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Each week I endeavor to list new performance art 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, but I'll link whatever I can find. Provided descriptions are reprinted from production websites.
November 5th
Brave New Workshop: Brett Favre's Christmas Spectacular - The Immaculate Interception (Previews 11/05 – 11/12)
Break from the family fumbles of the holiday season, and cheer as the best holiday line-up takes the field. Let the Brave New Workshop spike your holiday season with seasonal favorites and all new sketches and songs that will leave you laughing through the New Year. Runs through 01/30.
- from Brave New Workshop
Minnesota Dance Theatre: Carmina Burana
A sensuous and gritty romp with the stirring, powerful music of composer Carl Orff, based on poems written by 13th century vagabond poets...those rascals! Featuring the dynamic mix of MDT dancers, acclaimed vocalists Bradley Greenwald, Jennifer Baldwin Peden, the Minnesota Chorale and musicians Tom Linker, Barbara Brooks, Heather Barringer and Bob Adney. Original choreography by MDT founder Loyce Houlton under the direction of Lise Houlton and Dominique Serrand. Runs at the Lab Theater through 11/08.
- from Minnesota Dance Theatre
November 6th
Chanhassen Dinner Theatre: Nunset Boulevard
A world premiere musical! The Little Sisters of Hoboken have been invited to sing at the Hollywood Bowl. They are thrilled at the prospect until they arrive and realize they're booked into the Hollywood Bowl-erama - a bowling alley with a cabaret lounge - and not the famed "Bowl" they’d anticipated. Nunset Boulevard features all new songs including "Hello, Hollywood", "The Bowling Ball Blues," "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane," and "Don't Look Back, We Ain’t Goin' That Way." You'll love Sister Amnesia's "Nuns in the Cinema" Quiz and the most hilarious audience participation game called "Let's Make a Devilish Deal." Runs through 02/14.
- from Chanhassen Dinner Theatre
In the Heart of the Beast: A Path Home
This intimate performance explores the life and work of Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese monk, poet, and peace activist. In the hands of master visual storyteller Masanari Kawahara, eloquent puppets weave an interpretation of the man and his teachings. Based on the writings of Thich Nhat Hanh, this active meditation juxtaposes the simple joys of life with the horrors of war and violence, and illuminates his influential path through both. Runs through 11/22.
- from In the Heart of the Beast
Minneapolis Musical Theatre: The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Armadillo Acres is Florida's most exclusive mobile home community. But when a stripper on the run comes between an agoraphobic housewife and her tollbooth collector husband, the hurricane of laughter begins to brew. Complete with a trashy Greek chorus of trailer park divas, this campy, caustic musical fable is rife with adultery, sleaze, and murderous ex-boyfriends. An infectious score, cheeky script, and some of the most roof-raising, girl-group singing since the Pointer Sisters all add up to a fabulous and fun night out! (Contains adult language.) Runs at the Illusion Theater through 11/22.
- from Minneapolis Musical Theatre
Morris Park Players: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Step into the enchanted world of this modern classic. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast includes all the wonderful songs of Disney’s Academy-Award winning animated feature, brought magically to life on stage. Be transported to the heart of a provincial village and follow the tale as beautiful Belle comes to rescue her father, Maurice, from an enchanted castle and the Beast that lives within. Belle agrees to remain at the castle if her father can go free. But what happens when the Beast eventually allows Belle to return to her father? What happens when Belle’s suitor, the vain Gaston, realizes that the Beast is a rival for Belle’s affections and leads the villagers on a siege of the castle? Will the wicked enchantment that encircles the castle and its inhabitants ever be broken? Be our guest and experience this classic “tale as old as time.” Runs through 11/21.
- from Morris Park Players
Phipps Center for the Arts: Fiddler on the Roof
With its universal theme of tradition, this beautiful musical will touch your soul with its humor, warmth, and honesty. Runs through 11/29.
- from Phipps Center for the Arts
Prufrock Theatre: Landscape of the Body
Prufrock Theatre’s inaugural production. After Rosalie dies in a freak bicycle accident, she revisits gritty New York and watches her sister, Betty, ease into her life, move into her apartment, and take over her job. But then Betty abruptly loses her teenage son to a gruesome murder and, in a sardonic turn of events, finds herself the primary suspect. Runs at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage through 11/21.
- from Prufrock Theatre
Sandbox Theatre: .faust
Sandbox Theatre presents a new ensemble-created work inspired by the classic German tales of obsession and temptation. Runs through 11/21.
- from Sandbox Theatre
Workhaus Collective: The Sense of What Should Be
Sixteen year old Adam Parker believes his comic book collection provides a step-by-step guide to power. But can a small town high school student really put on a super-villain costume and take over the world? When the minister is disgraced, the mayor’s morally compromised, and there aren’t any parents around willing to parent, maybe it’s not so hard: Step one, hijack the local hydro-electric dam and demand a fortune in diamonds. Step two, steal the heart of the prettiest girl in school. Step three—Ka-Pow! Smash! Zounds! BOOM! Runs at the Playwrights’ Center through 11/21.
- from Workhaus Collective
November 7th
Hardcover Theater: She – Immortal Witch Queen of a Lost World
In this amazing tale, three Englishmen travel to Africa, where they encounter a strange culture ruled by an irresistible woman with supernatural powers. Can she really be more than 2000 years old? Hardcover’s adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s 1887 novel is loaded with action, suspense, comedy, and (dare we say it?) philosophy – like an Indiana Jones movie onstage, but with interesting characters and provocative themes. If you enjoyed A Princess of Mars and Around the World in Eighty Days in Under Sixty Minutes, you’re sure to love She! Runs at the Bryant Lake Bowl through 11/22.
- from Hardcover Theater
For previous performance arts openings -
October 25th – October 31st: http://www.examiner.com/x-1348-Twin-Cities-Performance-Art-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Weekly-performance-art-openings-102509103109
October 18th – October 24th: http://www.examiner.com/x-1348-Twin-Cities-Performance-Art-Examiner~y2009m10d15-Weekly-performance-art-openings-101809102409
October 11th – October 17th: http://www.examiner.com/x-1348-Twin-Cities-Performance-Art-Examiner~y2009m10d7-Weekly-performance-art-openings-101109101709
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