The Spitfire Grill
November 9 - December 2, 2007

Music and Book by James Valcq

Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley

Based on the Film by Lee David Zlotoff

Winner of the Richard Rodgers Prize for
New Musicals

Can a girl with a past save a town with no future?  A heart-warming story of hope and redemption.  Beautifully told with a well-crafted, folksy score filled with soaring melodies.  Percy Talbott has chosen Gilead, Wisconsin as the place to start her new life, having seen an idyllic picture of the town in a travel magazine.  Her arrival changes lives as others begin to see the "forest for the trees" through Percy's hopeful eyes.

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Hansel and Gretel
December 19 & 21, 2007

Melissa Vitrella
Elizabeth Westerman
Natalie Cordone

Directed by Melissa Vitrella

A classic opera; now with an orange twist!

Two latch-key kids living in rural Lake County that are sent out to pick oranges, get lost, and chance upon the magic mobile home of the gingerbread witch! 

The talented cast, features Orlando Opera affiliate artists Melissa Vitrella as Hansel, Elizabeth Westerman as Gretel, and Natalie Cordone as the Gingerbread Witch.  The singers will be accompanied by a small but scrumptious chamber ensemble, featuring Lisa Schonauer on the piano.  The production is designed and directed by Melissa Vitrella, founder and artistic director of Opera Fortunata. 
 

Crazy For You

January 11 - February 10, 2008

Music by George Gershwin
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Book by Ken Ludwig

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Musical!

Bobby Child is a stage-struck playboy whose dream is to dance on Broadway.  Instead, he ends up in a Nevada mining town where romance, mistaken identities and show-stopping musical numbers all add up to irresistible fun.  The score brims with memorable tunes including:  I Got Rhythm, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Embraceable You, and Someone to Watch Over Me.

The Sugar Bean Sisters

March 7 - March 30, 2008

By Nathan Sanders

An offbeat story of romance, murder, and
alien abduction!

Stir in old-time Florida tall tales, wacky UFO supermarket tabloid headlines and some venomous hot one-liners and you have this surreal comedy.  Faye Clementine and Willie Mae Nettles are middle-aged sisters, just a pair of "bachelor girls" living in a tin-roofed, run-down shack near the Florida swamp town of Sugar Bean.  Determined to escape spinsterhood, Willie Mae has set her eye on a handsome Mormon minister, while Faye plans to hop the next spaceship out of town!