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Showing posts with label Open Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open Book. Show all posts
Friday, May 15, 2026

"The Most Happy Fella" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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Frank Loesser's most popular and frequently produced musical Guys and Dolls is currently playing at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres in a big...
Friday, March 13, 2026

"Mrs. Porter and Mr. Parker" by Stage North at Open Book

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Stage North returns, nearly a year and a half since their excellent production of the play Mauritius , with a new original musical revue all...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

"This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing , and this girl does all three and loves it! For their current production, Ten Tho...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

"Mlima's Tale" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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It's been three years since Ten Thousand Things has been able to fulfill their mission of bringing theater to those who would otherwise ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

"Electra" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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To begin her final season as Artistic Director of Ten Thousand Things , the company she founded over 25 years ago, recent Ivey Lifetime Ac...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

"Pericles" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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When I first saw Pericles , at the Guthrie earlier this year, I wrote, "I had a bit of a hard time with the play (as I often do the ...
Monday, January 18, 2016

"Dear World" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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I consider myself a fan of musicals (although perhaps not quite an expert), but I had never heard of the 1969 musical Dear World that won...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

"The Unsinkable Molly Brown" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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No one does musicals like Ten Thousand Things does musicals. And even though it defies everything we know about musical theater, after see...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

"Romeo and Juliet" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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No one does Shakespeare like Ten Thousand Things . They manage to boil the text down to its bare essentials, and convey the heart of the s...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

"Dirt Sticks" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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What Ten Thousand Things does better than any other theater company I know is harness the power of collective imagination to transport th...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

"The Music Man" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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"There were bells on the hill, but I never heard them ringing, no I never heard them at all, 'till there was you." So sings ...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

"Measure for Measure" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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Ten Thousand Things brings their totally unique, stripped-down, bare-bones, get-right-to-the-core-of-it style to another Shakespeare play...
Monday, February 20, 2012

"As You Like It" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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I know I gush a lot on this blog, but there's a lot to gush about when you're talking about theater in Minneapolis/St. Paul.  No mor...
Monday, October 31, 2011

"Il Campiello" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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OK.  First I need to go through my usual spiel about how Ten Thousand Things makes theater unlike anything you've ever seen.  It's ...
Monday, March 7, 2011

"Doubt, A Parable" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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Ten Thousand Thing 's Doubt was number two on my list of shows to see this year .  After seeing my first show last year ( My Fair Lad...
Monday, November 15, 2010

"Life's A Dream" by Ten Thousand Things at Open Book

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I attended my first Ten Thousand Things production, My Fair Lady , earlier this year. I've been hearing about them for years, but just ...