Cumberland County Playhouse

 

Season 2012 Show Info:
Call the box office at 931-484-5000 for season tickets, gifts, and other reservations. Download a PDF of the current Spotlight newsletter for more information on the 2012 Season, including the show calendar. You may also order tickets online, and choose your own seats! Seating Charts: Mainstage | Adventure



Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy
By Alfred Uhry

January 21 - April 14
Adventure Theater

“A Gem. A Hit!” – Time Magazine

A timeless American play that inspired the Academy-Award winning film, Driving Miss Daisy is the affecting story of the decades long relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and her compassionate chauffeur.

This iconic tale of pride, changing times and the power of friendship
has warmed the hearts of millions.

Click here to read the full press release.

Sponsored by Dr. Stanley Bise, MD

Rated G

Ticket Prices:
$24 Adults
$23 Seniors
$22 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music
By Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers

February 10 - April 6
Mainstage

Maria, a young, aspiring but quirky, nun fills the lives of the Von Trapp children with “The Sound of Music” and captures the heart of their stern and lonely father. But, will their harmonious lives be torn apart when their beautiful homeland is ravaged by war? Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Tony Award winning musical delights audiences with the uplifting story and an
irresistible score.

Rated G

Ticket Prices:
$25 Adults
$24 Seniors
$23 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$13 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


The Moving of Lilla Barton

The Moving of Lilla Barton

March 1 - May 25
Adventure Theater

When Lilla Barton, wife of the pastor of All Saints’ Episcopal in Lowndes, Alabama, is widowed, she refuses to leave the rectory, creating a storm of church politics. A new pastor is coming, but there is no place for him and his family! When vestry leaders (including a pushy, social-climbing former beauty-queen-turned-realestate-mogul) can’t make Lilla leave, eviction proceedings launch a battle between the “Old” and “New” South!

This comedy with heart explodes with the challenge of letting go to embrace the future.

Rated PG

Ticket Prices:
$24 Adults
$23 Seniors
$22 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


All Shook Up

All Shook Up

March 16 - May 12
Mainstage

All Shook Up is a swinging fifties juke box musical, featuring the songs of “The King”—Elvis himself. Somewhere in smalltown America, a guitar-playing traveler named Chad rides his motorcycle into a square little town where fun has somehow been outlawed—and with the help of the local young folks, he shakes the place up, wakes it up! Singin’, dancin’, romance and fun fill the town square, and even put a smile on the faces of the older
generation.

The show features over two dozen Elvis hits, from Heartbreak Hotel and Don’t Be Cruel, to Can’t Help Falling in Love. Grab your poodle skirt and jeans, and join the fun!

Rated PG

Ticket Prices:
$25 Adults
$24 Seniors
$23 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$13 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


Cowboys

Cowboys
Musical by John Briggs & Paul Mroczka

April 13 - June 15
Mainstage

A very funny and tuneful musical by our friend John Briggs, first produced to full houses and uproarious laughter at the Playhouse in 1981—a return of the World Premiere prior to general release for American theaters.

Sponsored by The Beef & Barrel Restaurant and Lounge, and
The Blind Zebra Sports Bar & Grill

Rated G

Ticket Prices:
$24 Adults
$23 Seniors
$22 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


Wonderland: A journey with Alice in dance, theater, and song.

Wonderland: A journey with Alice in dance, theater, and song.

April 26 - 28
Mainstage

A visit to Alice’s magic land with the Playhouse performance education students and teachers, singing, dancing and imagining their wonderful way across and around and under— WONDERLAND!

Directed by Jennifer Austin, with choreography and staging by Angela
Robbins, Weslie Webster and our faculty and students.

Sponsored by Education Sponsor Spriit Broadband

Rated G

All tickets: $15

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


Smoke on the Mountain

Smoke on the Mountain
Musical by Connie Ray & Alan Bailey

May 10 - August 4
Adventure Theater

The great bluegrass and gospel favorite returns for its 19th consecutive year, its longest run ANYWHERE. Rated G except for “one word that ought not to be used in church.” However, Mama and the family must have something to forgive Uncle Stanley for in the second act!

Sponsored by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

Rated G

Ticket Prices:
$24 Adults
$23 Seniors
$22 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


Bob Gunton

Bob Gunton in
Walking on Water:
An Evening of Musical Theater & Song

May 18 - June 16
Mainstage

Join Bob Gunton, The Broadway and Off- Broadway star of Evita, Sweeny Todd, The Music Man, The Twentieth Century, and Amadeus in Walking on Water, An Evening of Musical Theater and Song.

The Playhouse’s first star of TENNESSEE, USA as Johnny Timberlake, and Hollywood and TV star of The Shawshank Redemption (the Warden), and major roles in “24”, Desperate Housewives and many stage & screen hits, Bob returns home, with a look back at his great roles, the great songs from his great shows, and his life in theater and entertainment. LIMITED RUN! Opening night is a special Playhouse Benefit.

Rated G

Ticket Prices:
$26 Adults
$25 Seniors
$24 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$14 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


See Rock City

See Rock City

May 31 - September 1
Adventure Theater

A hometown, smalltown Appalachian story of two Kentucky families in the 1940’s, carrying on at home while America fought for freedom, overseas.

Rated G

Ticket Prices:
$24 Adults
$23 Seniors
$22 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


The Music Man

The Music Man

June 22 - August 17
Mainstage

Another American small town, a generation earlier than All Shook Up gets a visit from a “music man” who promises to start a kid’s band---if only everyone will buy instruments and uniforms! Great songs, great story, a great American musical! Smalltown USA, bit by the performing bug!

Sponsored by Kroger, Plateau Properties, and Mariner's Pointe

Rated G

Ticket Prices:
$27 Adults
$26 Seniors
$24 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$14 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


Backward in High Heels: The Ginger Musical

Backward in High Heels: The Ginger Musical
Conceived and Developed by Lynnette Barkley and Christopher McGovern Book/Musical Arrangements/Original Songs by Christopher McGovern Directed & Choreographed by Jeremy Benton

July 27 - November 2
Mainstage

Legendary Ginger Rogers comes to life onstage! This musical dances through Ginger’s life, hometown to Hollywood, as she finesses her “stage mother” mom, becomes a huge star as Fred Astaire’s partner, and one of the movies’ first women to win “equal pay”! Funny, nostalgic, with music of her movies and more—a toe-tapping, swirling new show, full of memories!

Rated PG

Ticket Prices:
$26 Adults
$25 Seniors
$24 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$14 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


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Five Guys Named Moe
Adventure Theater
Directed by Harry Bryce

September 7 - October 26

Don't miss the Playhouse premiere of this bright, tuneful, dance-filled musical featuring the hits of Louis Jordan, the legendary “King Of The Jukebox!”
Read more here...

Rated PG

Ticket Prices:
$24 Adults
$23 Seniors
$22 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


The Cumberland County Playhouse

Two Very Special Shows - To Be Announced
Mainstage

We’re working on two very special projects still under development!

Special #1: August 23 - September 21
A rising young star with Tennessee roots, in a great classic musical with a country flavor!

Special #2: September 27 - November 9
A pre-Broadway premiere of the new edition of a great new family musical that recently toured America!

We’re excited about both of these projects, but if either one can’t happen,
we’ll bring you a hot new Broadway musical, or newly available show!

Rated PG

Ticket Prices:
$26 Adults
$25 Seniors
$24 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$14 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


A Sanders Family Christmas

A Sanders Family Christmas
Adventure Theater

November 1 - December 22

12th Season at the Cumberland County Playhouse

Rated G

Ticket Prices:
$24 Adults
$23 Seniors
$22 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.


Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Mainstage

November 16 - December 23

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s amazing, joyful Bible tale of Joseph and his brothers set to an exciting pop beat. A theatrical experience to remember.

Sponsored by M. Stewart Galloway MD, Cumberland Eye Care

Rated PG

Ticket Prices:
$24 Adults
$23 Seniors
$22 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students

Ticket Prices Include a $3 service/facility charge.