YMTC’s 20th Anniversary Season
The shows in our 20th anniversary season are bursting with youthful love and passion, and will sweep audiences away to Harvard Law, a high school in Ohio, a magical storybook forest, and the plains of pre-statehood Oklahoma.
Fall 2024: Legally Blonde
October 25–November 3, 2024 – 6 performances only!
The Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland
Music and lyrics by Neil Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe, book by Heather Hach, based on the 2001 film of the same name
LA sorority girl Elle Woods has it all – beauty, brains, and Bruiser the chihuahua. When her perfect boyfriend dumps her and she follows him to Harvard Law School, she discovers she has a passion for something way more fabulous than clothes – justice! Filled with heart, memorable songs, dynamic dance numbers, and a stereotype-defying heroine, Legally Blonde shows the audience that being true to oneself never goes out of style.
Winter 2025: Heathers
March 14–23, 2025 – 6 performances only!
The Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland
Music, lyrics, and book by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy, based on the 1988 film of the same name
Based on the cult-classic 80s film, Heathers is the darkly delicious tale of Veronica Sawyer, a teenage misfit who lands a spot in Westerberg High’s most popular and ruthless clique: the Heathers. Fed up with the Heathers’ cruelty, Veronica develops a relationship with the mysterious loner Jason Dean, and the couple sets out to rid their school of the vicious trio – but Veronica just may lose her soul in the process. Are they going to prom or to hell? Set to a contemporary pop-musical score, Heathers is a black comedy about the danger and attraction of being 17, in love, and drunk with deadly power.
Summer 2025: Oklahoma!
July 18–27, 2025 – 6 performances only!
El Cerrito High School’s Performing Arts Theater
Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on Lynn Riggs’s Green Grow the Lilacs
In 1906 on the day of the local dance, two love triangles cause merriment and turmoil: farm-girl Laurey and cowboy Curly’s budding romance is threatened by the brooding ranch-hand Jud, and fun-loving Ado Annie must choose between her sweet-but-simple boyfriend and a suave peddler. Set against the backdrop of the Oklahoma territory’s impending statehood and the changing landscape of America, and filled with classic songs and characters, Oklahoma! is grand, romantic, and full of joy.
AND ANNOUNCING:
Spring 2025: Into the Woods Act One – a YMTC Middle School Production
May 9–11, 2025 – 3 performances only!
The Live Oak Theater
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine
A little girl in a red cape skips down the path to her grandmother’s house, a young lad sets out to sell his cow at the market, Cinderella sneaks away from her cruel family to the king’s festival, and a baker and his wife begin a quest to gather objects for a volatile witch in the hopes of having a child. Sondheim and Lapine’s masterful fractured fairytale Into the Woods takes all the beloved storybook characters on a journey through the woods full of music, mayhem, and discovery. In a first for YMTC, this production will run at the newly-renovated, intimate Live Oak Theater and feature all middle school-age performers.