City Springs Theatre Company Proudly Presents its Third Season

Our third season opens with the International hit musical, Mamma Mia!, featuring the songs of Swedish supergroup ABBA. Over 60 million people worldwide have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show. Featuring such hits songs as “Dancing Queen,” “Take a Chance on Me,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You” and “Waterloo.”

In December, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s modern classic hits the Byers Theatre stage in a colorful and elegant production — perfect for the holiday season! Everyone’s favorite storybook characters come together in this epic fairy tale about wishes, family and the choices we make. More than 30 years after its debut, Into The Woods is still one of Sondheim’s most popular shows.

March 2021 will bring Tony Award®recipient Baayork Lee back to City Springs Theatre Company to direct The King and I, an enduring musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. The musical tells the true story of Anna, an English widow summoned by the King of Siam to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. This truly unique love story has delighted audiences for nearly 70 years. Featuring such timeless songs as “Shall We Dance,” “Getting to Know You” and “I Whistle a Happy Tune.

May brings the musical about the first muscical. “Welcome to the Renaissance” and to the world of Something Rotten, where brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play, but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. Hailed by Time Out as “the funniest musicalcomedy in at least 400 years.”

We wrap up our season with a show as relevant today as when it premiered in 1957, West Side Story. This landmark Broadway musical (with a legendary score by Leonard Bernstein) transports Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to modern-day New York City as two young, idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, struggling to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice. Featuring immortal songs such as “Tonight,” “Something’s Coming” and “I Feel Pretty.”

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Photo by Ben Rose