Now that the Maltz Jupiter Theatre has won top Carbonell Award honors including Best Musical and director two years in a row, the fifth anniversary lineup for the rejuvenated playhouse is generating a buzz.

The five-show 2008-09 lineup includes three musicals, a mystery, and opening Nov. 11-23 with a comedy, “Noises Off,” Michael Frayn’s evergreen backstage spoof about life in a rotten acting company.

The mystery is next, Anthony Shaffer’s “Sleuth,” the complex tale that was so effective it became impossible to top, thus ending the golden era of the stage thriller. It plays Dec. 2-14.

The plays run 12 days over two weekends but the musicals add another week each, beginning with a rare production of Cy Coleman’s 1980 “Barnum” Jan. 6-25, about the circus producer known as “the prince of humbug,”

The off-Broadway revue “Beehive,” with tunes from pop-rock’s early girl singers, runs Feb. 3-22, and the season wraps next March 17-April 5 with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Evita.”

Single tickets don’t go on sale until August but four- and five-show subscription packages are now available from $118-$229, online at jupitertheatre.org or 561-575-2223, 800-445-1666.

The Jupiter’s 2008-09 special events season of concerts and attractions is still unannounced, but the end of this season will be capped in August by a reprise of “Menopause, The Musical.”

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, development director Tricia Trimble has been appointed the theater’s managing director. She’ll continue to be involved with fundraising, especially for an endowment for the theater’s conservatory, now in its second year, as well as operations.

Also, noted choreographer Ron DeJesus will spend the month of June at the conservatory, teaching jazz classes and choreographing the student production of “42nd Street.”

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