Season 1985-1986

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  For Her Cheild's Sake

  Alvin Community College

  The pure but persecuted heroine, the rascally villain, the manly hero who arrives in the nick of time they're all here. Hilary Paine decides to return home with his young, beautiful wife Pansy and their baby Heliotrope. When Hilary dies of a heart attack, Pansy is left to face the unwelcome attentions of scoundrel Gaylor Duckworth, the family lawyer, who wants the Paine fortune. Pansy spurns him and he frames her on a murder charge. In order to save her little daughter's fair name, Pansy makes the supreme sacrifice by leaving home. After a year of longing she returns, heavily veiled and determined to get a glimpse of her beloved babe. It is tough going, but the fair heroine triumphs and wins the love of noble Fairfax Kisslebergh who earns an honest living punching holes in cheese at the factory!

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  Snoopy

  Alvin Community College

  Snoopy: The Musical is a 1975 musical comedy with music by Larry Grossman, lyrics by Hal Hackady, and a book by Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, and Michael Grace. The characters are from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. This sequel to the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown focuses more on the life of Snoopy. Since its premiere, the musical has been a popular choice for regional, international, and amateur theatre performances.

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  The Unsinkable Molly Brown

  Alvin Community College

  The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a 1960 musical with music and lyrics by Meredith Willson and book by Richard Morris. The plot is a fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown, who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and her wealthy miner-husband. A musical film version, also titled The Unsinkable Molly Brown, with screenplay by Helen Deutsch, was released in 1964.

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  Oklahoma

  Alvin Community College

  Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie.

  The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box office hit and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Oscar-winning 1955 film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions.[1] Rodgers and Hammerstein won a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma! in 1944.

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  Spider's Web

  Alvin Community College

  Spider's Web is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie. Spider's Web, which premiered in London's West End in 1954, is Agatha Christie's second most successful play (744 performances), having run longer than Witness for the Prosecution, which premiered in 1953 (458 performances). It is surpassed only by Christie's record-breaking The Mousetrap, which has run continuously since opening in the West End in 1952.