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Will you share your life with me for the next ten minutes?For the next ten minutes, we can handle that.

We could watch the waves. We could watch the sky.Or just sit and wait as the time ticks by.

And if we make it ‘til then, can I ask you again for another ten?And if you, in turn, agree to the next ten minutes,And the next ten minutes ‘til the morning comes.

Then just holding you might compel me to ask you for more.There are so many lives I want to share with you--

I will never be complete until I do.

Our 2016-2017 season promises to be another unique, surprising, and remarkable year at County Players, with great drama, classic comedy, and marvelous musicals. Great stories to entertain, intrigue, and delight you. We offer more shows, more benefits, and more exciting options than ever before!

Our main season subscription series offers a classic comedy about comedy writers, an ambitious dramatic mystery about music and musicians, and two musicals featuring a little song, a little dance, and a really big con artist.

In addition to our subscription series, we’re offering three more opportunities to experience shows at County Players in 2016-2017. Once again we offer two shows in our Summer Series and in December we will present A County Players Christmas.

NEW THIS SEASON we are pleased to offer a brand new ticketing option that will permit you to have more flexibility as you make your plans to experience everything we do in our 59th Season! Read on for more information about our new Flex Voucher option.

Renew or become a season Subscriber/Member today and be a vital part of it all: each laugh, each gasp, each memorable moment. County Players’ 59th season will delight, entertain, and thrill you. It will pull at your heartstrings, it will make you smile, and just maybe, it will give you many new memories. We hope you will join us for this wonderful year of discoveries.

We’ll see you at the show!

Welcome to Season 59!

The Marvelous Wonderettes

The Miracle Worker

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Jeff Wilson, President

Jody Coleman, Vice President

Tom Lawrence, Business Manager

Anna Marie Paolercio, Secretary

Roger D’Aquino, Treasurer

Kevin Barnes

Board of Governors

County Players was born in 1958.

To delight, educate, and challenge the community and to nurture creative expression, through theatre and the performing arts of the highest quality.

Become a part of County Players by ushering or volunteering. Our success depends on you! Please contact us at volunteering@countyplayers.org.

County Players is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All contributions are deductible to the extent provided by law.

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Volunteer

Christine Crawfis

Barbara Greenberg

Joe Pettignano

David Ringwood

Kathy Schroeder

Steve Stefanchik

General InformationBOX OFFICE HOURSBox Office hours vary from day to day. All messages are returned in a timely manner. Call 845-298-1491 for hours and ticket information or visit us at www.countyplayers.org.

ONLINE TICKET ORDERSNew Subscribers/Members: To order a new subscription/membership, go to countyplayers.org/tickets and follow the link for the 2016-2017 Season Ticket Sales. (Surcharges apply.)

CURRENT SUBSCRIBERS/MEMBERSTo renew, go to countyplayers.org/tickets and follow the instructions for Season Ticket Renewals. Use your account number and reservation ID, which can be found on the mailing envelope of the subscription/membership brochure.

MAIL-IN TICKET ORDERSCURRENT and NEW Subscribers/Members may order subscriptions for the 2016-2017 season by completing the attached form and returning it to:

We will make every effort to assign your choice of seats. Season tickets will be mailed and processed starting on or about April 1, 2016.

COUNTY PLAYERS TICKETS10 Willow BendPoughkeepsie, NY 12601

AN IMPORTANT NOTE TO CURRENT SUBSCRIBERS/MEMBERSIf you desire the same reserved seating, we must receive your renewal request for your 2016-2017 subscription/membership no later than June 1, 2016. After this deadline, seats are not guaranteed. If you desire different reserved seats, your old seating assignments will be made available for new Subscribers/Members.

EXCHANGE POLICYIn the event you have a schedule conflict, you may exchange your ticket for another performance. You must return your ticket to the Box Office BEFORE the performance date. Contact the Box Office well in advance for exchanges. Exchanges are based upon availability. A $2 ticket exchange fee will apply to all single ticket purchases and tickets purchased with flex vouchers.

County Players reserves the right to substitute shows. All shows subject to availability of performance rights.

CURTAINFriday & Saturday at 8:00 p.m. | Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

TICKET PRICINGNon-Musicals: $17 Adult, $14 Senior 60+ / Military / Children under 12

Musicals: $22 Adult, $19 Senior 60+ / Military / Children under 12

Summer Series and Holiday Shows: $10($2 exchange fee for single ticket purchases and tickets purchased by redeeming flex vouchers.)

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June 24, 25, 26

July 15, 16, 17

September 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24

September 30

November 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19

December 2, 3, 4

February 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18

May 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21

Subscription Renewals and New Subscription Sales Begin

Mailing of Season Tickets and Flex Vouchers Begins

Final Day to Renew and Reserve Same Seats

All American: Big Band Style!

Broadway’s Kids: A Musical Revue

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Final Day to Purchase Season Subscriptions and Flex Vouchers

The Last Five Years

A County Players Christmas

Amadeus

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

At a Glance

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BECOME A SHOW SPONSOR

For information about Show Sponsorship Opportunities and Benefits for any of the shows in our 59th Season, please contact us at info@countyplayers.org.

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Complimentary ticketsDiscounts on single tickets

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A Musical RevueKids

All-American: Big Band Style! features The Big Band Sound 20-piece jazz orchestra joined by County Players’ vocalists in a gala concert presenting All-American songs in the most exciting setting of a live big band. A fun and swinging evening, this musical revue will feature patriotic tunes, wartime songs from the home front, classics from American composers and popular American standards. Join us for a brassy celebration with July 4th just a few days away!

Directed by Tom Lawrence and Anna Marie Paolercio

Music Direction by Dave ColeStage Direction by Kevin Barnes

July 15, 16, 17, 2016June 24, 25, 26, 2016

summerseries

BANDSTYLE!

Summer Series & Holiday ShowsAll Seats $10.00

Enjoy a performance of the season’s most memorable music and words, leaving the theatre with a great holiday feeling! You

will not only experience those favorite familiar songs, but we will also present

several new selections, along with the some traditional poems and readings that we love to

share during the “most wonderful time of the year!”

Directed by Tom Lawrence

December 2, 3, 4, 2016

County Players will showcase our very talented local kids as they perform

songs from some of Broadway’s greatest and most popular

musicals that have been performed for many decades. The cast will sing and dance to favorite musical selections from shows such as Les

Misérables, The Sound of Music, Bye, Bye Birdie, Beauty and the

Beast, Oliver!, Annie, Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, and more! Songs written for kids, performed by kids, and enjoyed by all. A fun show for the entire family!

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever6

Will you share your life with me for the next ten minutes?For the next ten minutes, we can handle that.

We could watch the waves. We could watch the sky.Or just sit and wait as the time ticks by.

And if we make it ‘til then, can I ask you again for another ten?And if you, in turn, agree to the next ten minutes,And the next ten minutes ‘til the morning comes.

Then just holding you might compel me to ask you for more.There are so many lives I want to share with you--

I will never be complete until I do.

The Last

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Written by Jason Robert Brown | Directed by Anna Marie Paolercio

NOVEMBER 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 2016

2016 5This modern musical ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up and from break-up to meeting. Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk winner The Last Five Years has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of Time Magazine’s 10 best shows of 2001. A testament to the show’s longevity and spurred by the show’s regional popularity, The Last Five Years enjoyed an Off-Broadway revival at Second Stage in 2013. A film adaptation was released in 2014 starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan. An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties

who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding

in the middle of the show.

One of Time Magazine’s10 Best Shows of 2001!

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Set in the early 50s in a scruffy office in Manhattan, this hilarious comedy was inspired by Simon’s youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar’s comedy-variety series, Your Show of Shows. Laughter on the 23rd Floor takes a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that went into producing one of the landmarks of television’s golden age. Between the tensions of producing 90 minutes of top-quality comedy each week, network executives, sponsors, ratings and the pressures of a rising McCarthyism, things are beginning to unravel. Watch the stunning, stinging wit and comic drama of the harried writing staff as they scramble to top each other’s gags and capture the esteem of their madman star Max Prince.

Written by Neil Simon | Directed by Michael Frohnhoefer

A hilarious comedy!

SEPTEMBER 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 2016

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Written by Peter Shaffer | Directed by Christine Crawfis

FEBRUARY 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 2017

In 18th century Vienna, music is the currency of power. And Court Composer Antonio Salieri is the toast of the town. That is, until a young prodigy by the name of Mozart comes on the scene. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Academy Award for Best Film, Amadeus weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power. Obsessively jealous of his God-given gift, Salieri realizes that his talent is no match for Mozart’s genius and sets out to destroy his rival. This theatrical masterpiece, part biography and part murder-mystery, is filled with some of the greatest music ever composed.

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and the

Academy Award for Best Film!

2017

Two con men, a beautiful woman and the elite of the French Riviera collide in this sexy and irreverent farce. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, based on the popular 1988 MGM film, takes us to the French Riviera for hijinks and hilarity. Sophisticated, suave with a good dash of mischief, this hysterical comedy features a delightfully jazzy score by David Yazbek (The Full Monty) and was nominated for a staggering 11 Tony Awards. Lawrence Jameson makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money. Freddy Benson more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother’s failing health. After meeting on a train, they attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn’t big enough

for the two of them. They agree on a settlement: the first one to extract $50,000 from a young female target, heiress Christine Colgate, wins and the other must leave town.

Book by Jeffrey Lane | Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek | Directed by MaryBeth Boylan

Nominated for a staggering11 Tony Awards!

MAY 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 2017

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BASIC SUBSCRIBER• Savings on single ticket prices for each of the four main season shows• Guaranteed reserved seats for each of the four main season shows• First priority in seat selection for the four main season shows• Guaranteed annual renewal of your reserved season seating (By published deadline.)• Ticket insurance: lost/misplaced tickets will be reprinted NO-FEE at the Box Office• Unlimited NO-FEE ticket exchanges

($2 per ticket exchange fee applies to single ticket purchasers.)

PATRON ($25 - $99)Basic Benefits PLUS:

Listing as a donor at your level in the regular season program and lobby display

Invitation to special receptions and events

Tax-deductible donation to County Players

BENEFACTOR ($100 – $199)Patron Benefits PLUS:Discount of $2 off each additional single ticket purchases for family and friends

Two (2) complimentary ticket vouchers for any show in the 2016-2017 season*

ANGEL ($200 - $499)Benefactor Benefits PLUS:

Four (4) complimentary ticket vouchers for any show in the 2016-2017 season*

STAR ($500+)Angel Benefits PLUS:Six (6) complimentary ticket vouchers for any show in the 2016-2017 season*

Full season refreshment pass

Season Subscriber/Member Benefits

You or your spouse may work for a company which will match your contribution. Please obtain your company’s grant form and send it with your completed subscription form.

Additionally, you may qualify for a tax deduction.

County Players is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All contributions are deductible to the extent provided by law. County Players deeply

appreciates those forward-thinking individuals who include this organization in their financial or estate planning.

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ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE AT COUNTY PLAYERS WITH A TAX DEDUCTIBLE MEMBERSHIP GIFT! Add a contribution of $25 or more to your subscription to become a Donor/Member which entitles you to:

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SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE Season subscribers enjoy the largest savings on all four main shows.

FREE EXCHANGESCan’t make your date? Contact us up to 24 hours before your show and

exchange to another performance of the same production for free. (Subject to availability.)

SAME SEAT FOR EVERY SHOWFull season subscribers have exclusive access to the same seat

for each of the four main season shows.

PRIORITY CUSTOMER SERVICEReceive advance notice on special events and priority access to single tickets. And

don’t forget, your tickets are insured – if you lose them, we replace them free of charge.

Full Season Subscribers automatically get guaranteed seats, great savings and our most popular benefit: free and easy ticket exchanges.

Why choose a season subscription?

Please join us as the curtain rises on our 59th season! County Players continues with the hope that the future will keep us in the spotlight for untold decades to come. County Players presents four regular season productions from September through May featuring a variety of shows that you won’t want to miss, as well as a summer series and a new holiday show. Don’t let the curtain rise without you . . . buy your subscription today!

NEW THIS SEASON – FLEX VOUCHERS!Want flexibility? Our new Flex Vouchers offer you just that. A three-pack of County Players Flex Vouchers is a great value at $49.50. And good for any performance in our 2016-2017 season. Purchase your vouchers now and

choose which shows and dates you want to attend at a later time.

Vouchers can be used in any combination — it’s up to you! Each voucher is exchangeable for 1 seat. Advanced reservations are required; you must call the Box Office in advance to secure your seats. We recommend calling at least two weeks in advance to guarantee the best seats. Vouchers must be redeemed for tickets during the 2016-2017 season, no later than May 21, 2017. All tickets are subject to availability. Sales of Flex Vouchers will end on September 30, 2016.

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