ACADEMICS
Season Overview
2024-2025 Season
The Yellow Boat 
By David Saar
Dates: Sept. 19-22
Thursday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
The Yellow Boat is based on the true story of David and Sonja Saar’s son, Benjamin, who was born with congenital hemophilia and died in 1987 at the age of 8 of AIDS-related complications. A uniquely gifted visual artist, Benjamin’s buoyant imagination transformed his physical and emotional pain into a blaze of colors and shapes in his fanciful drawings and paintings. Though it touches on and sensitively explores the serious issues of death and dying, this is a play about living. It is about the power of imagination and art to transform our lives and make them full of color and hope.
Rating: PG (10+)
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Dates: Nov. 14-17, 21-24
Thursday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Six spellers enter; one speller leaves as the champion of the The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee! Join this group of eccentric mid-pubescents as they spell their way through a myriad of difficult words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. While vying for first place, each speller candidly discloses hilarious and touching stories from their own lives. This Tony Award-winning musical is wildly funny, charmingly witty, and truly unforgettable.
Rating: PG-13 for adult themes and mature language
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
www.mtishows.com
Any video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Music & Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman
Additional Material by Jay Reiss
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Tickets: rcu.ludus.com
RCU’s Christmas Sing-Along Extravaganza
Date: December 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Rating: G (5+)
Tickets: rcu.ludus.com
Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Dates: April 24-27, May 1-4
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
“Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life”
In Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and it is love at first sight. However, the long-standing feud between their families threatens to keep them apart. Violence and bloodshed ensue as they navigate forbidden love and its fatal consequences.
Rating: PG-13
Tickets: rcu.ludus.com
Past Shows
And Then There Were None
James and the Giant Peach
Twelfth Night
Leaving Iowa
Peter and the Starcatcher
