Murder mystery, Sondheim and a tongue-in-cheek musical: Cape Cod theater in April and May

Sue Mellen, Contributing Writer
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Editor's note: The Falmouth Theatre Guild is delaying the opening of "Something Rotten" from Friday, April 28, to Sunday, April 30. The show will run through May 11. Anyone holding tickets for April 28 or April 29 may email info@falmouththeatreguild.org or leave a message at the box office, 508-548-0400, for an alternate date or a refund.In the next month, Cape Cod theaters will stage two versions of Stephen Sondheim’s classic “Company,” a nostalgia-laden “Gypsy" and a world premiere of the new Cape-written musical "Archibald Avery." You can also try your luck at solving a murder mystery.

The Academy of Performing Arts in Orleans is performing “Company,” Sondheim’s and George Furth’s musical look at the life and loves of a perennially single man, through April 23. Then Eventide Theatre Company will offer up its version, running May 4-21. Two productions of the same show in one season offers an unusual chance for a side-by-side comparison.

The Cotuit Center for the Arts is offering a walk in the park with Neil Simon's comedy of newlywed life in “Barefoot in the Park,” which runs through April 30.

Actress Denise Page offers a dramatic toast, with a bit of airborne bubbly in a scene from "Company" at the Academy of Performing Arts in Orleans.
Actress Denise Page offers a dramatic toast, with a bit of airborne bubbly in a scene from "Company" at the Academy of Performing Arts in Orleans.

The Cape Cod Theatre Company’s production of “Gypsy,” running April 21-May 14, is sure to conjure up images of Ethel Merman back in the original 1959 Broadway production.

The Cape Rep Theatre will offer up the world premiere of “Archibald Avery,” a new take on musical theater, running through May 7. It comes from the minds of three young playwrights/rock musicians and started as poetry.

The Falmouth Theatre Guild will stage “Something Rotten,” April 28-May 14. The show is an uproarious, tongue-in-cheek look at how musicals actually make it to the stage.

Be there to solve a murder mystery at Barnstable Comedy Club’s version of “Murder on the Rerun,” running May 4-21.

Cast of Casa Valentina, at Provincetown Theater, standing left to right: Laura Scribner, Scott Douglas Cunningham, Kenneth Lockwood. Seated left to right: William Mullin, Anne Stott, Dustin Ross, Paul E. Halley, Thom Markee, John Dennis Anderson.
Cast of Casa Valentina, at Provincetown Theater, standing left to right: Laura Scribner, Scott Douglas Cunningham, Kenneth Lockwood. Seated left to right: William Mullin, Anne Stott, Dustin Ross, Paul E. Halley, Thom Markee, John Dennis Anderson.

Go back to Nottingham in merry old England for the Academy of Performing Arts’ production of “Robin Hood,” running May 11-28.

Provincetown Theater is staging “Casa Valentina” from May 11-28. The show was written by Harvey Fierstein and tells the story, performed in drag, of two men’s weekends at a resort in the Catskills. It’s a look at what happens when people are able to free their real selves.

May will come to a close with the Cape Cod Theatre Company’s production of “Silver Threads TWO,” running May 27-June 10. It’s the company’s second look at the classic musical catalogue of songstress Linda Ronstadt.

This article originally appeared on Cape Cod Times: Stephen Sondheim, Neil Simon, Harvey Fierstein hit Cape Cod stages