County Players at the Falls Theatre

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

MAY 2023
5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21
Book by BURT SHEVELOVE and LARRY GELBART
Music & Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Directed by DAVID RINGWOOD

Stephen Sondheim’s   Tony   Award-winning   musical   comedy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a story with shenanigans, hijinks, and tomfoolery as a lowly servant endeavors to scheme his way to freedom in this antic romp through Rome with desperate lovers, scheming neighbors, and scandalous secrets behind every toga. The plot twists with cases of mistaken identity, slamming doors, and a showgirl or two. This joyous romp of a musical will have you dancing in the aisles with the infectious energy of slapstick and vaudeville!

Produced by special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

“This Broadway musical is as timeless as comedy itself!” THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Season 65 is sponsored by Hudson Valley Credit Union

Ragtime,The Musical

RAGTIME, THE MUSICAL
Book by TERRENCE MCNALLY
Lyrics by LYNN AHRENS
Music by STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Based on the novel, Ragtime by E.L. DOCTOROW
Directed by ANNA MARIE PAOLERCIO

MAY 2024
Fri & Sat 8pm | May 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18
Sun Matinee 2pm | May 12, 19
Sat Matinee 2pm | May 18

This musical tapestry depicts an African-American family, a Jewish immigrant family, and a wealthy white suburban family in turn-of-the-century America, who collide in pursuit of the American Dream. Nominated for 13 Tony Awards® including “Best Musical,” and winning for “Best Original Score” and “Best Book of a Musical,” Ragtime is a powerful portrait of life during the turn-of-the century, exploring America’s timeless contradictions of freedom and prejudice, wealth, and poverty, hope and despair.

Ragtime is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, New York, NY. MTIShows.com

“A triumph for the stage.”
TIME MAGAZINE

“Nothing much happens in a year. The world will not
spin off its axis. Nothing will change, Mother. We will
miss each other but the world will stay the same.”
TERRENCE MCNALLY, RAGTIME

Silent Sky and Photograph 51

MARCH 9 & 10, 2024
Sat 8pm & Sun 2pm

SILENT SKY
By LAUREN GUNDERSON
Directed by CHRISTINE CRAWFIS

A decade before women gained the right to vote, Henrietta Leavitt and her fellow women “computers” transformed the science of astronomy. While at the Harvard Observatory, Leavitt found 2,400 new variable stars and made important discoveries about their fluctuating brightness, enabling fellow scientists to map the Milky Way and beyond.

Silent Sky is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists PlayService collection. dramatists.com

MARCH 8 & 9, 2024
Fri 8pm & Sat 2pm

PHOTOGRAPH 51
By ANNA ZIEGLER
Directed by KIT COLBOURN

Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets of DNA in the 1950s. Her more famous contemporaries Watson and Crick took all the kudos for the discovery of the molecule’s double helix structure, yet it was Franklin’s skill with X-ray diffraction that first uncovered what’s called “the secret of life.”

Photograph 51 is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists PlayService collection. dramatists.com