SART’s 2009 Season

35th SEASON

written by Bob Merrill,
music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Isobel Lennart

produced by Weaverville Eye Associates

June 3 – 14

Semi-biographical musical based on the life and career of Broadway and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein.

“Any minute beautiful girls will be out of style. Then it will be my turn!” ~Fanny Brice~

Tony-Award Winning MUSICAL

Don’t Rain On My Parade

A New COMEDY by Steve Wisniewski

produced by Dr. Connie Buckner & Jack Davis

June 17 – June 28

A World Premiere production and Winner of SART’s 27th annual ScriptFEST playwright’s festival of October 2008.

Three desperate men plan a kidnapping, never realizing that their jobs as school crossing guards haven’t quite prepared them for a life of crime.

by Arthur Miller

produced by Walter & Carole Currie
and Bill Boughton with Edward Jones in Weaverville

July 1 – 12

Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning masterpiece

"He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine...A salesman is got to dream, boy." Willy Loman

by Neil Simon

produced by Don & Barbara Layden

July 15 – 26

Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy

Part One of the "Eugene Trilogy" which includes Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound

a World Premiere
by William Gregg and Perry Deane Young

produced by Dan & Beverly Lunsford and the Youngs of Shoal Creek

July 29 – August 9

A SART Heritage Series production about Thomas Wolfe from the time he wrote Look Homeward Angel until his untimely death at the age of 37.

by Larry Shue

produced by Asheville Savings Bank

August 12 – 23

A Southern Comedy of Manners

At a fishing lodge in rural Georgia, things are not what they seem to be in this hilarious farce of absurd situations and homespun American characters!

SART
Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre
P.O.Box 1720 / 44 College Street
Mars Hill, NC 28754

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(May-August)

SART presents the mainstage summer season of productions each year in the historic Owen Theatre on the campus of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill NC.
Owen Theatre is equipped with hearing-impaired assistance devices
and wheelchair designated seating / access.

SART is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council
with funding from the state of North Carolina
and the National Endowment for the Arts,
which believes that a great nation deserves great art.