2019 Season


Season 11
Tickets will go on sale this November.

3rd Annual Night of Shorts
Jan 4-5, 11-12 @ 7:30PM
Jan 5-6, 12 @ 2:00PM

Brelby is pleased to be continuing our efforts of showcasing the work of local playwrights. In our 3rd Annual Night of Shorts, we’ll continue to bring you interesting, quirky and exciting pieces of short theatre.

 

 

 

 

 


Big Fish the Musical
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Book by John August
Feb 22-23, March 1-2, 8-9 @ 7:30pm
Feb 23-24, March 2-3, 9-10 @ 2:00pm

Based on the celebrated novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film directed by Tim Burton, BIG FISH tells the story of Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who lives life to its fullest… and then some! Edward’s incredible, larger-than-life stories thrill everyone around him – most of all, his devoted wife Sandra. But their son Will, about to have a child of his own, is determined to find the truth behind his father’s epic tales.

Overflowing with heart, humor and spectacular stagecraft, BIG FISH is an extraordinary new Broadway musical that reminds us why we love going to the theatre – for an experience that’s richer, funnier and BIGGER than life itself.

 


As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
April 5-7, 12-13 @ 7:00PM
Performing in Murphy Park at the E. Lowell Rogers Amphitheatre
FREE to the Public thanks to funding by the City of Glendale’s Centerline Arts & Cultural Initiative

“As You Like It” is a play of passion, transformation, and deceit. Rosalind is banished, wrestling with her heart and her head. With her cousin by her side, she journeys to a world of exile where barriers are broken down and all can discover their deeper selves.  

 

 

 


Wolves of Sherwood
By Chelsea Frandsen
May 10-11, 17-18, 24-25 @ 7:30PM
May 11-12, 18-19, 25-26 @ 2:00PM

Most incarnations of Robin Hood end when Richard comes home and we believe that Robin and Marion are living happily ever after. But what happens after Happily Ever After? In Wolves of Sherwood, Richard the Lionheart is dead. Robin Hood & Marion have a son, Cassian, intent on making his own legacy. Friar Tuck is the pseudonym of a spy for the outlaws. Sir Guy of Gisbourne has brought his daughter, Ravenna, to Nottingham to make a marriage of alliance with Sheriff Josselin DeClaire. And DeClaire has hired an Assassin to annihilate the outlaws in Sherwood once and for all.

 

 


Jasper in Deadland
Music & Lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver
Book by Hunter Foster
June 21-22, 28-29, July 5-6 @ 7:30pm
June 22-23, 29-39, July 6-7 @ 2:00pm

Jasper is lost in the living world. When you’re failing classes, kicked off the swim team, and your family is on the skids, life can feel like it’s going to hell. Yet, in all the disappointment, Jasper has his best friend, Agnes. In one night of teenage passion, Jasper and Agnes consummate a years-long friendship. But in the morning Agnes is gone, telling Jasper to meet her at their cliff. When he arrives there’s no sign of his best friend, only a swirling vortex to another world in the water below. Jasper dives into Deadland.

 

 

 

 


 

Alice’s Canvas
By Brian Maticic, Shelby Maticic & Luke Gomez
August 2-3, 9-10, 16-17 @ 7:30pm
Aug 3-4, 10-11, 17-18 @ 2:00pm
In Alice’s Canvas, our heroine is facing the challenge that many soon to be college graduates are…what will be waiting for her beyond receiving her diploma? When the subject of Alice’s final exhibition piece suddenly disappears from her painting, she finds that her future art career may be in jeopardy. She follows him into a world of wonder, beauty, bizarre characters, all inspired by her career as an artist. When she is tasked with taking on the greatest villain in all of Wonderland, will she save the day or crumble under the pressure?

 

 

 

 


Evil Dead! The Musical
Book and lyrics by George Reinblatt
Music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris and George Reinblatt
Music supervision by Frank Cipolla
Additional lyrics by Christopher Bond
Additional music by Rob Daleman

Sep 27-28, Oct 4-5, 11-12 @ 7:30pm
Sep 28-29, Oct 5-6, 12-13 @ 2:00pm

Evil Dead The Musical takes all the elements of the cult classic films, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness and combines them for one of the craziest, funniest, and bloodiest theatrical experiences of all time.  Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods, and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s all up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons tell bad jokes… and all to music.

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Luna & Solis
By Brian Maticic
Nov 1-2 & 7-9 @ 7:30pm
Nov 2-3, & 9-10 @ 2:00pm

The sun and the moon have loved one another from afar for eons, but their responsibility to humanity keeps them apart. They are only able to meet in person during an eclipse, when they take corporeal form.  However, eventually they grew weary of putting the lives of humans above their one happiness, and decide to run away together during the latest solar eclipse. What will humankind have to do to restore the balance?

 

 

 

 


Marie’s Reverie
By Shelby Maticic
Dec 6-7, Dec 13-14, 20-21 @ 7:30pm
Dec 7-8, 14-15, 21 @ 2:00pm

Marie’s Reverie, is a new adventure inspired by the original Nutcracker and Snow Queen stories. Marie is an aspiring dancer, haunted by dreams from her past. Her family convinced her that the bizarre adventures with a wooden soldier, through a land of sweets and snow were the musings of an imaginative child…but what if they weren’t really dreams? It’s a story filled with fantastical characters, unexpected surprises, and of course…beautiful dances.