April 26,2024
A NIGHT OF LAUGHTER
Open mic night is coming to the Monroe Community Players’ Studio Theater on April 26, 2024!
Come out and see experienced local comics and a few never before seen routines live!
All seats are $10. There will be Hungry Howie’s Pizza and Howie Bread along with a selection of six specially designed non-alcoholic drinks for sale (no liquor is allowed at this event).
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Here’s the line up of comedians for the evening!
Hannah Osborne
Alex Wellhousen
Gage Retz
Wendy Kiser
Brian Trippel
Danny Bronson
David Wahr
Tom Hutchison
Mario Silva
Mark Thornton
Michaela Brownell
Actual performance order is subject to change
MAY 11, 2024
FUN FOR THE YOUNG
You’re invited to a magical pajama party with all your nursery rhyme friends!
Join Little Bo-Peep, the cat and his fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, as they march merrily toward Mother Goose’s house for a cozy slumber party.
Coloring crafts and graham crackers after you meet these characters in person. This is the first of many short one acts regaling favorite books brought to life by Monroe Community Players.
Oh, and wear your pajamas to this first session if you wish.
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Each month through October Mother Goose brings us together to meet her special costumed friends and tell us favorite stories adapted for performance by a team of Monroe Community Players.
May 11 – Mother Goose’s Pajama Party by Danna Smith
June 8 – The Rabbit and the Turtle: Aesop’s Fable retold by Eric Carle
July 13 – Jean Pierre and the River Rat: a classic French tale by David Paul Wahr.
August 10 – Old King Cole and his fiddlers three: a musical event.
September 14 – Watch website for developments.
October 12 – Watch website for developments.
Featuring: Valinda Jonas, Betsy Brockman, J. T. Seymour, Andrew Rayl, Hope Hudson, Rex Gilbert, Armani Laidler, and Azar Laidler.
Developed and Directed by Nancy Williams.
This series is made possible by support from Altrusa International and DTE.
MAY 17, 18, and 19, 2024
Theatre With Heart
“There is no such thing as natural beauty!“
– Truvy Jones
Come with us to Truvy’s Beauty Salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana and visit with this group of gossipy southern ladies. Alternately hilarious and touching—and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters – this play reveals what it means to appear as delicate as a blossom but also be as tough as steel.
Cast & Crew
Kathleen McBee as Truvy Jones
Bristyn Nadeau as Annelle Dupuy-Desoto
Monica Hiris as Clairee Belcher
Kori Bielaniec as Shelby Eatenton-Latcheire
Amanda Gregory as M’Lynn Eatenton
Carol Sliwka as Ouiser Boudreaux
Director: Brian Burchette-Ross Assistant Directors: Ronald Roberts, Mark Thornton
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COMING IN JULY 2024
Auditions – May 20, 2024 @ 6:00 PM
The third installment in the Tuna trilogy takes the audience through another satirical ride into the hearts and minds of the polyester-clad citizens of Texas’ third smallest town.
Along with Tuna’s perennial favorites, some new Tuna denizens burst into the 4th of July Tuna High School Class Reunion. This sets the stage for a show full of fireworks and fun from the land where the Lion’s Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.
It’s been several years since we left Bertha and Arles dancing at the end of A Tuna Christmas (since 1999 for the MCP audience)…Did the romance blossom? Has Didi Snavley received any “cosmic” communications from R.R.’s UFO? Did Stanley make his fortune in the Albuquerque taxidermy business? These and other burning questions will be asked and answered in the side-splitting spoof of life in rural America.
COMING IN SEPTEMBER 2024
Laugh Out Loud Theatre
COMING IN DECEMBER 2024
Holiday Comedy
