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The following productions have been scheduled for the Paris Junior College Theatre Department’s 2006-07 season. Ticket prices, availability and venues will be announced. Please check back often.

Romeo & Juliet
By William Shakespeare

Performance Dates:
Oct. 13, 14, 20, 21, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 22, 2006, at 2:30 p.m.

When the children of feuding families fall desperately in love, a passionate fire is ignited that burns beyond reason, politics, or even death itself. Their breathless struggle to escape the forces that would separate them drives the young lovers to the height of ecstasy, and the depths of despair. Romeo & Juliet is the greatest and most romantic love story ever written, one that has had a profound and lasting impact on how western culture thinks and feels about love. Join us for a bold new production of the ultimate love story.

Songs for a New World
Music and Lyrics By Jason Robert Brown

Performance Dates:
Nov. 10, 11, 17, 18, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 19, 2006, at 2:30 p.m.

A compelling show unlike the everyday musical. This energetic review-style musical is a compilation of songs of personal discovery, from ballads to pop to R&B. Each “story song” is a unique vignette portraying important crossroads in the lives of the characters. A strong gospel flavor runs throughout the show, highlighting the yearning for “a new world”. The humorous “Surabaya-Santa” and “Just One Step” blend with the now popular cabaret hit “Starts and the Moon” and the Motown sound of “The Steam Train” to bring characters from every walk of life.

Narnia
From the Book by John Wright
Music by Thomas Tiene
Lyrics by Ted Dracman

Performance Dates:
Dec. 8-9, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.

This musical based on “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C. S. Lewis depicts four precocious schoolchildren, several mythical creatures, a witch, and a heroic lion in a struggle between good and evil.

The Skin of Our Teeth
By Thorton Wilder

Performance Dates:
Feb. 16, 17, 23, 24, 2007, at 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 25, 2007, at 2:30 p.m.

Wilder masterfully looks ahead to the future of the human race while simultaneously compiling its entire history into three acts. The epic heros found in the seemingly average Antrobus family know all about rebuilding and continuing life in the face of adversity. They are proof of the age-old words that could easily be turned into a slogan for the 21st Century: Living is struggle.

Stewart & Son: A Solo Illumination of Jimmy Stewart

Performance Dates:
April 6-7, 2007, at 7:30 p.m.

It is 1969. Actor Jimmy Stewart, America’s favorite son, returns home to Indiana, Pennsylvania to revisit the family business, the J. M. Hardware Store, one last time. The building is being torn down and Stewart revisits the memory of his father, and the man he might have been had he followed his father’s vision and stayed home. And the memory of his own son, whom he had lost. A heartwarming, one-man performance, about love and loss, fame and Hollywood, home and legacy.