Generic Theater

on 21st Street
Hampton Roads off-Broadway Playhouse

	Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey Into Night September 21 - October 14, 2007 “None of us can help the things life has does to us.” O’Neill wrestled with the demons of his past in this famous, autobiographical explosion of human passions. In 1912 James Tyrone, a celebrated actor, watches his family reveal their haunted souls in one day. Arguably America’s greatest play, O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece is savage, beautiful and hypnotic.
	Ron Hutchinson Moonlight and Magnolias November 16 - December 9, 2007 David O’ Selznick shuts down production on Gone with the Wind. He doesn’t have a screenplay, he fired the director and Miss. Fiddle Dee Dee isn’t showing enough cleavage. Enter famous scriptwriter Ben Hecht, who refused to read the book and director Victor Fleming fresh from filming 160 drunk Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz. Selznick locks these iconic wits and egos in a room for five days to write the movie that will save his studio and career.
	David Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross January 18 - February 10, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Who can survive in this testosterone jungle of sweat stained business suits and polished wingtips?The slippery Shelly Levene, is Mamet’s Willy Loman thrown into the bottom of the American Dream. Cutthroat real-estate sales men greedily cheat, lie and steal on their way up and down the white-collar ladder. - explicit language
	Beth Henley The Wake of Jamey Foster March 14 - April 6, 2008 Jamey kicked the bucket when a cow kicked him in the head. And nothing is ordinary about his wake in a small Mississippi town. Odd relatives and off-beat characters arrive to pay respects and drink gin. Attending the dead they realize their own dreams are dying, but spirits rally somewhere between the blueberry pie and exploding pigs. Wear black, it may get messy.
	Music by Fats Waller Based on an idea by: Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr. Ain't Misbehavin: The Fats Waller Musical Show May 23 - June 15, 2008 Man, this joint is jumpin’! 1930’s Harlem is soulful, sassy, sultry and a swingin’ good time. The loveable Fats Waller was the best stride piano player and a great songwriter. Five singers celebrate his songs and lyrics in this foot stompin’ revue. “Honeysuckle Rose”, “Ain’t Misbehavin , “Squeeze me”, “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love” and “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” are featured.

Generic Theater * 912 W. 21st Street * Norfolk, VA 23517 * 757.441.2160 * E-mail: generic@whro.net
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