Curtain going up on plays, musicals in January on Lancaster County stages - LNP | LancasterOnline

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It’s a new year, and, on some local stages, the start of a new theater season of musicals and plays.

From an Agatha Christie whodunit to a strange-but-true musical tale of undying love and from a musical pondering the quest for eternal youth to a group of youths with murderous urges, local stages have lots to offer theatergoers who want to come in from the cold during this chilly month of January.

Opening

‘AGATHA CHRISTIE’S THE MOUSETRAP’

• Where: Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, 510 Centerville Road, Lancaster.

• When: Friday, Jan. 19, through Saturday, Feb. 17. Matinees and evening performances Wednesdays through Sundays.

• Details: Seven strangers are snowed in at a remote English country house. A police detective must determine which of the guests is a murderer, as the audience learns interesting details about those guests’ lives. Based on a Christie radio play and short story, originally titled “Three Blind Mice,” this popular whodunit has been running in London’s West End for 70 years.

• Admission: Meal and show, $30-$82; show only, $22-$55.

• Info and tickets: dutchapple.com.

Left, Shereen Pimentel, who played Maria in the 2020 Broadway revival of “West Side Story,” will portray Elena in the musical “It Happened In Key West” later this month at the Fulton Theatre. Travis Kent, who appeared in Broadway’s 2016 musical “Disaster!,” plays Carl in the show.

FULTON THEATRE

‘IT HAPPENED IN KEY WEST’

• Where: Fulton Theatre, 12 N. Prince St., Lancaster.

• When: Jan. 26-Feb. 11.

• Details: This musical tells a strange, macabre and true story from the 1930s in Key West, Florida. Fifty-something radiology technician Carl Tanzler lived with the preserved corpse of a 20-something tuberculosis patient named Elena — with whom he had become romantically obsessed as she was dying. The unusual, darkly comedic musical was conceived by a team including Jeremiah James, who has acted in shows at the Fulton in the past.

The show had a developmental tryout at the Fulton in 2017 and a production in London’s West End — directed by the Fulton’s Marc Robin — in 2018.

• Admission: $33-$92.

• Info: thefulton.org or call 717-397-7425.

‘HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL’

• Where: Schnader Theatre at the Roschel Performing Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College.

• When: 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 18-20, with a Saturday matinee at 1:30 p.m.

• Details: The F&M Players present this dark-comedy musical, based on a 1988 film, that tackles a range of issues of adolescence — from bullying to substance use to self-harm. The production has a mission of prompting discussion of these issues. In the show, teenage misfit Veronica Sawyer finds her way into a powerful, ruthless high school social group — the Heathers — and faces some frightening consequences.

• Admission: $5-$10.

•  Info and tickets: lanc.news/FMHeathersTix.

BEYOND THE FOOTLIGHTS

• Where: Hershey Theatre, 15 N. Caracas Ave., Hershey.

• When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20; doors open for general admission at 7:45 p.m. (VIP, 6:30 p.m.)

• Details: This is a cabaret evening of Broadway tunes, performed by past nominees for Hershey Theatre’s Apollo Awards for high school plays and musicals. VIP tickets include a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception, dinner on the Hershey Theatre stage, on-stage seating for the cabaret and dessert at intermission. General admission audience members will be viewing the show from behind the performers.

• Tickets: $25 for general admission, $100 for VIP.

• Info: lanc.news/BeyondFootlightsTix.

Starring in Lancaster Bible College’s musical “Tuck Everlasting” are Elsa Rogers, a junior music performance major from Columbia, as Winnie Foster, and Isaac Walker, a sophomore musical theater major from San Jose, Calif., as Jesse Tuck.

LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE

‘TUCK EVERLASTING: THE MUSICAL’

• Where: Good Shepherd Chapel, Lancaster Bible College, 901 Eden Road, Lancaster.

• When: 7 p.m. Fridays, Jan. 26 and Feb. 2; 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 27 and Feb. 3.

• Details: The students of LBC’s Music, Worship & Performing Arts Department present this musical about Winnie Foster’s adventures in Treegap, New Hampshire, with the Tuck family, who may have found the secret of eternal youth. The musical, which ran on Broadway in 2016, is based on the 1975 novel (which was also adapted into two films).

• Tickets: $16-$20.

• Info: lbc.edu/events.

Opening, for young audiences

‘ANASTASIA THE MUSICAL: YOUTH EDITION’

• Where: Leola Elementary School, 11 School Drive, Leola.

• When: 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26; 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27; 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28.

• Details: As a culmination of a winter theater camp for young performers ages 8-16, Servant Stage Company presents this musical set in early-20th-century Russia and Paris, about a young woman searching for her identity. Is Anya really the princess Anastasia, thought to have been killed with the rest of her royal family of Romanovs? Or is she merely a young woman taken in by two con men trying to pass her off as royalty to grandmother? This musical tells the tale.

• Tickets: Pay what you will.

• Info: servantstage.org.

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