Theatre On Main

Love Letters

Love is in the air as Theatre on Main invites you to join them for a very special Valentin’es treat, A.R. Gurney’s Love letters.  Starring in this emotionally riveting Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominated play once again in their recurring roles are Carl Liden as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, and local playwright Lisa Rowe, author of Psych, as Melissa Gardner.  Both born to welath and position, they become childhood friends whose correspondence begins with birthday party thank you notes and summer camp postcards, and continues throughout their multi-faceted lives.  Melissa, who hates writing letters, is portrayed as rich and spoiled, with a private nurse and private schools, artistic, certainly lascivious, divorced, eventually alcoholic, bi-polar, and suicidal.  Andy Ladd is square, destined for Yale, a naval officer, a lawyer, and a U.S. Senator, and says that “writing letter is what he loves most.”  Love Letters is a very powerful play that is sure to stir emotions and touch your heart!  Mature subject matter and adult language.

Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sunday, February 12th at 2:00pm, Valentines Day at 7:30pm; February 3-4, 10-12, 14, 2012.  Now show on February 5th.

Beauty And The Beast, Jr.

Directed by Sandra Manfrin

Theatre on Main is proud to have gracing its stage Disney’s Beauty And The Beast, Jr.!  The brainy and beautiful Belle yeanrs to escape her provincial life…and her brute of a suitor, Gaston.  However, Belle gets more adventurous than she wanted when she becomes a captive in the Beast’s enchanted castle!  Dancing flatware, menacing wolves, and singing furniture fill the stage with thrills in this beloved fairytale about very different people finding strength in one another and learning how to love.  Join Theatre on Main as it brings the entire community together for family theatre at its best as the “tale as old as time”, with spectacular costumes and set, unfolds center stage!

Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday and Sunday at 4:00pm; February 17-19, 24-26, March 2-4, 2012

Fugue

Directed by Robert Parker

A woman is found wandering in Chicago, her feet blistered and bloodied.  Doctors at the hospital where she is taken immediately recognize this as a symptom of the “fugue” state of amnesia, where the victim is litereally running away from an intolerable memory.  A young psychiatrist is assigned to her case.  Clinic rules allow him twenty-one days (”three lousy weeks”) to work with her.  If there is no improvement, she will be sent to a long-term care facility.  He is running away from his own demons - a mistake he made with a patient early in his practice which had a devastating effect on his life.  Because the woman has no past and no future, she is in remarkably good spirits, chipper and carefree except when the young doctor starts to jog her memory.  The closer he gets to piecing together the puzzle of her life and the terrible thing that made her want to forget everything, the stronger is her urge to run.  But his fear is that if she remembers - will he be repeating the mistake he made?  To muddle the waters, he is falling in love with his patient.  “Fugue is fascinating!  It casts a dreamy, mysterious spell over its audience.” –Cleveland New Herald

Friday & Saturday shows at 7:30pm, Sundays at 4:00pm; April13-14, 20-22, 27-29, 2012.  No show on April 15th.

Rent

Directed by Thomas Weissgerber

Closing out its seventh season, Theatre on Main is very thrilled to be staging Rent.  Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, Rent follows a year in the life of a group of friends struggling to make it in the big city.  They include Mark, a filmmaker and the narrator of the story; his former girlfriend, Maureen, a performance artist; Maureen’s lover, Joanne, a public interest lawyer; Mark’s roommate Roger, a musician; Mimi, an exotic dancer, with whom Roger falls in love; Tom Collins, a computer genius; Collins’ lover, Angel, a street musician and drag queen; and Benny, a former member of the group who, after marrying into a wealthy family, has become their landlord.  How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves, and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.  Rent was first seen in a limited three-week workshp production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1994.  This same New York City off-Broadway theatre was also the musical’s initial home following its official January 25, 1996 opening.  The show’s creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly the night before the off-Broadway premier.  The show won a Pulitzer Prize, and the production was a hit.  The musical moved to Broadway’s larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996.  On Brodaway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical, among other awards.  The Broadway production closed on September 7, 2008, after a 12-year run and 5,124 performances, making it the ninth longest running Broadway show.

Thursday, Friday & Saturday shows at 7:30pm, Sundays at 4:00pm; July 12-15, 19-22, 26-29, 2012.

2011-2012 Season Ticket Form

Theatre on Main is located inside Main Street Centre for the Arts at 25 South Main Street, Oconomowoc, WI.  Ticket prices are $14 for adults and $12 for students and seniors; Season Passes available.  Group rates for 10 or more.  Tickets may be purchased by calling the Box Office at 262-560-0564, at Books & Co., and at the Fox Bros. Oconomowoc Piggly Wiggly.