Las Cruces Community Theater is proud to announce the 2007 - 2008 LCCT Season!

Ethel and Norman Thayer spend each summer at their home on Golden Pond. This year they are visited by their daughter Chelsea with her fiance and his son in tow. The play explores the often turbulent relationship the young woman shared with her father growing up, and the difficulties faced by a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage.

Al Lewis and Willy Clark were a one-time vaudevillian team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-stage throughout the final year of their act. Clark, who was not ready for retirement, resented Lewis for breaking up the act when he opted to leave show business. It is now 1972 and CBS is inviting the team to reunite for a special on the history of comedy, with the pair representing the vaudeville era at its best. Clark is convinced by his nephew Ben to revive one of the old routines one last time. But is it possible to get them into the same room to rehearse?

A young boy discovers his grandfather is dying. The old man's behavior is different; he's short-tempered and no longer tells his wonderful stories. The boy enlists the grandfather's aid in helping him with a school project — counting the stars. Their togetherness seems to renew the old man's interest and he begins telling stories, one of them about the dragon in the sky. The dragon, he explains, is there to guard the stars. An old legend says that should the stars be returned to earth; it would mean a new paradise with no unhappiness, no death. Hearing this, the boy goes off to slay the dragon and return the stars to earth, seeking a means of keeping his grandfather from dying.

Once again, we'll be having an evening of family-oriented short plays for a two-weekend run, with a reduced ($5.00) admission price. Season ticket holders get in free (no punch!).

In this transcendently powerful new adaptation Anne Frank emerges from history a living, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, The Diary of Anne Frank captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence — their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. Each day of these two dark years, Anne's voice shines through: "When I write I shake off all my cares. But I want to achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I never met. I want to go on living even after my death." And she did just that! This is a new adaptation for a new generation.

Paul Bratter is a buttoned-down, straight-arrow lawyer who's wound a little too tight, while his new bride Corie is an effervescent free spirit who won't let anything disturb her romantic bliss. Aside from the five-flight climb and the hole in their skylight, the Bratters must also contend with eccentric upstairs neighbor Victor Velasco, who must go through their apartment to get to his. To Corie, Mr. Velasco seems like an ideal match for her mother...

This production is dedicated to the memory of Rachel Space.

Another classic musical comedy, with all the great songs and plot convolutions that implies!

Dolly Levi is a professional matchmaker, who wants to marry the rich Mr. Horace Vandergelder, who has set his sights on Irene Malloy, while he is dead-set against his niece Ermengarde's plans to marry poor artist Ambrose Kemper, but if Ambrose and Ermengarde win the Harmonia Gardens Polka Contest he can be convinced to let them wed. So... oh, heck, just come see the show!

Waitammit &mdash wasn't this supposed to be Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat? Well, umm, yes, it was. Unfortunately, the rights holder for that show pulled the rights, since there will be a professional touring company in the region next year. Fortunately, director Dale Pawley is nothing if not flexible, and pulled this rabbit out of his hat!