In 2008, Barron Spotlighters, a community theatre group dedicated to
providing quality theatre entertainment
to Barron
and neighboring counties,
will celebrate their 30th continuous year of existence!
Special events will
mark this anniversary, and this website will be updated as details become
available.
FINAL INTRUSION
by local playwright Paul Kluge
September 11,12 and 13 at 7:30pm; 14 at
2:00pm
This two act play, billed as
drama/mystery/comedy, will delight audiences. And the best part is
that it's written by our very own Paul Kluge from Chetek. Crime
takes no holiday, even on Memorial Day ... not even in a fresh
little Upper Midwestern city like Eau Claire, Wisconsin. So states
the author. This garden variety break-in should be easy work for
our detective and lady cop. But it's the intruder that turns up
dead. Who was he, why was he there, and who killed him? It will
take a mighty fine detective to figure it all out.
Theatre tickets make great gifts!
Barron Spotlighters
gift certificates
are available in any amount .
Email for more info!
2008-2009
Season Tickets
Now Available!
Reserve your tickets now
by
calling 537-9212 or by
email!
HIGH SOCIETY, THE MUSICAL
October 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, and 26, 2008
"High Society" is the musical remake of the
classic 1939 romantic comedy, "The Philadelphia Story", starring
Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It first appeared on the silver
screen in 1956 starring Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby. This comic
tale of romance, mistaken identities, and mischief ends as all good
musical comedies should ... the heroine slips and falls ... IN
LOVE. It's punctuated with Cole Porter music, and will take
audiences back to a time when life was simpler, and love stories
were just that ... love stories. The comic action and fabulous
music will please all audiences.
PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE by Neil Simon
Neil Simon, one of the most popular
twentieth-century American dramatists, is known for his comedies
that examine tensions that can arise among family members or between
men and women. Barron Spotlighters is reprising this, the first
show they ever did, for their 30th anniversary season. The play
chronicles a middle-aged couple, Mel and Edna's struggle to survive
city life, coupled with noisy neighbors, faulty plumbing, and the
loss of employment. This marvelously funny play takes a grave
subject and treats it with hearty but sympathetic humor. It creates
an atmosphere of casual cataclysm from which laughter seems to be
released like vapor.
Another "oldie but goodie", originally filmed in
1947 starring William Powell, Irene Dunne, and Elizabeth Taylor. In
the late 19th century a New York Wall Street broker likes to think
his house runs his way but finds himself constantly bemused at how
much of what happens is down to his wife. When it comes to light
that he has never been properly baptized, and everyone starts
insisting that he must do so, an epic struggle between father an
mother ensues. Billed as a drama, but with plenty of comedy to
"tickle your ribs".
