Posts filed under: Performances

The Velveteen Rabbit

December 13th – December 28th, 2025
Saturdays & Sundays at 1:00 PM
plus some weekday performances!

Adapted by James Still
From the 1922 Children’s Book by Margery Williams

Directed by Allen Schmeltz

Rated: G

The Velveteen Rabbit is a fantasy play that is enjoyable for all groups (including adults). The Velveteen Rabbit is an emotional journey through time, as told through the eyes of a young man looking back on his childhood. By reliving the relationship between his 4-year-old self and his favorite toy, the Velveteen Rabbit, he rediscovers the true meaning of friendship. Central to the story is, of course, the Velveteen Rabbit, who is introduced to the idea of becoming real by the Old Rocking Horse. The play explores the rewards of loyalty, the poignancy of loss, and the wonderful, surprising power of love.

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Haunted Houses

October 4th – November 2nd
Saturdays & Sundays at 1:00 PM

Book by Kathryn Shultz Miller

Directed by Allen Schmeltz

Rated: G

One summer night four friends enter the dark, abandoned mansion that overlooks their town. Once inside, their imaginations and their fears guide them to the phantoms of their minds. As they tell their personal stories of rejection, hazing, isolation and threats of abuse, they touch on phantoms that terrify too many young people. In sharing their stories and summoning courage for each other, each grasps important clues for living better and helping each other, unencumbered by fear.

Approx. Run Time: 45 minutes

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Disney’s 101 Dalmatians KIDS

July 26th – August 17th, 2025
Saturdays & Sundays at 1:00 PM

Book adapted by Marcy Heisler
Music & Lyrics by Mel Leven, Randy Rogel, Richard Gibbs, Brian Smith, Dan Root and Martin Lee Fuller
Additional Lyrics by Marcy Heisler
Music adapted and arranged by Bryan Louiselle

Directed & Choreographed by Sarah Williams

Rated: G

Based on the classic animated film, Disney’s 101 Dalmatians KIDS is a fur-raising adventure featuring Cruella De Vil, Disney’s most outrageous villain, and 101 of the most adorable heroes to set their paws onstage. With a high-spirited score and lovable characters, this stage adaptation is certain to charm and delight all audiences.

Pet owners, Roger and Anita, live happily in London with their Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita, stalwart dogs devoted to raising their puppies. Everything is quiet until Anita’s former classmate, the monstrous Cruella De Vil, plots to steal the puppies for her new fur coat. The Dalmatians rally all the dogs of London for a daring rescue of the puppies from Cruella and her bumbling henchmen.

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Disney’s Frozen Jr.

June 28th – July 20th, 2025
Saturdays & Sundays at 1:00 PM

Book by Jennifer Lee
Music & Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

Directed by Devin LePage
Choreography by Keira LePage and Devin LePage

Rated: G

The enchanting modern classic from Disney is ready for your Broadway Junior stars! Frozen JR. is based on the 2018 Broadway musical, and brings Elsa, Anna, and the magical land of Arendelle to life, onstage. The show features all of the memorable songs from the animated film, with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, plus five new songs written for the Broadway production.

A story of true love and acceptance between sisters, Frozen JR. expands upon the emotional relationship and journey between Princesses Anna and Elsa. When faced with danger, the two discover their hidden potential and the powerful bond of sisterhood. With a cast of beloved characters and loaded with magic, adventure, and plenty of humor, Frozen JR. is sure to thaw even the coldest heart!

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The Reluctant Dragon

May 10th – June 8th, 2025
Saturdays & Sundays at 1:00 PM

Adapted by George C. Fosgate

Directed by Haley McDaniel

Rated: G

The Reluctant Dragon is a peaceful fellow who likes tea, poetry, and an afternoon snooze.  Mischievous children stir the villagers to call in the famous dragon slayer, Saint George.  A young lad befriends both of the ’adversaries’ and arranges a meeting between them.  The comic battle that ensues provides an entertaining climax and a happy ending.

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Hansel & Gretel

April 5th – May 4th, 2025
Saturdays & Sundays at 1:00 PM

Adapted by Laura Luke
From the German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children’s and Household Tales

Directed by Laura Luke

Rated: G

A poor Woodcutter and his Wife find themselves without enough money to take care of their family, their children try to help anyway they can, including making brooms to sell in town and taking trips into the forest to gather food. When the children become lost on one such trip, they encounter a scheming Witch and her squire sidekicks who lure the children to the Witch’s gingerbread house. Soon the children must outsmart the witch and solve the mystery of other vanishing children in time to make it home to their parents. A comical twist on a classic fairytale.

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Beetlejuice Jr.

March 1st – March 30th, 2025
Saturdays & Sundays at 1:00 PM

Book by Anthony King & Scott Brown
Music & Lyrics by Eddie Perfect

Directed by Mark Cornfield
Choreography by Dian Hoel

Rated: PG

It’s our show now, kid. The ghost-with-the-most comes to the stage in Beetlejuice JR., the frightfully funny musical based on the beloved motion picture turned Broadway phenomenon. Lydia Deetz is a strange and unusual teenager, still grieving the loss of her mother and obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Lucky for Lydia, she and her father move to a new house haunted by a recently deceased couple and Beetlejuice, a delightful demon with a real zest for life. When Lydia calls on Beetlejuice to scare away anyone with a pulse, this double-crossing specter shows his true stripes, unleashing a (Nether)world of pandemonium.

With music and lyrics by Tony Award-nominee Eddie Perfect and a book by Tony Award-nominated pair Anthony King and Scott Brown, Beetlejuice was nominated for eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best New Musical. A viral “sucks-yes” on social media, this musical struck a chord with young theater-lovers who adored its unabashed humor and emotional honesty.

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Rumplestiltskin

January 25th – February 23rd, 2025
Saturdays & Sundays at 1:00 PM

Adapted by Laura Luke
From the German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children’s and Household Tales

Directed by Christine Lovette

Rated: G

Join us for the magical tale of Rumpelstiltskin. The kingdom is almost out of gold after the reckless King and Queen spend the kingdom’s money on frivolous things. The Prince is trying to be the voice of reason. Hoping to get their spending under control. Rumplestiltskin has been banished from the castle for years, after he tried to become more powerful than the Royal family. He begs his mother Circe, a witch, to give him magic. He sees a way to become more powerful by taking advantage of the situation. After Malcolm the Miller brags to his friend that his daughter, Sabrina, can spin straw into gold the King and Queen hear about it and think this will save the Kingdom. Soon everyone learns the importance of a name.

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Holiday in the Hills

December 5th – December 23rd, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 4:30 PM
plus special weekday performances!

Original work by Connie Mockenhaupt & Mike Jimena

Directed by Connie Mockenhaupt
Music Direction by Connie Mockenhaupt
Live Piano Accompaniment by Johnny Wilder

Rated: G

Holiday In The Hills is Sutter Street Theatre’s love letter to the Holiday Season; It takes place in the late 1800’s (give or take a year or two) right here on Sutter Street where the residents of the town and surrounding areas have gotten together for a party to celebrate the season. A lot of research went into the people and places that preceded us in the late 1800’s, and everyone you see onstage was an actual resident or visitor to Folsom at that time of year. Seeing a performance of Holiday In The Hills will put you and your family in the holiday spirit or we’ll give your money back, guaranteed!

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Sly Fox

November 14th – November 30th, 2025
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays & Sundays at 4:30 PM

Book by Larry Gelbart
Based on Volpone by Ben Johnson

Directed by TBD

Rated: PG

To tickle the humor of today’s audiences, Volpone has been moved from 17th century Venice to turn of the century San Francisco. Volpone is now called Foxwell J. Sly and he is the same scheming, rapacious miser bent on extracting fortunes from a trio of rich, greedy opportunists. Sly, pretending to be on his deathbed, says he will name each of the three as his sole heir. The extent that the trio will go to acquire Sly’s fortune knows no bounds. One goes so far as to disinherit his only son; another offers up his wife to the lecherous Sly. Sly is aided and abetted by his conniving servant in grabbing the other men’s gold.

Presented in partnership with Kauffmans’ Give Us A Hand Productions

“Truly funny and exhilarating…brings real comedy back to the theatre…There’s nothing like pure fun.” – New York Post

“Pure comedy based on pure greed. It is full of pure laughs.” – NBC

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Evil Dead The Musical

September 26th – November 9th, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Wednesdays, Thursdays & Sundays at 7:00 PM

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

Directed by Mike Jimena
Music Direction by Connie Mockenhaupt

Rated: Mature

“It’s an old tale. You’ve probably heard it a hundred times. Boy and his friends go on a week-long vacation in the woods. Three friends turn into Candarian demons. One friend is killed by a forest of evil trees. Two demons are killed by their boyfriends, respectively, while one stays in the cellar trying to kill everything in sight. Like I said… pretty standard stuff.”

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. Did we mention the blood?!

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 houseware-aisle 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 show you’ve ever seen.  JOIN US!!!!!

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You Can’t Take It With You

August 29th – September 21st, 2025
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays & Sundays at 4:30 PM
(No show on Saturday, September 20th)

Book by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman

Directed by TBD

Rated: PG

The family of Martin Vanderhof lives “just around the corner from Columbia University — but don’t go looking for it.” Grandpa, as Martin is more commonly known, is the paterfamilias of a large and extended family of charming eccentrics. His granddaughter, Alice, is an attractive and loving girl who is still embarrassed by her family’s idiosyncrasies. When Alice falls for her boss, Tony, a handsome scion of Wall Street, she fears that their two families – so unlike in manner, politics and finances – will never come together. But why be obsessed with money? After all, you can’t take it with you…

Presented in partnership with Kauffmans’ Give Us A Hand Productions

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Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein

July 25th – August 24th, 2025
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

Rated: PG-13

From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced “Fronk-en-steen”) inherits his family’s estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced “Eye-gore”), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. “It’s alive!” he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather’s. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.

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Little Women The Musical

June 13th – July 13th, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 4:30 PM

Book by Allan Knee
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein

Directed by Lindy Mallonee & Heather Chapin
Music Direction by TBD
Choreography by TBD

Rated: G

Based on Louisa May Alcott’s life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Jo is trying to sell her stories for publication, but the publishers are not interested – her friend, Professor Bhaer, tells her that she has to do better and write more from herself. Begrudgingly taking this advice, Jo weaves the story of herself and her sisters and their experience growing up in Civil War America.

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Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys

May 2nd – June 1st, 2025
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays & Sundays at 4:30 PM

Book by Neil Simon

Directed by Janelle Kauffman

Rated: PG

Al and Willie as “Lewis and Clark” were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren’t even speaking. When CBS requests them for a “History of Comedy” retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs. The story follows the attempt by a young theatrical agent to reunite his elderly uncle, a former vaudevillian great, with his long-time stage partner for a TV reunion. Despite their celebrated reputation, the two old men have not spoken in twelve years. Besides remastering their sketch, the two men have numerous issues to work out before they are ready to return to the public eye.

Presented in partnership with Kauffmans’ Give Us A Hand Productions

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Guys and Dolls

March 28th – April 27th, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 4:30 PM

Book by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser

Directed by Sam Williams

Rated PG

Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they’ve been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.

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Our Town

February 21st-March 16th, 2025
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays & Sundays at 4:30 PM

Book by Thornton Wilder

Directed by Allen Schmeltz

Rated: PG

Our Town was described by the playwright, Edward Albee as “…the greatest American play ever written.”  The story follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.”  Narrated by a Stage Manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually — in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre — die.  This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous Acting Editions, yet it presents Our Town as Thornton Wilder wished it to be performed.

“Thornton Wilder’s masterpiece… An immortal tale of small town morality…a classic of soft spoken theatre.” — The New York Times

“No American play describes more powerfully how we imagine ourselves.” — New York Daily News

Duration: More than 120 minutes (over 2 hours)

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The Game’s Afoot

January 17th-February 16th, 2025
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays & Sundays at 4:30 PM

Book by Ken Ludwig

Directed by Anthony DePage

Rated: PG

It is December 1936, and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. It is then up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays!

Duration: 120 minutes (2 hours)
Caution: Performance contains gun shot sound effects

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The Best Man

November 8th – November 24th
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays & Sundays at 4:30 PM
Saturday, November 9th at 7:30 PM

Book by Gore Vidal

Directed by Derek Byrne & Janelle Kauffman

Rated: PG

William Russell, the ex-Secretary of State, is a wit and scholar with high liberal principles, beloved of the eggheads and suspected by practical politicians. Joseph Cantwell is a ruthless and hard-driving young man, a dirty fighter who will let no scruples stand in the way of his ambitions. And Arthur Hockstader is an ex-President, who loves politics for their own sake, admires a rough-and-tumble battler more than a chivalrous one, and is determined to have the final say in the selection of his party’s candidate…The ruthless young man has got hold of papers indicating that his rival once suffered from a mental crackup, which he is all set to use. Then his scrupulous antagonist comes across some incriminating evidence about Cantwell, which he is loath to produce. The scruples don’t appeal to the ex-President, who enjoys seeing the boys fight. All of this provides the framework for some vivid and interesting scenes in which Mr. Vidal contrasts the minds, emotions and fighting spirits of the two candidates…”

Produced in partnership with Kauffmans’ Give Us A Hand Productions

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A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas

December 13th – December 29th
Fridays at 4:00 PM
Saturdays & Sundays at 1:00 PM
Wednesday, December 18th at 4:00 PM
Thursday, December 19th at 4:00 PM

Book by Laurie Brooks

Directed by Joaquin Calderon

Rated: G

In their poorest winter ever, when the crops have been devastated by locusts and the family must deal with the death of baby Freddie, Charles Ingalls backtracks his family to Burr Oak, Iowa, to take over the running of a hotel. And if things weren’t bad enough, Ma tells Laura she must be nice to Johnny Steadman, “the worst boy in Iowa.” When wealthy Mrs. Starr asks for Laura as a companion to read to her in the afternoons, Laura is overjoyed to be invited into such a fine house, but when she overhears Mrs. Starr offer to adopt Laura as her own daughter to ease the burden of so many children, Laura is certain that Ma and Pa will give her up. As Christmas morning approaches, Laura is faced with a decision: Will she choose what she believes is best for the family or will she find a way to stay with Pa, Ma, Mary and Carrie? This original play presents the poignant story of the “missing” two years in the life of the Ingalls family—the only substantial period that Laura chose not to write about in her Little House books. Told with period songs, humor and depth of character, A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas tells a story of healing that celebrates the importance of enduring family bonds.

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