Big News!
As part of The Factory at Franklin’s commitment to making the Boiler Room Theatre the best theatre experience in Franklin, The Boiler Room Theatre is pleased to announce exciting changes coming to our venue. Among many changes to come next year, BRT audiences will enjoy better in-theatre lighting and sound as well as a newly designed lobby. Performers will also be treated to better dressing rooms and facilities. To allow for these renovations, The Boiler Room Theatre will be on hiatus starting in January 2014 with a planned completion and reopening in May of 2014. It will be the same Boiler Room you have grown to love with some wonderful changes. We look forward to building upon our tradition of excellence in Franklin and its surrounding areas.
At the height of the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went from two small-town nobodies in West Texas to America's most renowned folk heroes and the Texas law enforcement's worst nightmares. Fearless, shameless, and alluring, their electrifying story of love, adventure and crime captured the excited attention of an entire country. Now, the most notorious couple of the twentieth century takes on a whole new adventure: the stage.
When BONNIE AND CLYDE meet, their mutual cravings for excitement and fame immediately set them on a mission to chase their dreams. Their bold and reckless behavior turns the young lovers' thrilling adventure into a downward spiral, putting themselves and their loved ones in trouble with the law. Forced to stay on the run from every southern state's police force, the lovers resort to robbery and murder to survive. As the infamous duo's fame grows bigger, their inevitable end draws nearer.
BONNIE AND CLYDE is a thrilling and sexy musical with a non-traditional score, combining blues, gospel and rockabilly music.
Rated R
Winner! 2006 Tony Award, Best Play
Winner! 2005 Olivier Award, Best New Play
Winner! 2006 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play
Winner! 2006 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Broadway Play
Winner! 2004 Evening Standard Award, Best Play
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (senior) boys in a British boarding school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university - generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and by a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. In The History Boys, Alan Bennett raises - with gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of character - not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education toda
The Nashville Original Returns!
McBeth! The Musical Comedy
Book, Lyrics & Music by Michael Bouson, Joe Correll, Jamey Green & Kathy Shepard
Swords, murder, music, and witches. No, this isn't Brigadoon or Camelot. This is Shakespeare as you've never seen it!
Imagine if Mel Brooks, Monty Python and Walt Disney got together to write a musical version of Macbeth -- complete with a happy ending -- and you haveMcBeth! An irreverent musical send-up of the Bard's darkest play, this Avante Garage original premiered in Nashville ten years ago to sell-out crowds. Newly revised, McBeth! takes you on a rollicking trip to Scotland in the comic style of The Producers.
Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
IT'S ALIVE! From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation THE PRODUCERS comes this monster new musical comedy.
With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment…and the only place you'll witness a singing and dancing laboratory experiment in the largest tuxedo ever made.
Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world's best-loved musicals.
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan ANNIE charms everyone's hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan.
With the help of the other girls in the Orphanage, ANNIE escapes to the wondrous and magical world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, ANNIE foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations and befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She finds a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
ANNIE is the perfect family-friendly musical!
Winner! 1975 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding New American Play
Nominee! 1975 Tony Award, Best Play
One of the most popular romantic comedies of the century, Same Time, Next Year ran four years on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for lead actress Ellen Burstyn, who later recreated her role in the successful motion picture. It remains one of the world's most widely produced plays. The plot follows a love affair between two people, Doris and George, married to others, who rendezvous once a year. Twenty-five years of manners and morals are hilariously and touchingly played out by the lovers.
"Delicious wit, compassion, a sense of humor and a feel for nostalgia." -The New York Times
"Genuinely funny and genuinely romantic."- New York Post
Book by Heather Hach
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin
Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture
Harvard's beloved blonde takes the stage by pink storm in this fun, upbeat musical about self-discovery. Based on the adored movie, LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL stays true to form with a peppy score and playful book. This musical is ridiculously enjoyable from start to finish.
Elle Woods appears to have it all. Her life is turned upside-down, however, when her boyfriend dumps her so he can start getting serious about his life and attend Harvard Law. Determined to get him back, Elle uses her charm to get into Harvard Law. At school, she struggles with peers, professors, and Warner Huntington. With the help of Paulette and Emmett, though, Elle quickly realizes her potential and sets out to prove herself to the world.
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