Starlight Season Sixteen: 2021-2022

​by James Goldman

The Lion in Winter is presented by special arrangement
with Samuel French
Directed by Richard Redman

ALTERNATE LOCATION: First Christian Church
1001 Chester Road, Lansing​
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November 12, 13*, 19 & 20*, 2021
​*Matinee

Betrayal, treachery, and a knife fight: it’s just another Christmas for the royal family! King Henry throws a Christmas feast for the newly
crowned King of France. Also in attendance are Henry’s three plotting sons, each eager to take the throne, and Henry’s manipulative
wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, newly released from house arrest. Even though they need to appear a happy family for the King of France,
this doesn’t stop each of them from secretly plotting to take the others down. While the three sons backstab and squabble to take their place in history, Eleanor and Henry use their offspring as pawns against each other in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

“Marvelously articulate language, with humor that bristles and burns.”
— Los Angeles Times
Book by Abe Burrows
Music and Lyrics by Frank LoesserBased on The Idyll of Sarah Brown and characters by Damon Runyon
Directed by Nicole Martin, with Musical Direction by Kait Wilson

ALTERNATE LOCATION: First Christian Church
1001 Chester Road, Lansing

Guys and Dolls
(Concert Version)
February 18, 19, 25, 26 & 27*, 2022
*Matinee

The CONCERT VERSION of the romantic comedy extravaganza involving the unlikeliest of Manhattan pairings: a high-rolling gambler and a puritanical missionary; a showgirl dreaming of the straight-and narrow and a crap game manager who is anything but! 1951 Tony Award for Best Musical Starring: Josh Martin, Rachel Mender, Dan Templin and Kelly Sandula-Gruner. Also featuring Matt Eldred and Dave Sincox.
​Musical Rates Apply
by Mary Chase

Presented by arrangement with
​Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Directed by David L. Oswald

Harvey
​April 29, 30, May 1;
​May 6, 7 2022

Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic story of the perfect gentleman Elwood P. Dowd (Chris Klaver) and his best friend Harvey - a pooka, who is a six-foot tall invisible rabbit! Elwood's sister tries to have him committed to the local sanitarium, and as the misunderstandings pile up, it becomes apparent that sanity may not be quite the prize it appears!

“Disarmingly humane with loads of heart.”
— The Chicago Critic
Based on a conception by Jerome Robbins
Book by: Arthur Laurents  Music by: Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by:  Stephen Sondheim
Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins

Presented by special arrangement with
Music Theatre International
Directed by Linda Granger
Musical Direction by Jeff English
​Choreography by Lori Arendsen

West Side Story
June 24-26* 2022
​Rain date June 27th

Young lovers caught between warring street gangs and their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence, and prejudice, make West Side Story one of the most heart-wrenching and relevant musical dramas of our time.  Laurents' book remains powerful, poignant, and timely and the songs by Bernstein and Sondheim are widely regarded as among the best ever written (Somewhere, Tonight, Maria).  This landmark musical takes to the streets of downtown Lansing in partnership with Downtown Lansing, Inc.
Hearing Assisted Devices are available and must be requested when making your reservation.