The season begins with the premiere of Music of the Night: A Concert Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber, onstage for three weeks, March 30 through April 17. The production features songs from some of Webber’s most beloved Broadway musicals and covers the past 40 years of his incredible career.

Featuring an onstage band along with a full chorus, this grand showcase of Webber’s music includes his biggest and most memorable hits from such musicals as The Phantom of the Opera, Whistle Down the Wind, Starlight Express, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sunset Boulevard, and Evita.

One need not be a musical lover to appreciate the grandiose theatrics of Phantom, and considering the phenomenal success of Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Joseph, he seems to have written something for every- one. Andrew Lloyd Webber is arguably the most successful composer of our time.

Producing artistic director Vincent Marini says, “Our production will feature four world class singers who can deliver all of the various styles—from the pop-rock to the more classically based material, the more traditional music theatre songs as well as the cantatas. ... The goal is to provide for the audience the songs they know, but in a way they’ve never heard before.”

Evening performances of Music of the Night are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and matinee performances are most Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets to Music of the Night are $40 with discounts available for seniors, students, and groups.

Next up, Moonlight and Magnolias April 21 through May 8. This comedy imagines how the film Gone with the Wind was really made, taking the audience back to 1939 and the glory days of Hollywood.

The story tells of legendary producer David O. Selznick who needs a blockbuster and he needs it now! He’s bet everything on the film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, but the screen- play just isn’t working and even accomplished writers can’t get it right. So what’s an all-powerful movie mogul to do?

Fire the director, shut down production for five days, and bring in noted screenwriter Ben Hecht to pump life into the script, pull Victor Fleming off the set of The Wizard of Oz, and lock the two men and himself in his office for five days until they can produce a script. Hecht, however, has never read the novel, so Selznick and Fleming have to act out the entire novel for him, with peanuts and bananas as their only food. The show contains adult language and comes with a sincere warning to those with severe peanut allergies.

Evening performances Moonlight and Magnolias are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and matinee performances are most Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $34 with discounts available for seniors, students and groups

Tickets can be purchased by calling the Flat Rock Playhouse box office at 828.693.0731, toll-free at 866.732.8008 or online at flatrockplayhouse.org. The theatre is located at 2661 Greenville Highway in Flat Rock.