Little Shop Of Horrors is the irresistible, crowd-pleasing, dark musical-comedy that tells the story of a lovable florist shop employee, Seymour Krelborn, who believes that his new plant will win him the girl of his dreams and the success he so richly deserves. Little does he know that his plant has other plans in mind...

Disturbingly hilarious and heart-warming, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's hit Little Shop Of Horrors serves as an entertaining and cautionary tale that forces audiences to consider the nature and consequences of success.

Based on an epic poem by Joseph Moncure March, which explores the dark side of sexuality and desire, Lippa's musical is set in the Jazz Era during the course of one wild party on one long, tumultuous night.

Featuring a killer score, this sinfully seductive musical features a multitude of eccentric characters but focuses on the tragic love quadrangle between the beautiful and manipulative vaudeville dancer, Queenie, her abusive and controlling vaudeville clown husband, Burrs, a former prostitute, Kate, and the enigmatic Mr. Black.

It is a challenging tale of vice and virtue, which entertains the audience while forcing it to question how much, if at all, society and its concepts of morality have changed since the start of the last century.

Hailed by many as the greatest work in American musical theatre history, Stephen Sondheim’s operatic and gruesome Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street tells the classic tale of wrathful ex-convict, Benjamin Barker, who vows veangance upon the evil and lustful Judge Turpin, who had him falsely imprisoned sixteen years before so that he could bed Barker’s wife, Lucy.

Newly escaped from prison, Barker, under the pseudonym, Sweeney Todd, returns to London, only to discover that Lucy had committed suicide, after the Judge had raped her, and that he had also taken custody of their daughter, Johanna. In response, Todd sets up a murderous scheme with his downstairs neighbor, Mrs. Lovett , who has been in love with him all of these years.

Based on British folklore, Sweeney Todd explores the twisted nature of obsession and revenge and examines how the corruption of society can turn even the most innocent among us into vicious killers.

After collapsing in a restaurant, cranky, unfulfilled composer, Gordon Schwinn is diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain condition, which sets him off on a wild, phantasmagorical ride through his own subconscious mind, while still in the confines of his hospital bed, in William Finn’s powerful and witty autobiographical musical, A New Brain.

Gordon’s lover, Roger, mother, Mimi , and best friend, Rhoda try to keep his mind at ease, even as he is being haunted and taunted by visions of his boss, a children’s television show host in a frog suit, the practically demonic Mr. Bungee , who attempts to exacerbate his greatest fear—that he will die without ever having accomplished a work of lasting worth.

Unexpectedly funny and soul-stirring, A New Brain is a complex meditation on the restorative powers of art and creation by one of Broadway’s cleverest and most heartfelt writers.

In April of 2006, the Melodramatics Theatre Company, Inc. arranged to have Jeff Marx, the Tony Award-winning creator of the Broadway hit musical Avenue Q, visit Cornell University for a series of events, including a special workshop for MTC members!

Based on a tabloid article from the Weekly World News:

Things are not right in the town of Hope Falls, West Virginia. The trouble starts when three local teens discover a hideous half-boy, half-bat creature deep in a cave. The bat boy, is brought to the local veterinarian, Dr. Parker , his wife Meredith and daughter Shelley who name him Edgar and set out to refine the boy into an acceptable member of society. The townsfolk, however, have no tolerance for the Parker family’s misguided benevolence. With their livestock in limbo and a local teen at death’s door, having been bitten by the bat boy, the citizens of Hope Falls are out for blood. So, too, is the bat boy!

Written by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe, Bat Boy: the Musical is wild and witty, mixing action and romance, comedy and tragedy. With its camp characterizations and keen dialogue, Bat Boy provides light-hearted entertainment on the surface and a subtle subtext you can really sink your teeth into!

Fractured fairy tales of a darker hue provide the context for the Melodramatics’ second musical, which deconstructs the Brothers Grimm by way of Rod Serling. While the faces and names are familiar, all the stories intersect through unexpected new plot twists as a baker and his wife journey into the woods in search of a cow, a red cape, a pair of golden slippers and some magic beans to lift a curse that has kept them childless. However, after the seeming “happily ever after,” wishes won take a turn for the worse as a giant flounces through the kingdom. Who will survive to see their wish granted and who will perish? Find out in the Melodramatics’ production of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-Winning musical: Into the Woods!

Inspired by true events, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins details the lives of America’s most notorious criminals—those men and women throughout American history who either successfully or abortively attempted to assassinate the President of the United States.

Throughout the course of this controversial musical, the assassins, unhinged in time, form a community, stretching from the “pioneer,” John Wilkes Booth to the most recent failure, John Hinckley, all the while being observed by both the optimistic Balladeer , who admonishes them in song, and the bloodthirsty Proprietor, who goads them on towards their bloody deeds.

Darkly comedic and psychologically penetrating, Assassins is a cynical exploration of the American Dream and the upshot that can occur when someone decides that the only way to claim it for himself is to destroy that symbol which stands for everything he wanted and everything that held him back from achieving his dreams.