The Masquers Season

 

 

The Masquers are Wisconsin’s oldest continually-operating Community Theatre Company. Since it’s inception in 1931, The Masquers, Inc. has been producing outstanding live local theatre in Manitowoc. The 2010-11 Season marks Masquers' 80th season. Season Tickets for the new Masquers 2010-11 slate of performances will be available mid-July through the Capitol Civic Centre Box Office.

This side-spliting comedy is a glorious opportunity to watch seven slamming doors, one breaking window, 10 trips up and down stairs and 17 false entrances, while listening to 73 flubbed lines, 46 miscues, one dramatic highlight, 22 double entendres, six regular entendres and a million laughs ­ all while trying to find a missing plate of sardines.
 
In this play-within-a-play, the audience is treated to the hilarious maneuverings of a cast of itinerant actors performing a dreadful comedy called “Nothing On," exposing both the offstage shenanigans and onstage bedlam from two perspectives, the front stage and backstage.
 
“The funniest farce ever written!  Never before has side-splitting taken on a meaning dangerously close to the non-metaphorically medical” -- New York Post
 
“The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.  A spectacularly funny, peerless backstage farce.  This dizzy, well-known romp is festival of delirium” -- The New York Times

Laugh so hard that you cry as you take a trip to Truvy's Beauty Salon and meet the regulars who come for advice, sympathy and most of all gossip. Steel Magnolias is set entirely in Truvy's beauty shop, in a small town in Louisiana, where 6 strong southern women meet regularly. They gossip, complain about the men in their lives, poke fun at themselves, and sometimes even fight with each other. But through the good times, and the bad times, they show us the strong bond that women can create with one another and the strength they can gain from each other. Steel Magnolias is as funny as it is emotional.
 
“…a skillfully crafted, lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity in the small town South…” -- Drama-Logue
“…suffused with humor and tinged with tragedy” -- The New York Post
 

 

Murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery, and treachery -- the cornerstones of the sultry and alluring Broadway musical hit Chicago. Based on the 1926 play by the same name, Chicago is the story of seductive nightclub dancer Roxie Hart, who finds that the road to fame can be a trail of blood. Throw in a cunning lawyer and a bit of razzle-dazzle and Roxie goes from cold-hearted killer to the toast of the town. With the right song and dance, you can get away with murder.
Great Songs, Great Dancing, Great Show!
 
“A pulse racing revival that flies us right into musical heaven.”-The New York Times
"Wildly entertaining...[with a] dazzling score."-New York Daily News

Famous the world over, the ghostly but ultimately heart-warming story of Ebenezer Scrooge, andhis change of heart towards Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the rest is known well enough by all to need no description. Israel Horovitz's adaptation of the classic Dickens tale follows the original closely, but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds the ghost of Jacob Marley in a narrative role, observing Scrooge's failings or progress, making colorful observations and arranging for new shocks to his partner's system. The end result is a delightful evening of theatre for people of all ages.

So come and celebrate the Holiday Season with the Cratchit family! A Christmas Carol will bring joy to your heart, and you and your family will leave the theater not uttering “bah humbug” but wishing all “God bless us, everyone!”

A Christmas Carol features a live orchestra and holiday carols sung by the ensemble, making this a holiday treat that you and your family won’t want to miss!