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Sedona, AZ: Join the Canyon Moon Theatre for a roller coaster adventure in theatre that will make the audience laugh until sides hurt, that challenges assumptions, and send everyone out of Canyon Moon Theatre with an off-key song in their heart. Over the years, Canyon Moon Theatre has introduced characters from a talking dog in a cocktail dress to an intensely shy daughter suspected of being an axe-murderess.
The Season XII Main Stage series is comprised of four plays with oh-so-memorable Judy Garland songs, love and hilarity in a New York five floor walkup with free spirited women, an aging Lothario, and an uptight husband, followed by a diva in an angel costume. The Splinter series features two interesting plays with twists you don’t see coming: one concerning murder, the other centering around family vacations and rituals.
The first show in our Main Stage series is Leona Sings Judy, which runs through October 18. An intimate look at the personality underneath the legend, Broadway singer Leona Mitchell takes us inside the Judy Garland we didn't know. Standing ovations have greeted Leona’s performance of our Judy songs, including "The Trolley Song," "For Me & My Gal," and "Meet Me in St. Louis."
Even more extraordinary are less familiar songs that tell the intensely moving Garland back-story: "It Seems Like Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe," "San Francisco" and "I Happen to Like New York."
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon is the second Main Stage show, and runs November 5-22. There is trouble in paradise! Free-spirited Corie and straight-laced attorney Paul Bratter return from their honeymoon ready to start their exciting new life together, but things don’t go exactly as planned. Impulsive Corie's apartment choice doesn't meet Paul's – or any sane person's – standards: six exhausting flights of stairs, quirky neighbors and a giant hole in the skylight. Neil Simon throws the newlyweds hilarious obstacles to test their love in this warm-hearted romantic comedy.
“A play about logically illogical, life-intoxicated women (played by the likes of Colbert, Lombard and Katharine Hepburn) who taught uptight men to get down and cut loose.”—NY Times.
