Reminder! Become a member and/or a sponsor for our 2016 season. We need your support.
Come to all our 2016 events. Your ticket purchase is vitally important to us!
The Playhouse is currently working on a new website and hopes to have it up and running soon. In the meantime, please keep up-to-date with our current events in calendar of events in this newspaper, on Boreal website, and community announcements on WTIP. Call the office for more information at (218) 387-1284x2orplayhouse@boreal.org.
The first production of the year is set to open next weekend! This special event will run for one weekend only!
Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies is a play filled with humor, warmth, insight and wisdom, according to a review on GoodReads.com: “The play is a modern day masterpiece on the destruction of today’s marriage. Through Margulies’s flawless use of language and his ability to convey the truest of dialogue and characterization, we watch, as the two couples do, our closest friends going through a wrenching breakup. Not only does he create vivid detail of a marriage in decline, he also brilliantly depicts the couple’s closest friends, and how this new mirror to their own marriage sends them through a whirlwind of raw emotion and self-reflection.
An excited cast of players is in rehearsals for Little Red Robin Hood, a fractured—but very funny—fairy tale. The entertaining production debuts at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts on April 15.
“Dinner with Friends received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play has received numerous awards, including the American Theatre Critics Association new play award, the Dramatists Guild/Hull- Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination, and has been produced all over the United States and around the world.”
This production is brought to our stage by the local acting couples Rose and Jay Arrowsmith DeCoux and Hannah and Jackson Nickolay. Remember, this play will only be performed March 18-19 at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts in Grand Marais. Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 for all seats. Sunday is “donation day,” pay any amount for your ticket.
The play contains adult content and language.
Little Red Robin Hood is in full swing of rehearsals with a cast of 37. Emma Bradley is busy with costumes and set construction will begin during spring break on March 26. Contact Sue at the Playhouse if you are interested in helping out with either. Little Red Robin Hood runs April 15-17 and 22-24. Friday and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.
April 15 is Food Shelf Friday—a buy one ticket, get one ticket free with a donation of $10 of food or cash for the local food shelf. Sunday, April 17 is “donation at the door,” pay any amount for your ticket!
Auditions for the summer repertory will be held April 4 and 5 at 7 p.m. at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. April 4 will be auditions for Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring. The play requires four to 11 men and three to seven women.
April 5 auditions will be held for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels from the book by Jeffrey Lane with music and lyrics by David Yabek. Three men and three women plus ensemble are needed. The ensemble is open from high school age to adult. No experience necessary.
People are asked to prepare a vocal number that demonstrates vocal range (for musical) and a short monologue to demonstrate acting ability (for both auditions).
Once casting is confirmed a full season announcement will be forthcoming!
Don’t forget, your membership and/or your business sponsorships are crucial for the Playhouse to present high quality theater in Grand Marais. Now more than ever we need your support!
Contact the Playhouse at P.O. Box 996, Grand Marais, MN 55604, playhouse@ boreal.org or (218) 387-1284.
Grand Marais Playhouse Artistic Director Sue Hennessy provides this behind-the-scenes look at Grand Marais Playhouse activities.
Characters to appear in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
. Lawrence Jameson – An experienced British
con artist who is sophisticated, suave, and elegant.
Vocal range top: Bb4-bottom: G2
. Freddy Benson: A young, clever, aspiring
American con artist. He is a sloppy, yet attractive
womanizer. Vocal range top: B4-bottom: A2
. Christine Colgate: A seemingly good-natured
American heiress vacationing on the French Riviera.
Vocal range top: F#5-bottom: A3
. Andre Thibault: Lawrence’s French assistant.
Official and mostly serious, he has a light-hearted
nature and a quirky sense of humor. Vocal range
top: F4- F2
. Muriel Eubanks: A wealthy and attractive
American socialite from Nebraska, she is one of
Lawrence’s victims. Vocal range top: C5- bottom: E3
. Jolene – An American heiress from Oklahoma
and the “Princess of Petroleum,” she is very eager,
optimistic, and energetic. Vocal range top: D5-
bottom: A3
. Ensemble: Waiters; Butlers; Maids
Learn more about this highly entertaining play
at: www.mtishows.com/dirtyrottenscoundrels#sthash.nSwNcuv0.dpuf
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