Come join us as we celebrate our 50th season.

For fifty years, Longmont Theatre Company has been bringing theatrical entertainment and education to Longmont, Boulder County, and the Colorado Front Range. We are the oldest continually operating community theater in Northern Colorado.

Our mainstage shows you'll enjoy this season are some of our jewels. All of them are Tony award winners, all of them are crowd pleasers, and all of them were produced on our stage during our fifty years of theatrical magic.

And to start our next fifty years, we have a special production at the end of the season. We will present a brand-new show, Suspenders, in its world premier, right here at the Longmont Theatre. And don't forget our free Taste of Shakespeare productions, A Bard Day's Night and Twelfth Night, and the Summer Kids Workshop Productions.

Join us for our golden anniversary, and help us begin our next fifty years in a spectacular way!

The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time Froggy has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So Froggy, before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should-the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil (the charming but devious Mr. Applegate) for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory against the much-hated New York Yankees. As young baseball sensation Joe Hardy, he transforms the hapless Washington Senators into a winning team, only to realize the true worth of the life (and wife) he's left behind. With the help of a handy escape clause and a guilt-ridden temptress named Lola, Joe tries to outsmart Applegate...Light, fast-paced and devilishly clever, Damn Yankees is a home-run hit!

Longmont Theater returns to its tradition of offering a show for the holidays.

Thornton Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner" tells the story of four generations of the Bayard family over ninety years' worth of their Christmas dinners. "The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden" takes us on the Kirby family's summer drive to see Ma Kirby's married daughter. Both shows use techniques that in their day revolutionized the American theatre: a stage manager to narrate and advance the action, and an almost complete absence of scenery and props. In 1938, Wilder made these devices famous in his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Our Town.

Longmont Theatre Company is proud to present these two Wilder gems this season as our holiday gift to our community and our audience. Be sure to get your tickets soon. This pair of shows will only play for seven performances. Don't get Scrooged this year--get Wilder at LTC!

Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937 living with his family in crowded, lower-middle-class circumstances. The play captures a few days in the life of a struggling Jewish household that includes Eugene, his hard-working father, his sharp-tongued mother, his older and vastly more experienced brother Stanley, his widowed aunt and her two young daughters. Family miseries are used to raise such enduring issues as sibling resentments, guilt-ridden parent-child relationships and the hunger for dignity in a poverty-stricken world. A deeply appealing play that deftly mixes drama with comedy.

If an irresistible force meets an immovable object, there's going to be an explosion. So, when life-loving, free-spirit R P McMurphy plays crazy in order to avoid prison and finds himself locking horns with icy cool, dictatorial Nurse Ratched, it can only mean trouble. The boisterous, brawling petty criminal becomes an accidental revolutionary as he fights to free his fellow patients from the tyranny of the Big Nurse. But it's an unequal struggle and, ultimately, he pays a terrible price in his bid for freedom. Funny, shocking and profoundly moving, this is a true American classic!

Set in 1905, Fiddler on the Roof takes place in Anatevka, a small Jewish village in Russia. The story revolves around the dairyman Tevye and his attempts to preserve his family's traditions in the face of a changing world. When his eldest daughter, Tzeitel, begs him to let her marry a poor tailor rather than the middle-aged butcher that he has already chosen for her, Tevye must choose between his daughter's happiness and those beloved traditions that keep the outside world at bay. Meanwhile, there are other dangerous forces at work which threaten to destroy the very life he is trying to preserve.

This world premiere musical is a delightfully zany and touching look at the rejuvenation of life for seniors, their families, and everyone in-between. "Suspenders" zings across the generation gap, and into your heart. And hey, old age ain't no place for wimps, so get ready to laugh, to cry, to love, and share the joy of "Suspenders"!