SUMMERFEST 2025 @ CSC - Tickets On Sale Now

Get ready for Summerfest 2025 with two musical theatre productions, a concert, and a comedy performance running July – August. Summerfest will feature CSC’s production of Jimmy Buffet’s Escape to Margaritaville July 10 – 20, Yacht Rock Gold Experience concert July 26 at 8pm, CSC’s production of Nunsense II: The Second Coming July 31 – August 10, and closing out the lineup will be a one-night performance from comedian Paula Poundstone August 23 at 8pm.

Imagine a place where the sun is hot, the ocean’s warm, and the drinks are as cold as they are plentiful. Welcome to Jimmy Buffet’s Escape to Margaritaville, the island paradise where city folk get away from it all and the locals get into the kind of trouble you can almost always sweet talk your way out of. Featuring both original songs and Jimmy Buffett classics like “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” “Margaritaville,” “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” to name a few. Based on the book by Emmy Award winner Greg Garcia and Emmy nominee Mike O’Malley, this new musical comedy is the story of a part-time bartender and  singer, and full-time charmer named Tully who thinks he’s got life all figured out until a beautiful career-minded tourist steals his heart and makes him question everything.

Yacht Rock Gold Experience brings all your favorite hits from the late 1970s and early 1980's to new generations of music fans. Celebrating the sounds of the Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Little River Band, Ambrosia, Boz Scaggs and so many more, this show promises to engage fans with harmonies and musicianship that bring audiences back to a time when music made you “feel good and soothed the soul.”

After a successful run of Nunsense in the summer of 2019, CSC brings back the Little Sisters of Hoboken for the sequel with Nunsense II: The Second Coming. These humble nuns with a touch of show biz flair, return in style presenting a high-spirited and zany “Thank You Program” for their many supporters. The sisters sing and dance their way across the Mount St. Helen's stage, which is already dressed for the Hoboken Music Society's upcoming production of The Mikado. Musical numbers include “Winning Is Just the Beginning,” “There's Only One Way To End Your Prayers,” “What Would Elvis Do?,” “The Padre Polka” and “A Hat and Cane Song.”

Paula Poundstone is known for her smart, observational humor and a spontaneous wit and regularly plays theaters across the country, hosts a weekly comedy podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, and is a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me. She also voiced the character ‘Forgetter Paula’ in the feature films Inside Out and Inside Out 2.

Poundstone was the first female comic to host the White House Correspondents Dinner and filed live coverage of the 1992 Democratic and Republican National Conventions and the Presidential Inaugural for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and at the 93rd Emmy Awards.

Paula has starred in two television series, both entitled The Paula Poundstone Show as well as in several HBO specials, including Cats, Cops and Stuff, which nabbed a cable ACE award for Best Comedy Special. Her second book, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness, was one of eight semi-finalists for the Thurber Prize For American Humor; the audiobook was one of five finalists for the AUDIE award for Audiobook of the Year. Paula has released five albums and is featured in several documentaries and compendiums noting influential comedians of our time.

Tickets range from $27.50 - $40 with discounts available for seniors & students/children under 12 for select performances. For the musical productions, Thursday is also family night with “buy one, get one” tickets available at the door beginning at 5pm.

Auditions for Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville and Nunsense 2: The Second Coming will be held on Saturday, April 26 from 1 – 7pm and Sunday, April 27 from 11am – 3pm for general auditions. For more information, visit https://www.centenarystageco.org/casting-call and to schedule an appointment, call the Centenary Stage Company box office at 908- 979-0900. Walk-ins will be seen as time permits and auditions will be in the Lackland Performing Arts Center of the Centenary University campus at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown.

For more information, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at 908- 979-0900. The Centenary Stage Company box office is open Monday through Friday from 1-5pm and two hours prior to performances.

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The 2024-25 Season of Performing Arts events at the Centenary Stage Company is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors and grantors like the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the Sandra Kupperman Foundation, the John and Margaret Post Foundation, the CSC corporate sponsors, including Explore Warren, the House of the Good Shepherd, Hackettstown Medical Center Atlantic Health System, Heath Village, Visions Federal Credit Union, and Fulton Bank, and Centenary Stage Company members and supporters.