Olympic Theatre Arts

Olympic Thratre Arts Center

Main Stage

The Spitfire Grill          Feb 3 - 19, 2012

Since it opened Off-Broadway in 2001 at Playwrights Horizons, The Spitfire Grill has become one of the most often-produced new American musicals. All across the United States, from Canada to the Caribbean, from Korea to Germany, from the UK to Japan. The Spitfire Grill has had more than 350 productions.

 

Based on the award-winning film by Lee David Zlotoff, the musical depicts the journey of a young woman just released from prison who decides to start her life anew in a rural Wisconsin town. She precipitates a journey within the town itself toward its own tenuous reawakening. The folk and bluegrass tinged score is unlike that for any other musical.


Music and book by James Valcq. Lyrics and book by Fred Alley

 

Directed by Lee Harwell.

Paragon Springs          Apr 27 - May 13, 2012

It is 1926 in the American heartland, and the famed "healing waters" of Paragon Springs have been mysteriously poisoned. Now, the town's foremost citizen-crusader, Dr. Thomas Stockman, is determined to know the truth behind this tragedy, no matter the cost.


 In this vibrant, often funny, and highly theatrical re-imagining of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, Steven Dietz puts the lure of capitalism and the greed of small-town self-interest squarely on trial—laced with Dr. Stockman's lasting cry that "the majority is always wrong!" This is an entertaining and illuminating drama—set amid the birth of radio and the final roar of the 1920s—about the human cost of our political gamesmanship.


By Stephen Dietz


Directed by Roger Briggs

Bullshot Crummond          Jul 6 - 22, 2012

A stylized parody of low budget 30’s detective movies.  The German villain Otto Von Bruno and his fiendish wife Lenya battle Capitan Hugh “Bullshot” Crummond for the favor of the lovely Rosemary Fenton whose father is being tortured in a dark and gloomy castle.

 

Exploding dynamite, sword fights, crashing planes and car chases make this crazy comedy the perfect family fun.   “Uproarious." -Int. Herald Tribune .  "Marvelous." - London Sunday Telegraph.

 

By Ron House, Diz White, Alan Shearman, John Neville Andrews and Derek Cunningham

 

Directed by Debbie Embree.