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Season 20 at Cary Players Community Theatre is a celebration of the beauty and allure of art and theatre, promising a rich and immersive experience that transcends boundaries and ignites the imagination. Join us as we weave tales that come alive on stage, inviting you to revel in the magic of storytelling and the vibrant world of the performing arts.
The Addams Family - A New Musical
September 27, 2024 - October 6, 2024
Book by Marhsall Brickman
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Directed by Jaret Preston
Music Direction by Katherine Anderson
Choreography by Randi Winter
A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
December 5, 2024 - December 9, 2024
A Sherlock Carol
By Mark Shanahan
Directed by Mike McGee
Moriarty is dead, to begin with. And Sherlock Holmes is a haunted man. But, when a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Holmes to investigate the death of Ebenezer Scrooge, the Great Detective must use his gifts to solve a Dickens of a Christmas mystery! Six actors take on the beloved characters of Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens in this heartwarming and highly theatrical holiday treat for all ages!
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The Trip to Bountiful
January 31, 2025 - February 3, 2025
By Horton Foote
Directed by Mark Arthur Zumbach
Horton Foote’s moving play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman, who longs to escape the cramped Houston apartment where she lives with her protective son, Ludie, and her authoritarian daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. Carrie wants to return to her beloved hometown of Bountiful, Texas, one final time before she dies. While Ludie is at work and Jessie Mae is at the drugstore, Carrie escapes to the bus station and befriends a young woman named Thelma. The new friends travel toward Bountiful together, but when Carrie arrives in nearby Harrison, Texas, she begins to learn that her beloved town isn’t the same as she remembered it.
May 2, 2025 - May 11, 2025
Sonia Flew
By Melinda López
Directed by Amelia Lumpkin
When Sonia learns of her son’s decision to leave college, enlist in the military and fight against terror in Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11, memories of her own childhood overwhelm her. She struggles to reconcile being forced as a young girl to leave Cuba at the dawn of Fidel Castro’s rule with her own responsibilities as a mother facing uncertainty. Sonia must find a way to come to terms with her past, her lost parents, her own children and her adopted country—or risk losing everything that she loves.