For Immediate Release: April 22, 2006
Media Contact: Kristin Barnes, City Theater Company, 302.658.7897 x3850

All eyes are on City Theater Company in 2006-2007! CTC is entering its thirteenth year of doing stuff that rocks, and we're still having one hell of a time. The people behind the critically acclaimed Love's Fire and the Barrymore award-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch invite you to be one of the first to get a look at our upcoming season.

First up is William Finn's Tony® award-winning BEST MUSICAL Falsettos, which opens in October. The musical redefines what it means to be a family in this day and age, as it follows a man named Marvin and his family-the wife, the son, the boyfriend, the therapist, and the lesbian couple next door. It's brave, it's funny, it's true. Just like us.

Come December we celebrate the holidays with Christopher Durang's Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge. Festive and funny, this hit play offers a welcome alternative to traditional holiday fare. A merry send-up of beloved holiday classics like "A Christmas Carol", "It's a Wonderful Life", and "Gift of the Magi", it tells the unsung story of Dickens' harried heroine as she mixes it up with ghosts of the past, present, and future with always hilarious results.

Sex sells in February, when a tiny dancer with big dreams struggles to make it in David Rabe's masterpiece, In the Boom Boom Room. Set against the seedy, surreal backdrop of a Philadelphia go-go bar, young Crissy meets a cast of characters who promise an escape from her unhappy home, an escape that never truly materializes-or does it?

Finally, in April it's kill or be killed as we present one of the most controversial musicals ever written, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins. This musical explores the American experience through the lives of nine individuals who murdered or attempted to kill a President of the United States-from John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln to John Hinckley's failed attempt on the life of Ronald Reagan. The musical styles of the brilliant score range from folk to ragtime to soft rock as befits each character's era.

For more information about City Theater Company and its 2006-2007 season, please visit www.city-theater.org or call Kristin Barnes at 302-658-7897 x3850.

City Theater Company productions are made possible in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency committed to promoting and supporting the Arts in Delaware.

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