Lynn drama productions showcase the talent of students in Lynn's Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) drama program students.
The B.F.A. in drama launched in 2018. Associate Professor Adam Simpson is the chair of the drama program.
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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
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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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Tiny Beautiful Things
Lynn University
2023-2024
April 11-14, 2024
Based on the bestselling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, Tiny Beautiful Things follows the relationships between an anonymous advice columnist named Sugar and the readers who pour out their hearts to her. Strayed used empathy and her personal experiences to help those seeking guidance from obstacles both large and small.
Tiny Beautiful Things is a play about reaching when you're stuck, healing when you're broken and finding the courage to take on the questions that have no answers.
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Lynn University
2023-2024
February 22-25, 2024
Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country with its effortless wit and humor. Featuring a fast-paced, wildly funny and touching book by Rachel Sheinkin and a truly fresh and vibrant score by William Finn, this bee is one unforgettable experience.
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life-un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
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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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Butterflies are Free
Lynn University
2021-2022
April 14-16, 2022
by Leonard Gershe
Young Don Baker, hero of his mother's children's book series, "Donny Dark" has been blind since birth, his overprotective mother following his every move. Don finally decides to take his own apartment in Manhattan and pursue his songwriting ambitions. When she meets his kooky neighbor, sexy actress Jill, Mrs. Baker's controlling instincts go into overdrive with hilariously touching results.
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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 Colette
As 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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Chicago
Lynn University
2021-2022
December 2-4, 2021
In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap ... until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream: fame, fortune and acquittal." This sharp-edged satire features a dazzling score that sparked immortal staging by Bob Fosse.
Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse
Music by John Kander
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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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The Wolves
Lynn University
2020-2021
March 19, 2021 at 6 p.m. EDT
Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
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See Rock City & Other Destinations
Lynn University
2020-2021
March 17, 2021 at 6 p.m. EDT
By: Adam Mathias
See Rock City & Other Destinations is a contemporary musical about connections missed and made at tourist destinations across America.
A wanderer believes his destiny is written on rooftops along the North Carolina interstate. A young man yearns to connect with intelligent life in Roswell, New Mexico. A woman at the Alamo steps out of the shadow of her grandparents' idealized romance to take a chance on love. Three estranged sisters cruise to Glacier Bay to scatter their father's ashes. Two high school boys face unexpected fears in the Coney Island spook house. A terrified bride-to-be ponders taking the leap ... over Niagara Falls.
With a book full of humor and humanity, and a score that incorporates pop, rock, folk and more, each story builds on the last to create a vivid travelogue of Americans learning to overcome their fears and expectations in order to connect.
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Miscast Cabaret
Lynn University
2020-2021
February 19, 2021 at 6 p.m. EST
This show consists of an assortment of songs from your favorite musicals featuring people who definitely wouldn’t play those roles! This conceptual piece allows the audience to see and hear these songs from a whole new perspective.
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Songs for a New World
Lynn University
2020-2021
December 10, 2020 at 12 p.m.
It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice ... or take a stand ... or turn around and go back. These are the stories and characters of today, the Songs for a New World. The first musical from Tony Award winner, Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Bridges of Madison County), this moving collection of powerful songs examines life, love and the choices that we make.
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The Sweetest Swing in Baseball
Lynn University
2020-2021
October 16, 2020 at 12:15 p.m.
Join the junior BFA in drama acting class as they put on The Sweetest Swing in Baseball written by Rebecca Gilman and directed by Carrie Simpson. Originally published in 2001, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball is a dramatic comedy about an artist who finds herself in a mental slump. After spending time in a mental hospital, she decides she will do anything to stay a little longer—including taking on a dual personality.
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Student Showcase: Directing & Musical Theatre
Lynn University
2020-2021
Lynn Drama presents Directing and Musical Theatre Showcase. This variety-style show features scenes and songs from plays, including Hurlyburly, Watermelon Boats, Fool for Love and The Shape of Things. It also includes musical numbers from A Chorus Line, The King and I, and She Loves Me.
