Andrew Mayernich, center, as the Emcee of the Kit Kat Club. PHOTO BY Donna Lounsbury The dark, highly-sexualized Cabaret is an interesting choice for the Muni, that stalwart of wholesome outdoor musical theater where the audience is invited to sing the national anthem before every performance. They went out on a limb, and their ambition […]
Aasne Vigesaa
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Madness and humor
Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet comes to the Hoogland Center for the Arts. What’s great about this performance is that local actress Aasne Vigesaa is playing the role of Hamlet. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but Springfield is coming up roses with Vigesaa taking the lead. Vigesaa’s talent is sure to make this […]
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Droll duo
PHOTO COURTESY HOOGLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS Six performances of The Odd Couple take place, Jan. 24-26, 31 and Feb. 1-2. This classic comedy by Neil Simon opens with a group of guys in the middle of a heated poker game at the apartment of divorced sports writer Oscar Madison. And if the mess is […]
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Naughty and nice
PHOTO COURTESY THE HOOGLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS Wynyard Browne’s play, The Holly and the Ivy, will be performed Dec. 13-15 by a cast of local folk at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Set in 1940s England, the heartwarming tale begins on Christmas Eve as relatives of elderly pastor Martin Gregory (Tom Lawton) come […]
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Math problems
Hoogland Center for the Arts, Over the Moon Productions and American Association of University Women present The Little Years, Oct. 25-27. Directed by Kevin Purcell, the innovative play explores what happens to a young girl who is a math prodigy. It begins in 1957 and follows her for 45 years of her life. The play also […]
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Passion and fashion
Don’t miss attending one of three dinner-theater productions at the Hoogland Center for the Arts of Love, Loss and What I Wore. The show stars some of the most fabulous female talent in Springfield – Nancy Cole, Claire Gordon, Susan Jeffers, Julie Staley and Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson, with Aasne Vigesaa directing. This funny and poignant play […]
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Literary drama
Reserve your tickets now by phone for a performance of Prairie Voices and Lincoln and Shakespeare at Theatre in the Park indoor theater at Lincoln’s New Salem Sate Historic. Kevin Purcell directs and stars, along side local acting sensation Aasne Vigesaa, in Prairie Voices, a performance of poems and songs that celebrate the beauty of […]
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Check mate
Laurie O’ Brien directs Springfield Theatre Center’s production of Chess, a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA. The story involves a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls […]
