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The Naples Players Announce the

2022 - 2023

Season

he Naples Players is excited to skeptic in Charles Condomine. When the ghost
move forward into their dynamic of Charles’ late first wife, Elvira, accidentally
th
T69 Season, presented by Porsche materializes, his spiritual skepticism vanishes.
Naples. This upcoming season is dedicated Elvira is only visible to Charles and is not letting
to building community, instilling laughs and a little thing like death stand in the way of
looking to the future. getting him back.
From June 22 to July 24, 2022, the In Blackburn Hall from November 23 to
outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical, December 18, 2022, A Christmas Carol: the
Something Rotten! welcomes you to the Musical features the classic tale of Ebenezer
Renaissance and Blackburn Hall. Sponsored by Scrooge and his ghostly encounters. Sponsored by Lake Michigan
Stock Development, the story follows brothers Nick and Nigel Credit Union, this spectacular adaptation of Charles Dickens’
Bottom who are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in masterpiece enjoyed more than a decade-long run at the Theater at
the shadow of a Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” Madison Square Garden. Audience members will also be treated to
The Bottom Brothers set out to write the world’s very first complimentary admission to our highly anticipated Trees and Teas
musical! Don’t forget - the KidzAct production of Festival.
Something Rotten! Teen will be in Blackburn Hall Sponsored by Trulucks, Southern Comforts runs November 30
August 5 - August 7, 2022. to December 18, 2022 in the Tobye Studio Theater. In a sprawling
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, sponsored by Riptide Brewing New Jersey Victorian, a taciturn Yankee widower and a vivacious
Company, runs October 19 to November 6, 2022, in the Tobye grandmother from Tennessee find what they least expected
Studio Theater and follows aspiring starlet Vera Stark during - a second chance at love. Told with warmth and perceptive
the Golden Age of Hollywood. She works as a maid to Gloria humor, this off-Broadway success is an affecting, late-in-life
Mitchell, an aging star grasping at her fading career. Worlds journey of compromise and rejuvenation, of personal risk and the
collide when Vera lands a trailblazing role in an antebellum epic rewards of change.
starring…her boss. While Vera’s portrayal of a slave turns out
to be groundbreaking, decades later scholars and film buffs still
grapple with the actress’ legacy in Hollywood and the impact
that race had on her controversial career.
Sponsored by Bruce and Robin Bache Gray, Blithe Spirit will
be in Blackburn Hall September 28 to October 23, 2022. This
smash comedy hit offers up a fussy, cantankerous and spiritual

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