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JANE produces...

Check out some of out past productions below!


Past Shows

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The HULLABALOO! "Red Goes Green"

Little Red Riding Hood--with a twist! We've added a global warming message, songs, joke and LOTS of fun! Based on the grand tradition of British pant with songs by Greg Paul and book by Kim Bogus.









The HULLABALOO! 
Princess and the Pea

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Exactly what makes a person a Princess?  It is what's outside or what's inside that makes a person who they are?  Sooooo many questions!  You will get all the answers and more at The HULLABALOO! Princess and the Pea.

November by David Mamet

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David Mamet's Oval Office satire, depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief.  Charles Smith's chances for re-election are grim: apporval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent.  Though his staff has thrown in the towel and his wife is preparing for her post-White House life, Chuck isn't ready to give up just yet.

NOVEMBER is a scathingly hilarious take on the state of America today and lengths to which people will go to win.



Looking for Normal by Jane Anderson

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Roy and Irma have been married for 25 years.  They are respected in their middle-America community.  Then Roy confesses that he's a woman trapped in a man's body and wants to have a sex change.  As you might expect, Irma throws Roy out of the house.  Will Roy and Irma make peace in their marriage and their family?  LOOKING FOR NORMAL explores the complexities of marriage, family and deconstructs the very notion of love.



The HULLABALOO! 
Hansel & Gretel

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In this era of video games, computers, television and movies, JANE invites everyone to “Get up and get moving”! 

Hansel and Gretel are lost in the woods.  During their journey to find their way back home they encounter a band of Pirates (in the forest? you may ask.  Yes, anything can happen in the HULLABALOO!).   There is also the traditional witch (and we use the word traditional with a wink), and her minions, the little witches.


The HULLABALOO! Frankenstein: the little monster

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Just how is a little monster created you ask?  With snips and snails and puppy dog tails?  Or sugar and spice and everything nice?  And when a little monster runs amok, who will save the village? 


Company

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The clashing sounds and pulsing rhythms of New York City underscore this landmark "concept" show, considered by many to have inaugurated the modern era of musical theatre. COMPANY follows our anti-hero bachelor Robert as he makes his way through a series of encounters with April (the stewardess), Kathy (the girl who's going to marry someone else), Marta (the "peculiar" one), as well as with his married friends. 

On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor Robert contemplates his unmarried state. In vignette after hilarious vignette, we are introduced to "those good and crazy people," his married friends, as Robert weighs the pros and cons of married life. In the end, he realizes being alone is "alone, not alive."

An honest, witty, sophisticated look at relationships, COMPANYis as contemporary and relevant as ever (witness the recent hit revivals on Broadway and the West End). It features a brilliant energetic score containing many of Stephen Sondheim's best-known songs (including "Another Hundred People," "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "Being Alive").


The Ghosts of Celilo

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This ground-breaking production weaves a bittersweet love story within a mystery and features a haunting score of Native American music and traditional musical theatre songs.

The Ghosts of Celilo (suh-LIE-low) is a musical play based on true events that happened near Celilo Falls in the 1950s. Celilo was one of the world’s premiere fisheries and a cultural and spiritual center for native people before it was inundated by the Dalles Dam in 1957.

Ghosts features Native American music and traditional musical theatre genres telling the story of two Indian boys kidnapped and taken to a government boarding school. There, they are befriended by the white daughter of the school’s administrator. The three make a daring escape to catch their ceremonial first salmon before Celilo Falls is buried by the closing of the dam gates. This story is ‘remembered’ by four colorful ghosts who have been stuck at the bottom of the Columbia River for fifty years on the last remnants of fishing platforms that have been buried underwater where Celilo Falls once roared.

This dramatic musical is acted and sung by Native American and non-Native actors. The score is a powerful combination of music that combines Native American song and scoring with music more familiar to musical theatre.


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