Center Theatre at the MJCCA Presents the Smash Musical, “HAIRSPRAY” -- December 9 - 19, 2010

Center Theatre at the MJCCA presents the hit musical, HAIRSPRAY, directed by Dina Shadwell. Running from December 9 – 19, 2010, the production will take place in Center Theatre’s beautiful Morris & Rae Frank Theatre (located at the MJCCA, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody.)

Winner of multiple awards, including the 2003 Tony for Best Musical and the Lawrence Olivier Award for Best New Musical, HAIRSPRAY sweeps us away to 1960's Baltimore, where the 50's are out – and change is in the air. Loveable plus-sized heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair?

Songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues. You’ll do-wop your way out of the theater, because “You Can’t Stop the Beat!”

Based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters, with book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, and lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman. Hairspray is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

For more information, visit the Center Theatre.

Center Theatre at the MJCCA Presents Hairspray From December 9 - 19, 2010

Center Theatre at the MJCCA will present the hit musical, Hairspray, directed by Dina Shadwell. Running from December 9 – 19, 2010, the production will take place in Center Theatre’s Morris and Rae Frank Theatre (located at the MJCCA, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody.)

Winner of multiple awards, including the 2003 Tony for Best Musical and the Lawrence Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Hairspray sweeps us away to 1960's Baltimore, where the 50's are out – and change is in the air. Loveable plus-sized heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair?

 Based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters, with book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, and lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman. Hairspray is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

For more information, visit the Center Theatre.

Center Theatre Presents RENT - School Edition From July 27 Through August 1, 2010

Center Theatre at the MJCCA presents RENT - School Edition, an adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical, RENT, based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème, running July 27 – August 1, 2010.

The stage production is brought to life in Center Theatre’s beautiful Morris & Rae Frank Theatre (located at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody). RENT - School Edition is recommended for ages 13 to adult **.

Center Theatre’s Teen Summer Stock Production of RENT - School Edition follows a year in the lives of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village, living under the shadow of AIDS, with both its physical and emotional complications. RENT - School Edition is about a community of people, each with their own quirks and problems, finding a way to live together. They are individuals who support each other’s differences while striving to become successful members of society by doing something they believe in.

For show times and tickets, visit Center Theatre.

The Music Man Plays At The Center Theatre

December 10, 12-13, 16-17, 19-20
The Music Man at Center Theatre

Center Theatre at the MJCCA presents a community production of the classic musical, The Music Man, directed by Dina Shadwell. The story follows a con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader, sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with the cash. But in River City, Iowa, things go awry when he falls for Marian, a librarian he tries to divert from exposing him while he inadvertently enriches the town with a love of music.

The show’s one-of-a-kind nostalgic score includes rousing marches, barbershop quartets and sentimental ballads which have become popular standards.

For information and showtimes, visit Center Theatre.

Center Theatre at the MJCCA Performs The Music Man

Center Theatre at the MJCCA presents a community production of the classic musical, The Music Man, directed by Dina Shadwell. With book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey, the stage production of The Music Man is brought to life in Center Theatre’s beautiful Morris & Rae Frank Theatre (located at the MJCCA, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody), and runs December 10 - 20, 2009.

In the musical, con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader, sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with the cash. But in River City, Iowa, things go awry when he falls for Marian, a librarian he tries to divert from exposing him while he inadvertently enriches the town with a love of music.

The show’s one-of-a-kind nostalgic score includes rousing marches (Seventy-Six Trombones), barbershop quartets (Lida Rose) and sentimental ballads (Till There Was You) which have become popular standards.

For more info, visit Center Theatre.