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1978
World Premiere
Deadly Decade
by Lance S. Belville
A show about the prohibition era in St. Paul |
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1979
World Premiere
You Can't Get to Heaven through the U.S.A.
by Lance S. Belville
Telling the tale of Swedish and Italian immigrants on the East Side of St. Paul, staged in an East Side church.
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1981
World Premiere
Nina! Madam to a Saintly City
by Lance S. Belville
This musical adaptation of the stage play involved the famous madam of St. Paul, Hanna Steinbecker, a.k.a. Nina Clifford.
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1981
A Servants' Christmas
by John Fenn
A young Jewish woman comes to work at a Christian household and hides her heritage. A surprise visitor unleashes the spirit of the holidays, and the household celebrates the two religions together. |
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1983
World Premiere
Plain Hearts
by Lance S. Belville
music and lyrics by Eric Peltoniemi
Staged in St. Paul and other Minnesota towns, this musical is about Midwestern farm women from 1890 to 1920.
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1986
Great Northern Repertory
A summer stock repertory theatre in Grand Rapids, Minnesota
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1990
World Premiere
Mesabi Red
by Lance S. Belville
music and lyrics by Charlie Maguire and Jim Miller
This folk opera about the 1916 strike on the Iron Range of Minnesota premiered in St. Paul and toured the Iron Range.
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1991
Area Premiere
A Couple of Blaguards
by Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt
A special presentation by these Chicago artists, the McCourt's wicked Irish wit brings to life their impoverished Catholic childhood and their roguish adventures immigrating to America. This piece was a precursor to McCourt's bestseller Angela's Ashes.
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1992
Area Premiere
The Meeting
by Jeff Stetson
Stenson's imagining of an hour-long encounter between two titanic adversaries, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X is both fascinating and powerful.
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1992
Area Premiere
Irish Stew
by Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt recalls Irish and American stories
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1995
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
adapted by Christopher Sergel
An adaptation of an award-winning novel about a small Alabama town during the Great Depression year of 1935, this work was favorite for Minnesota teacher and students.
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1996
World Premiere
Civil Ceremony
by Beth Gilleland
Minnesota's Frances Clayton disguised herself as a man and fought alongside her husband in the Civil War.
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1996
World Premiere
Let Heaven and Nature Sing!
by Bob Beverage
The courageous fight for civil rights by individuals with disabilities, presented in collaboration with InterAct Theatre, Minneapolis
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1997
World Premiere
Cuba Si!
by Jim Stowell
This one-person show centers on Jim's journey from the atomic silos in Montana to his face-to-face meeting with Fidel Castro.
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1997
World Premiere
Orphan Train
by Patty Lynch and Charlie Maguire
A musical about the "orphan trains" that brought over 200,000 children from the slums of New York City to farm families in the Midwest from 1853 to 1929, this work became a popular choice amongst Minnesota students and teachers.
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1999
World Premiere
Hmong! The CIA's Secret Army
based on the screenplay by Lee Vang
adapted for stage by Lee Vang and Jaime Meyer
A Hmong perspective on Hmong soldiers, who were recruited, paid, and trained by the C.I.A. The play tells another side of the most controversial war of the 20th Century.
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2001
World Premiere
Watermelon Hill
by Lily Baber Coyle in collaboration with Linda Black
Three women meet for a reunion that will take them back 35 years to 1965, a time before the "sexual revolution" and a time of crisis for many young women. These courageous women recall their first loves, maternal fantasies, fellings of rage and abandonment, and reunions with the children they gave up.
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2003
World Premiere
Sisters of Swing
by Beth Gilleland and Bob Beverage
musical arrangement by Raymond Berg
choreography by Jan Puffer
The Andrews Sisters were the darlings of the stage, radio, TV, and film during the 1940s. This musical tribute follows their amazing careers from Minneapolis to Broadway and features a swinging jazz band.
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2003
Axel & His Dog
by Don Stoltz
From 1954 to 1966, WCCO-TV personality Clellan Card ruled the airwaves in the top-rated children's show, Axel & His Dog. Don Stoltz, who played the puppets Towser and Tallullah, gives us a backstage look at this classic TV show, and the extraordinary man behind it.
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2005
World Premiere
Fireball: The Great Hinckley Fire Project
by Roger Nieboer
in collaboration with Peter Ostroushko and Joe Chvala
Through video, music, dance and theatre, three of Minnesota's finest artists use humor and wit to tell the story of the Hinckley Fire of 1894.
Winner of an Ivey Award |
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2005
World Premiere
Beyond the Rainbow
by William Randall Beard
Legendary Judy Garland's unforgettable Carnegie Hal concert in 1961 is the setting for this musical journey.
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2007
World Premiere
100 Men's Wife
by Jeany Park
This play follows the life of Liang May Seen, the first Chinese woman to immigrate to Minnesota.
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2007
World Premiere
Kirby!
by Syl Jones
This work celebrates and examines the man, his life, and his love of baseball.
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2007
World Premiere
Hormel Girls
by Laurie Flanigan
music by Hiram Titus
based on an idea by Perrin Post
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Hormel Girls were an all-female band that traveled the country singing the praises of Dinty Moore and Spam.
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