For Immediate Release

Announcing Theatre Three's 2007-2008 Season The season will be a theatrical tribute to the excitement of the silver screen

For the 2007-2008 season, Theatre Three celebrates the bright lights of the stage and of the silver screen. The season embraces plays and musicals celebrating the making of movies, plays that became famous movies, and plays that re-examine fascinating screen ideas with the techniques of live performance -- a cavalcade of entertaining mysteries, comedies, dramas, and musicals – and all in 3-D on Theatre Three’s famous theatre-in-the-round stage! Produced in Theatre Three’s 242-seat main stage, the 2007-2008 season will begin July 19, 2006 and conclude August 19, 2008. Mack & Mabel a Broadway and London musical hit by composer JERRY HERMAN, book by MICHAEL STEWART July 19 – August 19 In the days of silent movies, director Mack Sennett’s comic two-reelers made his discovery, Mabel Normand, America’s most adored comedienne. Composer Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly; Mame; La Cage aux Folles) celebrates this pioneer film duo in his rollicking and romantic show with his trademark musical panache and show business dazzle. Popcorn a Dallas premiere of the taboo-shattering comedy-thriller by BEN ELTON September 6 – October 7 PLACE: Hollywood. TIME: Academy Award Night. CHARACTERS: A vain auteur of voguishly violent films, his ex, his sardonic daughter, his on-the-make date, murderers inspired by his movie, and a voyeuristic TV crew. Elton’s award-winning comedy has vulgar vigor and smart-mouthed one-liners, but surprisingly has the moral purpose of a Jacobean revenge drama. (Rated VERY Adult) Pygmalion GEORGE BERNARD SHAW’s most illustrious and illuminating comedy October 25 – November 25 Here’s a 1913 classic stage play that became a classic movie, which in turn became both the classic stage musical and movie musical, My Fair Lady. Now the great play returns to Theatre Three’s stage in Shaw’s original form. Few plays in the English language contain such intellectual and comic inventions – all so Shaw could argue for nothing less than the perfection of civilization. The Goodbye Girl book by NEIL SIMON, music by MARVIN HAMLISCH, lyrics by DAVID ZIPPEL December 13 – January 20 First Simon wrote the movie as a Valentine gift to his actress wife. Then Hamlisch and Zipple worked with him to turn his film script into a smash Broadway hit musical. This gifted trio of contemporary theatre giants created a RARE thing these days, a delightfully funny and romantic musical theatre piece! The single mom, a thirty-something dancer, struggles through New York disappointments, user boyfriends, and then clashes with an upstart intruder who may be just another bad actor – or is he? Crimes of the Heart the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by former Theatre Three actress, BETH HENLEY February 14 – March 16 In Hazlehurst, Mississippi the three Magrath sisters face troubles both grave and hilarious but in the end manage to escape the past to seize the future. “Such is Miss Henley’s prodigious talent that she can serve us pain as though it were a piece of cake” – NY TIMES; “It has heart, wit and a surprisingly zany passion that carries it all before it” – NY Post. Whodunnit a comedy-thriller by the author of Sleuth, ANTHONY SHAFFER April 3 – May 4 Only one author wrote screenplays for both Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy) and for novelist Dame Agatha Christie (Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, and Murder on the Orient Express). “So whodunit?” you ask. It was the brilliantly inventive Anthony Shaffer! In Whodunnit, he gleefully took all he learned from those masters and fashioned his own closed-circle-English-country-house-murder-mystery. And what characters…from horrifying to hilarious. A Dog’s Life A howlingly funny new musical by SEAN GRENNAN & LEAH OKIMOTO May 22 – June 22 Charlie Chaplin made a film with this same title in the silent film days. Ever since then, Hollywood has paraded talented canines like Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, Asta, and Benji whose exploits have entertained us in every decade. This refreshing new musical, A Dog’s Life, romps through the same beloved territory and manages to be goofily hilarious and sweetly moving. This piece tells the story of a rescued pooch, the young man who adopts him, and a complicated pack of four footed pals, all puzzled by the strange ways of the humans around them. Show times: Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. and Sundays at 7:30 pm. Tickets:      Single Tickets: $10 -- $40; Subscriptions: $129.50 -- $205.50 Tickets for all performances may be purchased by calling Theatre Three’s box office at 214-871-3300. In Theatre Too… As a brand new subscription benefit, all Theatre Three Mainstage Season subscribers may purchase half-price tickets to the shows in Theatre Too. The special return engagement of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is not included in this special offer. All About Bette the critically hailed play by CAMILLA CARR July 6 – July 29 Theatre Three has brought back this new piece from its extended hit run last season. Morgana Shaw will recreate the performance that won her “Best Actress in an Equity Play” Column Award. Blind Date an exciting new intimate drama by South American playwright MARIO DIAMENT August 17 – September 2 An anxious adulterer alights in a confessional mood on the blind man’s favorite Buenos Aires park bench. From that chance meeting the blind man, a distinguished poet, sees deeply not only into the life of others, but deeply into his own life and its still-astonishing possibilities. My Own Private Diva a “confessional cabaret” by TERRY DOBSON October 5 -- 21 “Best New Play” award-winning cabaret (from both Column Awards and Dallas-Ft. Worth Critics’ Forum Awards) performed by the author and his personal diva, Sally Soldo. “… a fabulous evening in the theatre” – Dallas Morning News Season’s Greetings the hilarious family comedy by ALAN AYCKBOURN November 23 – December 9 A Christmas gathering replete with family recriminations, a chaotically incompetent puppet show, over-consumed Christmas spirits, and a hilariously bungled midnight tryst make this superbly crafted comedy a must-see holiday show. The LaVidas’ Landlord a clash of cultures in a new comedy-drama by LAWRENCE WEINSTEIN March 14 -- 30 An idealistic high school teacher rents out an apartment to a political refugee from Central America. It turns out there are more than minor philosophical differences between the two which cannot be solved by the teacher’s anxious attempts to be understanding. Mid-Life, the Crisis Musical a revue of middle-aged gains and losses by BOB and JIM WALTON May 2 -- 18 This polished, fall-out-of-your-seat-funny show is woven out of a series of vignettes dealing with classic midlife phenomena – all unpleasant, and virtually all hilarious. Brash, refreshing, and inventively silly, it has an honesty that makes it okay to laugh at ourselves. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change the most favorite show ever at Theatre Three by JOE Di PIETRO & JIMMY ROBERTS January 17 – February 17 It had a huge run in 2000 on the main stage, it moved into Theatre Too that fall and played there for an amazing three years! Since then this record-breaking musical revue has returned annually for an encore run and manages to find new enthusiasts who pack the place to laugh and cheer. Note: This extra event is not included in the half-price ticket offer to Theatre Three subscribers. Show times: Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Single tickets: $25 & $30 Tickets for all performances may be purchased by calling Theatre Three’s box office at 214-871-3300.

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