Scripps Ranch Theatre's 2009-2010 Season I’m Not Rappaport -- by Herb Gardner September 11 – October 10, 2009 This comedy is a Tony Award best play winner. Meet Midge and Nat, two old codgers who meet in the park daily. Midge is an African-American janitor, hiding from his tenants who want him to retire; Nat is a Jewish old time radical, hiding from irrelevance by spinning fantasies and fighting injustice both real and imagined. Their cantankerous relationship is the stuff of pure comic genius. “Rambunctiously funny.” – N.Y. Post Holiday Memories -- adapted by Russel Vandenbroucke November 13 – December 12, 2009 Based on two short stories from Truman Capote, “The Thanksgiving Visitor” and “A Christmas Memory,” this is a charming heartwarming remembrance of a young man and his family. A nostalgic holiday tale laced with lyricism, wit and gentle charm that is sure to impart a warm glow to family audiences. They’re Playing Our Song -- book by Neil Simon, music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Carol Bayer Sager January 15 – February 20, 2010 A romantic comedy musical about an established composer and an aspiring young  lyricist. Written with the usual Neil Simon wit and graced with the musical genius of Hamlisch and  Bayer Sager, this production will send you out the door with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. “… full of blithe good humor … absolutely beguiling ...” - N.Y. Post Over The River and Through The Woods -- by Joe DiPietro March 26 – April 24, 2010 . A wonderful family comedy by the author of “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” your favorite play of our 2007 - 2008 season. Nick, a single Italian-American, has dinner with his Grandparents every Sunday. When he tells them he is leaving New Jersey to take a job in Seattle, they devise a scheme to keep him home that includes introducing him to the lovely Caitlin O’Hare. “Loaded with laughs, every step of the way.” – Star-Ledger   Not Now Darling -- by Ray Cooney & John Chapman May 28 – June 26, 2010 This hilarious farce set box-office records in Paris, London and New York. This is the tale of two unlikely partners in a fur salon, Bodley the philanderer and Crouch the guileless innocent. The action of the play involves girlfriends, suspicious husbands and wives, intrigue, scantily clad girls clapped hurriedly into closets, the usual mistaken identities and non-stop laughter. “What does an audience do? It rolls in the aisles …” -- Variety