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DLO's 2011–12 SEASON
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Sweeney Todd

SWEENEY TODD
Directed by Matt Hester
Musical direction by David Zych
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Music by Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Based on a version of Sweeney Todd
   by Christopher Bond

October 22 & 23, 2011
DHS Dick Van Dyke Auditorium

Auditions: August 20 & 21, 2011

Just in time for Halloween comes this suspenseful, macabre tale. An unjustly exiled barber returns to 19th-century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The show mixes intense drama with hilarious moments of dark comedy. You’ll laugh hysterically one moment and gasp in horror the next.

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Directed by Greg Williams
Musical direction by Joe Grant
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Music by Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Based on Ingmar Bergman’s film

Dinner Theatre
February 17, 18 & 19, 2012
DACC Bremer Auditorium

Auditions: December 4 & 5, 2011

A Little Night Music
This long-neglected masterpiece returned to Broadway in 2009 with Catherine Zeta-Jones in the role of Desiree and Angela Lansbury as her mother, Madame Armfeldt. The romantic and achingly beautiful musical deals with the universal subject of love and all its complications. The magnificent score includes the classic "Send in the Clowns."

Gypsy

GYPSY
Directed by David Woodrow
Musical direction by Kevin Latoz
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
Original Production by David Merrick & Leland Hayward
Entire production originally directed and choreographed
   by Jerome Robbins

April 28 & 29, 2012
DHS Dick Van Dyke Auditorium

Auditions: February 19 & 20, 2012

Join aggressive stage mother Rose and her daughters, June and Louise, as they travel across the country in the 1920s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. The show, featuring such familiar songs as "Let Me Entertain You" and "Everything’s Coming Up Roses," starred the incomparable Ethel Merman as Rose in the original production.