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themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania: Enter romantic interest and the need to become legitimate. Screwball comedy erupts as Jack and Leo hatch a plot to pass themselves off as two English women to “relieve” an elderly woman of her fortune. Disastrous decisions lead to hilarious comedy worthy of Ken Ludwig, author of the equally hilarious “Lend me a Tenor." This production also marks the return of Valley award-winning director Katherine Stewart to the director’s chair. “Leading Ladies” is produced in cooperation with Samuel French, Inc.
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MET's next meeting will be Tuesday, March 9th 6:30pm, at the Old Chicago restaurant at Alma School & I-60 (map)
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called a "landmark musical” and went on to win the Tony Award in 1996. “Rent” is currently the 8th longest-running musical in Broadway history. MET is proud to be one of the first community theatres in the country to produce “Rent” as production rights were only recently released. Longtime local theatre actor and director now working in NYC, Phillip Fazio, takes the helm. Rent is produced in cooperation with Musical Theatre International.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day MET rolls out its celebrated annual production, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (February 5-21). This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind the enigma known as "the relationship." The revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, and to those who have dared to ask, "Say, what are you doing Saturday night?" “I Love You...” is the longest-running Off-Broadway show in history, and plays to sold-out theatres wherever it is produced. In addition to its enormous success, the Off-Broadway production has been the site of 50 marriage proposals. This MET show has been so popular, that this will mark its 4th consecutive production. There will be a special Valentine’s Day night performance of the show. “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” is produced in cooperation with R & H Theatricals.
You ask, and we respond! At various times throughout the season, MET will present favorite performers in a relaxed cabaret-type setting. Our first music night will feature the Men of MET, singing your favorite “manly” songs from popular Broadway shows, performing September 14th & 15th. Watch our website for future Cabaret Nights, including the Ladies! |
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Mesa
Encore Theatre
MET’s
second production is truly a coup for any community theatre.
Rent
(November 13-22),
Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based
loosely on Puccini's opera “La Bohème,” follows ”525,600 minutes” in
the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian
lifestyle in New York's East Village. AIDS, with both its physical
and emotional complications, haunts the group. The show has been
MET
will ring in the spring with the wickedly funny
Forbidden
Broadway (April 9-25).
In New York's
longest-running hit musical comedy revue, well-known show tunes and
performers are skewered in a hilarious medley of songs and scenes
featuring knee-slapping ‘alternative lyrics.’ Performers target
such famed and richly deserving targets as “Chicago,” “Phantom of
theOpera,” and “Les Miserables” as well as Broadway legends such as
Carol Channing, Chita Rivera and Ethel Merman. You don’t have to be
up on the latest Broadway hits to enjoy “Forbidden Broadway,” you
just have to enjoy a good laugh. If you appreciate a good
lampooning, you’ll love “Forbidden Broadway.” The version MET has
selected to do is the long- running show’s best bits and gags over
the years: Greatest Hits, Volume 1. MET is the first community
theatre in the Valley to produce the show. “Forbidden Broadway” is
produced in cooperation with R & H Theatricals.
MET
ends its season with the popular
Once on This Island (June 4-13),
a captivating fable of a
romance between a
peasant girl and a rich boy whom she saves from death… if you’re
thinking “Little Mermaid,” you’re right! Filled with calypso songs,
reggae rhythms, and colorful characters, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen
Flaherty’s “Once on This Island” delivers a smooth summer staging
as cool as an ocean breeze. The show supplies melody, love and joy
in tropical abundance. It’s a sweet summer treat for the whole
family featuring a
cast of adults and some of the Valley’s most
talented children & youth. “Once on This Island” was
