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The Boys Next Door
by Tom Griffin
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A Main Stage Production
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Fridays and Saturdays
May 20 – June 18, 2011
Curtain Time 8:00 PM
Sunday Matinees
May 22 – June 12, 2011
Curtain Time 2:00 PM
Performed at the Tower Theatre
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Ticket Prices |
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| Adults | Seniors | Students | Children 11 and under |
| $25.00
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| $15.00
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Tickets are available at the door, but reservations are recommended.
Please call the theatre box office at
(916) 782-1777.
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The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped
men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social
worker named Jack. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure
of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his
waist; Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to
read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs about; Arnold, the ringleader of the group,
is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a
persecution complex; while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who is devastated by the
unfeeling rejection of his brutal father, fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Mingled with
scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous
(and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness,
we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and
find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they, like their more fortunate brothers,
are allotted on this earth.
Recommended for theatergoers age 14 and over.
Auditions
Auditions will be held on March 28 at 7:00 PM
in the Tower Theater.
Callbacks Tue, March 29 at 7:00
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