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Sutter Street Theatre in Folsom, CA

Sutter Street Theatre in Folsom, CA – Off-Broadway Series features musicals, comedies, musical revues, mysteries and featured entertainers in an intimate, 60 seat theatre.

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Holiday in the Hills

December 5th – December 23rd
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!

– Tickets coming soon –

Sly Fox

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

– Tickets coming soon –

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!!!!!

– Tickets coming soon –

You Can’t Take It With You

August 29th – September 21st, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
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

– Tickets coming soon –

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 TBD
Music Direction by TBD
Choreography by TBD

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 TBD
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 & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
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

– Tickets coming soon –

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
Music Direction by TBD
Choreography by TBD

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 & Dena Jimena

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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Holiday in the Hills

December 7th – December 23rd
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 4:30 PM
December 18 & 19 at 7:30 PM

Original work by Connie Mockenhaupt & Mike Jimena

Directed by Connie Mockenhaupt
Piano Accompaniment by John 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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Evil Dead The Musical 2024

September 27th – November 3rd
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 7:00 PM
Thursday, October 31st at 7:30 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 Dead, Evil 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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The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

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

Book by John Bishop

Directed by Mark Cornfield

Rated: PG-13

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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Murder on the Orient Express

March 3 – April 2
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sunday at 4:30 PM

Rated: PG-13

Written by Agatha Christie
Adapted by Ken Ludwig

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed eight times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

The Addams Family – A New Musical Comedy

July 8 – August 18
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sunday at 4:30 PM

Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa

Rated PG

THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents. 

Cabaret

May 26 – June 25
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sunday at 4:30 PM

Book by Joe Masteroff
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb

Directed by Sam Williams
Music Direction by David Williams
Choreography by Sarah Williams

Rated PG-13

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920’s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish. Musical numbers include “Willkommen,” “Cabaret,” “Don’t Tell Mama” and “Two Ladies.”

 

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Monty Python’s Spamalot

July 8th – August 20th
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 4:30 PM

ADDED SHOW DATES! August 10th & 18th at 7:30 PM, August 20th at 4:30 PM!

Book & Lyrics by Eric Idle
Music by John Du Prez

Music Direction & Choreography by Connie Mockenhaupt
Directed by Connie Mockenhaupt

Rated PG-13

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT retells the legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. It features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful showgirls? With such classic songs as ‘He Is Not Dead Yet,’ ‘The Song That Goes Like This,’ ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ and, of course, ‘Fisch Schlapping Song,’ the outrageous, uproarious, and gloriously entertaining story of King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake will delight you as they search for the Holy Grail and “always look on the bright side of life.”

 

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Pippin: 2013 Broadway Revival Version

 

July 22 – August 21

Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 4:30 pm

 

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Roger O. Hirson
Directed and Choreographed by Devin LePage

Cast List

With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, Pippin is the story of one young man’s journey to be extraordinary. Heir to the Frankish throne, the young prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment. He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield, the temptations of the flesh and the intrigues of political power (after disposing of his father, King Charlemagne the Great). In the end, though, Pippin finds that happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but rather in the unextraordinary moments that happen every day.

 

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Sunshine Boys

Kauffmans’ Give Us A Hand Productions and Sutter Street Theatre present…

November 4- November 27
Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM
Sunday at 4:30 PM
Special performance on Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 PM

Written by Neil Simon

Rated PG-13

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 re-unite 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.

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