Lynn drama productions showcase the talent of students in Lynn's Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) drama program students. Launched in 2018, the drama program is chaired by Associate Professor Adam Simpson.
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Nickel and Dimed
Lynn University
2024-2025
April 4-6, 2025
Based on Barbara Ehrenreich's best-seller about her exploration of low-wage life, Joan Holden's stage adaptation is a focused comic epic shadowed by tragedy. Barbara is prepared for hard work but not, at 55, for the incredible difficulties she faces while working minimum wage jobs as she struggles to make ends meet. The bright glimpses of Barbara's co-workers that enliven the book become indelible portraits of working-class Americans. These characters wage their life struggles with a gallantry that humbles Barbara and the audience. The play shows us the life a third of working Americans now lead and makes us angry that anyone should have to live it.
Directed by Harry Murphy.
By Joan Holden
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A Chorus Line
Lynn University
2024-2025
February 21-23, 2025
Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical. A Chorus Line is a stunning concept musical capturing the spirit and tension of a Broadway ensemble audition. Exploring the inner lives and bittersweet ambitions of professional Broadway performers, the show features one powerhouse number after another. Memorable musical numbers include "What I Did for Love, "One," "I Can Do That," "At the Ballet," "The Music and the Mirror," and "I Hope I Get It." A brilliantly complex fusion of song, dance, and compellingly authentic drama, A Chorus Line was instantly recognized as a classic.
Directed by Elizabeth Mignacca.
By Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, Michael Bennett and Nicholas Dante. -
Our Town
Lynn University
2024-2025
December 6–7, 2024
Winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written," Our Town presents the small town of Grover's Corners in three acts: "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, the play depicts the simple daily lives of the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually—in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre—die.
Directed by Alan Saban
By Thornton Wilder
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Funny Girl
Lynn University
2024-2025
October 18–20, 2024
Elaine’s Annual Musical Treat
Directed by Lynn University Associate Professor and Chair of Drama Adam Simpson, starring Lynn's B.F.A. in drama program students.
Conducted by Music Director Phil Hinton, featuring an orchestra of conservatory students.
Nominated for eight Tony Awards in 1964, including Best Musical, in the Ziegfeld Follies, in Hollywood films and on the radio, Fanny Brice was one of the most celebrated entertainers of her time. With humor, talent and chutzpah, young Fanny, an awkward Jewish girl who "isn't pretty," defies the odds and becomes one of the greatest stars of her generation. Fanny's rise to super-stardom and her turbulent romance with gambler Nick Arnstein are explored through Bob Merrill and Jule Styne's unforgettable score, which includes "People," "Don't Rain On My Parade," "I'm the Greatest Star," "The Music That Makes Me Dance," and "You Are Woman, I Am Man." The musical was originally written by Jule Styne (score), Bob Merrill (lyrics) and Isobel Lennart (book).
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Moon Over Buffalo
Lynn University
2023-2024
December 6-9, 2023
In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend Me a Tenor, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they’re playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo, New York with five actors. On the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George’s dalliance with a young ingénue, they receive word that they might have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee, and if he likes what he sees, he might cast them in his movie remake of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Unfortunately for George and Charlotte, everything that could go wrong does go wrong, abetted by a visit from their daughter’s clueless fiancé and hilarious uncertainty about which play they’re performing, caused by Charlotte’s deaf, old stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George’s body.
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Crazy For You
Lynn University
2023-2024
October 12-15, 2023
Elaine’s Annual Musical Treat
Exclusive production sponsor Elaine J. Wold invites you to the zany rich-boy-meets-hometown-girl romantic comedy Crazy for You® directed by Lynn University Associate Professor and Chair of Drama Adam Simpson. The production also features Lynn’s B.F.A. in drama program students.
Crazy for You® tells the story of young New York banker Bobby Child, who is sent to Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on a rundown theatre. In Deadrock, Bobby falls for spunky Polly Baker, the theater owner’s daughter. But Polly takes an instant dislike to the city slicker, so Bobby vows—through cunning, razzmatazz and a hilarious case of mistaken identity—to win Polly’s heart and save the theater. Memorable tunes from George and Ira Gershwin’s score include “I Got Rhythm,” “Naughty Baby,” “They Can't Take That Away from Me,” “Embraceable You,” “But Not for Me,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It” and “Someone to Watch Over Me.”
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42nd Street
Lynn University
2022-2023
February 17-25, 2023
Elaine's Annual Musical Treat
Exclusive production sponsor Elaine J. Wold invites you to 42nd Street, a performance directed by Lynn University Assistant Professor Danielle Jolie Dale-Hancock and featuring Lynn’s B.F.A. in drama program students.
Based on the novel by Bradford Ropes and the motion picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed by Warner Bros., 42nd Street follows the rehearsal process for a Broadway show during the height of the Great Depression. The musical, written by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, follows small-town Peggy Sawyer as she lands her first chorus job in the ensemble of a glitzy new Broadway show. When the leading lady breaks her ankle before opening night, Sawyer must step in and save the day. With music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin, the score is chock-full of Broadway standards, including "You're Getting to be a Habit with Me," "Dames," "We're in the Money," "Lullaby of Broadway," "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" and "42nd Street."
42nd Street is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC. The use of all songs is by arrangement with Warner Chappell Music, the owner of music publishers’ rights.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lynn University
2022-2023
December 2-9, 2022
Directed by Lynn University Associate Professor and Chair of Lynn Drama Adam Simpson, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” is one of Shakespeare's most performed and beloved plays. The five-act masterpiece begins four days before the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen, Hippolyta. It includes intertwining stories of four Athenian lovers and the misadventures of six actors rehearsing for the wedding reception within a magical forest filled with meddling fairies.
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Gigi
Lynn University
2021-2022
February 26 & 27, 2022
Elaine's Annual Musical Treat
Exclusive production sponsor Elaine J. Wold invites you to Lerner and Loewe’s beloved Gigi. Lerner and Loewe's musical comedy is about a free-spirited young girl living in Paris at the turn of the 20th century and the wealthy young playboy who falls in love with her as she is transformed in to a poised courtesan. Includes songs "Thank Heaven For Little Girls", "I Remember It Well" and "The Night They Invented Champagne".
Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Based on a novel by ColetteAs produced by Edwin Lester for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Civic Light Opera Associations and by Saint Subber for Broadway.
Lerner and Loewe’s Gigi is a collaboration between the B.F.A. in drama program and Live at Lynn, starring professional actors alongside Lynn students.
Lerner and Loewe’s Gigi is presented by arrangement with TAMS-WITMARK tamswitmark.com.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Lynn University
2021-2022
October 7-9, 2021
Don't miss this winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play. Based on the novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens.
Christopher is a 15-year old with an extraordinary brain; he is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road. He detests being touched and he distrusts strangers. Now it is seven minutes after midnight and Christopher stands beside his neighbor's dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. Finding himself under suspicion, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington and he carefully records each fact of the crime. His detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world.
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Crimes of the Heart
Lynn University
2019-2020
February 5-7, 2020
by Beth Henley
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters gather to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at 30 and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband.
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Anatomy of Gray
Lynn University
2019-2020
November 20-22, 2019
By: Jim Leonard Jr.
When June’s father dies in Indiana during the late 1800s, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray so that no one will ever suffer again. Next thing she knows, there’s a tornado and a man in a balloon blows into town claiming to be a doctor. At first, the new doctor cures anything and everything, but soon the town’s preacher takes ill with a mysterious plague.
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Thoroughly Modern Millie
Lynn University
2019-2020
October 16-18, 2019
Winner of six Tony Awards, Thoroughly Modern Millie nabbed the honor of 2002's most awarded new show on Broadway. Based on the 1967 Academy Award-winning film, Thoroughly Modern Millie takes you back to the height of the Jazz Age in New York City, when "moderns," including a flapper named Millie Dillmount, were bobbing their hair, raising their hemlines and rewriting the rules of love.
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The Real Inspector Hound
Lynn University
2018-2019
February 6-8, 2019
By: Tom Stoppard
Feuding theater critics, Moon and Birdboot—the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second-stringer—are swept into the whodunit they’re reviewing. In this hilarious spoof, an Agatha Christie-like melodrama unfolds in a fast-paced romp to find the real culprit.
In The Real Inspector Hound, Tony and Academy award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has crafted a witty, surreal, and compelling tale in which identity is as changeable as a moustache, or a pair of boots, and a hack production of a tired whodunnit can be the cover for a masterful revenge plot, trained on the professional members of the audience.
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Clybourne Park
Lynn University
2018-2019
December 5-7, 2018
By: Bruce Norris
Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set 50 years apart. Act one takes place in 1959, as white community leaders try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
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The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lynn University
2018-2019
October 17-19, 2018
It's a big year for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lynn University. The Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award-winning composer turns 70, while the Lynn Drama program launches the inaugural season of its brand new BFA in Musical Theatre.
So we’re throwing a musical party to celebrate! Come enjoy the best and most beloved songs from some of Broadway’s biggest hits—performed by the talented BFA Musical Theatre and Conservatory of Music students—including The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, Sunset Boulevard, and Cats.
Music by: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by: Tim Rice, Don Black, Christopher Hampton, Charles Hart, T.S.Eliot, Ben Elton, Trevor Nunn, Glenn Slater, Jim Steinman, Richard Stilgoe, David Yazbek and David Zippel
