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Theatre Box is a community theater group in Floral Park, New York, on Long Island. We produce two to three full scale productions each year, which include comedies, dramas, mysteries, and musicals. At only $5-$12 per ticket, and $22 dinner theater shows, our ticket prices are the lowest around. Our doors are always open to talents of all kinds from experienced actors and novices alike. Find out more about auditions, future productions, and about how you can get more involved!
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THE SUNSHINE BOYS [Aug 6 - Aug 9]
by Neil Simon
Al Lewis and Willie Clark played vaudeville as a team for 43 years, but squabbling and animosity has kept them far apart for the last decade. Now CBS wants them to appear in a television tribute to their comedy. Despite their differences, the odd couple's reunion sparks delirious comedy, with all the verbal wit and hilarity we have come to expect from the beloved Neil Simon.
The 1975 movie starred Walter Matthau and George Burns and gave Matthau an Academy Award nomination, while winning Burns his only Oscar. The show was most recently portrayed by television's "The Odd Couple" alumni Jack Klugman and Tony Randall in the 1998 Broadway revival.
OLIVER! [June 5 - June 14]
adapted by Lionel Bart from the Charles Dickens novel
This is the one of the most beloved British musicals, vividly bringing to life Charles Dickens’ timeless characters from his ever-popular novel "Oliver Twist" about an orphan boy who asked for more.
With a lively story and colorful characters the whole family can enjoy, the show is about a little orphan boy, Oliver, who joins a boys' gang of pickpockets, led by The Artful Dodger and Fagin, and the amazing journey through life that he leads. It's an emotional story that engages the audience with comedy and drama, while delighting everyone with memorable musical numbers including "Food, Glorious Food", "I'd Do Anything", "Consider Yourself", "As Long As He Needs Me", "Who Will Buy?", and "Reviewing the Situation".
2009-2010 Season
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CURTAINS [Nov 12 - Nov 22]
by Rupert Holmes and John Kandor & Fred Ebb
Based on the original book and concept by Peter Stone, the musical is a send-up of backstage murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, Massachusetts and follows the fallout when the supremely untalented star of Robbin' Hood of the Old West is murdered during her opening night curtain call. Can a police detective, who also happens to have aspirations of musical theatre, save the show, solve the case, and maybe even find love before the show reopens, without getting killed himself?
The original musical played on Broadway from 2007-2008 and starred David Hyde Pierce as the Detective. It was nominated for 18 Tony awards, including Best Musical and won Best Musical Book and Best Actor and Actress in a Musical.
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SOCIAL SECURITY [August]
by Andrew Bergman
Trendy Manhattan art gallery owners Barbara and David Kahn have their life upended in this hilarious comedy when her goody-goody nerdy sister Trudy and uptight accountant husband deposit their old eccentric mother Sophie on the couple's doorstep while they head off to Buffalo to rescue their precocious daughter from the "college lifestyle". Sophie is introduced to the suave 90-year-old artist Maurice, who offers to paint her portrait and they end up hitting it off as she ends up in situations she never expected at her age.
It opened on Broadway in 1986, starring Ron Silver, Marlo Thomas, and Olympia Dukakis (as Sophie). Won the Tony Award for best actress Joanna Gleason (Trudy)
INHERIT THE WIND [June]
by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
A classic courtroom drama that stands the test of time, Inherit the Wind puts on trial our perceptions of what is "right" and "wrong". Although the play is a fictional re-creation of the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 -- in which a Tennessee high-school science teacher was tried for including Darwin's theories of evolution in his curriculum -- it easily fits into the ongoing battles of morality and belief systems in today's environment. Even as humankind becomes more sophisticated in our thought processes, at the end of the day we are still struggling to understand the basic truths in the world around us.
Various revivals have included: Paul Muni & Ed Begley (1955); Charles Durning & George C. Scott (1996); Brian Dennehy & Christopher Plummer (2007)
