Meadow Brook Theatre is celebrating its 50th anniversary this 2015-2016 season. Watch this interview with MBT Board President, Thom F. Foxlee, Artistic Director, Travis W. Walter and Spotlights Chair, Suellen Parkes. For more information on Meadow Brook Theatre visit our website at www.mbtheatre.com For more information on the Meadow Brook Theatre Guild visit theatre website at www.meadowbrooktheatreguild.com For tickets to the season call the box office at 248-377-3300 or buy online at ticketmaster.com The 2015-2016 Season of Professional Theatre at Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester, MI is as follows: The Explorer's Club By Nell Benjamin October 7 - November 1, 2015 London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but letting a woman in could shake the very foundation of the British Empire, and how do you make such a decision without a decent drink? Grab your safety goggles for some very mad science involving deadly cobras, irate Irishmen and the occasional airship. Michigan Premiere Legends! By James Kirkwood January 6 - January 31, 2016 Eager beaver producer Marin Klemmer, has uncovered a terrific script - 'Stars Wars: The Play'. Since he has produced only one Off-Broadway project, something called 'Craps!', Martin's calls are not being returned by the powerful Broadway magnates capable of getting this play to the Great White Way. Martin needs names, names like film legends Sylvia Glenn and Leatrice Monsee, for the leads. If Martin can sign them he can get the money. Unfortunately, they hate each other. Will Martin be able to resolve this titanic dilemma? Will 'Star Wars: The Play' hit the big time? And, if Sylvia and Leatrice do agree to appear together, will another famous star sign on, too? ATOMIC Book and Lyrics by Danny Ginges & Gregory Bonsignore Music and Lyrics by Philip Foxman - Created by Danny Ginges February 10 - March 6, 2016 ATOMIC is the thrilling new Off-Broadway musical that blasts open the doors of The Manhattan Project, a government-funded program of top scientists with the task of creating the world's first atomic bomb. Leo Szilard is the mastermind behind atomic power, but his heart has reservations. Ethics, scientific process, and true love are tested as Leo discovers exactly what he's capable of when someone believes in him. Michigan Premiere Calendar Girls By Tim Firth March 16 - April 10, 2016 Annie and her best friend, Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. The ladies manage to persuade four fellow Women's Institute members to pose nude with them for an "alternative" calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer, Lawrence. The news of the women's charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. Based on the true story of eleven Women's Institute members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls is a hilarious, yet beautifully touching play. Michigan Premiere Sistas the Musical Written by Dorothy Marcic April 20 - May 15, 2016 After a matriarch's death, the women in the family clean Grandma's attic and find love and old memories packed away. In the process they find hit tunes that trace the history of black women, from the trials of the 1930s through the Girl Groups of the 60s to the empowerment of the 90s. With songs such as "I Will Survive," "We Are Family," "Mama Said," and "Oh Happy Day!" Michigan Premiere Forever Plaid Written & Originally Directed and Choreographed by Stuart Ross Music Continuity Supervision and Arrangements by James Raitt Originally produced by Gene Wolsk May 25 - June 19, 2016 Once upon a time, there were four guys who discovered they shared a love for music, and then got together to become their idols - The Four Freshman, The Hi-Lo's and The Crew Cuts. Rehearsing in the basement of Smudge's family's plumbing supply company they became "Forever Plaid." On the way to their first big gig, the "Plaids" are slammed broadside by a school bus and killed instantly. It is at the moment when their careers and lives end, that the story of Forever Plaid begins....This nostalgic and fun revue is chock-full of classic barbershop quartet harmonies, pitch-perfect melodies and some of the best songs of the 1950s!

• published: 15 Sep 2015
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