| The Costa Mesa Playhouse Presents
2009-2010 Season
The Costa Mesa Playhouse is proud to announce its 2009 - 2010 Season. This year we're presenting four fabulous shows! In addition, we are planning a lavish fund-raiser and a concert series. Stay tuned for details!
Due to the unpredictable nature of licensing plays, we have had to replace the previously announced "Harvey" with Neil Simon's "Jake's Women."
We have also, regrettably, had to cancel our planned Christmas Revue.
Lend Me A Tenor
 by Ken Ludwig
Directed by David A. Blair
On a night in September of 1934,the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello, his greatest role, at the gala season opener. Saunders, the General Manager, hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but when Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume comedy most hilarious ensues.
A sensation on Broadway and in London's West End, Lend Me a Tenor is guaranteed to leave you teary eyed with laughter
August 28th - September 20th, 2009
Cast List
Review by Tom Titus
Reveiw by Jill Fales
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The Woman In Black
Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the Book by Susan Hill
Directed by Stephen Hulsey
Arthur Kipps, a middle-aged solicitor, hires a theatre and the services of a professional actor to help him re-enact, and thereby hopefully exorcise, a ghostly event which befell him many years previously with horrifyingly tragic results. Still running in London’s West End after 20 years, The Woman In Black treads in the footsteps of the classic ghost story, following the tradition of Charles Dickens and Henry James. It relies on atmosphere, a vivid sense of place, on hints and glimpses and suggestions, on what is shadowy, heard and sometimes only half-seen, to chill the audience’s blood to the marrow. Not for the faint of heart.
October 30th - November 22nd, 2009
(NOTE: OUR GALA OPENING NIGHT IS HALLOWEEN)
Cast List
Review by Jill Fales
Review by Tom Titus
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J ake's Women
by Neil Simon
Directed by Michael Dale Brown
In the semi-autobiographical play “Jake’s Women,” Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winner Neil Simon takes a wildly comic and sometimes moving look at the relationships between men and women. Still obsessed with the idyllic first wife who died years earlier in an accident, Jake, a successful but narcissistic writer, faces a marital crisis with his second wife by conjuring up a series of imaginary encounters with the important women in his life, past and present -- the two wives, his daughter both as a child and the young woman she is now, his boisterous and bossy sister, and his less-than-supportive analyst. Jake is a man lost in the most terrifying place a writer can imagine – his own mind.
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I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!
 Music by Jimmy Roberts
Book & Lyrics by Joe DiPietro
Directed by David A. Blair
Off-Broadway’s phenomenal long running musical (playing for 12 years, historic for an Off Broadway musical and second only to the run of The Fantasticks) celebrates the modern-day suburban mating game. Concerning everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit, during its Off Broadway run, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change inspired 57 men from the audience to make on-stage proposals. In all cases, the brides-to-be happily accepted as the audience roared with approval.
This hilarious musical pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, to those who have dared to ask, "Say, what are you doing Saturday night?"
April 16th - May 16th, 2010
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