The companies have painted sets, searched for props and rehearsed. The productions for the coming year offer enough variety to please most everyone's tastes. Each theater group tries to vary its shows, and most of them succeed. Dramas, comedies and musicals rotate to keep audiences interested and coming. Other theaters can't afford to take risks, so they reprise the same old chestnuts, some with new touches.
Audiences vary just as theater companies do.
Colonial Players' audiences are adventuresome. Chesapeake Music Hall's want to see the familiar. Most of us enjoy comedies, and the community theaters oblige. It's the story of a young man and an older woman. Laughs roll up Route 50 when the nuns retake Chesapeake Music Hall.