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Click on titles to hear songs from the showsO.k., here it is:1966-1967 Rally Round the Flag, Boys! * 1984 1967-1968 Under the Sycamore Tree * Bye Bye Birdie 1968-1969 Tom Jones * The Music Man 1969-1970 The Odd Couple * My Fair Lady 1970-1971 Wait Until Dark * How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1971-1972 Don?t Drink the Water * Feiffer's People * West Side Story Summer 72 You?re a Good Man, Charlie Brown 1972-1973 Cactus Flower * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Summer 73 How the Other Half Lives * The Little Prince * Love Rides the Rails 1973-1974 Butterflies Are Free * Funny Girl Summer 74 Fiddler on the Roof 1974-1975 Barefoot in the Park * Sugar Summer 75 Godspell 1975-1976 Arsenic and Old Lace * Hello Dolly! Summer 76 1776 1976-1977 God?s Favorite * Oliver! Summer 77 Applause 1977-1978 Sherlock Holmes * Once Upon a Mattress Summer 78 Pippin (amateur premiere!) 1978-1979 Dracula * Guys and Dolls Summer 79 Jesus Christ Superstar 1979-1980 One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest * It?s a Bird! It?s a Plane! It?s Superman! Summer 80 Cabaret 1980-1981 Sly Fox * Camelot Summer 81 Grease 1981-1982 Something?s Afoot! * Oklahoma Summer 82 The Wiz 1982-1983 Whose Life is it Anyway? * The Pirates of Penzance Summer 83 Deathtrap * Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat * Grease (Indiana State University Summer workshop) 1983-1984 You Can?t Take it With You * Grease (ISU Workshop reunion at Griffith High School) * Barnum Summer 84 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (first revival) 1984-1985 Trixie True, Teen Detective * Peter Pan Summer 85 Greater Tuna * Godspell (revival) * Peter Pan (extended run) 1985-1986 The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch * Bye, Bye Birdie (revival) Summer 86 True West * West Side Story (revival) * Godspell (special shows at Bridge-VU Theater) 1986-1987 Wait Until Dark (revival) * Annie Get Your Gun Summer 87 Noises Off * Hair 1987-1988 Don?t Drink the Water (revival) * Carnival Summer 88 Little Murders * Little Shop of Horrors 1988-1989 Fools * Little Shop of Horrors (first New Year?s show 88-89) * Anything Goes Summer 89 Godspell (revival) * The Nerd * Shenandoah 1989-1990 One Flew over the Cuckoo?s Nest (revival) * The Mystery of Edwin Drood Summer 90 Pump Boys & Dinettes (revival) * Grease (revival) * Wally?s Cafe, director, LCTG grad Jim Robinson * Four-one-Act Plays: Ledge, Ledger, and the Legend / I?m Herbert / Sociability / Unbeatable Harold (written by Randy Noojin ?78) 1990-1991 Scapino * Pump Boys & Dinettes (New Year?s 90-91) * Sugar Summer 91 Pump Boys & Dinettes (revival) * Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (revival) * Chess 1991-1992 The Curious Savage * On the Twentieth Century Summer 92 Candide 1992-1993 The Madwoman of Chaillot * Into the Woods Summer 93 City of Angels * Bleacher Bums * Women and Wallace 1993-1994 The Man Who Came to Dinner * How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Summer 94 Prelude to a Kiss, director, LCTG grad Dan Winkler Winner Best Play, NW Indiana Theatre foundation * Woman of the Year 1994-1995 Tons of Money! * Lucky Stiff!! Summer 95 Rumors * My Favorite Year 1995-1996 Out of Sight, Out of Murder * The Pirates of Penzance Summer 96 Twenty-fifth Anniversary of LCTG Summer Theatre Don?t Dress for Dinner * Godspell (revival) * The Goodbye Girl 1996-1997 Dearly Departed * Once Upon A Mattress (revival) Summer 97 The Foreigner * Chess (revival) *2 one-act plays at the CTG's Alley Studio in Valparaiso, Indiana (Laundry and Bourbon;and Lone Star) 1997-1998 You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown * First-Ever Freshman Show- Mrs. McThing * WORKING Summer 98 Beyond Therapy (guest-directed for CTG at their brand new Chicago Street Theatre in Valpo) * Murder at the Howard Johnson's * ROXANN'S KISS 1998-1999 Hamlet * Tribute * Durang, Durang * Schoolhouse Rock Live! * Freshman Shows: Foiled By an Innocent Maid * Egad, What A Cad * Great Western Melodrama Summer 99 * Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (at the Urgency Theatre in East Chicago) * Noises Off 1999-2000 * Murder at the Howard Johnson's Encore and Benefit * Zoo Story and Men in Suits (at the Urgency Theatre) * Gramercy Ghost * Twelve Angry Men (at the Urgency Theatre...won Best Play and Best Director!!!! * Grease * Freshman Shows: This is a Test * Baby * That Was No Lady, That Was A Private Eye * When God Comes to Breakfast, Don't Burn the Toast Summer 2000 * Squabbles * Lost in Yonkers...Best Actress award for Lisa Massa!!! Summer 2001 * Annie 2001-2002 * The Sunshine Boys (at the Urgency Theatre) * Don't Tell Mother * The Odd Couple (female version) * That Championship Season (at a Dyer, IN venue) * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum * Summer 2002 * Steel Magnolias * 1776 2002-2003 * All Because of Agatha * Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue, S'il Vous Plait * Something's Afoot (revival) Summer 2003 * Jesus Christ Superstar (revival...or resurrection??) 2003-2004 * Double-Booked in Cabin #4, a Weekend Comedy * Sugar (revival) * Godspell (revival)= our last high school musical! * The Outsiders (special project for 7th-grade reading program--our last "official" school show!) Summer 2004 * The Music Man (revival) Crowning Achievement ! Performed The Music Man at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, thanks to the definitive Music Man , Charlie Blum!! * TURNING POINT IN LCTG HISTORY = official resignation from all things Lake Central!!!! December '04! Founded the "new" LCTG = L'arc en Ciel Theatre Group!!! New not-for-profit status theatre company! Began performing shows at Great Oaks After 4 Club in Cedar Lake, thanks to Tom McAdams! January, '05...ON BORROWED TIME February, '05...DOUBLE-BOOKED IN CABIN #4, a "weekend comedy" May, '05...THE ODD COUPLE * ALowe directed PIPPIN at Andrean HS! June, '05...GODSPELL, our "signature piece" * ALowe directed NUNSENSE at IU Northwest July, '05...2nd revival of THE MUSIC MAN, again at the Star Plaza Theatre!!! August, '05...revival GUYS AND DOLLS!!! 5 of 6 sold-out performances! November, '05...revival ARSENIC AND OLD LACE December, '05...one night only "Improveneezer Scrooge", a "script-enario" w/improv based on audience participation, featuring Jim Spivak, John Fetsch, and Angie Lowe herself....OMG! We had just taken "Improveneezer Scrooge" on tour at the Milk Pail in Dundee, IL! December, '05...LCTG 1st Christmas reunion!!! (3rd reunion since '93 and '01 summer reunions!) January, '06...GOD'S FAVORITE revival Oh, my gosh, am I behind??? Ok, so somewhere in '06, we did a show called Knows All, Tells All...performed at Great Oaks before taking it on tour. (Boss built the best porch set ever, and he and Keith P transported it to several tour spots for us! Couldn't have done it without that set and that awesome sliding glass door, which, by the way, was also a central character!!! OUCH!) May & June, '06...THE FOREIGNER, Best Play and Best Director awards, plus Best Supporting Actor for J.J. Boylan!!! July, '06...A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum revival (yes, 2nd revival of that hilarious musical!) August, '06...GREASE at the Star Plaza September, '06...Same Time Next Year as a fund-raiser (featured Grant Fitch...our "foreigner"...and his company from the Dunes) October, '06...Wait Until Dark 2nd revival (yes!) December, '06...Grant Fitch's A Christmas Carol (his one-man show) December, '06... 2nd LCTG Christmas reunion! (4th LCTG reunion!) January, '07...The Crazy Time (Boss directed) February, '07...Jerry Finnegan's Sister (ALowe directed) March, '07...A Bench in the Sun (ALowe directed and took Bench on tour in both April & May for 10 paid shows!) April & May, '07...Boss & Keith P rebuilt the "temporary" stage!!! June, '07...Mixed Nuts July, '07...Little Shop of Horrors revival (Bruce Jung reprises his role as Mr. Mushnik!) Oct, '07...The Nerd revival Dec '07 presented Grant Fitch again as Scrooge et. al. January '08 THE SUGAR BEAN SISTERS Whew! That should catch us up! So many shows, so little time???? Season '08 to go! |
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