The Grand Marais Playhouse is proud to present Our Town by Thornton Wilder March 6-9! Show times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 adults and $5 students under 18. Tickets are available on-line at www.grandmaraisplayhouse.com or at the door. Sunday is donation day. Pay any amount for your ticket!
On Sunday, March 9, following the performance, the Grand Marais Playhouse will present its 2014 Excellence in Theater Arts Award to High School Senior Cy Fortunato. Cy has been participating onstage, backstage and assisting in the Playhouse office since 2004 when he was in the Best Christmas Pageant Ever at the age of 7. If you saw Cy in the High School One Act performance The Undercurrent in January, you may not recognize him in his current role of George in Our Town, a testament to his skills as an actor. This is always a bittersweet time as we watch his final performance with the Playhouse and send him off with all the well wishes of this grateful theater community. Congratulations Cy. Thank you!
A talented cast brings the classic Our Town to life. Far left: Mrs. Gibbs (Diane Stoddard) and Dr. Gibbs (Braidy Powers) enjoy an evening stroll. Above: George Gibbs (Cy Fortunato) and Emily Webb (Brenna Hay) grow closer as they share an ice cream soda. Left: Stage Manager (Bob Carter) tells the story of Our Town.
The Playhouse Town Meeting has been re-scheduled for March 18 at 7 p.m. This is a very important meeting about the upcoming season and future seasons of the Grand Marais Playhouse. Anyone interested in the Playhouse, whether audience, actor, crew, parent or community member should come participate in the discussion. Survey results will be shared and discussed as well. Please go to grandmaraisplayhouse.com to complete the survey if you have not done so. We need to hear from you.
The Playhouse office will be closed March 21 – April 3, as Playhouse Director Sue Hennessy will be attending the United States Institute of Theater Technology conference in Fort Worth, Texas. This annual conference provides Sue with the opportunity to see the new technologies of the entertainment business, as well as continue her education with theater professionals in areas of design, lighting, sound, scenic painting, costuming, staging, production management, and performance facility management.
The Grand Marais Playhouse is working on two upcoming special events. Details are still being worked out but mark your calendar, as you will not want to miss them. On May 8, the Grand Marais Playhouse will present a Mother’s Day Dinner Theater at Lutsen Resort. One show only! The Grand Marais Playhouse will present Momologues2: Off to School. Moms will laugh along with the four women who share their stories from surviving homework, multi-tasking, play dates gone wrong and finding the perfect babysitter.
Auditions for Momologues will be April 8 at 7 p.m. at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. There are roles for four women.
Oh fer sure! Church Basement Ladies is returning to Grand Marais as dinner theater! One weekend only May 23-25 at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church social room. That’s right, dinner prepared by the real church ladies of Bethlehem Lutheran making the food right out of the musical. Come enjoy this wonderful, funny and far too familiar musical brought to life with all the sights and smells of the pale food we all love.
Grand Marais Playhouse Artistic Director Sue Hennessy provides this behind-the-scenes look at Grand Marais Playhouse activities.
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