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  • The Wickhams – Jungle Theater

    The Wickhams – Jungle Theater

    Jungle Theater presents the rolling world premiere of The Wickhams – Christmas at Pemberley now through December 30th!

    I love seeing behind the scenes, don’t you? Especially when it’s a story that you wish would never end. The first time I saw Pride & Prejudice, it took my breath away. I wanted to know more, did Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy live happily ever after? Did the rest of the Bennet sisters…Jane, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia? Last year, I was so excited that Jungle Theater continued the story with Miss Bennet. Again, I wanted to know more and thankfully, Jungle Theater delivered!

    This year, the story continues with The Wickhams, giving us a peek “downstairs” in the Darcy kitchen, where the servants are preparing for the holidays and the arrival of their guests.

    THE WICKHAMSDirectorChristina Baldwin CAST Jesse LaVercombe Roshni Desai James Rodríguez Sun Mee Chomet Nate Cheeseman Kelsey Didion Angela Timberman
    Photo credit: Rich Ryan Photography

    All good things happen in the kitchen, right? 😉 We learn family secrets and more about the complexity of the sister’s relationships and their loyalty to each other. We get to watch young love grow and the beginning of new dreams. We get to see how when someone believes in you and doesn’t hold you back, how your whole world can change and grow.

    THE WICKHAMSDirector Christina Baldwin CAST Jesse LaVercombe Roshni Desai James Rodríguez Sun Mee Chomet Nate Cheeseman Kelsey Didion Angela Timberman
    Roshni Desai – Cassie and Jesse LaVercombe – Brian. Photo credit: Rich Ryan Photography

    This show is magical! The theater, the acting, the story. It’s full of love, laughter and the craziness of family dynamics. It’s the perfect way to kick off the holidays!

    For tickets and information, click HERE.

    Dear Jungle, please keep this story going!!! It’s our new favorite holiday tradition!

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    Photo credit: Soul Photography
  • Hot Funky Butt Jazz

    Hot Funky Butt Jazz

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    Photo Credit: Bob Stacke

    Hot Funky Butt Jazz cast: Zena Moses –  Marie Laveau star of the show, Messiah Moses Albert – young Louis Armstrong, Jeremy Phipps – Stringbean Russell, Michael Wolfe – Professor James London, Naa Mensah — Essie.

    created by the INTERACT ENSEMBLE 
    directed by JEANNE CALVIT
    music and lyrics by AARON GABRIEL
    in collaboration with New Orleans’ musicians ZENA MOSES, JEREMY PHIPPS, and EUGENE HARDING

    Former Guthrie Artistic Director Liviu Ciulei once said that “a community can be measured by the questions its theater asks.”

    That is what I love about the Dowling Studio – Level 9 at Guthrie Theater! Affordable tickets to original shows, many created by our local theater companies. They create art to help us understand and address important questions in our society.

    That is exactly what Hot Funky Butt Jazz did. Beautiful, entertaining art while opening our eyes to the challenging beginning of jazz simultaneously reminding us that people with disabilities still face the same struggles today.

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    Photo Credit: Bob Stacke

    Hot Funky Butt Jazz takes place in the early 1900s in Storyville, New Orleans’ infamous red-light vice district where many musicians like Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden, and Louis Armstrong grew up. The show is fun, full of life and tells the story of how it took strong, tenacious people to stand together against all odds to bring us “hot music” now known as jazz.

    The full cast is made up of 50 actors with and without disabilities. As the show ended, I looked at the stage and thought…this is what “normal” really looks like not what society has taught me to believe. How it is up to me, us, the people to work to change the perceptions. I struggle with my own disability and have felt less. I was reminded that I’m not. That it is through our own hard times that we can create change. That diversity is everything. When we watch, listen, and hear the same things over and over, we become robots not people.

    Go enjoy the magic of jazz and New Orleans!

    Now through November 18, 2018.

    Click HERE for tickets!

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    Photo Credit: Bob Stacke

    The Interact Center’s mission is to create art that challenges the perceptions of disabilities. Read more at interactcenter.org.

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