WTC's 2021-2022 Season Brochure
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2021-22 SEASON WELCOME TO WTC’S 2021–2022 SEASON What a joy it is to announce the Whitefish Theatre while also shining light on our strengths, resilience, and Company’s 43RD season! We are thrilled to welcome the beauty around us. From all of us at WTC, we have everyone back to WTC and celebrate by telling stories the been so moved at the ways our community took care way we know best—on stage at the O’Shaughnessy Center. of one another and so thankful for all of you who rallied around us with ticket purchases and support during this With an optimistic outlook, we have lined up a difficult time. tremendous season of live performances. We have pulled forward four mainstage plays that were canceled last As you read about our upcoming season, it is with hope season, as well as rescheduled 5 previously canceled music that you will once again support WTC as we get back to concerts and 1 special event. Add in 4 new Black Curtain what we do best. Buy a season ticket (one of the best plays and an additional mainstage show, our season will deals in town, especially if you bought one last year!), buy offer 15 fantastic shows that include classic dramas, a tickets to individual shows, become a WTC volunteer, beloved family-friendly musical, laugh-out-loud comedies, or give a donation to support our programming. A great new voices in theatre, world and Americana music, and way to support WTC is to donate through the Great Fish a superstar illusionist. To top it off, we will be hosting a Challenge, occurring from August 5 to September 17, special concert by indie rocker KT Tunstall at the end of where we benefit from a percentage match donation 2021! This diverse season surely includes something for through the Whitefish Community Foundation. As we everyone. reopen our doors with a full slate of shows, there has never been a better time to support the arts! Over the past year and a half, we’ve been challenged to rethink so much about the world we live in—and the role While we are thrilled to kick off our 2021–2022 season theatre plays within it. While it has been an incredibly and excited to bring LIVE performances back to the challenging time to make theatre, at the same time, it has O’Shaughnessy Center, we are most looking forward to never been easier to make the case for theatre. Much like interacting with all of you. We can’t wait to see you soon this past year, theatre exposes our vulnerabilities and flaws, at the theatre! 2 2021-2022 • WHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY BLACK CURTAIN THEATRE THE CEMETERY CLUB NOW AND THEN By Ivan Menchell By Sean Grennan Bittersweet Comedy About Life and Death, Love and A Touching Comedy About Love, Regrets, Forgiveness, and the Power of Enduring Friendship and Second Chances Ida, Lucille, and Doris are part of a club—the Cemetery Club. Every Sometimes what happens after last call just might change your life. month they meet at Ida’s New York house for tea and then trundle One night in 1981, just as Jamie is closing the bar where he works, a off to the cemetery to remember the good times and gossip with desperate last-minute customer offers him and his girlfriend Abby their late husbands. Lucille fancies herself as a flamboyant swinger, two thousand dollars to sit and have a drink with him. Who wouldn’t Doris is a traditional take it? As the trio swaps matronly widow, and Ida stories and Jamie considers is somewhere in between. the decisions he faces about The fun-loving camaraderie his musical career and his between friends gets future with Abby, the young turned upside down, couple begins to realize that however, when widower this older man is unusually Sam the butcher enters the invested in their choices... scene and the ladies vie for and the reason he gives them Sam’s attention. is completely unbelievable. But when a very displeased Called “Steel Magnolias second stranger arrives, the meets The Golden Girls”, unbelievable begins to look The Cemetery Club is a like it just might be true. funny and touching play Now and Then is a heartfelt about enduring friendships, romantic comedy about the cherishing the past, and costs of the choices we make, embracing the future. and the people who make them with us. Sat–Sun • 7:30 PM Thu–Sat • 7:30 PM / Sun • 4:00 PM / Oct 14 PREVIEW September 25 & 26, 2021 $12 A / $10 ST October 14–17 & 21–23, 2021 $20 A / $18 SR / $10 ST A = Adult • SR = Senior (65+) • ST = Student (≤18 or Full-Time Student) 3 MUSIC BLACK CURTAIN OKAIDJA THE SIEGEL Music of the Human Experience By Michael Mitnick Back by popular demand, Okaidja Afroso is an Afro-pop You Call It Madness. But I Call It Love. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Ghana, West Africa. Ethan Siegel is in love with Alice. And tonight he’s going to ask her Born into a family of musicians and storytellers, his unique artistic parents for permission to marry her. There are just a few problems— vision has led him to combine the spicy, native rhythms of Ghana Ethan and Alice broke up two years ago, she’s in a serious with diverse, unexpected cross-cultural flavors of folk, blues, and relationship with someone else, and Alice has completely moved pop. This fresh sound preserves the authenticity of the traditional on with her life. But Ethan is undaunted in his pursuit, aiming to win while embracing the rich over Alice in a myriad of complexity of the integrated ways to convince her that world we inhabit today. she is ‘the one’. Emulating Although Okaidja sings Chekhov’s themes of ideal most of his hypnotic love and destiny, The Siegel arrangements in his native is a fresh, irresistible language, the meanings of comedy about modern love the songs shine through as and the need to go back in he tells stories of his people, order to move forward. their journeys, and the African Diaspora. “…incredibly funny… a sustainably fresh, surprisingly Okaidja’s smooth plausible, and audaciously compositions, soulful charming play… witty, vocals, and spirited dancing entertaining, and even promise an unforgettable thought-provoking… as and joyful evening of music! hilarious as it is poignant.” — BroadwayWorld.com Thu • 7:30 PM Sat–Sun • 7:30 PM October 28, 2021 $30 A / $20 ST November 6 & 7, 2021 $12 A / $10 ST 4 2021-2022 • WHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY MUSICAL THEATRE MUSIC ELF THE MUSICAL BRIDGE & WOLAK Music and Lyrics by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin. Double Double Duo Book by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin. Each member of this dynamic duo is a ‘double threat’ on two Discover your INNER elf instruments: Michael Bridge plays accordion and piano and Based on the beloved film, ELF The Musical is the hilarious tale of Kornel Wolak plays clarinet and piano. Together, they have become Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag an internationally acclaimed music & comedy duo, integrating of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. When he discovers traditional acoustic instruments with modern digital technology that he is not really an elf—his enormous size and poor toy-making and performing their own skills in Santa’s Workshop uniquely re-imagined should have tipped him repertoire of classical, world, off—he sets off for New York City to find his true identity. and jazz fusion. With deft Faced with the harsh reality virtuosity and endless wit, that his real father is on Bridge & Wolak have been the naughty list and his called “the best of new, half-brother does not even young ‘classical’ musicians… believe in Santa, Buddy is bringing their own style determined to win over his of intellect, expertise, and new family and help New talent to a new 21ST century York remember the magic audience.” With seven of Christmas. This modern degrees in music between holiday classic is sure to have everyone embracing them, these classically their inner elf. After all, trained musicians will the best way to spread bring inventive flair and Christmas Cheer is singing exceptional entertainment loud for all to hear! to our stage. Thu–Sat • 7:30 PM / Sun • 4:00 PM / Dec 1 PREVIEW Fri • 7:30 PM December 1–5 & 9–12, 2021 $25 A / $23 SR / $10 ST January 21, 2022 $30 A / $20 ST A = Adult • SR = Senior (65+) • ST = Student (≤18 or Full-Time Student) 5 BLACK CURTAIN CABARET THEATRE MAURITIUS THE REVOLUTIONISTS By Theresa Rebeck By Lauren Gunderson Who Knew Stamp Collecting Could Be So Dangerous? Greetings from the French Revolution where heads will roll! Stamp collecting is far more risky than you think. After their In this fresh and fast-paced comedy by award-winning playwright mother’s death, Jackie and Mary, two estranged half-sisters, Lauren Gunderson, a quartet of beautiful, bad-ass women raise hell discover a book of rare stamps that may include the crown jewel in Paris during the French Revolution. The Revolutionists are for collectors. One sister tries to collect on the windfall, while real-life characters that include playwright Olympe De Gouge, the other resists for sentimental reasons. In this gripping tale, a assassin Charlotte Corday, Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle, and seemingly simple sale the one-and-only Marie becomes dangerous when “Let Them Eat Cake” three seedy, high-stakes Antoinette who conspire collectors enter the sisters’ to avoid losing their world, willing to do anything heads—literally—during the to claim the rare find as insanity of the Reign their own.