I knew I was going to be seeing Marat/Sade with Pink Banana/World's Stage.
And I knew I was going to be seeing Pump Boys and Dinettes with Skylight Music Theatre.
But until only recently, it didn't occur to me that I was going to be seeing both of them on consecutive nights. . . .
In what may be the strangest combination of openings in Milwaukee all season, local stages debut both a feel-good squeaky clean Boomer-based musical AND the story of a man directing a play in a mental institution.
Skylight Music Theatre opens its production of PB&D on March 8th. Molly Rhode, Samantha Sostarich, Paul Helm, Tommy Hahn and more star in a big-budget staging of the glossy commercial story of the men who work at a gas station and the women who serve as waitresses at a diner. Nice. The curtain rises on it March 8th at 7:30 pm.
Just a few blocks away fro meh Broadway Theatre Center's Cabot Theatre at 7:30 pm on March 8th, Pink Banana and Wolrd's Stage Theatre team-up for a punk-inspired reading of Peter Weiss' 1963 drama The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade --(Marat/Sade for short)
Co-directed by Matt Kemple of Pink Banana and Gretchen Mahkorn of World's stage, the reading features Carole Alt, David Bohn, Amanda Carson, Tamsyn Cogar-Reed, Simon Eichinger, Liz Faraglia, Jeff Kriesel, Samantha Martinson, Tim Palecek, Matt Roth, Gwen Zupan.
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Not sure exactly how it's going to fit in, but the reading features music direction by Colleen Schmitt. The description of the show includes mention of a contemporary style that "infuses elements of punk, rock, live music, youth rebellion - truly one WILD ride of an evening!" Okay. I'm in.