2008/2009 SEASON

MAINSTAGE SHOW TIMES

Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 2 PM

Kick off the season in style with the Driftwood Players Golden Anniversary Gala Celebration! Join us for a variety showcase of the past 50 years presented by actress Bridget Hanley, comedian Duane Goad and many other Driftwood Alumni! Tickets on sale now and include a pre-show champagne reception & silent auction of exclusive memorabilia.

Tickets are $50, which includes admission, hors d'oeuvres, champagne and other surprises!
This event takes place at The Driftwood Player's Wade James Theatre, 950 Main St., Edmonds, WA

It’s an anniversary of murder… or is it? When Alex, a heartbroken theatre director, believes his actress fiancée’s suicide was not self inflicted he wants to bring the killer to justice. Gathering a “cast and crew” of suspects he recreates what he thinks happened on that fateful night in an attempt to find out what really happened. Set in an old Broadway theatre, you’ll not only have the thrill of “whodunit”, but catch a glimpse of what goes on after the audience goes home! Loved so much in 1987/88, we brought it back for OUR Anniversary.

September 26th is unavailable due to a full house booking.

The inaugural play for the Wade James Theatre opens our Alternative Stages Season! Tad Mosel’s Impromptu will take you on a thought-provoking journey as four actors struggle to perform a play that is life; learning about themselves and each other along the way. Plan on much discussion after seeing the show that started it all.

Alternative Stages productions are special, limited engagements with dessert theatre performances. Tickets are $10 for the show and dessert buffet following each performance.

You’ll shudder with delight at the tale of Lizzie Borden who took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks! Transport back to Victorian America and glimpse into Lizzie’s childhood. Then flash forward to dramatized, historically accurate court scenes. Not recommended for the faint of heart.

Alternative Stages productions are special, limited engagements with dessert theatre performances. Tickets are $10 for the show and dessert buffet following each performance.

"Never the same show twice" Professional live improv comedy has made its way to Edmonds with Split Second Improv. Actors from SecondStory Repertory in Redmond bring their fly by the seat of your pants, non-stop comic action show on the road for two special late night performances! No bridges! No traffic! NO GAS! The show is based completely on suggestions from you! Come once...come twice... Bring your friends!

Late Night Shows to satisfy your “Inner Grownup” are not part of our regular season. All tickets are $10.

Back by popular demand, Tim Hart has been performing Magic for over 25 years and can bring his unbelievable effects almost anywhere. You'll enjoy the show for classic sleight of hand, laughter, and impossible effects with lots of audience participation and surprises. A perfect “Trick or Treat” for the whole family!

This special performance is not part of our regular season. Individual tickets are $10.

A classic story of tradition, love and family previously seen on our stage in our first decade, and again in 1991/92, Fiddler takes place in a Russian Jewish Village in 1905. The way of life for a poor milkman, Tevye, is threatened when his daughters wish to marry men not chosen by a matchmaker, thus breaking tradition. The stability of his life and that of the village is threatened by the girls, the terrible ethnic violence against the Jews at the time, and political revolution in Russia. Winner of 9 Tonys and 3 Academy awards, this musical is a fantastic way to treat those you love to something a little different this holiday season!

There will be no performance Thanksgiving Day, November 27th.
December 5th is unavailable due to a full house booking.

The annual Christmas pageant seems doomed when the horrible Herdmans are cast as Mary, Joseph, the three wise men and the angel of the Lord. But somewhere amidst the mayhem, the most awful kids ever finally meet Christmas. Back by popular demand, this beloved tale delights kids of all ages!

Alternative Stages productions are special, limited engagements with dessert theatre performances. Tickets are $10 for the show and dessert buffet following each performance.

Santa has finally gone too far and the Reindeer are mad. Catch a glimpse into the affairs of the famous eight reindeer as they confess how things really go down at the North Pole when the sleigh ride is over. Hilarious, obscene and vicious Eight is sure to get you into the holiday spirit.

Not recommended for those who believe in Santa or are easily offended.
Late Night Shows to satisfy your “Inner Grownup” are not part of our regular season. All tickets are $5.

Be swept away on a musical journey with Erwilian! This talented and unique ensemble travels through time and around the world to bring you age-old and rarely preformed holiday tunes. For one very special night Erwilian will enchant you with a vibrant collection of melodies. Performed on an array of ancient and one-of-a-kind instruments, these sounds of the season are sure to fill you with the delight!

This special performance is not part of our regular season. Individual tickets are $20.

It’s Thornton Wilder’s beautiful dramatization of the cycle of life with a folksy, storytelling stage manager as our guide. The drama in a small town focuses on Emily Webb, a hard-working serious student and George Gibbs, an up-and-coming baseball star. As the two grow up together they fall in love and marry, but shortly thereafter, they face tragedy, and Emily comes to realize how precious life is. "Way down deep, there is something that's eternal about every human being," the Stage Manager waxes about how ordinary life connects with eternity. Driftwood presents Our Town for the first time!

February 20th is unavailable due to a full house booking.

Join The VaWa Sisterhood for an encore as they raise funds for the Intervention Center for Assault & Abuse. The VaWa’s have been performing this show in different ways since 2005, so even if you think you’ve seen it all before, you’ve never seen it like this! Don’t miss this special V-Day edition of Eve Ensler’s award winning play, The Vagina Monologues.

This special performance is not part of our regular season. Individual tickets are $20.

Grab your sweetie and join us in a celebration of love! This special concert is one that you and your Valentine will be sure to remember. The Seattle Jazz Singers return for an annual Jazz Valentine as they fill the Wade James Theatre with sounds of romance.

This special performance is not part of our regular season. Individual tickets are $20.

Prepare to be amazed when these fearless kids are in the spotlight! SANCA defies the challenge of gravity time after time. Witness feats that topple convention! See stunts that exceed the boundaries of the possible! Bring the whole family for a delightful afternoon.

This special performance is not part of our regular season. Individual tickets are $20.

Two high school buddies, Alan and Larry, are sitting in the moonlit yard of an abandoned farmhouse in southern Minnesota, drinking beer, laughing, sharing stories and saying good-bye: Alan leaves the next day for college. It's 1968 and Vietnam looms in their futures.

Alternative Stages productions are special, limited engagements with dessert theatre performances. Tickets are $10 for the show and dessert buffet following each performance.

A sharp-witted, zippy comedy about a woman who lives life to the absolute fullest! When Mame’s orphaned 10-year-old nephew shows up on her doorstep, worlds collide and a new life begins for the two of them. Don’t miss this delightful story based on the runaway best selling 1955 novel chronicling the madcap adventures of a boy growing up as the ward of his eccentric aunt. Made into a musical, film and stage play, Driftwood brings you the non-musical comedy for the first time!

April 24th is unavailable due to a full house booking.

Braving the world with little more than her thick Midwestern accent, Katie finds herself delayed at the Minneapolis Greyhound Bus Terminal with a collection of unlikely characters who teach her that life isn’t always about the destination, it’s about the journey. Don’t miss the world premiere of this thoughtful, witty comedy about the times we’re living in.

Alternative Stages productions are special, limited engagements with dessert theatre performances. Tickets are $10 for the show and dessert buffet following each performance.

Unabashedly unplugged, The When Shall We Three explore American music from Bluegrass to Sea Shanties to Blues. Vocals driven, their music is arranged organically by singing, more singing, and singing along. Comprised of Melanie Miller, Anna Winter, and Machelle Allman, the group met through workshops at Dusty Strings in Seattle.

This special performance is not part of our regular season. Individual tickets are $20.

Famous for Lend Me a Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, author Ken Ludwig’s newest play is sure to amuse! Two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves down on their luck and performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in Amish country. When they catch wind of an old lady about to die leaving her fortune to two long-lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as hers and get the cash. Trouble brews when they discover the old lady is expecting nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady's vivacious niece, Meg, who's already engaged to the local minister. Debuting on the Driftwood stage and ending our 50th Season with a guffaw!

June 19th is unavailable due to a full house booking.

Two short stories about love and coming of age are presented together in a beautiful evening of sometimes sweet, sometimes bittersweet romance. Love is a Divine Accident premiers new adaptations of Anton Chekov’s A Little Joke and Sherwood Anderson’s Sophistication, examining that moment in time when a boy and girl cross a threshold and reach the understanding of one another as man and woman.

Alternative Stages productions are special, limited engagements with dessert theatre performances. Tickets are $10 for the show and dessert buffet following each performance.

The Driftwood Players present Missoula Children’s Theatre's original adaptation of the classic fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White finds herself in peril when her step-mother’s Magic Mirror confesses that the princess is fairer than she! Aided by her Henchmen and band of evil bats, the Queen plots to get rid of Snow White. The fair princess escapes from the Queen with help from Witless the Woodsman, and finding refuge with Seven Dwarfs. The Queen learns of her whereabouts and attempts to poison her, but the evil plans are thwarted when the Forest Friends, King Backwards, the Seven Dwarfs and the Prince come to Snow White’s rescue. Funny and upbeat; a treat for the entire family! Starring children of the Edmonds community.

This special performance is not part of our regular season. Individual tickets are $20.

The Driftwood Players are proud to present a very special event this summer. "Gezellig," a Dutch word describing the warm-fuzzy you get when with friends and title of our showcase created by a team of teens who found each other at Driftwood! You’ll be delighted by these young performers as they entertain you with old standards and new favorites in an evening of song and entertainment!

This special performance is not part of our regular season. Individual tickets are $5.