The Virginia Theatre Festival is celebrating its 50th Anniversary year in a big way this summer! The 2024 Season features 50 Years and Counting: A Musical Revue, a special musical revue directed by longtime Artistic Director Robert Chapel, the cult-classic musical Little Shop of Horrors, and The 39 Steps, a frenetic farce adapted from the classic Hitchcock film.

Schedule of Events:

June 27 - 30, 2024:

50 Years and Counting: A Musical Revue

Conceived and Directed by Robert Chapel

The Virginia Theatre Festival is celebrating 50 years of professional theatre in Charlottesville with a special musical revue conceived and directed by longtime Artistic Director Robert Chapel. The evening will feature some of the greatest hit songs of the company’s first half-century, including “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (Annie Get Your Gun); “Maria,” (West Side Story); “Luck Be a Lady” (Guys and Dolls); “I Could Have Danced All Night” (My Fair Lady) and many more. The songs will be performed by a collection of audience-favorite performers, including Broadway veterans! Don’t miss your chance to celebrate the past and toast the future as VTF heads into its next 50 years!

Run Time: 1 hour and 45 minutes with one 15-minute intermission

Dates and Times:

Thursday, June 27 at 7:30 PM
Friday, June 28 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 29 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, June 30 at 2:00 PM (Matinee)

Location: Culbreth Theatre, 109 Culbreth Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

July 11 - 21, 2024:

Little Shop of Horrors:

Book & Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Based on the film by Roger Corman, screenplay by Charles Griffith
Directed by Jeffrey Meanza
Choreographed by Tristan Andre
Musical Direction by Ian Miller

Suddenly, Seymour is…back! Little Shop of Horrors has been delighting and disarming audiences with its story of lovestruck Seymour, a hapless flower shop employee, and his massive miscalculation that he can use a bloodthirsty succulent to win his beloved Audrey’s heart. Throw in a sadistic dentist, a hard-to-please boss, and a chorus of all-knowing skid row onlookers and you’ll see why audiences across the globe have been moving and grooving (and maybe screaming just a little) to Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s 1960s R&B/doo-wop infused sci-fi mashup musical for more than four decades.

Dates and Times:

Thursday, July 11 at 7:30 PM
Friday, July 12 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 13 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, July 14 at 2:00 PM (Matinee)
Tuesday, July 16 at 7:30 PM
Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30 PM
Thursday, July 18 at 7:30 PM
Friday, July 19 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 20 at 2:00 PM (Matinee)
Saturday, July 20 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, July 21 at 2:00 PM (Matinee)

Location: Culbreth Theatre, 109 Culbreth Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

July 25 - August 4, 2024:

The 39 Steps:

By arrangement with Fiery Angel Limited
Adapted by Patrick Barlow
From the novel by John Buchan
From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited
And an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon
Directed by Nicolas Minas

This frenetic farce features four actors playing more than 150 characters in what becomes a feat of herculean hilarity and hair-pin turns in this two-time Tony Award-winning whodunit. A chance encounter with an ill-fated beautiful spy sends Richard Hannay into the bullseye of a dangerous international crime ring and sends theatre lovers on a bullet train-fast comic thrill ride full of plot twists, romance, quick-changes, and laughs delivered at a delightfully dizzying pace.

Location: Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

Dates: June 27, 2024 - August 4, 2024

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