Delaware State News
MILFORD — Second Street Players has announced its 2022 season and is calling for potential directors to submit applications.
Individuals interested in directing a show should submit an application by Sunday to thebus1968@yahoo.com. Applications can be found here.
Directors for “Oliver!” “Bedtime Stories” and “The Big Bad Musical” have already been selected, as these shows were moved from previous seasons.
SSP’s 2022 Main Stage shows include:
- “Bermuda Avenue Triangle” (Jan. 28, 29, 30 and Feb. 4, 5, 6). This comedy concerns the adventures of a Jewish widow and an Irish widow whose successful daughters move them to Las Vegas, where they share a retirement village condo.
- “Murder on the Orient Express” (April 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24). Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning, it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on Detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer.
- “Oliver!” (July 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24). The streets of Victorian England will come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. The boy escapes to London and finds temporary acceptance with a group of petty thieves and pickpockets, led by the elderly but sinister Fagin.
- “Peter and the Starcatcher” (Sept. 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18). This Tony-winning play upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be "The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up" (aka Peter Pan).
- “The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge” (Nov. 25, 26, 27 and Dec. 2, 3, 4). A year after his miraculous transformation, Ebenezer Scrooge is back to his old ways and is suing Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future for breaking and entering, kidnapping, slander, pain and suffering, attempted murder and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
SSP’s 2022 Children’s Theater shows include:
- “Bedtime Stories (As Told by Our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up)” (Feb. 25, 26 and 27). It’s Dad’s turn to tell his three rambunctious kids their bedtime stories, but when he gets fuzzy on the details, the classics get creative.
- “Sally Cotter and the Quest We Follow” (May 13, 14, 15). In this third and final installment, Sally has just bought a copy of the last book in her favorite series of novels. But if she finishes reading it, will the magic all be over?
- “The Big Bad Musical” (Oct. 7, 8, 9). The notorious Big Bad Wolf is being slapped with a class action lawsuit by storybooks of quirky characters who want to get even: Little Red Riding Hood, her Grandmother, the Three Little Pigs and the Shepherd in Charge of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
The Riverfront Theater is at 2 S. Walnut St., on the south bank of the Mispillion River, Milford.