VERY MERRY THEATRE
RENT
Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and activists dealing with poverty, health issues, and social injustice during the height of the AIDS epidemic in New York City.
ROLE: Angel
KING LEER
The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters Goneril and Regan, who pay homage to gain favour, feigning love. Very Merry has taken this classic play, and turned into a modern era musical, based in the mid-west of the United States.
ROLE: Oswald
THE PAJAMA GAME
Conflict is rife at the Sleep Tite pajama factory in 1954 where workers are demanding a long overdue 7-½ cent pay raise. Sparks fly, and not just those regarding the labor dispute, when the new superintendent Sid Sorokin and union representative Catherine 'Babe' Williams meet.
ROLE: Prez
INTO THE WOODS
The story follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King's Festival; Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk, and Little Red Riding hood who wishes to see her grandmother. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch's curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse.
ROLE: Narrator/Ensemble
HAIR
The American Tribal Love-Rock MusicalHair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War.
ROLE: Tribe Member
42nd STREET
42nd Street celebrates Broadway, Times Square and the magic of show biz with wit, humor and pizzazz. At the height of the Great Depression, aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer comes to the big city from Allentown PA, and soon lands her first big job in the ensemble of a glitzy new Broadway show.
ROLE: Ensemble
WEST SIDE STORY
West Side story is a modern musical representation of the classic story "Romeo and Juliet". The sharks and the Jets are rival gangs fighting for the same territory. Tensions rise as a shark girl named Maria and a Jet named Tony fall for eachother, but there's a problem they can never be allowed to be together.
ROLE: Jet; Gee-Tar