Main Stage

If you are interested in a group or Main Stage Matinee, you can email us at boxoffice@growingstage.com or call (973) 347-4946.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Code Breaker

Play by Pauline C. Conley

October 1-23, 2011

Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 4:00pm

 

This award-winning original play, tells a timeless story of the difficult process of growing up, even in a society where technology has vastly simplified the externals of life. This gripping futuristic adventure play presents four teenagers faced with important choices at a time when new responsibilities challenge old standards. “. . . the stuff of which classics are made.”   When Bernice’s friend, Pete, breaks the entry code to the master Computer’s Top Secret File and uncovers a long-forgotten world beyond their enclosed Orb, they set out to prove this world’s existence. They are introduced to unique and wonderful objects (apples and a rabbit) but suffer reprisals from the Master Computer who is afraid that their knowledge will destroy the Orb’s fragile civilization. Forced to take ever-greater risks, they watch in dismay as the standards by which they have lived become meaningless, with loyalty turning to betrayal, friendship giving way to self-preservation, and duty replacing truth. But even as their world begins to crumble around them, they discover that it is they themselves who have the power to forge a new world in its place.

Also available to schools as a Main Stage Matinee!

Audience Recommendation: Family Ages 8 and up

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Babes in Toyland

Conceived by Perry Arthur Kroeger and Stephen L. Fredericks

Book by Perry Arthur Kroeger

Music by Victor Herbert, Lyrics by Glen Macdonough & Perry Arthur Kroeger

November 25 – December 18, 2011
Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 4:00pm
Tickets: $18/Adult  $14/Child or Senior

Something is amiss in the Land of Make Believe.  Barnaby is threatening Mother Goose with eviction unless her daughter, Bo Peep, marries him.  One of the Three Little Pigs is missing and on top of that, even Christmas is in doubt!  Who could possibly save the day?  Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum?  No, really, who could possible save the day?  Our original TGS adaptation is based loosely on the Victor Herbert operetta and the Laurel & Hardy classic film

Audience Recommendation: Family All Ages
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 Tickets available at the door for final performance. Note special time: show begins at 1pm, Box Office opens at 12:15pm

Mother Hicks

Play by Suzan L. Zeder

January 19 – February 5, 2012

Thursday* and Friday at 7:30pm
Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00pm
Tickets: $18/Adult  $14/Child or Senior

Mother Hicks is an evocative story of three outsiders that is richly realized through all of the resources of theater including poetry, character, and story.

Set in southern Illinois, during the great Depression, this play is about three outsiders – - a foundling girl known only as Girl; a deaf boy, eloquent in the language of his silence; and an eccentric recluse, Mother Hicks, who is suspected of being a witch. The tale, told with poetry and sign language, chronicles the journeys of these three to find themselves, and each other, in a troubled time.

Also available to schools as a Main Stage Matinee

Audience Recommendation: Family Ages 7 and up

*Special SIGNED PERFORMANCE on Sat. Feb. 4th at 4PM!*
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From our 2005 production

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Seussical

Theatre for Young Audiences Version

Book by Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens

Music by Stephen Flaherty

Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens

Based on the works of Dr. Seuss

March 9 – April 1, 2012

Fridays at 7:30pm Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00pm
Tickets: $18/Adult  $14/Child or Senior

 

Now one of the most performed shows in America, “Seussical” is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (“Ragtime,” “Once On This Island”) have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters.

The story centers around Horton the Elephant, who finds himself faced with a double challenge–not only must he protect his tiny friend Jojo (and all the invisible Whos) from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left to his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La  Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him, the only one who recognizes “his kind and his powerful heart.” Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant in a story that makes you laugh and cry!

Audience Recommendation: Family All Ages
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The NJ Premiere

Diary of A Worm, A Spider, And A Fly

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Joan Cushing
Exclusive adaptation of the three books by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Harry Bliss A New Jersey Premiere

April 27 – May 20, 2012

Fridays at 7:30pm Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00pm
Tickets: $18/Adult  $14/Child or Senior

Is Spider getting too big for his own skin? Will Fly find her superhero powers in time to save her Aunt Rita from peril? Will Worm learn to stand on his own two feet…even though he doesn‘t have feet? We invite you to take a look at the world from a bug‘s perspective. Perhaps you‘ll see that their lives are not all that different from yours. This world première musical captures all of the droll humor and whimsy of the wildly popular books.

Also available to schools as a Main Stage Matinee!

Audience Recommendation: Family All Ages