Ozark Actors Theatre is an

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theater company in Rolla, Missouri founded in 1987 by pianist Gail Andrews-Hintz and founding Artistic Director F. Reed Brown with the help of actress Cindy Beger and her friend Kathy Pukas. In 1993, The Cedar Street Playhouse became the home of Ozark Actors Theatre. Ozark Actors Theatre quickly gained a reputation for doing quality theatrical productions, and drew acclaim in Missouri and nationwide. In 2010 Jason Cannon became the artistic director, and Pamela Reckamp took the position in 2015. The only

theatre in the area, they have produced more than 100 shows and are affiliated with the

Missouri Arts Council Since the 1960s, the Missouri Arts Council has helped bring the arts to all the people of the state. By providing grants to large and small communities, public and private schools, and artists and arts programs, the Missouri Arts Council makes qual ...

List of Shows

1988 * '' Godspell'' * '' The Diviners'' * '' Greater Tuna'' * ''Magic to Do'' 1989 * ''Bernstein: Music of the Maestro'' * '' I Do! I Do!'' * ''Voices'' * '' The Boys Next Door'' * '' The Foreigner'' 1990 * ''Broadway: The Last 10 Years'' * '' The Duck Variations'' * ''Graceland'' * ''Litko'' * ''Savage Love'' * '' Talley's Folly'' * '' The House of Blue Leaves'' * ''Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer'' * '' Quilters'' * ''

A Christmas Carol ''A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'', commonly known as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ''A Christmas C ...

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The Actor's Nightmare ''The Actor's Nightmare'' is a short comic play by Christopher Durang. It involves an accountant named George Spelvin, who is mistaken for an actor's understudy and forced to perform in a play for which he does not know any of the lines. Inspira ...

'' 1991 * ''

'' * '' The Fantasticks'' * '' Barefoot in the Park'' * '' The Elephant Man'' * ''The Songs of

Stephen Sondheim Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; March 22, 1930November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. One of the most important figures in twentieth-century musical theater, Sondheim is credited for having "reinvented the American musical" with sho ...

'' * ''The Voice of the Prairie'' 1992 * '' Nunsense'' * ''The Golden Age of Broadway'' * ''I Hate Hamlet'' * ''Jazz at Castleman'' * ''A Scent of Honeysuckle'' * ''

'' 1993 * '' Love Letters'' * '' Nunsense II: The Second Coming'' 1994 * '' Dames at Sea'' * ''The Gifts of the Magi'' * '' Marvin's Room'' * ''Sea Horse'' * '' Lend Me a Tenor'' 1995 * ''Abundance'' * '' Smoke on the Mountain'' 1996 * ''In White America'' * ''On the Air'' * ''

Cotton Patch Gospel ''Cotton Patch Gospel'' is a musical by Tom Key and Russell Treyz with music and lyrics written by Harry Chapin and produced by Philip M. Getter just after Chapin's death in 1981. It ran off-Broadway at the Lamb's Theatre for 193 performances b ...

'' * ''The Golden Age of Entertainment'' * '' The Nerd'' 1997 * ''A Command Performance'' * ''Happy Birthday, You're Dead!'' * '' Bye Bye Birdie'' * ''

Steel Magnolias ''Steel Magnolias'' is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Academy Award winner Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts. The picture is a film adaptation ...

'' 1998 * '' Big River'' * ''

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten ''All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten'' is a book of short essays by American minister and author Robert Fulghum. It was first published in 1986. The title of the book is taken from the first essay in the volume, in which Fulghu ...

'' * ''Wedding Bell Blues'' 1999 * ''Aunt Tilly's Funeral'' * '' The Music Man'' * '' Driving Miss Daisy'' * ''

Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors may refer to: * '' The Little Shop of Horrors'', a 1960 film directed by Roger Corman ** ''Little Shop of Horrors'' (musical), a 1982 musical based on the 1960 film ** ''Little Shop of Horrors'' (film), a 1986 film adaptat ...

'' 2000 * '' Once Upon a Mattress'' * ''Grace and Glorie'' * ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' 2001 * '' Annie'' * ''Art'' * '' Arsenic and Old Lace'' * ''

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever ''The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'' (titled ''The Worst Kids in the World'' in Australia, New Zealand and the UK) is a children's novel written by Barbara Robinson in 1971. It tells the story of six misfit children who volunteer to star in th ...

'' 2002 * '' Oklahoma!'' * '' You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' 2003 * ''

Oliver! ''Oliver!'' is a coming-of-age stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre, southwest London in 1960 before op ...

'' * '' Always... Patsy Cline'' 2004 * ''Route 66: A Celebration of America's Mainstreet'' * ''

Fiddler on the Roof ''Fiddler on the Roof'' is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on ''Tevye and his Daughters'' (or ''Tevye the ...

'' * '' Wait Until Dark'' * '' Nuncrackers'' 2005 * '' The Sound of Music'' * ''

Forever Plaid ''Forever Plaid'' is an Off-Broadway musical revue written by Stuart Ross, and first performed in New York in 1989 and now performed internationally. Overview The show is a revue of the close-harmony "guy groups" (''e.g.'' The Four Aces, Th ...

'' * '' The Odd Couple'' * ''A Christmas Survival Guide'' 2006 * '' Gypsy'' * ''Musical Comedy Murders of 1940'' * ''

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' (often colloquially known as ''Joseph'') is a sung-through musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the character of Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis. Thi ...

'' 2007 * '' Godspell'' * '' Anything Goes'' * '' Moon Over Buffalo'' * '' Big: the musical'' * ''

White Christmas White Christmas most commonly refers to: * White Christmas (weather), snowfall or snow-covered ground on Christmas Day * "White Christmas" (song), a 1942 song written by Irving Berlin White Christmas may also refer to: Film, television, and the ...

'' 2008 * '' Pump Boys and Dinettes'' * '' The Music Man'' * '' Altar Boyz'' * ''It's a Wonderful Life'' 2009 * ''Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will?'' * '' Clue'' * ''

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254–184 BC), specifica ...

'' * '' Scrooge'' 2010 * '' The Mousetrap'' * '' Annie'' * '' The Fantasticks'' * ''Babes in Toyland'' 2011 * '' Lend Me a Tenor'' * '' The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' * '' The Crucible'' * ''

'' 2012 * ''25th Anniversary Gala'' * ''The Wizard of Oz'' * '' Noises Off'' * '' The Diviners'' * '' Follies'' * ''

Little Women ''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives ...

'' 2013 * '' Peter Pan'' * '' Fools'' * '' Into the Woods'' * '' Follies'' * ''

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It is the first published and best known of seven novels in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' (1950–1956). Among all the ...

'' 2014 * '' The Comedy of Errors'' * ''

'' * '' The Drowsy Chaperone'' * '' Follies'' * ''Cabaret 1: Hannah Bagnall & Brittany Proia'' * ''Cabaret 2: Blane Pressler & Maglione and Ruiz'' * ''Cabaret 3: Alyssa Flowers & Jake Mills'' * ''A Fairy Tale Christmas Carol'' 2015 * '' Meet Me in St. Louis'' * '' The Importance of Being Earnest'' * '' Lucky Stiff'' * ''The Story of Velveteen Rabbit''

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