WaterTower Theatre in Addison
WaterTower Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director Shane Peterman has announced details of the 2021-22 season, the company’s 26th.
The 5-show subscription season includes Lauren Gunderson’s The Taming, the musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Neil Simon’s comedy The Odd Couple, the world premiere of a brand new co-production with one of Dallas’ largest arts organizations, which will be announced later this year, and Ella’s Swinging Christmas Party an exclusive holiday celebration for subscribers.
Season tickets will be available for purchase on May 17. Subscription prices increase from $129 to $149 if purchased after Sept. 1. New subscriptions are available by calling the box office at 972-450-6232, and renewals can be made by phone or in person. Individual tickets will go on sale this summer.
Pay-What-You-Can performances will be the first Saturday matinee of each run. ASL interpreted performances will be the final Thursday performance of every run.
All performances are held at the Terry Martin Main Stage at the Addison Theatre Centre, 15650 Addison Road, Addison. More information at WaterTowerTheatre.org.
The shows:
THE TAMING
by Lauren Gunderson
10/13/21-10/24/21
A patriotism obsessed Miss Georgia has kidnapped a Republican Senator’s campaign manager & a liberal activist who is fighting to save the endangered pandashrew and is holding them hostage in her hotel room the night before the big Miss America Pageant. In this hilarious, raucous, all-female “power-play” inspired by Shakespeare’s Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to match her beauty pageant ambitions. All she needs to revolutionize the American government is the help of one ultra-conservative senator’s aide on the cusp of a career breakthrough, and one bleeding-heart liberal blogger who will do anything for her cause. Well, that and a semi-historically accurate ether trip where they search for the secret to fix our broken democracy by becoming James Madison & George Washington. Here’s lookin’ at you, America.
ELLA’s SWINGING CHRISTMAS PARTY
Conceived by Elizabeth Kensek
Music Supervision by Vonda K. Bowling
12/9/21-12/12/21
Ella’s Swinging Christmas is a musical treat for all ages featuring Dallas, TX singer and actress phenomenon Feleceia Wilson. Conceived by Elizabeth Kensek and based on Ella Fitzgerald’s 1960 “Swinging Christmas” album, her only complete holiday album recorded on Verve Records, this show was filmed on the Terry Martin Main Stage in 2020. This holiday season, WaterTower season subscribers will be treated to an exclusive holiday party at the theater featuring this theatrical film, allowing us all to properly toast this incredible performance, the amazing talents of all the artists featured, and the chance to celebrate the season together again.
TBA MYSTERY SHOW
Early 2022
Sometimes out of adversity, the most exciting opportunities are born. The incredible critical success of our 2020 projects that brought the experience of live theater to film & safely to our patrons’ homes, brought a thrilling new project to WaterTower, and with it the opportunity to partner with one of the largest arts organizations in Dallas to bring a world premiere experience to both of our audiences. While the title must remain a mystery for now, the show centers around the story of a famous female character whose story has been only written by men until this moment.
THE ODD COUPLE
By Neil Simon
3/30/22-4/10/22
This Tony award winning classic comedy centers around two unlikely roommates, uptight neat Felix Ungar and easygoing disheveled Oscar Madison, and inspired both a hit movie & multiple TV series. This classic comedy opens as a group of the guys assemble for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it’s no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Unger, who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious, depressed, and none too tense, Felix seems suicidal, but as the action unfolds, Oscar becomes the one with murder on his mind when the clean freak and the slob ultimately decide to room together with hilarious results as the ultimate buddy comedy, The Odd Couple is born.
A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER
Book & lyrics by Robert L. Freedman
Music & lyrics by Steven Lutvak
7/20/22-7/31/22
This side splittingly hilarious show won 4 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Set in London in 1907, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder centers on Monty Navarro, a penniless clerk who is informed after the death of his mother that he is ninth in line to inherit the earldom of Highhurst, controlled by the wealthy D’Ysquith banking family. After the imperious ruling Lord dismisses Monty’s claim of being a relative, the eight D’Ysquiths ahead of young Mr. Navarro begin dying in natural and unnatural ways. Meanwhile, Monty is desperately trying to woo money-minded Sibella Hallward —until he finds himself drawn to young Phoebe D’Ysquith. How will all these convoluted storylines come together?
— David Taffet
