Lyric Repertory is back with 2015 Theater Season in Logan
Cast members from the Lyric Repertory Company production of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," the company's musical offering, include Peter Surace, Lacy J. Dunn (Actors’ Equity Association), and company co-artistic director Richie Call. The production is a 'musical-within-a-musical’ where the audience selects the ending at each performance.
The Lyric Repertory Company at Utah State University brings four hot shows to one cool place this summer.
“The Lyric has been a big part of the community since 1967,” said Dennis Hassan, co-artistic director of the Lyric Rep. “This season we have a great cast from across the country.”
Opening this year’s season is Noises Off, a comedy by Michael Frayn. In this play within a play, a manic menagerie of traveling actors rehearses a flop called “Nothing’s On.” Personal problems from divorces and illicit love affairs to missing contact lenses distract the actors. Doors slamming, on and offstage plotting and misbehaving sardines all figure in the plot of the hilarious and classically witty play, Hassan said. The funny farce plays June 11-13, 20, July 8, 11, 14, 18, 24 and 30. Noises Off is rated intermediate for mild adult themes.
Arlene Hutton’s Last Train to Nibroc, opens June 17.
In December of 1940, an eastbound cross-country train is carrying the bodies of American writers Nathanael West and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also on board is religious and bookish May, and charming, young flyer, Raleigh, who is heading to New York to be a writer. The two discover they are from neighboring towns and Raleigh decides to take May to the Nibroc Festival in Kentucky. Through distance and heartache, May and Raleigh find a spark that carries on through the aftermath of World War II. Watch the lovers in their search for happiness June 17-19, 27, July 9, 15, 25 and 31. Last Train to Nibroc is rated intermediate for mild adult themes.
Opening June 24, the award-winning and wildly theatrical musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood kicks off when a second-rate company of players in Victorian England attempts to present its flamboyant rendition of the famous and unfinished Charles Dickens novel. With book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes, the giddy playfulness of this musical-within-a-musical draws the audience toward one of the production’s most talked about features — a most unusual and hilarious finale with plenty of audience interaction. Choose the ending for the production at its June 24-26, July 4, 7, 10, 16, 22, 25, 28 and Aug. 1 performances. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is rated intermediate for mild adult themes.
“I’m so excited to be in a musical I’ve never worked in before,” Richie Call, co-artistic director of the Lyric Rep and actor in ‘Drood,’ said. “The audience participation in the finale makes it scary and exciting.”
The fourth show of the season is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. One by one, guests arrive on an isolated island lured by a mysterious and missing host. All guests have been accused of murder but escaped justice. The guests are charged with their crimes, announced through a recording, after the first night’s dinner and informed that they have been brought to the island to pay for their actions. One by one, each guest falls victim to certain justice. The classic “whodunit” full of thrills, twists and suspense can be seen July 1-3, 11, 17, 18, 21, 23 and 29. And Then There Were None is rated intermediate for mild adult themes.
“I’ve never directed an Agatha Christie before but I love her work,” said Call, who is also directing the show. “This particular mystery is the only one where I genuinely had no idea who the murderer was until it is revealed.”
This summer the Lyric Repertory Company offers four dates for “Dinner and a Show” and four dates for “Brunch and a Show.” Patrons can enjoy a meal with the actors, directors and designers next to the river at Elements Restaurant in Logan prior to curtain. Dinner or Brunch and a Show feature special presentations, discussions and interactions with the Lyric patrons and the company’s artistic team.
Individual dinners are $30 per person with a 20 percent discount if purchased in a pack of four. All brunches start at 10 a.m. and all dinners start at 5 p.m. Brunch for Noises Off is July 18 and dinner is June 12, brunch for Last Train to Nibroc is July 25 and dinner is June 19, brunch for The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Aug. 1 and dinner is June 26, brunch for And Then There Were None is July 11 and dinner is July 3.
The Lyric Rep is composed of theater professionals and advanced university theater students.
Tickets for the 2015 season are on sale now. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office on the Utah State University campus in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 435-797-8022 or see the college’s Production Services website.
Related links:
- Caine College of the Arts Box Office
- Caine College of the Arts Production Services
- USU Theatre Arts Department
- USU Caine College of the Arts
Writer and Contact: Whitney Schulte, (435) 797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
Utah State University's Caine Lyric Theatre is part of the growing theater district in downtown Logan and can be found at 28 W. Center Street.
The ornate interior of the intimate Caine Lyric Theatre. The theater, now extensively renovated, originally opened in 1913. It has been the home of the Lyric Repertory Company for the past 48 seasons.
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