2012-2013 Season

Romeo & Juliet
Written By William Shakespeare
 May 9-12 & 16-19, 2013

Shakespeare wrote this tale of “star crossed lovers” from rival families early in his career and its popularity grew with each performance. Now this classic is read by thousands of students each year and performed by  theatres all over the world. SLT is very excited to  produce this touching love story for the  community.

Visiting Mr. Green
Written by: Jeff Baron
June 13-16 & 20-23, 2013

Mr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive. The young man is given a community service of helping the recent widower once a  week for six months. What starts as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a gripping and moving drama as they get to know each other, come to care about each other, and open old wounds they've been  hiding and nursing for years.

                         Some Enchanted Evening
                   The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein
                                     August 9-12 & 16-18, 2012

More so than any composer and lyricist who have written for the  stage, the songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein have become an integral part of  our everyday lives. We sing them in the shower, we dance to them in ballrooms,  and hear them on the radio, in elevators and in supermarkets.  This stunning collection of compositions offers the audience a glorious  parade of genuine hits.

This show is directed by Eric Bultman.
You may make ticket reservations by calling Sumter Little Theatre at 
(803)775-2150 during our box office hours of 3-6 pm. 
Ticket prices are $20 for adults and $17 for students/senior/military.
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                             The Foreigner
                                       Written by: Larry Shue
                                      September 13-16 & 20-23, 2012

This is the story of a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. At the urging of his best friend and demolition expert, Froggy LeSeur, Charlie travels from England to rural Georgia to get away from it all. Froggy is there on military business and has to leave Charlie with some of his friends but before departing,  he tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once he is alone, the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should—the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand  a word being said. The fact that he understands everything fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.
An SLT favorite.
This show is directed by Eric Bultman. You may make ticket  reservations by calling Sumter Little Theatre at  (803)775-2150 during our box office hours of 3-6 pm starting September 10th 2012. 

Ticket prices are $15 for adults and $12 for students/senior/military.

A Christmas Carol
Written by: Charles Dickens
 Adapted by: Doris Baizley
December 6-9 & 13-16, 2012

This highly inventive adaptation pares down the classic story to its essential elements. In this version, we encounter a company of traveling players about to enact Dickens’Christmas story. As the on-stage trunk of supplies opens, actors  and clowns spill out and roll on. The gruff stage manager and prop boy check the show's props, which are shabby and third rate, but the troupe improvises by creating a magical world of make-believe. The acting troupe proceeds to make their way through the tale, creating fog, snow, fire and ghosts through mime, imagination and wonderful visual effects. The rag tag players quickly become the characters of the story, and we are pulled into the life of Ebenezer Scrooge.

I  Love You, You’re Perfect,
Now Change
Book and Lyrics by: Joe DiPietro
Music by: Jimmy Roberts
February 14-17 & 21-24, 2013

This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths about the contemporary conundrum knows as “the relationship.” Act I explores the journey from dating and waiting to love and marriage, while Act II reveals the agonies and triumphs of in-laws and newborns, trips in the family car, and pick-up techniques of the geriatric set. This hilarious musical pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, fallen on their face at the portal of romance, to those who have dared to ask,“Say, what are you doing Saturday night?”

The Trial of Goldilocks &
 Once Upon a Shoe
Written by: Joseph Robinette
 March 14-17 & 21-24, 2013

The  Trial of Goldilocks
In rhyme, mime and mirth, this exciting comedy examines the familiar fairy tale from three points of view: the traditional, the Bears', then Goldilocks'. Guilty or innocent? Was the young girl a selfish, spoiled brat, intruding where she didn't belong? Or was she the victim of three conniving bears (and their animal "band of hoods" in the woods)? Complete with a hard-of-hearing judge, a harried  clerk, two comic lawyers and a jury which gets involved in the action as  tables, chairs, beds and forest animals--this charming comedy is perfect for  performers of all ages. From the opening moment, when three vendors attempt to  hawk souvenirs among the audience, to the surprising verdict from the jury and  a "happily-ever-after" conclusion this play, performed completely in verse, is  both unique and enchanting. 

Once Upon a Shoe
 Mother Goose sadly announces to her children that they must leave their home a large, comfortable shoe and move to an old sneaker "across the tracks." The children decide to "put on a show" to save their shoe, and in the best Garland/Rooney tradition, they proceed to enact eight of Mother Goose's best poems. In the audience, a stranger turns out to be the famous movie producer Cecil B. DeMillstream and, of course, he loves the show!