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2014
Auditions Set for Cinderella
The Waterworks Players next production is Cinderella, a British pantomime to celebrate the holiday season. Beloved by children and adults alike, pantomimes are as much a part of Christmas throughout the British Isles as singing carols, trimming the tree, and exchanging presents. As a popular form of theater, pantomime combines song, dance, and slapstick comedy […]
2014
Driving Miss Daisy: A Review
Driving Miss Daisy is a curious theatrical event. Because of the hugely popular movie version that reprised Morgan Freeman as chauffeur Hoke Coleburn and featured Jessica Tandy as the redoubtable Miss Daisy—the role for which, at 81, she finally won a well-deserved Oscar—many Daisy lovers have never experienced Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play as a […]
2014
Who’s on First? A Nightmare Comedy
As this is turning out to be one long, hot July in Central Virginia, you won’t want to miss the opportunity to enjoy a refreshingly light slice of summer fun right here in Farmville. Starting this Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, Waterworks Players presents Who’s on First? A Nightmare Comedy written by Jack […]
2014
Who’s on First? Auditions June 15th & 16th
What would you do with your own magic genie? Who hasn’t spent some minutes daydreaming about what you would ask for if a magic lamp were to cross your path? More money, good health, world peace? Well what if the magic genie in the lamp wasn’t a genie but a Jinni, and he took your […]
2013
Treasure Island Review
You won’t need an X to spot the treasure that is the latest Waterworks Players pantomime! With Mary Jo Stockton (Director) and Don Blaheta (Production Manager) at the helm, the cast and crew of Treasure Island present an entertaining twist on the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. Prince Edward and Farmville residents will take […]
2013
Waterworks Players to Present Treasure Island
Waterworks Players proudly presents the pantomime Treasure Island to celebrate the holiday season. Beloved by children and adults alike, pantomimes are as much a part of Christmas throughout the British Isles as singing carols, trimming the tree, and exchanging presents. As a popular form of theatre, “Pantomimes are melodramatic presentations of familiar nursery rhymes […]
2013
Auditions for Treasure Island at the Waterworks Players
The Waterworks Players next production is Treasure Island, a British pantomime to celebrate the holiday season. Beloved by children and adults alike, pantomimes are as much a part of the holiday season throughout the British Isles as singing carols, trimming the tree, and exchanging presents. As a popular form of theater, British pantomime combines song, dance, […]
2013
Review – 9 to 5: The Musical
“Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to life.” If you were of movie-going age in 1980 the lyrics of the title song “9 to 5” instantly take you back thirty-three years. “9 to 5” is a revenge fantasy […]
2013
Waterworks Players Announces Cast for 9 to 5: The Musical
Waterworks Players is pleased to open this year’s season with 9 to 5: The Musical, a hilarious story of an overworked office manager, a jilted wife, and an objectified secretary. Together, these three unlikely friends conspire to depose their egotistical boss and begin making woman-friendly changes in the workplace. Billed as a “hilarious story of […]
2013
Auditions Set for Nine to Five
The Waterworks Players next production is Nine to Five: the Musical. Based on the popular movie of the same name, the musical opened on Broadway in 2003 and received 15 Drama Desk Award nominations, the most ever for a production in a year, as well as 4 Tony Award nominations and one Grammy. Billed as […]
This project is supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
