Lebanon Community Theatre

The Lebanon Community Theatre's got its start in 1962 holding performances at various locations. In 1962 they purchased the Weidle horse barn (Die Rote Scheier) near 10th and Oak St. in Lebanon for the grand sum of $3,500. (Of course in those days the price of a show ticket was $2 or $3). The theatre enjoyed its new home for five years until the fateful day, April 23, 1971, when the Lebanon Daily News front page headline read: "Lebanon Community Theatre Destroyed By Fire".
The next ten shows were held in the Independant Fire hall, and by February 1975, an agreement had been reached with the City Of Lebanon, and LCT made its home in the place we all know and love today as "the theatre", in the lovely park setting adjacent to Stoever's (pronounced "stay-vers") Dam.

Performance History

Following is a list of plays preformed at LCT back to 1962

NOTE: We are attempting to add more information about each show performed at the theatre. If you have any information regarding the show please contact the webmaster and we'll make arrangements to get the information to us.

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1962

3 One Act Plays:

Hangs over thy Head

Suppressed Desires

The Valiant

1963

Guest in the House

Send Me No Flowers

Picnic

1964

My Three Angels

Come Blow Your Horn

Twilight Walk

1965

Middle of the Night

Everybody Loves Opal

Bad Seed

1966

Never Too Late

The Fantasticks

All My Sons

1967

She Loves Me

Janus

The Subject Was Roses

1968

Wonderful Town

The Tender Trap

Speaking of Murder

1969

Ready When You Are C.B.

Absence of a Cello

Papa is All

Come Back Little Sheba

1970

A Thunder Carnival

Catch Me if You Can

Papa is All

The Cave Dwellers

1971

The Roar of Grease Paint - The Smell of the Crowd

The Odd Couple

The Glass Menagerie

1972

The Fireman’s Flame

Monique

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad

1973

Barefoot in the Park

Butterflies are Free

A Streetcar Named Desire

1974

The Fantasticks

On Borrowed Time

1975

6 RMS RIV VU

Night Must Fall

No, No, Nanette

Opal is a Diamond

1976

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Plain and Fancy

It Could Have Happened (Bicentennial Production)

Dial M for Murder

Cinderella

1977

The Pleasure of his Company

Death of a Salesman

Fiddler on the Roof

The Odd Couple

Peter Pan

1978

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

The Lion in Winter

Arsenic and Old Lace

Annie Get Your Gun

Cactus Flower

Beauty and the Beast

1979

The Diary of Anne Frank

You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown

Charlie’s Aunt

Man of La Mancha

Frankenstein

Sorry, Wrong Number

1980

I Do, I Do

A Man For All Seasons

Once Upon A Mattress

The Man Who Came To Dinner

The Last Of The Red Hot Lovers

1981

Memories Tonight (Musical Variety Show)

Whose Life Is It Anyway

Oliver

Bus Stop

My Three Angels

1982

I Ought To Be In Pictures

Inherit The Wind

West Side Story

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf

Fantasies Tonight (Musical Revue)

1983

Don’t Drink The Water

The Rainmaker

My Fair Lady

Sleuth

Blithe Spirt

1984

Rebecca

The Pajama Game

Two By Two Two Night (Musical Revue)

The Curious Savage

Curly McDimple

1985

Come Blow Your Horn

Barefoot In The Park

The Sound OF Music

Mass Appeal

The Mousetrap

The Beast Little Christmas Pageant Ever

1986

The Gazebo

Play It Again, Sam

Up In The Air Boys

Charlotte’s Web

Rehearsal For Murder

Vaudeville Tonight (Musical Revue)

1987

The Philadelphia Story

Black Comedy

If The Shoe Fits

Now I Lay Me Down To Weep

Company

Leading Lady

UTBU

The Real Untold Story & The Christmas Miser

1988

The Odd Couple(Female)

The Odd Couple (Male)

The Sunshine Boys

Curse You, Jack Dalton & Cinderella, Cinderella

Those Darn Kids

The King and I

Chapter Two

Movies Tonight (The Company Revue)

1989

Plaza Suite

Star Spangled Girl

South Pacific

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Our Town

The Best Little Christmas Pageant Ever

1990

Alone Together

I’m Not Rappaport

Carousel

Laffing Room Only

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

Amal and the Night Visitor

The Littlest Angel

1991

Movies Tonight: The Sequel (The Company Revue)

The Boys Next Door

M.A.S.H.

Grease

Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates

1992

Dark Of The Moon

The Cave Dwellers

Greater Tuna

Invitation To A March

Ten Little Indians

Oklahoma

Auntie Mame

Santa’s Christmas Tree

1993

Travel Tonight (The Company Revue)

Flowers For Algernon

Lend Me A Tenor

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

House of Blue Leaves

A Christmas Carol

1994

Spoon River Anthology

Same Time Next Year

Taming of The Shrew

Bye, Bye, Birdie

Of Mice and Men

Babes In Toyland

1995

All American Tonight (A Company Revue)

They’re Playing Our Song

Bleacher Bums

Pippin

All the Way Home

Gifts of the Magi

1996

The Good Doctor

A Few Good Men

Steel Magnolias

Annie

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Little Women

1997

3 One Act Plays

Nunsense

Heaven Can Wait

A Chorus Line

To Kill A Mockingbird

Christmas From Broadway to Tinseltown

1998

Camp Paradise

Nunsense II

The Miracle Worker

Wizard Of Oz

Sylvia

Cheaper By The Dozen

1999

Love Letters

Get Bill Shakespeare Off The Stage

Picasso At The Lapin Agile

The Fantasticks

Green (One Act Play Contest Winners)

Papa Is All

I Hate Hamlet

2000

The Cocktail Hour

Anatomy of a Murder

Rumors

Noises Off

Door Busters (One Act Play Contest Winners)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Miracle On 34th Street

2001

Greetings

The Memory of Water

Moon Over Buffalo

Into the Woods

Reflections (One Act Play Contest Winners)

The Exact Center Of The Universe

It’s A Wonderful Life

2002

Over The River and Through The Woods

The Nerd

Cash On Delivery

The Music Man

Food For Thought (One Act Play Contest Winners)

What I Did Last Summer

Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

2003

The Last Night Of Ballyhoo

The Mousetrap

The Dinning Room

Jesus Christ Superstar

Evening of Mysteries (One Act Play Contest Winners)

Little Shop Of Horrors

A Christmas Story

2004

The Innocents

Dinner With Friends

Over the Checkerboard

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

The Key (One Act Play Contest Winners)

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Here’s Love

2005

Moon Over The Brewery

Book Of Days

Incorruptible

Damn Yankees

It's All in the Timing (One act play contest winners)

Our Town

The Homecoming

2006

It's Only a Play

It's Only Money

My 3 Angels

2007

Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille

Lunch Hour

Crimes of the Heart

Urinetown

It's Only A Dream - Award winning one-act plays

Morning's at Seven

Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas

2008

Ten Little Indians

Murder at the Howard Johnson's

Wait Until Dark

Return to the Forbidden Planet

Campaign 2008

Lost In Yonkers

Fruitcakes

2009

The Smell of the Kill

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Butler Did It

Footloose

Corner, Corners, Cornered

On Golden Pond

Christmas Belles