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Something for everyone?  That is surely hard to find, but Hawthorne Players have just announced their 2012 season at the Florissant Civic Center, and it looks like there just might be something everyone will enjoy.

The acclaimed theatre group’s 67th season includes a family favorite, an entertaining musical comedy and a powerful, uplifting drama.  Subscribers to all three shows will save over 30% and have first dibs on the Best of Hawthorne musical revue scheduled in June.

The season starts off in April with a dramatization of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.”  Director Lori Renna says to be sure to bring along the kids and grandkids to Hawthorne’s production of this classic story. The play begins one memorable Christmas when Marmee leaves to visit her sick husband and Jo sells her beautiful hair to help finance the trip.

It ends just a year later when the happy family is again preparing to celebrate not only Christmas but also the return of Mr. March. In between these two events, we again live, laugh, love and cry with Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as they go through the many trials and tribulations that have made this story a classic.

For decades, Hawthorne’s summer musicals have been acclaimed as some of the best shows in local theatre, including last year’s “Annie” and 2010’s “The Producers,” which was named the Best Large Ensemble Musical in St. Louis region community theatre.  This summer the group presents Stephen Sondheim’s classic “Company.”

An honest, witty, sophisticated look at relationships, “Company” is as contemporary and relevant as ever (witness the recent hit revivals on Broadway and the West End). It features a brilliant energetic score containing many of Stephen Sondheim’s best-known songs (including “Another Hundred People,” “The Ladies Who Lunch” and “Being Alive”).

The Hawthorne season concludes in November with August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Fences.”  The show provides a riveting character study of Troy Maxson, an illiterate garbage collector with a touch of the heroic and poetic, overflowing with both contradictions and believability.  On Broadway, James Earl Jones originally played Maxson, and Denzel Washington played the role in the revival, both winning Tony awards.

Season tickets are on sale now at $37 for adults and $34 for older adults and students. Order tickets at (314) 524-5201or on the web at www.hawthorneplayers.com. Publicity Director Larry Marsh notes that tickets would make great Valentine’s Day gifts.