates Audition Dates Director Location

Bus Stop	Aug. 6-9, 2009	June 22-23	Bill Green	Phoenix Theater
Death At The Depot	Sep. 25, 2009		Miliska Knauft	L&N Depot
Down An Alley Filled With Cats	Nov. 5-8, 2009	Sep. 21-22	Kathy Wise-Leonard	Phoenix Theater
From The Mississippi Delta	Mar. 11-14, 2010	Jan. 25-26	Jeff Moore	Phoenix Theater
The Dixie Swim Club	May 20-23, 2010	Mar. 30-31	Lynn Gilcrease	Phoenix Theater
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	June 24-27, 2010	May 3-4	Heather Bitterling	BGHS Auditorium

Remainder of Fountain Square Players’ 2008-2009 Season Schedule

“Doubt, A Parable”

Fountain Square Players presents, Doubt, A Parable written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Jeff Moore at The Phoenix Theater located at 545 Morris Alley. Dates and Times: June 25 through 27, beginning at 8:00 PM, and June 28, beginning at 3:00 PM. Cost: $12 - adult, $10 - senior/student, $8- children (under 12). Tickets can be purchased through Fountain Square Players by calling 270-782-3119, or ordering online through our website at www.fountainsquareplayers.org.

Synopsis:

“All the elements come invigoratingly together like clockwork in a gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest’s behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinating nuanced questions of moral certainty. How splendid it feels to be trusted with such passionate, exquisite ambiguity. Blunt yet subtle, manipulative but full of empathy for all sides, the play is set in 1964 but could not be timelier. Shanley creates four blazingly individual people. DOUBT is passionate, exquisite, important and engrossing.” NY Newsday. “An eloquent and provocative investigation of truth and consequences.”

“Brigadoon”

Fountain Square Players presents, Brigadoon, a Tony Award winner for choreography, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award winner for best musical. Brigadoon is based on the musical book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe, and directed by Elizabeth Birk. Performances will take place at The Capitol Arts Center located at 416 Main Street. Dates and Times: July 16 through 18, beginning at 8:00 PM, and July 19, beginning at 3:00 PM. Cost: $14 - adult, $12 - senior/student, $10- children (under 12). Tickets can be purchased through Fountain Square Players by calling 270-782-3119, or ordering online through our website at www.fountainsquareplayers.org.

Synopsis: This is a Scottish fantasy about a town that disappears into the Highland mist and returns for only one day every one hundred years. Songs include Waitin’ for My Dearie, I’ll Go Home With Bonnie Jean, Come To Me, Bend To Me, Almost Like Being In Love, There But For You Go I, The Heather On The Hill and My Mother’s Weddin’ Day. This is a tribute to simplicity, true love and goodness, which is hidden from the ordinary traveler.

Brigadoon played for 581 performances on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theater and for 685 performances in London. It has been revived on Broadway several times.

BUS STOP
by William Inge

In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers ate going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She’s been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually head-strong bull. Even as she is ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow forehead and muse, “Somehow, deep inside me, I got a funny feeling I’m gonna end up in Montana…”

Auditions: June 22-23, 2009

Performances: August 6-9, 2009

Location: Phoenix Theater

DEATH AT THE DEPOT

FSP / L&N Depot Interactive Murder Mystery at the Historic Railpark Museum and L&N Depot. Brand new mystery! A prize for the correct solution. Come dressed in 1948-50's period. (2) season tickets to the winners. $50/person. Cost includes "heavy hors d'oeuvres," wine and beer. Limited to 70 people.

Performance: September 25, 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Location: L&N Depot

DOWN AN ALLEY FILLED WITH CATS
by Warwick Moss

Best new Australian Play. Timothy Timmony is the elderly, cultured proprietor of a bookshop in a Sydney area that is being redeveloped. The bookstore is in the last building still standing. Simon Matthews, an uncultured but not insensitive adventurer, comes to the shop in pursuit of a particular volume at closing time. Just as Simon discovers that the book has been sold to his archenemy, the landlord locks he and Timmony in the building for the night. It soon becomes obvious that the book contains a code, which identifies the whereabouts of an invaluable artifact. Through the night the two combatants maneuver for position. The revelation that the artifact is in the shop creates the climax.

Auditions: September 21-22, 2009.

Performances: November 5-8, 2009

Location: Phoenix Theater

FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA
by Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland

Pulitzer Prize nominee. Drama-Logue Theater Award winner for Playwriting. "A beautifully courageous play." Lorraine Hansberry, award-winning author. The journey begins in Greenwood, Mississippi - the Delta. "In my Delta town, some black girls aspired to become the woman. Others could make it by going to the cotton fields, working from sun to sun, for just about three dollars a day, "It is those and other dreadful experiences that inspire her to dream far beyond the funny-paper walls in her drafty shotgun house in Dixie Lane Alley. On her 11th birthday, Phelia's childhood is brutally stolen from her by a white man. She attempts to join a minstrel show as an exotic dancer. At 14 she has quit school and spent time in jail, and by 16, she is an unwed mother. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee comes to town, and Phelia is swept into the momentum of the civil rights movement. Phelia goes of to meet her destiny in the North. The journey ends, 20 20 years later as Phelia "buck-dances" across the stage at the University of Minnesota to accept her Ph.D.

Auditions: January 25-26, 2010

Performances: March 11-14, 2010

Location: Phoenix Theater

THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB
by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten

Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB focuses on four of these weekends, and spans a period of thirty-three years. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB is the story of these five unforgettable women - a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever...

Auditions: March 30-31, 2010

Performances: May 20-23, 2010

Location: Phoenix Theater

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
Musical. Book by Lawrence Kasha and David Landay. Music by Gene de Paul and Joel Hirschhorn. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Al Kasha and Joel Hirshhorn.

Writers Guild of America - Best written American Musical. Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical. LUSTY, MIRTHFUL GIRL-STEALING MUSICAL!...with seven Great Songs! Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then after reading about the Roman capture of the Sbine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness. The show is fun, fast-paced, sometimes raucuous, sometimes sweet, always entertaining.

Auditions: May 3-4, 2010

Performances: June 24-27, 2010

Location: BG High School Auditorium

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