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2010
Season
July
25
Playhouse
Birthday Bash!
Bar-B-Que/
Concert/ Dance
www.TheCavernBeat.com
BBQ
at 6 PM Sandwhich $5, Grilled Corn $2, Beverages
free
Concert
and Dance at 7 PM - Donation
(Backstage parking lot
if weather permits)
July
29 - August 8
Cole
Porter’s You Never Know
Based
on the play Candlelight by Siegfried Geyer, Karl Farkas and Robert
Katscher. As adapted by Rowland Leigh. Additional Adaptation by
Paul Lazarus. Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter.
From
Samuel French, inc.:
This
romantic musical comedy is set in Paris in 1929. Filled with delightful,
witty Cole Porter songs, the story takes place one summer evening
in Baron Rommer's elegant penthouse suite at the Hotel Ritz. The
baron and his butler switch identities so that the butler can
pursue a woman he believes is a lady of a much higher class. It
transpires that she is actually a maid in the service of Mme.
Baltin, a high society figure who has captured the baron's heart.
Her jealous husband and an actress headlining at the Follies Bergere
round out the cast of this door slamming farce with wonderful
songs and dancing.
This
production made possible in part by a grant from the Arrowhead
Regional Arts Council (http://www.aracouncil.org/) through an
appropriation from the MN State Legislature.
August
26 - September 5
Play
On!
By
Rick Abbott
From
Samuel French, inc.:
This
is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to
put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty
authoress who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal
of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal,
and the final act is the actual performance in which anything
that can go wrong does. When the authoress decides to give a speech
on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the
audience is treated to a madcap climax to a thoroughly hilarious
romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.
October
15 - 24
Dinner
With Friends
by
Donald Margulies
Winner of the 2000
Pulitzer Prize
From
Dramatists Play Service:
As
described by New York Magazine: "Two married couples have been
best friends for years. In their Connecticut home, Karen and Gabe,
international food writers, are giving a dinner for Beth and Tom,
which he doesn't attend. It emerges from the heartbroken Beth
that he has left her for another woman. Gabe and Karen are almost
as crushed, having expected 'to grow old and fat together, the
four of us.' When Tom shows up at his home in the next scene,
late at night, he is enraged that Beth broke the news of their
breakup in his absence. Late as it is, he rushes over to his friends
in the next scene to present his side of the story. Act Two begins
with another dinner, twelve and a half years earlier, in a summer
house on Martha's Vineyard, where Karen and Gabe are introducing
Beth to Tom. Then we skip five months after the events in Act
One, as Beth reveals to Karen…that she has fallen in love with
an old friend whom she intends to marry…Later that day, in a Manhattan
bar, Tom, a lawyer, tells Gabe about his [newfound] happiness,
to which Gabe reacts sourly. Still later that night, Gabe and
Karen are going to bed in the Vineyard house, and discuss the
Tom-and-Beth situation, as well as their own [marriage]…clinging
to it like the shipwrecked to their raft…From this already you
can gather that there is skillful construction here, as well as
keen psychological insight…Donald Margulies is establishing himself
as one of our leading playwrights."
December
9 - 19
The
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
by
Barbara Robinson
From
Samuel French, inc.:
In
this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a
church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids--
probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't
believe the mayhem-- and the fun-- when the Herdman’s collide
with the Christmas story head on!
All
Playhouse performances are held at the
Arrowhead
Center for the Arts
51 West 5th Street in
Grand Marais
Show
Times
Thursday-
Saturday performances 7 PM
Sunday
performances 2 PM
All
Seating General Admission
Doors
open 30 minutes before the show.
Box
Office open one hour before the show.
Ticket
Prices
$12
Adults - (musical $15)
$5
Students (18-) - (musical $10)
Audition
dates:
All
auditions at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts
Perusal
scripts available at the Grand Marais Public Library
Playhouse
2010 Rehearsal schedule
Cole
Porter's You Never Know
Directed
by Sue Hennessy
May
10 at 6:30 PM
3
M 3 W
Music
available for perusal in April
Musicians
required:
Piano
Reed
I (Piccolo, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone)
Reed
II (Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Tenor Saxophone)
Reed
III (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone)
Acoustic
Bass
Drums/
Percussion
Violin
Trumpet
Trombone
Please
contact the Playhouse office if interested
Play
On!
Auditions:
June
8 at 6:30 PM
3
M 7 W
Best
Christmas Pageant Ever
Directed
by Sue Hennessy
October
19 at 3:30 PM
Community
Youth Play
4 M 6 W plus 8 boys
and 9 girls or more
for
Grades 1 to adult.
Grand
Marais Playhouse office
P.O.Box
996
Grand
Marais, MN 55604
(218)387-1284
ext.2
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