FLORENCE-The Next three weeks are exciting ones at The Z. Coming up June 21st through the 24th The Musical, The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown, will be performed. Show times are 7:30 each night except for a 2 PM matinée on Sunday June 24th. As soon as that show closes we will reset the stage for Death by Chocolate a play by Paul Freed opening June 28th with shows each night through the 30th at 7:30 PM There will be a 2PM matinée on Sunday July 1st. The First Friday in July will see our 4th Melodrama, School Marm’s Inn Trouble, an audience interactive stage experience, with plenty of laughs and popcorn throwing to go around, Show starts at 8PM. Tickets for our shows can be bought online at www.theZstore.com. For information call 256-768-5586 or find us online on Facebook as the historic Zodiac Playhouse.
The Last 5 Years, a musical by Jason Robert Brown directed by Martin Dean, Produced by Cypress Realty and The Z
on June 21-23 and June 24, 7:30 performances 21-23, 2 PM matinee on the 24th.
About: An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.
Death by Chocolate, a play by Paul Freed directed by Martin Dean, Produced by Cypress Realty and The Z on June 28-30th and July 1, 7:30 performances 28-30th, 2PM matinee on the 1st.
About: Members of the newly renovated Meadowbrook Health Resort are dropping like flies, including famed chef Edith Chiles! On the eve of the grand re-opening, this is not the best advertisement. It’s up to John Stone, the manager, to find the cause and the murderer. Delightfully sarcastic and cynical, Stone finds himself teaming up with Ed Parlor, mystery writer and amateur sleuth, in a wacky race against time. The clues point to a sinister box of chocolates, and the suspects include all the outlandish characters working for the resort. Could it be Lady Riverdale, owner of the resort and a woman with dark secrets? Or Ralph Deadwood, gym instructor and all-around cad? Dick Simmering, the aerobics instructor? Anne, the panic-stricken nurse? Or could it be “Sweet Pea” Meadowbrook, overweight and grieving daughter of the recently deceased founder of the resort? Death by Chocolate combines all the elements of classic murder mysteries with a scathing satire of today’s health crazes.
Media Release/Martin D.Dean/Te Z
