SCHEDULE
PTERODACTYLS
at CLUB DIVERSITY 863 S High Street Columbus, 43206
JAN 19, 20, 26, 27 FEB 2, 3 2018
By NICKY SILVER
A farce-comedy about the demise of the Duncan family, and, by extension, the species. Dysfunction takes on new meaning with the Duncan Family. We laugh throughout, as we watch the family disintegrate, and finally realize the seeds of this dysfunction lie within us all.
PERFORMANCES
Friday January 19, 7:30p
Saturday January 20, 7:30p
Friday January 26, 7:30p
Saturday January 27, 7:30p
Friday February 2, 7:30p
Saturday February 3, 7:30p
"…PTERODACTYLS struck me as the flip-side of The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder's antic celebration of mankind's ability to muddle through." —NY Times.
"There are times—not all that many, admittedly—when a critic wishes he had never used the word 'brilliant' before, so he could offer it fresh minded and glittering to something new. And different…" —NY Post.
"Clever is the word for PTERODACTYLS…clever, sharp, witty—it's a play that takes aim at the main-streamed, moneyed, conventional American family and buries it under one satiric jibe after another." —TheaterWeek.
A KISS TO THE DANCE FLOOR
at CLUB DIVERSITY 863 S High Street Columbus, 43206
MAR 9, 10, 16, 23, 24 2018
By ALAN SAUNDERS
Cyclodrama is proud to present A Kiss To The Dance Floor in March 2018 a one man musical written by co-founder of Cyclodrama Alan Saunders.
A KISS TO THE DANCE FLOOR tells the story of Tim, fresh out of the Navy and freshly “out” to his high school best friend Jerry, who returns home without a path or goal for his life. Jerry immediately takes him to a dance club and introduces him to the world of gay night life. Eager to fit in, socially-anxious Tim follows Jerry’s advice unsuccessfully when dealing with drinking, flirting and the art of the "one night stand." When an opportunity to work for the dance club becomes available, Tim jumps in with both feet, rising to the position of DJ, until a rookie mistake gets him fired. Believing he doesn’t belong, Tim, runs away to forge a "safe" life, like his parents – “with a home and a white picket fence.”
PERFORMANCES
Friday March 9, 7:30p
Saturday March 10, 7:30p (Director & Author Talk back) Friday March 16, 7:30p
Friday March 23, 7:30p
Saturday March 24, 7:30p
SPLENDORA
at CLUB DIVERSITY 863 S High Street Columbus, 43206
APR 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 2018
Book by PETER WEBB, Music by STEPHEN HOFFMAN, Lyrics by MARK CAMPBELL
The small town of Splendora, Texas is all a-flutter over the arrival of Jessica, the new book mobile librarian who seems to embody the lost graces of another time. A literate, melodic new musical with a new point of view.
PERFORMANCES
Friday April 6, 7:30p
Saturday April 7, 7:30p
Friday April 13, 7:30p
Saturday April 14, 7:30p
Friday April 20, 7:30p
Saturday April 21, 7:30p
Based on the 1978 novel by Edward Swift. Winner of the prestigious Richard Rodgers Production Award (the largest given in its fifteen-year history).
"SPLENDORA is a brave new musical…a most remarkable show." —NY Times.
"SPLENDORA boasts…the only thing I've heard in a new musical this season that could be called music…" —Village Voice.
EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL
at CLUB DIVERSITY 863 S High Street Columbus, 43206
MAY 25, 26, JUN 1, 2, 8, 9 2018
Book and lyrics by GEORGE REINBLATT, Music by FRANK CIPOLLA, CHRISTOPHER BOND, MELISSA MORRIS and GEORGE REINBLATT, Music supervision by FRANK CIPOLLA Additional lyrics by CHRISTOPHER BOND Additional music by ROB DALEMAN
This hilarious show takes all the elements of the cult classic films The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness and combines them into one of the craziest theatrical experiences of all time. Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It's all up to Ash (a housewares employee turned demon-killing hero) and his trusty chainsaw to save the day. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons tell bad jokes ... and all to music.
PERFORMANCES
Friday May 25, 7:30p
Saturday May 26, 7:30p
Friday Jun 1, 7:30p
Saturday Jun 2, 7:30p
Friday Jun 8, 7:30p
Saturday Jun 9, 7:30p
"A deliciously campy, gore-filled musical spectacle that faithfully pays homage to the original cult classic." -Mooney on Theatre
"A demented delight." -NOW Magazine
"A must-see for die-hard lovers of the franchise and really anybody who's in the mood for some over-the-top, campy, raunchy, gory good fun. Go see this play." -Mooney on Theatre
"A ridiculously fun, tongue-in-cheek, gore-soaked musical experience." -The Torontoist
"Absurdly brilliant. You won't find a better night out than at this hilarious cult musical." -The Examiner.com
"As long as you like having fun … this show is for you." -Broadway World
"Bloody hilarious … Devilishly entertaining." -The Toronto Star
"Call it, if you will, The Rocky Gore-er Show." -The Globe and Mail
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
at CLUB DIVERSITY 863 S High Street Columbus, 43206
AUG 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 2018
By AGATHA CHRISTIE
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme.
PERFORMANCES
Friday August 10, 7:30p
Saturday August 11, 7:30p
Friday August 17, 7:30p
Saturday August 18, 7:30p
Friday August 24, 7:30p
Saturday August 25, 7:30p
“A perfect combination of thriller and detective story, this much-copied plot is Christie's greatest technical achievement.” - John Curran, The Guardian
“It is high-concept and its premise is instantly gripping as well as having a profoundly archetypal feel to it. I had a strong sense of being pulled into an eerie dream – and, like the characters on the island, I could not escape.” - Sophie Hannah, The Guardian
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
at CLUB DIVERSITY 863 S High Street Columbus, 43206
OCT 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 2018
By RICHARD O'BRIEN
The Rocky Horror Show is a a humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist, Dr Frank N. Furter, unveiling his new creation, a sort of Frankenstein-style monster in the form of an artificially made, fully grown, physically perfect muscle man named Rocky Horror, complete "with blond hair and a tan"
PERFORMANCES
Friday October 5, 7:30p
Saturday October 6, 7:30p
Friday October 12, 7:30p
Saturday October 13, 7:30p
Friday October 19, 7:30p
Saturday October 20, 7:30p
"A socko wacko weirdo rock concert." - WNBC TV
"A musical that deals with mutating identity and time warps becomes one of the most mutated, time-warped phenomena in show business." - The New York Times
"Campy trash." - Time
"One of the '10 most influential postwar British plays.'" - Guardian UK
