For Immediate Release: September 3, 2005
Media Contact: Heather Suchanec, City Theater Company, 302.658.7897 x3850

City Theater Company, Wilmington’s Off-Broadway, and the resident theater company of the downtown Baby Grand Theatre, announces their fabulous 2005-06 season that is 100% Eligible for Barrymore Consideration. This year’s 0506 Season line up includes: Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show in October; Love’s Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespeare Sonnets in February; and Moss Hart & Irving Berlin’s As Thousands Cheer in April. With recent Barrymore nominations and a Barrymore win acquired for their provocative production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, CTC is thrilled to open their doors all season long to the Barrymore nominating committee.

Relied upon for consistently wowing their audiences with edgy, provocative theater, City Theater Company will not disappoint loyal fans and newcomers with their 0506 season. Kicked-off by the wildly strange and fun musical Rocky Horror, the season begins by featuring singing, dancing transvestites from outer space, a nubile pair of young fiancées stripped to their underwear, and a muscle bound hunk of monster just this side of Muscle and Fitness. This show is certain to leave fans and virgins alike dancing in the aisles.

Next in the season is Love’s Fire; Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets. This production features the writing talents of such well-known authors as William Finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner (Angels in America), Marsha Norman (The Heidi Chronicles), Ntozake Shange, Wendy Wasserstein, Eric Bogosian and of course, William Shakespeare. While all authors used a sonnet for inspiration, don’t expect a return to the England of Elizabeth I with swords and ruffled collars; these plays are totally contemporary and set in today’s New York. They range everywhere from hilarity to high drama- and hey, one is even a short musical.

And, as if that wasn’t enough, the season concludes with Moss Hart (the guy responsible for The Man Who Came to Dinner, My Fair Lady, and Camelot) and Irving Berlin’s (the composer of Annie Get Your Gun and Call Me Madam) sketch comedy musical, As Thousands Cheer. Created in 1933, this hilarious show took sly aim at the major players of the day using newspaper headlines to define each scene. No one escapes a cheerful skewering by Hart and Berlin; not FDR, the Hoovers, Ghandi, or especially everyone’s favorite object of ridicule, the French! This is sketch comedy, a CTC specialty, so if you’re a fan of our summertime 10-Minute Play Festival, this musical-comedy revue is right up your alley.

CTC’s 0506 Season is one not to be missed. With a provocative selection of plays, 100% Barrymore eligibility, a production budget that has been increased by 50%, exciting new outreach programs (such as senior & student matinees, and hearing-impaired accessible productions), and hot events such as the ROCKY KICK OFF GALA, CTC is continuing to assert themselves as Wilmington’s Off-Broadway, the theater not to be missed!!

For more information about City Theater Company and the 0506 season, visit www.city-theater.org or call Heather Suchanec at 302-658-7897 x3850.

City Theater programs are made possible, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency committed to promoting and supporting the Arts in Delaware.

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