2011/2012 Season

Evil Dead
The Musical
Book & Lyrics By George Reinblatt

Music By Frank Cipolla/Christopher Bond/Melissa Morris/George Reinblatt
Auditions: May 15, 16, 17, 18
Performance Dates:
8PM -July 29, 30, August 5,
12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27
3PM - August 6,
Five college students spend the weekend in an abandoned cabin in the
woods, accidentally unleashing an evil terror. In this comedic take on the
80s horror franchise, characters and demons sing and dance to songs
written specifically for the musical. And, as in the films, Ash is there to dish
out his various one liners and fight the never ending demons.  The musical
takes creative liberty with the plot line of the movies, mixing together the
characters and concepts of all three, as well as changing sequences for
the sake of the stage and comedic intent. This show is intended for mature
audiences and contains adult language and situations.
It's Christmas-time in the small town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle Sisters—Frankie, Twink and
Honey Raye—are not exactly in a festive mood. A cranky Frankie is weeks overdue with her second
set of twins. Twink, recently jilted and bitter about it, is in jail for inadvertently burning down half the
town. And hot-flash-suffering Honey Raye is desperately trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb's
Christmas Program from spiraling into chaos. But things are not looking too promising: Miss Geneva,
the ousted director of the previous twenty-seven productions, is ruthless in her attempts to take over
the show. The celebrity guest Santa Claus—played by Frankie's long-suffering husband, Dub—is
passing a kidney stone. One of the shepherds refuses to watch over his flock by night without pulling
his little red wagon behind him. And the entire cast is dropping like flies due to food poisoning from
the Band Boosters' Pancake Supper. And when Frankie lets slip a family secret that has been carefully
guarded for decades, all hope for a successful Christmas program seems lost, even with an Elvis
impersonator at the manger. But in true Futrelle fashion, the feuding sisters find a way to pull
together in order to present a Christmas program the citizens of Fayro will never forget. Their
hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure-filled Christmas Eve is guaranteed to bring joy to
your world!

The setting is a well-to-do vacation colony on the shores of Lake Erie, the time 1945,
during the final stages of World War II. Charlie, an incipiently rebellious
fourteen-year-old, is summering with his mother and sister (his father is fighting in
the Pacific) before going off to an expensive boarding school in the fall. Although he
intended to spend the summer loafing and socializing with his friends, the need for
spending money forces him to take a job as handyman for an iconoclastic, bohemian
art teacher, Anna Trumbull, a former member of the "upper crust" who has lost
both her fortune and her regard for the ideals of her upbringing. Sensing a kindred
spirit in Charlie, she tries to stretch his mind by teaching him painting and
sculpture-and exposing him to "radical" ideas about life and love which, in time,
persuade Charlie to reject the notion of going back to school. The result is a family
crisis and, more specifically, a showdown between Anna and Charlie's conservative
mother, a clash of philosophies which raises as many questions as it answers and, in
the end, stimulates the self-awareness which will shape the man Charlie is destined
to become.



Auditions: April 23, 24, 25

Performance Dates: June 8, 9, 15, 16

Friday's 8PM - Saturdays 2:30 and 8PM

Alice plunges down the rabbit hole and becomes involved in
that madcap and deliciously satiric series of adventures
immortalized by Lewis Carroll. Dramatized as a series of
fourteen episodes from Alice in Wonderland and Through the
Looking Glass, this play may be produced as a full length, or as
a one-act cutting. A kaleidoscope of action and madness, with
the necessary elements of suspense and frustration, to make
it all work.
FEAR FACTORY HAUNTED HOUSE
Dates: October 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28,
Are you brave enough to face your fears this year at LCT’s Haunted House? LCT turns the
entire Lakeside Arts Center into a terrifying experience. We scared over a thousand
innocent victims last year, and this year plan on some new scares and horrors!  Come join
us as we create the Scariest Fear Factory Insanitarium to date!
Want to volunteer for Fear Factory? There are many ways to get involved in this event…
we have volunteer opportunities such as  scare actors,  builders,  
publicity and  makeup artists.
Email us at: volunteers@lctthecolony.org
Have you ever wondered what happens behind the counters of the video store? What
do the employees really say about the customers after they leave? In this fun adult
comedy, Zack and Sarah, two employees of a local video store, are challenged with
crazy managers, new employees, and creepy customers.  When Sarah believes she is a
shoe in for the assistant manager's position, she becomes enraged when a new
employee, Tammy, is brought in to fill the position.
Intended for mature audiences.
By Aaron Schultz & Benjamin Keegan Arnold

Auditions: January 2, 3, 4
Performance Dates: 8PM- February 17, 18, 24, March 2, 3
3PM - February 25
Auditions: February 19, 20, 21
Performance Dates:8PM - April 13, 14, 20, 27, 28, May 4, 5
3PM April 21
Lakeside Community Theatre
Winner of LCT's annual Playwright Competition
By Brainerd Duffield