Cider Mill
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Your Hometown Theater
Your Hometown Theater
024-2025 BLAST Full Season Package
Join us for a great season full of laughs, music, and fun! With the purchase of the BLAST Full Season Package you will get all 8 shows for 1 great price and save $30. 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:
2024-2025 BLAST 5 Show Mainstage Package
Join us for a great season full of laughs, music, and fun! With the purchase of the 2024-2025 BLAST 5 Show Mainstage Season Package you will get 5 great shows for 1 great price and save $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:
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Book by Robert L. Freedman
Music by Steven Lutvak
Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman & Steven Lutvak
The Tony Award winning Best Musical, Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder; book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman, music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak, is the knock-’em-dead, uproarious story of low-born Monty Navarro.
On the night of his mother’s funeral, Navarro learns an incredible secret: he is actually an Aristocrat and eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D’Ysquith family. Using a great deal of charm… and a delicious dash of malicious mayhem, Monty attempts to knock off his unsuspecting relatives. Because if he becomes the ninth Earl of Highhurst he might just earn the heart of the stunning and self-centered Sibella or perhaps the pious and witty Phoebe; because murder isn’t the only thing on Monty’s mind….
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a melodious and murderous romp filled with unforgettable music, non-stop laughs and a scene-stealing role for one actor who plays all eight of the doomed heirs (The D’Ysquith Family) as they meet their ends in the most creative and side-splitting ways.
What the Constitution Means to Me
by Heidi Schreck
A buoyant, funny, timely and provocative examination by one woman of her civil rights and wrongs. As a teenager, Heidi Schreck, competed in American Legion debate competitions, winning enough prize money to pay her way through college.
What the Constitution Means to Me contrasts her thoughts from then and now. All grown-up, and through powerful storytelling, Heidi hilariously reimagines what this living document will mean for the future of America.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee, this bold, optimistic new play was hailed by The New York Times as “not just the best play to open on Broadway so far this season, but also the most important.”
The play, What the Constitution Means to Me, humanizes this document we all revere and asks the question – ARE we all ‘created equal’?
Making God Laugh
by Sean Grennan
A priest, an actress, and a football star walk into a living room. That’s not the setup for a joke, it’s the recipe for a delightful look at family life as empty-nester parents celebrate the holidays through the decades with their grown up children.
Making God Laugh by Sean Grennan follows one typical American family over the course of thirty years, starting in 1980. The kids return home on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Eve and Easter and we learn about their plans and dreams.
The parents contend with their own changes, too, as old family rituals and recipes are trotted out and ancient tensions flare up. As time passes, the family discovers that, despite what we may have in mind, we often arrive at unexpected destinations.
This comedy-drama is both hilarious and heartfelt because, as Woody Allen once remarked, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans…”
A Christmas Carol
God Bless Us, Everyone! The Southern Tier’s Holiday Tradition returns to the Cider Mill Stage for its 45th year with Chris Nickerson as Scrooge.
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 theatregoers and have kept the production timeless.
Matt and Ben
by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers
As Damon and Affleck struggle to write an adapted screenplay of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, suddenly, a physical manuscript magically appears on the floor of Affleck’s apartment:- it is entitled- Good Will Hunting.
Matt and Ben by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers is the story Hollywood has glamorized, publicized, and bombarded us with—how it all began for the two young men. But are they being tested by a ‘higher power’? Their quick success is seemingly too good to be true.
Matt and Ben shows the hilarious ups and downs of a true lifelong friendship. The fact that these iconic dudes of the 90s are being played by female actors offers a commentary on celebrity, both permanent and fleeting, and on an industry known as Hollywood.
Hamlet II (Better Than The Original)
by Sam Bobrick
Putting the ham into Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Sam Bobrick (co-writer of Murder at the Howard Johnsons) tells the story of the Prince of Denmark by turning it into the burlesque-ish spoof Hamlet 2 (Better Than The Original). It’s like Hamlet but with a happier ending.
This is not your English teacher’s Shakespeare but, If you’ve had trouble grasping the intent of the Bard’s classic endeavor, this should clear it up once and for all. While the plot remains very true to good old Will’s basic fundamentals with all the characters you remember from High School; Bobrick’s hilarious comedy updates the dialogue with witty one liners and new twists and turns that are played for laughs, gaffes and groans.
Hamlet the way it should be.
The Cottage
by Sandy Rustin
Broadway’s fastest, flirtiest and friskiest new comedy is the brand-new, side-splitting romp The Cottage by Sandy Rustin (one of the most produced playwrights in the US), an outrageous tale of sex, betrayal, and desire.
As one woman decides to expose her latest affair to both her husband — and to her lover’s wife – the true meaning of fate and faith, identity and infidelity, love and marriage are all called into question as a surprising and uproarious web of secrets unravel in this ridiculously funny romantic comedy.
This charming 1923 English countryside home away from home, turns into a hotbed of hilarity when spouses and lovers arrive. The secrets multiply and comedic chaos ensues. With a tip of the hat to Noël Coward and sex comedies of the past, The Cottage offers a perfect showcase of endless laughs, hilarious twists, daring physical comedy, and a happy ending for lovers everywhere.
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Next To Normal
Music by Tom Kitt
Book & Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Capturing the psychology and inner life of the musical’s six characters in ways both intimate and epic; the Tony award and pulitzer prize winning rock musical: Next to Normal, (book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt), is an unflinching look at a family struggling to overcome issues from their past and the underpinnings of suburban life.
This deeply moving piece of theatre expands the scope of subject matter for musicals. Dad’s an architect. Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal. Their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens. A typical American family – Except ..
Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family’s story with love, sympathy and heart.
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