Chipola Theatre Announces 2022-2023 Season
The Chipola College Theatre Department announces its 2022-2023 season with an exciting line-up for all ages.
Set in the late 1970s, 9 to 5 the Musical (Oct. 22-25, 2022) is a hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era that is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic. Pushed to the boiling point, three female coworkers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy – giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains "otherwise engaged," the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can't she? Tickets may be purchased at the CFA Box Office or online at www.chipola.edu/boxoffice beginning Sept. 26. ACT Fund members may redeem their tickets beginning Sept. 19.
Celebrating 75 years of Chipola College, the theatre department will bring back the first play performed at CJC in 1951, You Can’t Take it With You (February 24-26, 2023). Grandpa Vanderhof and his wacky family have been happily living their zany lives in his house by Columbia University for many years. This madcap group of eccentrics, march to the beat of their own drum, with pride and joy. Their hobbies include collecting snakes, building fireworks in the basement, writing plays that never get published, and taking ballet lessons. Things like stress, jobs, and paying taxes to the government are for other people, not for them! But when practical young Alice becomes engaged to Tony Kirby, the family must straighten up to meet the new in-laws. Disaster ensues when the Kirbys arrive at the wrong time and see Alice’s family in all of its crazy glory. Can the two families find a way to accept each other and love conquer all? Tickets may be purchased at the CFA Box Office or online at www.chipola.edu/boxoffice beginning Jan. 30. ACT Fund members may redeem their tickets beginning Jan. 23.
A touching coming-of-age story based on the classic novel, The Secret Garden comes to Chipola’s stage May 11-12, 2023. After Mary Lennox is orphaned, she becomes the ward of an uncle in England she has never met. As she adjusts to her new life at secluded Misselthwaite Manor, Mary discovers a secret garden. If she can uncover the mysterious circumstances behind the garden, she might be able to save her sickly young cousin and melt the heart of her emotionally distant uncle. Tickets may be purchased at the CFA Box Office or online at www.chipola.edu/boxoffice beginning Apr. 17. ACT Fund members may redeem their tickets beginning Apr. 10.
New to the Chipola Theatre lineup is the opportunity to experience staged readings. A staged reading is theatre in its purest form. No set, no props, no costumes. Actors interact and perform the story with scripts. Some stage directions will be read to help set the scene, similar to listening to an audiobook. With more stories to tell than any theatre could conceivably produce, staged readings allow audience members to experience more great stories at a lower cost to the theatre and give our students the opportunity to perform more pieces. The Mountaintop will be read January 20-21, 2023 in the Center for the Arts Experimental Theatre. A gripping reimagination of events the night before the assassination of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 3, 1968, after delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious stranger arrives with some surprising news, King is forced to confront his destiny and his legacy to his people. Open seating tickets - $5 - may be purchased at the CFA Box Office or online at www.chipola.edu/boxoffice beginning Jan. 9.
The ACT (Applauding Chipola Theatre) Fund directly supports the Chipola Theatre program. Season Memberships go on sale Aug. 22. Membership levels include a number of tickets to be used throughout the 2022-23 season. Memberships begin at the Sponsor Level for $25 (2 tickets), Patron Level for $50 (4 tickets), Benefactor Level for $75 (6 tickets), Angel Level for $100 (8 tickets), and up to the Corporate Angel Level for $300 (12 tickets). ACT Fund members receive early ticket redemption opportunities.
For more information, call the Center for the Arts Box Office at 850-718-2420 or visit www.chipola.edu/boxoffice. The Box Office will open for the Fall Semester on Monday, Aug. 22. Box Office hours are 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. – noon, Fridays. The Box Office is closed on college holidays.