Theatre Young Harris announces 2006-2007 Season Offerings

Theatre Young Harris is proud to announce its 20062007 season of theatrical offerings. Beginning with the annual children's play, set for September 26, audiences will be treated to The Princess and the Pea. November brings Lysistrata. In February, Guys and Dolls will be performed and April's offering is The Shape of Things.

The Princess and the Pea, adapted by Tom Jeffery from the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, will be performed on September 26, 2006, at 7:00 p.m. in the Glenn Auditorium. The Princess and the Pea is presented to the public free of charge through the Fred Register Endowment for Children's Theatre at Young Harris College. In this fairytale classic, the stage is set when the King and Queen mount an all-out search for a suitable Princess for their son. Only true princesses need apply. Unfortunately, it isn't always easy to distinguish between "true princesses" and "pretenders." Audiences of all ages will delight in the consequences of the test devised by the clever Queen to make sure her son marries a genuine princess.

Lysistrata by Aristophanes, translated by Douglass Parker, will be performed November 8-11, 2006, at 8:00 p.m. in the Dobbs Theatre. Audiences are taken back to 411 B.C.E. Athens, Greece, twenty-one years into a war that has devastated all Greece. How to stop the war? Desperate times call for desperate measures. Join us as the women of Greece light upon the happy idea of declaring a sex strike to force their men to declare peace. Aristophanes' brilliant comedy explores the nature of power - political, economic, civic and sexual - through scathing satire, gorgeous visual spectacle, lyrical poetry, and bawdy, slapstick humor. Although almost 2,500 years have passed since the play's first production, Lysistrata's assertions about why wars are waged and how they might be stopped have a particular relevance for us today. This production is intended for mature audiences.

Guys and Dolls will be performed February 22-24, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. in the Glenn Auditorium. Based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Guys and Dolls is set amidst New York City's high lights and low life and is an engaging fable of love, marriage, and temperance on Damon Runyon's 1930s Broadway. While Nathan Detroit, proprietor of the "oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" evades marriage to Adelaide, his chorus-girl fiance of fourteen years, gambler Sky Masterson revels in his reputation as a high roller and notorious womanizer. But when Nathan bets Sky that even he cannot sweep Miss Sarah Brown, the prim Salvation Army lass, off to Havana, everyone gets more than they bargained for. Filled with some of Broadway's most memorable music - "A Bushel and a Peck," "Guys and Dolls," "Luck be a Lady" - Guys and Dolls won the 1950 Tony awards for Best Musical, Best Score and Lyrics, and Best Book, and the 1950 Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical. Don't miss this classic of the American theatre!

The Shape of Things, by Neil LaBute, will be performed April 19-21, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. in the Dobbs Theatre. How far would you go for love? What would you be willing to change? At what cost? English major Adam falls hard for Evelyn, an intriguing graduate student working on her thesis project in art. In love for the first time, Adam acquiesces to Evelyn's suggestions about his physical appearance and grows from geek to gorgeous as the semester proceeds. Along with style and confidence, however, come darker

aspects of Adam's metamorphosis - cosmetic surgery, severing the ties of old friendships, and his deepening attachment to an increasingly neurotic Evelyn. The play's surprise ending comes when Evelyn unveils her thesis project. Sharply humorous, cynically dark, morally and ethically ambiguous, The Shape of Things leaves us pondering how and why we allow others to manipulate us, our obsession with appearances, and just how important we consider truth to be when crafting human relationships or creating a work of art. Because of subject matter and language, this production is intended for mature audiences.

Reservations or ticket information may be obtained by calling the Box Office at (706) 3794307. The Box Office will begin taking reservations and selling tickets two weeks prior to the opening of a production and will observe the following hours:

M o n d a y F r i d a y 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Evening of performances 6:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

Tickets may be available on the evening of the performance; however, it is strongly recommended that reservations be made in advance. Refunds and exchanges will not be made after 7:00 p.m. on performance evenings.

Tickets for all productions may be reserved by telephone during the above hours and should be picked up at the Theatre Box Office in the lobby of the Goolsby Center between the hours of 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Reserved tickets that have not been picked up in advance will be held only until 7:30 p.m. on the evening of the performance.

Founded in 1886, Young Harris College is a private, core liberal arts college focused on university preparation. Historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church, a primary goal of Young Harris College is to provide a quality education for the whole person: intellectually, socially, culturally, and spiritually. To learn more about Young Harris College, visit us at www.yhc.edu.