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5 THURSDAY PERFORMANCES · $90
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2023–2024 SEASON
Based on an actual annual event and the documentary that captured it, Hands on a Hardbody is a rare bird—a documentary musical. This unique production recreates the now defunct annual contest of the same name at a Texas truck dealership, where ten hard-luck Texans compete to win a new hardbody truck. A new lease on life is so close each of them can touch it; for once, their fate is quite literally in their hands.
Under a scorching sun for days on end, we watch them laugh, cry, and push their bodies and minds to the limits as they fight to keep at least one hand on the brand new truck, all hoping they have the nerve and endurance to drive away with the American Dream.
Hands on a Hardbody is a thrilling, powerfully emotional, and hilarious musical with a country-rock-pop score by Trey Anastasio (frontman for the rock band Phish) and Amanda Green and a script by Pulitzer Prize– winning playwright Doug Wright. Featuring a catchy combination of rhythm and blues, rockabilly, gospel, rock and roll, and country songs, Hands on a Hardbody is a peek into the lives of everyday, ordinary Americans, struggling to survive against the backdrop of a broken and beaten American middle class and working class.
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Baby, the musical from renowned duo Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, examines how parents-to-be experience the stresses, triumphs, desperate lows, and comic highs that accompany the anticipation and arrival of a child.
Three couples in a college town deal with the painful, rewarding, and agonizingly funny consequences of the universal experience of pregnancy and upcoming parenthood. There are the college students, barely at the beginning of their adult lives; the thirty-somethings, having trouble conceiving, yet determined to try; and the middle-aged parents, looking forward to seeing their last child graduate from college when a night of unexpected passion lands them back where they started.
Is there anything more exciting, frightening, and utterly transformational than a baby on the way?
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An emotionally powerful and intimate musical sprinkled with humor, The Last Five Years tells the bittersweet tale of a five year relationship between two young artists.
The storytelling is non-linear: Cathy, a struggling actor, starts her account at the end of their marriage, working backwards through the timeline. Jamie, a literary prodigy, begins his story at the onset of the relationship. The two narratives intersect on their wedding day before diverging again to arrive at the beginning—and end—of their five years together.
With a soaring score by Tony Award-winning playwright Jason Robert Brown, this nearly sung-through musical has captivated audiences and critics since it was first produced in 2001, earning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics.
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This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by William Gibson tells the inspiring true story of Annie Sullivan and her student Helen Keller who lost her sight and hearing at the age of 19 months. With compassion, humor and dramatic tension, The Miracle Worker explores the volatile relationship between a lonely teacher and her headstrong charge.
Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, young Helen Keller is violent and treated by her family as subhuman. Only Sullivan sees a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from its dark, tortured silence. After scenes of intense physical and emotional struggle, Keller’s breakthrough finally arrives with the utterance of a single, glorious word: “water.”
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Student Performances
Since its founding in 1974, Bay Street Players has been committed to youth education. We are pleased to offer a special daytime/field trip performance of The Miracle Worker on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 for students from across Central Florida, followed by an audience Q&A with the cast and director.
Please contact Nina Vatter at nina@baystreetplayers.org for more information.
HAIR follows a young group of friends fighting the establishment, living, and loving in New York City in 1967 under the shadow of the Vietnam War.
Claude, his best friend Berger, their roommate Sheila, and their tribe of friends struggle to balance the demands of the harsh and violent world with their dream for a more beautiful and peaceful existence. When Claude receives his draft notice, he must decide whether to join his friends in resistance or bow to the pressures of society and his conservative parents, thereby sacrificing his morals and, possibly, his life.
Lauded as “the show that defined a generation” when it was first produced in 1967, HAIR was revolutionary in bringing the counterculture into the national spotlight. HAIR is now as relevant as ever in its exploration of themes that we are still grappling with today: racism, war, social unrest, pollution, LGBTQ discrimination, sexual repression, and income disparity. In this way, Bay Street Players continues its dedication to acknowledging the fact that the stories we are able to share have the potential to impact social evolution. We hope you’ll join us in this effort to “let the sunshine in.”
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*HAIR contains adult themes and strong language that may not be suitable for audience members under age 16. Viewer discretion advised.