Cabrillo Playhouse's 2012-2013 Season

1940's Radio Hour

Friday 9/28/2012 7:00 PM - Sunday 10/28/2012 2:00 PM

Fabled WOV, a seedy little New York radio station takes to the air at the beginning of World War
II, this time to record a broadcast for the troops overseas. The narrative concerns the harassed
producer whose leading singer is often drunk, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the
mic, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad and the trumpet playing sound effects man
who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller. It's all there in this Walton Jones musical salute
with more than 20 nostalgic songs, wartime commercials as well as the romances, tiffs and personal
problems that occupy the stars and staff members as they go about producing the Mutual Manhattan
Variety Cavalcade, a weekly show designed to cheer up America's fighting men and the folds on the
home front.

A Tuna Christmas

Friday 11/30/2012 7:00 PM - Sunday 12/23/2012 2:00 PM

The plot of A Tuna Christmas centers on the town's annual Christmas yard display contest, won 14
times in a row by Vera Carp. A mysterious Christmas phantom known for vandalizing the yard
displays threatens to throw the contest into turmoil. Among the sub-plots are Stanley Bumiller's
attempts to end his probabtion and leave Tuna, Bertha Bumiller's attempt to hold her family
together at Christmas time and Joe Bob Lipsey's struggle to successfully stage his production of A
Christmas Carol despite numberous vexations and obstacles. This is the second in a series of
comedic plays, each set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas. Two men play the entire cast of over
20 eccentric characters of both genders and various ages.

Mousetrap

Friday 1/11/2013 7:00 PM - Sunday 2/3/2013 1:00 PM

Please Note: The performance on Sunday, February 3 has been changed to a 1:00pm start time to accommodate our patrons who also wish to enjoy the Super Bowl.

Thank you, The Cabrillo Playhouse

This murder mystery by Agatha Christie opened in West End London in 1952 and is in its 60th
continuous year on the London Stage. Set in the Great Hall of Monkswell Manor, its hosts, Mollie
and Giles await their first guests. The play gets going when Detective Sergeant Trotter arrives to
announce a London murderer may be one of the guests in the now snowed-in house and is planning
more mayhem. The usual suspects include an annoying foreigner, a grumpy old woman, and excitable
young man, an army officer and a woman who wears men's clothes. Known for its "twist" ending,
Christie gives the audience reasons to suspect all...to the end.

Dixie Swim Club

Chick comedy/drama where the men audience laughs longer and louder. Five southern college women
who did competitive swimming in the days when Eisenhower was president, reunite each year for a
long weekend at a summer cottage in North Carolina's Outer Banks where they relive past glory,
celebrate accomplishments and console each other. The play covers four of those key weekends
spanning thirty-three years. The rule is "no man, no kids and no work" talk for their time
together. There is Dinah, a lawyer who can't find time for a man, Lexie, frequent divorcee, who
can't keep a man, Jeri, a nun for awhile who shows up pregnant but didn't need a man, Vernadette,
a teacher with two convict sons to keep her injured and Sheree, YMCA organizer and the one who
holds the group together. The ladies are eccentric characters with sweet southern charm.

Route 66

Performances: Friday 4/12/2013 7:00 PM - Sunday 5/12/2013 2:00 PM

Get Your Kicks on Route 66 takes you on a musical trip down memory lane to 1964 with songs like,
"G.T.O.", "King of the Road" and "I Get Around". A singing quartet of rowdy grease monkeys heads
west from Chicago on a road trip of music, dance and highway mischief. They follow Route 66
through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, ending in Santa Monica. Clap
your hands and tap your feet to music that brings back fond memories in a cabaret style show.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Performances:  June 7th - June 30th

The Last Five Years is a musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist and Cathy Hyatt, a struggling actress. The show uses a form of storytelling in which Cathy's story is told in reverse chronological order (begining the show at the end of the marriage) and Jamie's is told in chronological order (starting just after the couple have first met). The characters do not directly interact except for a wedding song in the middle as their timelines intersect.

Red, White & Tuna

Performances: July 12th - July 28th

The much anticipated third installment in the Tuna Trilogy takes the audience through another satirical ride into the hearts and minds of the polyester-clad citizens of Texas' third smallest town. Along with Tuna's perennial favorites, some new Tuna denizens burst into the 4th of July Tuna High School reunion. This sets the stage for a show full of fireworks and fun from the land where the Lion's club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.

Ticket Exchange Policy

Cabrillo Playhouse season subscribers are guaranteed seats. As an added benefit for Season subscrtibers, season ticket holders are entitled to exchange their tickets for another performance date as needed (as seats remain available). This can be handled in person at the box office or simply by calling (949) 492-0465. You can phone the box office at (949) 492-0465 or visit in San Clemente.