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Off Broadway Series – Previous Show Archives

Sutter Street Theatre in Folsom, CA

This is an archive of pages for Off-Broadway shows at Sutter Street Theatre in Folsom, CA which are no longer playing.

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

May 24th – June 23rd
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 4:30 PM
Saturday, June 8th at 2 PM

Book by John Bishop

Directed by Connie Mockenhaupt

Rated: PG

The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious “Stage Door Slasher”) assemble for a backer’s audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy “angel.” The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways, and a German maid who is apparently four different people—all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem which follows when the infamous “Slasher” makes his reappearance and strikes again—and again. As the composer, lyricist, actors, and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies start to drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases, and accusing fingers point in all directions!

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The Producers

August 16th – September 15th
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 4:30 PM

Book by Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan
Music & Lyrics by Mel Brooks

Directed by Kenny Brian Gagni
Music Direction by Connie Mockenhaupt
Choreography by Devin LePage and Thomas LePage
Assistant Director, Dena Jimena

Rated: Mature for language and subject matter

A down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and his mild-mannered accountant come up with a scheme to produce the most notorious flop in history, thereby bilking their backers (all “little old ladies”) out of millions of dollars. Only one thing goes awry: the show is a smash hit! At the core of the insanely funny adventure is a poignant emotional journey of two very different men who become friends. With a truly hysterical book co-written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan (Annie) and music and lyrics by Mr. Brooks, The Producers skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an “equal opportunity offender!”

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Visiting Mr. Green

July 12th – August 4th
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays & Sundays at 4:30 PM
Saturday, July 13th at 7:30 PM

Book by Jeff Baron

Directed by Janelle Kauffman

Rated: PG-13

Mr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, a 21-year-old corporate executive. The young man is sentenced to community service in which he must help the recent widower once a week for six months. What starts as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a gripping and moving drama as they get to know each other, come to care about each other, and open old wounds they’ve been hiding and nursing for years. Translated into 24 languages, with over 600 productions in large and small venues, it has won numerous Best Play and Best Actor awards throughout the world.

This show is rated PG-13 for adult themes and language pertaining to sexual situations.

Produced in partnership with Kauffman’s Give Us A Hand Productions

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Anything Goes

April 12th – May 12th
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 4:30 PM

Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter
Original Book by
P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
New Book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman

Directed by Kenny Brian Gagni
Music Direction by Connie Mockenhaupt
Choreography by Devin LePage & Connie Mockenhaupt

Rated: G

The S.S. American is sailing between New York and England with a comically colorful assemblage of passengers: Reno Sweeney, a popular nightclub singer and former evangelist, her pal Billy Crocker, a lovelorn Wall Street broker who has come aboard to try to win the favor of his beloved Hope Harcourt (who is engaged to another passenger, Sir Evelyn Oakleigh), and a second-rate con man named Moonface Martin, aka “Public Enemy #13.” Song, dance, and farcical antics ensue as Reno and Moonface try to help Billy win the love of his life.

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Cotton Patch Gospel

A Bluegrass musical re-telling of the Good News story with music & lyrics by Harry Chapin!

March 1st – March 30th
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 4:30 PM
Friday, March 22nd at 5:00 PM

Book by Tom Key & Russell Treyz
Music & Lyrics by 
Harry Chapin
Based on The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John by Clarence Jordan

Directed & Choreographed by Sam Williams
Music Direction by Connie Mockenhaupt
Live Piano Accompaniment by John Wilder

Rated: PG for simulated violence

With music & lyrics by Harry Chapin, and based on the book The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John by Clarence Jordan, this bluegrass musical is a southern reinterpretation of the gospel story – retelling the life of Jesus in modern day rural Georgia. First produced by Gary Musick Productions and Troupe America Inc.,the “Greatest Story Ever Retold” is the only Off-Broadway play to be praised by both Rolling Stone and Christianity Today, and hailed as “A Joyous Triumph” by the New York Times.

“A hurricane that sweeps you along on wings of song. … A buoyant, exultant musical.”
—The Hollywood Reporter

“Some of the best songs Harry Chapin ever wrote”
-Rolling Stone

“An uplifting family show with loads of heart”
-Chicago Critic

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Dial M For Murder

January 26th-February 18th
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays & Sundays at 4:30 PM
Saturday, January 27th at 1:00 PM
Sunday, January 28th at 1:00 PM
Thursday, February 8th at 7:00 PM
Saturday, February 10th at 7:30 PM
(No show on Sunday, February 11th)

Book by Fredrick Knott

Directed by Janelle Kauffman & Stephen Kauffman

Rated: PG

A new version of the celebrated murder mystery that inspired Hitchcock’s masterpiece! Tony is convinced that his wife Margot has been cheating on him. Now it seems that the affair is over, but in his jealousy Tony spins a web of suspicion and deception that will tighten around them and ensnare them both in danger, recrimination and murder.

Presented in partnership with Kauffmans’ Give Us A Hand Productions

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Evil Dead: The Musical

 

October 8th – October 31st
Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM
Sundays at 7:00 PM
Additional Performances on Thursday the 21st & 28th at 7:00 PM

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Book & Lyrics by George Reinblatt

Music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris and George Reinblatt

Evil Dead The Musical takes all the elements of the cult classic films, The Evil DeadEvil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness and combines them for one of the craziest, funniest, and bloodiest theatrical experiences of all time.  Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods, and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s all up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons tell bad jokes… and all to music.  You don’t need to be a fan of Evil Dead to love this show. You don’t need to be a fan of horror to love this show. You don’t even need to be a fan of musicals to love this show. As long as you like having fun… this show is for you.  Plus it’s the only show with a “Splatter Zone” – a section of the audience that gets covered in fake blood.  And with this combination of blood, jokes, cheesy effects, and really awesome musical numbers, Evil Dead The Musical is unlike any live show you’ve ever seen.  JOIN US!!!!!

For mature audiences only.

Call (916) 353-1001 for information.