Marco Island Center for the Arts Presents

The Fort Myer’s Theatre production of

Meredith Willson’s The Music Man

At the Arts Center Theatre

October 18 – October 21, 2023

Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center

The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.

Book, Music and Lyrics by Meredith Willson

Story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey

Show excluded from season ticket sales. 

October 25 – November 12, 2023

“The 39 Steps”

Adapted by Patrick Barlow

from the novel by John Buchan

Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have the intriguing, thrilling, riotous and unmissable comedy. The show hurtles a notorious fugitive and a spellbound blonde from a London music hall north by northwest to Scotland’s most remote highlands. Will they save Britain from a den of devious spies? A cast of four actors plays over 150 characters in this fast-paced tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinarily entertaining adventure. The 39 Steps contains every single legendary scene from the award-winning movie — including the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the escape on the Forth Bridge, the first theatrical bi-plane crash ever staged, and the sensational death-defying finale in the London Palladium.

“The 39 Steps” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concortheatricals.com

By Arrangement with Fiery Angel Limited

THE 39 STEPS

Adapted by Patrick Barlow

From the novel by John Buchan

From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock

Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited

And an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon

November 29 – December 10, 2023

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) [REVISED] [AGAIN]

by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield, new revisions by Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield

Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center

An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London’s longest-running comedy having clocked a very palpable nine years in London’s West End at the Criterion Theatre! Join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) [REVISED] [AGAIN] is produced by special  arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com

Marco Island Center for the Arts Presents

The Fort Myer’s Theatre production of

White Christmas

At the Arts Center Theatre

December 13 – December 17, 2023

Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center

Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin

Book by David Ives and Paul Blake

Based Upon the Paramount Pictures Film Written For the Screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank

Based on the beloved, timeless film, this heartwarming musical adaptation features 17 Irving Berlin songs and a book by David Ives and Paul Blake.

Show excluded from season ticket sales. 

January 3 – 21, 2024

“Private Lives”

by Noël Coward

Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center

Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger. Their aggrieved spouses appear and a roundelay of affiliations ensues as the women first stick together, then apart, and new partnerships are formed. A uniquely humorous play boasting numerous successful Broadway runs with stars like Coward himself, Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Gertrude Lawrence, Tammy Grimes, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor.

“Private Lives” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

February 7 – 25, 2024

“The Queen of Bingo”

by Jeanne Michels

and Phyllis Murphy

Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center

The Queen of Bingo explores the worlds of Bingo, family ties, diet crazes, widowhood, hot flashes and winning! ‘Sis’ and ‘Babe,’ two sisters on the other side of 50, want to add a little fun and excitement to their lives…but where to find it? BINGO! The audience joins in the fun during the “Middle Bird Special” – a real Bingo game where some lucky audience member wins at every performance! Theatergoers young and old will howl with laughter as two zany, crazy gals, light up the stage in this comedy hit.

The Queen of Bingo

by Jeanne Michels and Phyllis Murphy

“THE QUEEN OF BINGO is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists PlayService collection. (www.dramatists.com)”

March 13 – 30, 2024  

“Vanities”

by Jack Heifner

Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center

This bittersweet comedy is an astute, snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three Texas girls. In 1963, Joanne, Kathy, and Mary are aggressively vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later in their college sorority house, they are confronting their futures with nervous jauntiness. In 1974, they reunite briefly in New York. Their lives have diverged and their friendship, which once thrived on assumptions as well-coordinated as sweater sets, is strained and ambiguous. Old time banter rings false. Their attempts at honest conversation only show they can no longer afford to have very much in common. This 1976 Drama Desk Award Nominee for Best New Play premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights then transferred to the Chelsea Theatre Center (now the Westside Theatre)

Vanities

By Jack Heifner

“Vanities” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com