With the 1697 French version by Charles Perrault as source material, Cinderella (Love What You Wish for) things are not always what they seem. In this new, smartly written adaptation, the Chorus opens the storybook to tell the tale of Cinderella, as she faces Envy and holds on to goodness in her journey from ashes to wishes granted. Stepsisters Cece and Zisel are devoted to fashion excess and mockery, and, along with her roaring, crabby, Stepmother Leola, make Cinderella’s life very difficult. But our modest heroine endures as she remembers her lost parents’ Love, and holds fast to her dreams...and wishes. Loyal knights, a magic hearth, a sassy Fairy Godmother, helpful woodland creatures and a giant pumpkin, all come together magically in the moonlight to help Cinderella go to the ball, and meet the royal Prince Veridicus. But will she remember to return home when the clock strikes Midnight? If she does, she just might discover, along with everyone, that the shoe fits…
Written by Director Mark Boergers and Playwright Dianne Sposito, this literary script is designed with flexibility in mind, including casting, set and costume requirements, with a clear overall appreciation of resources available to producers in today’s market. The 2016 world premiere at Cardinal Stritch University Theatre was an absolute crowd-pleaser and broke their TYA box office records.
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After a night of heavy drinking in his Hell’s Kitchen apartment, a man is roused from deep sleep by an attractive but strident female visitor, with more on her mind than lust. After a start and stop seduction, the penalty for a completely forgotten business deal comes to the surface. The consequences are at first mysterious, then made awesomely clear as the Devil gets her due in this contemporary take on a classic literary theme.

With her savvy and sassy scientific commentary, Phoebe, a teenager wise beyond her years, guides us through the story of Avril Mai Juin, a French maid, and her boss, renowned Astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini, both residents of the Paris Observatory, and the 17th Century. Cassini charges Avril to run “The Errand of The Greatest Import” but there’s a catch: in order to complete the Errand, she will have to travel through Time and Space into the Future. Basically a homebody who loves to gaze at the stars from her window, Avril consents to go, but with her terrible sense of direction, she makes a wrong turn at 1627, and ends up bouncing all over the cosmos, Lower Manhattan and Florida, utterly lost. As Fortune would have it, help is never far away: a Turn-of-the-Century Newsboy, one of the Magi and his Camel, an Aviatrix, a tea-drinking deity, tongue-tied tourists, teachers teaching in two different dimensions, a hip bicycle messenger, an actual star and a helpful, down-on-her-luck-but-up-on-her-heels, hope-filled Drag Queen with a passion for wigs and shopping, all of whom are eager to help Avril in her unconventional quest. Against a backdrop of the Universe, stars and Corelli’s baroque music, Avril discovers that not only will she help Monsieur Cassini and all of Mankind, but will return home with the most wonderful treasure of all because you never really know who the officials of the Stardust Mission really are...until you do!

It’s Christmas Eve, 1983, in a teeny, tiny basement apartment in a New York City Brownstone. KATHERINE "KITTY" PAYNE has moved to the Big Apple to pursue her dream of a musical theatre career on Broadway, but hasn’t had the courage to tell her widowed Mid-western mother about her new husband, ROCCO CUCCINELLO, the super, whom she married soon after arriving. Their first Christmas together, Kitty and Rocco begin celebrating the night alone, sharing each other’s family traditions and planning for their future, but things don’t quite go according to plan. One by one, the colorful neighbors from the three floors above congregate uninvited, but each with their own compelling reason to stay: MR. IRA ROSENBERG, the brownstone owner, schmoozer and huge fan of Yul Brynner, Kitty’s flamboyant voice coach GLADIOLA KATZ, “the name not the musical,” and MRS. EVA BUTANSKI, a Polish émigré who packs a mean wallop with her holiday cooking. With the neighbors settling in sharing their unique holiday traditions, the tiny apartment is a hive of festive, nutty activity, but there is “no more room in the inn” for any more guests. Until, that is, the arrival of the most surprising guest of all, MRS. AMANDA PAYNE, Kitty’s mother! Kitty must face the choices she has made, but not before each of the neighbors, and Mrs. Payne, have the chance to tell her just what they think! Being together counts more than ever as the little group finds the heart and soul of what it truly means to be a loving neighbor, as Mrs. Payne and Kitty grow “closer” than ever before!