Fall 2024 Shows & Concerts
- Upcoming productions are listed above.
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- FTC students, faculty and staff get complimentary tickets as long as there is availability and they show ID. A passcode may be needed for this and will be provided in advance via FTC Alert.
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Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics and won a bevy of awards, including Tony Awards, Drama Desks and Oliviers. Frequently revived, the show has been done with numerous all-star casts, including productions/concerts featuring Ewan McGregor, Jane Krakowski, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jessica Biel.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.Guys and Dolls is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Set in a cafe outside of a large urban center, this 90 minute play depicts the reunion of two former bank robbers and their wives. Floyd went straight and married Ronnie, the waitress; Roy left to join another gang, only to find his need to return to his roots. The reunion, at times funny and sad, turns into a struggle as the realities of their lives and shortcomings are revealed. And Ronnie becomes the center of desires to escape their mundane world. The characters are losers, but their spirit and determination drive them forward even in the face of insurmountable odds.
In Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, and become inspired to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
“We are living in Greek times…The systems that control our lives—institutional racism, predatory capitalism, the prison-industrial complex—seem as powerful and implacable as gods. What can humans do about fate, [other] playwrights suggest, but submit to it and hope to preserve the story?…But Nottage’s delightful play, CLYDE’S…dares to flip the paradigm. Though it’s still about dark things, including prison, drugs, homelessness and poverty, it somehow turns them into bright comedy.” —The New York Times.
“At Clyde’s, sandwiches aren’t just convenient meals served at lunch and dinner; they tell stories, hold truths and nourish dreams…the drama blossoms into a poignant story about worker solidarity and the meaning of second chances, loaded with laugh-out-loud funny jokes.” — The Hollywood Reporter.
“…[a] flavor-bomb of a comedy about survival, second chances, and digesting whatever life serves up…a subversion of familiar genres, including drawing room comedy and workplace drama, and the value judgments conventionally inherent to them. By nature of her composition, Nottage also questions which sorts of rooms and people have previously been considered worthy of sustained attention.” —Variety.
Clyde’s was first presented on Broadway from 2021 – 2022 at the Hayes Theater.
Clyde’s is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service (DPS.)
2/29/2024-3/2/2024
Lena Horne: Alive uses powerful vocals and a rich storyline to share the most pivotal moments in Lena Horne’s life. In the 1940s and 50s, Ms. Horne topped the charts with hit songs like Stormy Weather and The Lady Is a Tramp, as well starred in numerous films. Recognized as an influential African-American pioneer in entertainment, she broke new ground when she signed with MGM studios and became one of the first artists to break the color line.
Written & Directed by Syndee Winters
Music by Andromeda Turre
4/18/2024-4/21/2024
Machinal: A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair.
‘This is a play written in anger. In the dead wasteland of male society – it seems to ask – isn’t it necessary for certain women, at least, to resort to murder?’ – Nicholas Wright
Sophie Treadwell’s play Machinal was first seen on Broadway in 1928, in London in 1930, and was later revived in the 1990s.
Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal is in the public domain.
5/2/2024-5/5/2024
Into the Woods: The Brothers Grimm hit the stage with an epic fairytale about wishes, family and the choices we make.
James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone’s favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece… and a rare modern classic. The Tony Award-winning book and score are both enchanting and touching.
The story follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch’s curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone’s wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.
Into the Woods is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
FTC Wind Ensemble & Symphony Orchestra
Monday, December 11th at 8:00 PM
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
305 North Service Road. Dix Hills, NY 11746
The Five Towns College Symphony Orchestra and large Wind Ensembles are composed of public and private music teachers, private music educators, professional music players and students of music who apply and audition to be considered for the opportunity to participate.
Jazz at Five Towns College
Tuesday, December 6th at 7:30 PM
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
305 North Service Road. Dix Hills, NY 11746
Join the Music Division as they host an evening on Jazz music in the FTC PAC!
Voices of Five Towns College
Tuesday, December 5th at 7:30 PM
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
305 North Service Road. Dix Hills, NY 11746
A choral performance from the vocalists of Five Towns
View Past Theatre Trailers, Virtual Music Productions and More Below:
VIDEO: Music Division: Vocal Jazz Ensemble April 2021
VIDEO: Music Division: Jazz Orchestra February 2021
VIDEO: Theatre Arts Division: Hedda Gabler