2024 Season Announced
MCP Announces Five Show Season
Mason Community Players is pleased to announce its slate of shows for 2024!
It's a timeless season that we are doing by the book!
Proof
Directed by Jim Cronin
February 23 - March 2, 2024
Proof by David Auburn was one of the most acclaimed plays of the 1999-2000 theatre season, winning the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is a passionate, intelligent story of fathers and daughters, the nature of genius, and the complexities of love. The story focuses on Catherine, who cared for her ailing father, a mathematical genius, until his passing. Now she is not only confronted by his loss, but the interference of her sister and a young man combing her father's notes in search of a key to the essence of mathematics. Will Catherine find herself and find love when she may have inherited more than her brilliant mind from her father?
Timeless
A Musical Revue
Directed by Kim Toft
April 12-20, 2024
This unique revue will showcase experienced talent. The songs will be presented by vocalists who have gained years of experience bringing a new perspective to lyrics traditionally sung by someone younger. Age hearkens back to youth and proves that time can be a great asset and the heart can stay forever young. The performers are as timeless as the songs.
Neil Simon's God's Favorite
Directed by Lara Gonzalez
June 21-29, 2024
Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day ‘Job’ with a demanding wife, ungrateful children, and wise-cracking household employees. Just when it seems things couldn’t get any worse, he is visited by Sidney Lipton, a.k.a. A Messenger from God (and compulsive film buff) with a mission: test Joe’s faith and report back to “the Boss.” The jokes and Tests of Faith fly fast and furious as Neil Simon spins a contemporary morality tale like no other in this hilarious comedy.
Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Directed by Laureen Catlin
September 6-14, 2024
A pop culture phenomenon comes to the musical stage in Schoolhouse Rock Live! The show is an omage to the Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math and more through clever, tuneful songs. The show follows Tom, a nerve-wracked school teacher who is nervous about his first day of teaching. He tries to relax by watching TV, when various characters come to life to show him how to win his students over with imagination and music. Who can forget such songs as "Just a Bill," "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly" and "Conjunction Junction."
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap
Directed by Susan Berger
November 15-23, 2024
The Mousetrap is the world's longest-running play. As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse. When a police sergeant arrives, the guests discover – to their horror – that a killer is in their midst! One by one, the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts. Which one is the murderer? Who will be their next victim? Can you solve this world-famous mystery for yourself? For almost 70 years, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has kept millions of people from every corner of the globe on the edge of their seats.