| The Costa Mesa Playhouse Presents
2010-2011 Season
The Costa Mesa Playhouse is proud to announce its 2010 - 2011 Season. This represents our 45th season and we're presenting five fabulous shows as well as a lavish fund-raiser. Stay tuned for details!
Costa Mesa Playhouse Musical Revue Fundraiser:
 The Best of Times
Directed by Jason Holland
A cast of over twenty extraordinary singers presents the best of Broadway through the years, from landmark scores like “West Side Story” and “Guys and Dolls” to contemporary hits like “Hairspray,” “Spring Awakening” and “Spelling Bee.” The Saturday, June 26th performance includes special appearances by Broadway stars Megan Hilty and Steve Kazee and a silent auction.
June 25th, 26th & 27th , 2010
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The Odd Couple
by Neil Simon
Michael Serna
Neil Simon’s masterpiece about the comic mayhem that ensues when neurotic neat-freak Felix Unger is kicked out by his wife and moves in with poker-buddy and world-class slob Oscar Madison.
August 6th - 29th, 2010
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
 Music & Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Directed by David Anthony Blair
This delightful, charming, Tony Award-winning musical celebrates the triumph of doing the best you can, as six nerdy teenagers, in the midst of adolescent angst, discover themselves while struggling to win the spelling championship of a lifetime.
October 15th - November 15th, 2010
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 The Book of Liz
by David & Amy Sedaris
Directed by Michael Dale Brown
From one of the wittiest satirists of our time and his comedienne sister Amy comes the wacky tale of Sister Elizabeth Donderstock, cheese ball maker for her cloistered religious community, the Squeamish, who leaves the compound for the very first time to discover the lunacy of the outside world.
February 4th - 27th, 2011
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Forever Plaid
Book by Stewart Ross
Directed by Stephen Hulsey
After the all-male quartet The Plaids are killed in a car crash on the way to their first big concert, they return from the afterlife for one night only to perform the show they never got to do, to prove for all time that they really were as good as they imagined, singing some of the great pop hits of the 1950s in four-part harmony.
April 8th - May 8th, 2011
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Steel Magnolias
by Robert Harling
Directed by Jason Holland
With an all female cast, this lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity in a small, southern town, centers on a group quirky and complex ladies who gather every Saturday at Truvy’s Beauty Parlour to shampoo, socialize, gossip… and occasionally grieve.
June 10th - July 3rd, 2011
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