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The Naples Players

Announce

the 2022 - 2023 Season

The Naples Players (TNP) is excited to move grapple with the actress’ legacy in Hollywood and the
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forward into their dynamic 69 Season, presented impact that race had on her controversial career…
by Porsche Naples. This upcoming season is In Blackburn Hall from November 23 -
dedicated to building community, instilling laughs, December 18, 2022, A Christmas Carol: the Musical
and looking to the future. features the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his
From June 22 - July 24, 2022, the outrageous, ghostly encounters. Sponsored by Lake Michigan
crowd-pleasing musical, Something Rotten! welcomes you to the Credit Union, this spectacular adaptation of Charles Dickens’
Renaissance and Blackburn Hall. The story follows brothers masterpiece enjoyed more than a decade-long run at the Theater at
Nick and Nigel Bottom who are desperate to write a hit play Madison Square Garden. Audience members will also be treated to
but are stuck in the shadow of a Renaissance rock star known complimentary admission to our highly anticipated Trees and Teas
as “The Bard.” The Bottom Brothers set out to write the world’s Festival.
very first musical! Don’t forget - the KidzAct Southern Comforts runs from November 30 -
production of Something Rotten! Teen will be in December 18, 2022 in the Tobye Studio Theater.
Blackburn Hall from August 5 - August 7, 2022. In a sprawling New Jersey Victorian, a taciturn
Sponsored by Bruce and Robin Bache Gray, Yankee widower and a vivacious grandmother
Blithe Spirit will be in Blackburn Hall from from Tennessee find what they least expected - a
September 28 - October 23, 2022. This smash second chance at love. Told with warmth and
comedy hit offers up a fussy, cantankerous, and perceptive humor, this off-Broadway success is an
spiritual skeptic in Charles Condomine. When affecting, late-in-life journey of compromise and
the ghost of Charles’ late first wife, Elvira, accidentally rejuvenation, of personal risk and the rewards of change.
materializes, his spiritual skepticism vanishes. Elvira is only From January 11 - February 5, 2023, The Game’s Afoot will
visible to Charles and is not letting a little thing like death be in Blackburn Hall. Sponsored by Gulf Coast International
stand in the way of getting him back… Properties, this play tells the story of Broadway star William
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark runs from Gillette, who has
October 19 - November 6, 2022, in the Tobye Studio Theater invited his fellow
and follows aspiring starlet Vera Stark during the Golden Age cast members to his
of Hollywood. She works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an Connecticut castle
aging star grasping at her fading career. Worlds collide when for a weekend of
Vera lands a trailblazing role in an antebellum epic starring… revelry. But when
her boss. While Vera’s portrayal of a slave turns out to be one of the guests is
groundbreaking, decades later scholars and film buffs still stabbed to death, the

68 Life in Naples | April 2022