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Performance art openings: November 30th – December 6th
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Each week I will be endeavoring to list new productions opening around the Twin Cities. With such an abundance of companies and venues in the area, keeping track of openings can be a challenge. I'm almost certain to miss a few, but I'll link whatever I can find. Provided descriptions are reprinted from production websites:
Opening November 30th
Bryant Lake Bowl: Lost Letters to Santa
Theatre provocateurs Ranek and Weiland are at it again with a new HILARIOUS one woman show. It’s become a traditional holiday ride at the BLB. Get your Holiday Advice from Gloria, the martini swilling chain smoking crass old broad. Don’t miss it….you’ll laugh until you lose control of you bladder functions. We promise. – from the Bryant Lake Bowl website
Bryant Lake Bowl: Santaland Diaries
Theatre Limina returns to the Bryant Lake Bowl this holiday season with its wildly popular production of David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries. Three "elves" suffer through Christmas at Macy's Santaland: it's the anti-Christmas Carol by a master of cynical wit. See it again or go for the first time--but either way, be sure to get your tickets early!– from the Bryant Lake Bowl website
Opening December 2nd
Ordway Center: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Brimming with such Berlin hits as "Blue Skies," "How Deep is the Ocean?" and of course the unforgettable title song, Irving Berlin's White Christmas tells the story of two showbiz buddies putting on a show in a magical Vermont inn, and finding their perfect mates in the bargain. Full of dancing, laughter, and some of the greatest songs ever written, Irving Berlin's White Christmas is your new holiday tradition.– from the Ordway Center website
Opening December 3rd
Bedlam Theatre: A Christmas Carol Finale
Presented by Savage Umbrella. A Christmas Carol Finale is a dark and rollicking musical that picks up right where A Christmas Carol leaves off. This production bastardizes the broad cliches of Christmas cheer and charity while shining a light on the shadows of the human soul. Plus, it's really freaking funny. – from the Bedlam Theatre website
Youth Performance Company: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Sunlit and crayon-bright, this exciting musical is based on one of history’s most famous comic strips. Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang charmingly face the questions and joys of every grown-up. In the end, the games these characters play and the songs they sing provide, if not the answers, at least an uncanny way of thinking about love, life, and happiness. – from the Youth Performance Company website
Opening December 4th
Hennepin Stages: 1940’s Radio Hour
Performed by 8 Ball Theatre. Travel back in time with this marvelously unique and heart-warming show. The spirit of that bygone era, when the world was at war and pop music meant "Strike Up the Band" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", is charmingly captured in this nostalgic, holiday show. The harried producer of WOV copes with a drunken crooner, the delivery boy who just wants his big chance , the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the bass playing military pilot who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller. – from the Hennepin Stages website
Morris Park Players: Skid Row Kids Save Christmas
An original holiday musical! If the kids from the musical Annie or the Our Gang got caught up with the gangsters from Guys and Dolls for Christmas it might look something like this original, high-energy multi-generational show. This is a fun full-length musical comedy — with a dozen original songs — that will be a great time for the whole family!.– from the Morris Park Players website
Minnesota Jewish Theatre: Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblin
Hershel of Ostropol has been walking long and hard with growing anticipation for the Hanukkah holiday. Tired and hungry, he imagines the smell of latkes and the bright lights of the menorah. But when Hershel arrives in Helmsbergville, the village is silent. Goblins have been preventing Hanukkah in Helmsbergville for years. Can this visitor help bring Hanukkah back? Enlisted by the townspeople, Hershel agrees to spend eight nights in the old synagogue to try to defeat the goblins. This delightful, interactive play with puppetry brings to life the enchanting storybook Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins! – from the Minnesota Jewish Theatre website
Opening December 5th
Children’s Theater Company: Peter Pan
Experience this classic adventure as it comes to life in a stunning and surprising way with live performers and brilliant shadow puppets from renowned Italian puppet master Fabrizio Montecchi. From the cozy comfort of a nursery bedtime to the fantastical allure of mermaid lagoons and pirate ships, the story of Peter and Wendy will take flight before your eyes. Peter Pan is a limited engagement of CTC's touring production, performed in the intimacy of the Cargill Theatre. – from the Children’s Theatre Company website
Gremlin Theatre: Fool for Love
In a rundown motel room in the middle of nowhere, a cowboy and a small-town girl thrash out their forbidden love in a modern-day showdown; complete with spurs, guns, passion, fate, insatiable longing, tequila, and the romance of the fading West..– from the Gremlin Theatre press release
Mounds Theatre: A Christmas Story
Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Goldblatt's Department Store, with the same and always consistent response, "You'll shoot your eye out kid." - from the Mounds Theatre website
Rosetown Playhouse: Miracle on 34th Street
In Miracle on 34th Street Kris Kringle is the personification of good will and holiday spirit. As Macy’s holiday Santa, he enchants children and shoppers so completely that he is deemed dangerous by fellow employees who question his competency and plot to ruin him. A small girl’s belief in Santa and the magic of the holiday is at stake in a climactic courtroom decision. – from the Rosetown Playhouse website
December 6th
Lyric Arts: The Elves and the Shoemaker
Each morning a Shoemaker wakes up to admire the beautiful shoes in his workshop…then wonders who has been making the shoes while he sleeps! A fanciful retelling of the Grimm Brothers’ classic tale including the Shoemaker and his family, seven wacky elves, one very expressive dog, and even Mr. Grimm himself! – from the Lyric Arts website
For previous performance arts openings -
November 23rd – 29th: http://www.examiner.com/x-1348-Twin-Cities-Performance-Art-Examiner~y2008m11d19-Performance-art-openings-November-23rd---November-29th
November 16th – 22nd: http://www.examiner.com/x-1348-Twin-Cities-Performance-Art-Examiner~y2008m11d12-Performance-art-openings-November-16th---November-22nd
November 9th – 15th: http://www.examiner.com/x-1348-Twin-Cities-Performance-Art-Examiner~y2008m11d4-Performance-art-openings-November-9th---November-15th
For more info:
Bedlam Theatre: http://www.bedlamtheatre.org/
Bryant Lake Bowl: http://www.bryantlakebowl.com/
8 Ball Theatre: http://www.eightballtheatre.com/
Children’s Theatre Company: http://www.childrenstheatre.org/
Gremlin Theatre: http://www.gremlin-theatre.org/
Hennepin Stages: http://www.hennepintheatredistrict.org/
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: http://whitechristmasthemusical.com/
Lyric Arts: http://www.lyricarts.org/
Minnesota Jewish Theatre: http://www.mnjewishtheatre.org/
Morris Park Players: http://www.morrisparkplayers.org/
Mounds Theatre: http://www.moundstheatre.org/MoundsTheatre/
Ordway Center: http://www.ordway.org/
Rosetown Playhouse: http://www.rosetownplayhouse.org/shared/special.asp
Savage Umbrella: http://savageumbrella.com/default.aspx
Theatre Limina: http://www.theatrelimina.org/
Youth Performance Company: http://www.youthperformanceco.com/
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