2024 - 2025 Season Overview
Here’s a look at what’s coming up as we celebrate our 20th Anniversary!
Enjoy this Tale as Old as Time! Based on the Oscar-nominated motion picture, this a classic story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end, and he will be transformed into his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity. Meet the enchanted household, Lumiere and Babette, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and, of course, Chip!
Come be our guest!
Performance Dates:
August 8 & 9 at 7:00 PM.
August 10 at 11:00 AM.
August 11 at 2:00 PM.
August 15 & 16 at 7:00 PM.
August 17 at 6:00 PM.
August 18 at 2:00 PM.
As part of AACT’s 20th anniversary celebration, we are bringing back the classic animated tale of kidnapping villains and courageous puppies as adapted in this “fur-tastic” musical adventure!
Based on the classic animated film, Disney’s 101 Dalmatians KIDS is a fur-raising adventure featuring Cruella De Vil, Disney’s most outrageous villain, and 101 of the most adorable heroes to set their paws onstage. With a high-spirited score and lovable characters, this stage adaptation is certain to charm and delight all audiences.
Pet owners, Roger and Anita, live happily in London with their Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita, stalwart dogs devoted to raising their puppies. Everything is quiet until Anita’s former classmate, the monstrous Cruella De Vil, plots to steal the puppies for her new fur coat. The Dalmatians rally all the dogs of London for a daring rescue of the puppies from Cruella and her bumbling henchmen.
Performance Dates:
October 3 at 6:30 PM.
October 5 at 4:00 PM.
October 7 at 6:30 PM.
October 10 & 11 at 6:30 PM.
October 12 at 2:00 PM.
October 12 at 4:00 PM.
This performance will be a staged reading of Jo DiPietra’s Over the River and Through the Woods, a warm-hearted, boisterously funny, and touching story about intergenerational relationships, deep familial love, and the inevitable little heartbreaks that occur as time passes and children grow. Nick Cristano may be living the life of a modern young professional in New York City, but his loving grandparents never let him forget where he belongs: in New Jersey! Faithfully, Nick goes “over the river” to Grandma’s house every week for Sunday dinner, with his tenacious, tender-hearted, loud, loving, and well-fed Italian-American grandparents. When he is offered an important promotion in Seattle, Washington, Frank, Aida, Emma, and Nunzio are heartbroken at the prospect of their beloved grandson raising a family all the way across the country – or worse, not raising a family at all! These wily elders cook up a matchmaking scheme, inviting lovely Caitlin O-Hare over for Sunday dinner. Will the prospect of true love keep Nick from moving across the country? Joe DiPietro’s intimate family comedy featuring a mature cast is a beloved staple of theatres across the United States. (Rated PG due to occasional swear language.)
Audition Dates:
October 21 & 22 from 5:30 – 9:00 PM.
Call backs:
October 24 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM.
Performance Dates:
December 13 & 14 at 7:00 PM.
December 15 at 2:00 PM.
Welcome to Almost, Maine, a place that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States. It’s almost in Canada. And it’s not quite a town, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it almost doesn’t exist. One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night’s dream.
“Almost, Maine is a series of nine amiably absurdist vignettes about love, with a touch of good-natured magic realism…witty, romantic, unsentimental. A beautifully structured play, with nifty surprise endings (most but not all of them happy).” —The New York Times.
Audition Dates:
December 2 & 3 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM.
Callbacks:
December 5 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM.
Performance Dates:
February 6, 7, & 8 at 7:00 PM.
February 9 at 2:00 PM.
Beauty is in the eye of the ogre in Shrek The Musical Jr., based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and fantastic Broadway musical. It’s a “big bright beautiful world” as everyone’s favorite ogre, Shrek, leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and find true acceptance. Part romance and part twisted fairy tale, Shrek Jr. is an irreverently fun show with a powerful message for the whole family.
Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek. One day, Shrek finds his swamp invaded by banished fairytale misfits who have been cast off by Lord Farquaad, a tiny terror with big ambitions. When Shrek sets off with a wisecracking donkey to confront Farquaad, he’s handed a task — if he rescues feisty princess Fiona, his swamp will be righted. Shrek tries to win Fiona’s love and vanquish Lord Farquaad, but a fairytale wouldn’t be complete without a few twists and turns along the way.
December 9 & 10 from 4:30 – 6:30 PM.
Callbacks:
December 12 from 4:30 – 6:30 PM.
Performance Dates:
February 28 at 6:00 PM.
March 1, 3, 6, & 7 at 6:00 PM.
March 1 & 8 at 2:00 PM.
AACT is ending the 20th Anniversary season with “Throwback Theatre” – a show picked with input from our audiences and fans. A poll
with shows from our last twenty years will be presented for voting and with your input we will bring back an old show as a final
celebration of 20 years of doing theatre in the Auburn area!
Performance Dates:
May 9 – 18 (exact times to be announced later)
Cast Your Vote!
We need your help selecting the show from this list of favorites. Please only complete the form once before October 15, 2024! Watch our social media and newsletters for a decision by December.
