6 fall productions to see from local South Jersey theaters
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The leaves are changing colors and the calendar is changing seasons. And while there are plenty of fall festivals and pumpkin patches you can visit, why not try one of the South Jersey theaters with fall productions for a play or musical where local talent is on display?
Here are six local theaters and some of their fall performances:
South Camden Theatre Company, Camden
“Alabama Story” by Kenneth Jones will be presented Sept. 22 through Oct. 1.
According to the website, the play is about a controversial children’s book stirring the “passions of a segregationist state senator and a no-nonsense state librarian in 1959 Montgomery, Alabama” as the civil rights movement was brewing.
“I didn’t want to write a docudrama that told the strict truth, but to create a collage of a play that was a mashup of theatrical forms,” Jones said in a news release.
General admission is $20 ($5 for Camden residents).
Shows are at the Waterfront South Theatre, at the corner of 4th Street and Jasper Street (Michael Doyle Lane).
Masquerade Theatre Company, Riverside
Masquerade Theatre Company is debuting its inaugural season in its Black Box Studio with the musical “Next to Normal”, which runs from Sept. 22-Sept. 30.
Musical director and pianist Jonathan Rose played the original “Next to Normal” production on Broadway. The music is by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey.
Masquerade Theatre Company was founded shortly before the pandemic and pivoted into a virtual theater. Since then, Masquerade made its home in Riverside with the goal of bringing black box performance to South Jersey.
The theatre is at 301 W. Washington Street. Tickets are $25.
Haddonfield Plays & Players, Haddonfield
Sept. 29 through Oct. 14, the theater presents “Something Rotten!”, a play set in the 1590s, featuring brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom, who set out to write the world’s first musical after a local fortune teller relays that the future of theater involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time.
"Something Rotten!" is a musical comedy with a book by John O'Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick. Music and lyrics are by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick.
General tickets are $30.
The address is 957 East Atlantic Ave; haddonfieldplayers.com/events/2023/9/29/something-rotten
Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township
The theatre will present “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Oct. 13-29.
The play was written by the late August Wilson. It will be directed by Darryl Thompson, Jr.
A 2020 adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” premiered on Netflix and starred Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman.
The story is about Ma Rainey, a “determined and fiery soul”, who fights to retain control over her music, while her trumpet player Levee has dreams of making his own name in the music business.
Tickets are $27.
The Ritz is located at 915 White Horse Pike, 856-288-3500; ritztheatreco.org/
Cumberland Players, Vineland
“The Bottom of the Lake” will be presented Oct. 6-15.
It touches on summer camp, campfire, memories, ghost stories.
A young girl in the middle of the woods at night meets three girls from another camp and the new friends tell ghost stories to pass time.
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“An awesome combination of ghost stories, urban legends, teen issues, romance, absurd comedy, and film noir, all in a single play,” the Cumberland Players website explained.
Tickets are $13.
The theater also is running a gofundme for a new sound system.
Cumberland Players is located at 66 Sherman Ave.
Moorestown Theater Company, Moorestown
Performance dates for its fall production of “The Prom” are Nov. 8 through Nov. 12.
Moorestown Theater Company producing artistic director Mark Morgan will direct the show, while Mark Pinzur serves as the vocal director and Renee Chambers Liciaga the choreographer.
“The Prom,” a Tony-Award winning Broadway show, follows four Broadway actors, who travel to a small, conservative town to help a lesbian student, who isn’t allowed to bring her girlfriend to the prom.
It’s the first production of “The Prom” being performed by a community theater in South Jersey, Morgan said.
Reserved tickets will be available soon.
The show is scheduled for First United Methodist Church in Moorestown, located at 446 East Camden Ave.
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