Tampa's Community Theater
Carrollwood Players

THE MOUSETRAP The story is about a young couple, Mollie and Giles Ralston, who have started up a new hotel in the converted Monkswell Manor. They are snowed in together with four guests and an additional traveler, who ran his car into a snowdrift. Detective Sergeant Trotter arrives on skis to inform the group that he believes a murderer is on his way to the hotel, following the death of Miss Maureen Lyon in London. When one of the guests – Mrs Boyle – is killed, they realize that the murderer is already there. Although the suspicion falls first on Christopher Wren, an erratic young man who fits the description of the supposed murderer, it quickly transpires that the killer could be any one of the guests, or even the hosts themselves.
Director: Frank Stinehour/Producer: James Cass

THE GRADUATE It's 1960s California and The Graduate, Benjamin is a bit confused about where to go next in life and bemused about his love life. If you can quite call it that. Benjamin is having an affair with Mrs Robinson, who treats him more or less as she would the pool boy, but is in love with her daughter, Elaine, who is about to be married -- not to Benjamin. *ADULT CONTENT
Director: Kathy Buck/Producer: Frank Weiss

A DICKENS' CHRISTMAS CAROL The Styckes Upon Thump Repertory Company embarks on their fifteenth annual tour of the Dickens classic. When the company's diva feigns illness, certain the production will be canceled, this merry troupe of over the hill and upstart actors carry on without her. Roles are shuffled and the sweet understudy suddenly finds herself on stage knowing only one line of dialogue. She has written her part in and on almost everything, including the Christmas pudding! Midway through the doomed performance, the diva rushes in to reclaim her role. Total mayhem ensues as the company scrambles to keep the show going while everything goes hilariously wrong.
Director: Owen Robinson/Producer: Amy Ragg

SYLVIA written by A. R. Gurney (whose other hits include Dining Room and Labor Day) was first performed off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club. After a couple of very successful months, it moved on Broadway to the John Houseman Theatre. Sara Jessica Parker originated the role of Sylvia. Sylvia is a story of empty nesters. The children are in college, the suburban home has been sold and the couple has moved to New York City. Kate is the wife whose career as an inner-city English teacher is taking off; the long-married couple are touching base with old city friends and spending weekends visiting country friends. The only glitch is husband Greg's career. He's losing interest and losing his edge as a stockbroker. Disgruntled and restless, Greg is easy pickings. Call it a mid-life crisis, call it the eternal triangle, but pretty soon Sylvia enters the picture and the zany action begins. However, in this play, instead of a young long-legged buxom blonde adventuress, this homewrecker has four legs, a tall, shaggy fur and big soulful brown eyes. A cross between a lab and a poodle, this "other woman" moves in and begins to move Kate out. "Give a dog a woman's name and you'll begin to think of it as a woman," writes Gurney, and Greg does. Sylvia intrudes between husband and wife very effectively, sleeping in their bed, making weekend visits with them and helping to celebrate an anniversary. Greg even takes Sylvia out to lunch: he's found a restaurant to cater to her. The idea of a dog becoming the third party in a marriage dispute provides the funniest moments in the play.
Director: Dee Ford/Producer: Michael Holden

KEY FOR TWO is a comedy and is somewhat unique, in that in this farce, the women have the upper hand! In this play, it is the woman who juggles two men. They pay her bills and keep her in fine style, but, of course, neither one knows of the others existence and in order to keep them apart, she has invented a 'mother' who visits her on occasion. 'Mother' is so strait laced and puritanical, that when she visiting, one or the other gentleman friend cannot possibly come round. In keeping with the genre, naturally an old friend turns up, out of the blue, and throws a spanner in the works. The indescribable confusion that follows, builds to rich complexity of mistaken identity, splendidly farcical situations and a climax which has been described as comic wizardry!
Director: Miguel Rodriguez/Producer: Toni Germinario

THE OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB Once described as a "sentimental group portrait" and "as nostalgic as a Saturday Evening Post cover," The Octette Bridge Club is a delightful and funny look back at American life in a bygone era. Set in Rhode Island from 1934 to 1944, it focuses on the domestic intrigues of the Donavans, eight very different Irish-Catholic sisters who meet every other Friday night for bridge, home-baked pie, and gossip. P. J. Barry's autobiographical comedy is also a moving glimpse at the bright and dark aspects of family relationships, especially those things that hold us together and those that push us apart.
Director: Mary Kay Cyrus/Producer: MaryAnn Bardi

BATBOY: THE MUSICAL Based on a story in The Weekly World News, this is a musical comedy/horror show about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia. For lack of a better solution, the local sheriff brings Bat Boy to the home of the town veterinarian, Dr. Parker, where he is eventually accepted as a member of the family and taught to act like a "normal" boy by the veterinarian's wife, Meredith, and teenage daughter, Shelley. Bat Boy is happy with his new life, but when he naively tries to fit in with the narrow-minded people of Hope Falls, they turn on him, prodded by the machinations of Dr. Parker, who secretly despises Bat Boy. Shelley and Bat Boy, who have fallen in love, run away together from the ignorant townsfolk and have a blissful coupling in the woods, but their happiness is shattered when Meredith arrives and reveals a secret. Soon the entire town arrives and hears the shocking story of Bat Boy's unholy origin.
Director: Seth Travaglino/Producer: James Cass

I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT Jan has recently had a nervous breakdown, and her husband Greg, an archeologist, has rented an old farmhouse in the country where she can recover. The old farmhouse is also near an archeological dig where he can continue his studies. When George, the hilarious farmer they rent the house from, tells stories about a terrible murder that once took place in the farmhouse and the ghost that reputedly stalks the night, Jan's imagination gets fired up. The situation gets even worse when Laura, Greg's beautiful but manipulative sister arrives. Soon Jan finds herself tormented by strange sounds in the night, and visions of the vengeful ghost. Is she having another breakdown? Is someone trying to drive her mad? When she tries to defend herself from this apparition, events take an unexpected turn in a night of unimaginable suspense. I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT! has been produced in 25 countries, 48 of the 50 states in the U.S. and every province in Canada. It has broken numerous box office records including the 2005 record-breaking UK National Tour. It was made into a Hollywood feature film starring Heather Locklear, Ned Beatty, Robert Carradine, and Susannah York.
Director: Owen Robinson/Producer: Tiger Von Pagel

SORDID LIVES is a story about a Gay actor who is having a session with his 27th therapist who relays that his grandmother has died and he refuses to go to the funeral. Poor Grandma Peggy… dead after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a seedy motel in Winters, Texas. Which is a blessing, because if she could see what’s going on at her funeral, it would kill her. Her sister’s quitting smoking, her daughters are feuding over her mink stole, her neighbor’s on a crime spree, her son’s dressed up like Tammy Wynette, and her grandson’s coming out of the closet with a vengeance. Big hair, big hearts, and big laughs abound in this Southern-fried black comedy about white trash from the writer/ producer of the hit TV series QUEER AS FOLK.
Director: Mike Holden/Producer: Ann Lehman