The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world’s most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart of the stern Captain, and they marry. Upon returning from their honeymoon, they discover that Austria has been invaded by the Nazis. With one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre.
A Season Of Hope Dec. 4 - 19, 2009
KED’s Christmas production has become a holiday classic. A Season of Hope will once again bring you many of the KED performers in a variety of skits, readings and the holiday songs everyone loves to hear. With its traditional message of Love and Peace, it’s sure to give us a “kick-start” on the holiday season!
The Murder Room, a comedy by Jack Sharkey, tells the story of bland Edgar Hollister who marries a gold-digger, Mavis Templeton. After a couple hours of painful marriage, Mavis apparently tries various means to bump off her apparently rich husband. All of this is just apparently, because blank shells might have been in the pistol - who knows? - and maybe the cat didn't’t really die when it drank the poisoned cocoa - who knows? - and maybe it was all a dream, or amnesia. The Murder Room has also been described as Abbot and Costello meets Agatha Christie, with a little Monty Python thrown in.
Nunsense is “habit-forming”!! And returning by popular demand are the little nuns of Hoboken. The 5 surviving nuns are staging a variety show. The rest of the sisterhood having succumbed to botulism after eating vichyssoise prepared by Sister Julia, Child of God. The remaining “little Hobo’s” parade their talents at a variety show staged to raise funds so the last four of the dearly departed can be buried. KED is proud to bring the nuns back for their reunion of this musical comedy classic.
If Mr. Markham had not found the second page of a love letter, if Mrs. Markham had not been so accommodating, if Alistair, the interior decorator, had not taught Sylvie, the maid, all about geese - if there had not been all these ifs - there would not be a Move Over Mrs. Markham. This British burlesque mixes three separate couples all seeking illicit liaisons unknowingly at the same time and place. Add a straight laced children’s author, a sexy au pair girl and a flamboyant interior decorator... stir in misplaced love notes, ringing phones and a full liquor cabinet... and the game is on. “A riot...I never stopped laughing!”
