Cider Mill
STAGE
Your Hometown Theater
Your Hometown Theater
Join us for a great season full of laughs, music, and fun! With the purchase of the season package you will get 6 great shows for one great price of $150 and save over $20. This is a FLEX Pass, so when you purchase this package you will receive a code to use at check out when you select the dates and seats for each show. If you need assistance please don’t hesitate to call our box office at (607) 321-9630. Your package will include tickets to:
Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help by Katie Forgette
The play tells the story of the O’Sheas, a cash-challenged, Irish-Catholic family just trying to get through 1973. Linda O’Shea, our 19-year old narrator, is attempting to re-enact for the audience the most turbulent day of her life, her own, very personal Saturday Night Massacre…but her family keeps interrupting, insisting on telling their side of the story. The 1970s was a time of old school living. No Facebook, no tweets, no texting. A time when public ridicule in a close-knit, hermetically sealed Catholic parish was the ultimate nightmare. When Linda’s mother leave it to Linda to tell her younger sister about the birds and the bees, the bawdy conversation is somehow overheard by the parish priest…and Father Lovett is not amused. He sets out to confront the family about “the corruption of their eldest daughter’s soul.”
BLAST: Bold Local Artists of the Southern Tier is proud to celebrate Italian-American Heritage Month, this October. Join Jan and Shannon DeAngelo & Friends (featuring Swing Street Station, Matthew Beach, John Penird, Judy Giblin, and more) as they “Fly You to the Moon” with traditional tunes and swinging Sinatra songs. This festive evening will have you singing and dancing along all night.
Jonathan Birdsall is a journalist with a credibility problem who finds a story far too incredible for anyone to believe.
The disgraced journalist finds a corpse trapped behind the mirror of his rental home. When that body is reanimated by ancient demons, will this story be his career’s second chance or will he go down for the bloody carnage that follows?
This award-winning hometown feature film is currently on its film festival run, but you can catch it locally at the Cider Mill Stage. Created by local filmmakers Joshua Recene and Michael Yammine, the film features local theater actors Adam Holley, Jessica Nogaret-Sedelmeyer, Joshua Sedelmeyer, Jan DeAngelo, Janna Holley, and film talent Tim O’Hearn. This will be the only chance to catch the film locally during its festival run. See the film and talk with the cast and crew, only at the Cider Mill Stage.
BLAST Present’s VILLAINS AFTER DARK starring the DIVAS AFTER DARK, hosted by Katrina & DeDe Kupps and featuring Monroe Sedgwick, Peaches Èclair, TruDat Truman, & Porcelain Platinum. This show is guaranteed to be a night of Tricks and Treats! Join in on the fun and come in costume and participate in our costume contest with prizes for funniest, scariest, and sexiest!
The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse
High school drama teacher Logan is desperate to save her career. Always ready to rock the boat, she is now facing a petition that calls for her termination. So she pursued several grants ranging from education to cultural awareness to bring together three actors that will devise a play about the first Thanksgiving. Or Native American Heritage Month. Or just November in general. With yoga instructor (and boyfriend) Jaxton, elementary teacher Caden, and professional actress Alicia, Logan is out to save her career and tell a culturally conscious story about what it means to be Native American … even though all of the performers are white. Punctuated by offensive (and completely real) Thanksgiving songs from educators’ social media, Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play is a hilarious satiric jab at political correctness, social wokeness, and cultural assumptions.
God Bless Us, Everyone! The Southern Tier’s Holiday Tradition returns to the Cider Mill Stage for its 42nd year. The original production of this A Christmas Carol debuted in December 1979, John Bielenberg and the original 1979 cast members, infused the Dickens tale with warm and unique qualities that brought joy to generations of theatre goers and have kept the production timeless.
The Outsider by Paul Slade Smith
Ned Newley doesn’t even want to be governor. He’s terrified of public speaking; his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently: Ned might be the worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for… the worst candidate to ever run for office. A timely and hilarious comedy that skewers politics and celebrates democracy.
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill by Lanie Robertson
Based on the legendary Billie Holiday, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill is a play with music that will make you feel like you’re front and center witnessing the jazz legend herself perform and share anecdotes about her life. The play takes place in March of 1959 at a run-down bar in South Philadelphia, Emerson’s Bar and Grill, where Holiday performs her well-known jazz songs and charms the audience with her natural joy for music and life. Though the narrative is historical fiction, Holiday shares real stories about her life about everything from love affairs to substance abuse and segregation. The performance is one of her last before her death in July of 1959. Holiday is accompanied by Jimmy Powers on the piano, a good friend and love of hers, who calms her and helps her as she becomes increasingly intoxicated throughout the night. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill will both warm and break your heart and leave you humming Billie Holiday’s classic tunes for the rest of the week.
The 39 Steps Adapted by Patrick Barlow
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have the intriguing, thrilling, riotous and unmissable comedy. The show hurtles a notorious fugitive and a spellbound blonde from a London music hall north by northwest to Scotland’s most remote highlands. Will they save Britain from a den of devious spies? A cast of four actors plays over 150 characters in this fast-paced tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinarily entertaining adventure. The 39 Steps contains every single legendary scene from the award-winning movie — including the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the escape on the Forth Bridge, the first theatrical bi-plane crash ever staged and the sensational death-defying finale in the London Palladium.
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown Book, Music, & Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Charles Schulz’s beloved comic comes to life in Clark Gesner’s classic musical, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The whole gang is here: bossy Lucy is hopelessly in love with piano prodigy Schroeder who doesn’t give her the time of day, perfectionist Sally is still mocking blanket-toting Linus, Snoopy is in the doghouse, and “blockhead,” himself, Charlie Brown, is in rare form. Brief vignettes span the months from Valentine’s Day to Beethoven Day, from wild optimism to utter despair. In this revised version, with additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and dialogue by Michael Mayer, the sweet, joyful innocence of the Peanuts gang is maintained, but a fresh insouciance and playfulness is revealed. The new script features two new songs, particularly funny dialogue, and new, catchy orchestrations. Whether you’re keen to fly with the Red Baron, moon over the Moonlight Sonata, or just do your best to find “Happiness,” You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a crowd-pleasing classic.
We are excited to offer Student Rush Tickets for our performances. These are deeply discounted tickets available to students with a valid student I.D. on the day of the performance. Tickets will be available for sale in person at the Cider Mill Stage box office a half hour before the performance. The price per ticket will be $10 with a valid student I.D.. Tickets are limited and there is no guarantee of availability on the day of the performance. Seat locations will be determined by availability.
Looking to improve your acting, dancing, and/or singing? Check out the latest offerings from the BLAST Academy. Classes for all ages. For more information or to sign up for a class click on the link below.
The box office at 2 Nanticoke Avenue
will be open 2 hours before curtain.
The theater space at the Cider Mill Stage is available for rental/lease for community and business meetings as well as productions of plays and musical performances. The space is available on a day by day, week or monthly basis.
The theater is cabaret style seating with seating for 225. There is a snack bar available and ample on-site parking.
Phone (607) 321-9630
Or email cidermillstage@gmail.com
The Cider Mill Stage
2 Nanticoke Ave.
Endicott, New York 13760