The Paul Bunyan Playhouse Summer 2023 Season
Season Tickets and Flex Passes now available!
Individual show tickets on sale beginning April 1, 2023.
Individual show tickets on sale beginning April 1, 2023.
1) All ticket sales are final. No refunds, exchanges, or price adjustments.**
2) Please check your tickets to confirm the day, date, and time of your seats.
3) All purchases are subject to $2 per ticket handling fee.
**Season Ticket holders will be allowed to exchange tickets for another performance of the same show with 24 hour or greater notice. Excludes tickets purchased with Flex Passes.
2) Please check your tickets to confirm the day, date, and time of your seats.
3) All purchases are subject to $2 per ticket handling fee.
**Season Ticket holders will be allowed to exchange tickets for another performance of the same show with 24 hour or greater notice. Excludes tickets purchased with Flex Passes.
Shout! The Mod Musical
Created by Phillip George & David Lowenstein
June 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 at 7:30 pm
June 4, 7 at 2:00 pm
With its irresistible blend of hip-swiveling hits, eye-popping fashions and outrageous dance moves, SHOUT! The Mod Musical takes audiences back to the music, style and freedom of the 1960s. This musical revue rolls out arrangements of the decade’s hits including To Sir with Love, Downtown, Son of a Preacher Man, Windy, and more classics. SHOUT! follows five British women as they navigate the decade, chronicling the vibrant ‘60s like flipping through a musical magazine. A tribute to the dynamic, independent singers of the era featuring Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Cilla Black, and many more who were instrumental in redefining society’s attitudes toward gender. Dig out your tie-dyed tees and bell-bottom jeans and get ready to sing and dance along, as SHOUT! The Mod Musical has all the vintage nostalgia you’ve been looking for.
Shout! The Mod Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com
Trigger warnings: adult language and references to drug use, sexuality and domestic violence.
Created by Phillip George & David Lowenstein
June 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 at 7:30 pm
June 4, 7 at 2:00 pm
With its irresistible blend of hip-swiveling hits, eye-popping fashions and outrageous dance moves, SHOUT! The Mod Musical takes audiences back to the music, style and freedom of the 1960s. This musical revue rolls out arrangements of the decade’s hits including To Sir with Love, Downtown, Son of a Preacher Man, Windy, and more classics. SHOUT! follows five British women as they navigate the decade, chronicling the vibrant ‘60s like flipping through a musical magazine. A tribute to the dynamic, independent singers of the era featuring Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Cilla Black, and many more who were instrumental in redefining society’s attitudes toward gender. Dig out your tie-dyed tees and bell-bottom jeans and get ready to sing and dance along, as SHOUT! The Mod Musical has all the vintage nostalgia you’ve been looking for.
Shout! The Mod Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com
Trigger warnings: adult language and references to drug use, sexuality and domestic violence.
The Play That Goes Wrong
By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
June 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 at 7:30 pm
June 18, 21 at 2:00 pm
“Break a leg!” takes on a whole new meaning for a woefully misguided troupe of players at the Cornley University Society’s opening night performance of The Murder at Haversham Manor. An unconscious leading lady, a corpse who can’t play dead, a ruffled detective, and a word-mangling butler (among others) must battle against technical gaffes, forgotten lines, and sabotaging scenery in a quest to arrive all in one piece at the final curtain call. Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, all mayhem—this 1920s whodunit is disastrously delightful.
Presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service under license from Mischief Worldwide Ltd.
Trigger warnings: This production uses strobe lighting and fog effects. One live simulated gunshot in Act 2.
By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
June 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 at 7:30 pm
June 18, 21 at 2:00 pm
“Break a leg!” takes on a whole new meaning for a woefully misguided troupe of players at the Cornley University Society’s opening night performance of The Murder at Haversham Manor. An unconscious leading lady, a corpse who can’t play dead, a ruffled detective, and a word-mangling butler (among others) must battle against technical gaffes, forgotten lines, and sabotaging scenery in a quest to arrive all in one piece at the final curtain call. Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, all mayhem—this 1920s whodunit is disastrously delightful.
Presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service under license from Mischief Worldwide Ltd.
Trigger warnings: This production uses strobe lighting and fog effects. One live simulated gunshot in Act 2.
Godspell
2012 Revised Version
By Stephen Schwartz And John-Michael Tebelak
June 30, July 1, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30 pm
July 2 at 3:30 , July 5 at 2:00 pm
Prepare ye for the timeless tale of friendship, loyalty and love in a masterful retelling of the original sensation with dazzling new arrangements and contemporary references. Godspell - 2012 Revised Version, featuring songs by Stephen Schwartz, (known for the Broadway hits WICKED and PIPPIN), uses song, dance and storytelling to retell the passion story and parables of the gospels. Filled with high spirited musical styles ranging from pop to vaudeville, this theatrical celebration is a reminder that kindness, tolerance, and love should live on vibrantly.
Godspell - 2012 Revised Version is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre
Greater Tuna
By Ed Howard, Joe Sears, and Jaston Williams
July 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 at 7:30 pm
July 16, 19 at 2:00 pm
What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye, and Rev. Spikes have in common? In this hilarious send-up of small-town morals and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas.
Greater Tuna is the hilarious comedy about Texas' third smallest town, where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. The eclectic band of citizens that make up this town are portrayed by only two performers, making this satire on life in rural America even more delightful as they depict all of the inhabitants of Tuna -- men, women, children and animals. Two actors, twenty characters, and a barrel of laughs, y’all.
Greater Tuna (which began as a simple party skit based on a political cartoon more than 40 years ago in Austin, Texas) was originally produced in 1981 in Austin, Texas by its authors, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard. The play’s stars, Williams and Sears, played all twenty characters, and Howard directed. One year after its premiere, Greater Tuna opened Off Broadway, ran for over a year, and went on to tour major theaters all over America and spots overseas for the next thirty-some years, becoming one of the most produced plays in American theatre history.
Greater Tuna is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
By Ed Howard, Joe Sears, and Jaston Williams
July 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 at 7:30 pm
July 16, 19 at 2:00 pm
What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye, and Rev. Spikes have in common? In this hilarious send-up of small-town morals and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas.
Greater Tuna is the hilarious comedy about Texas' third smallest town, where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. The eclectic band of citizens that make up this town are portrayed by only two performers, making this satire on life in rural America even more delightful as they depict all of the inhabitants of Tuna -- men, women, children and animals. Two actors, twenty characters, and a barrel of laughs, y’all.
Greater Tuna (which began as a simple party skit based on a political cartoon more than 40 years ago in Austin, Texas) was originally produced in 1981 in Austin, Texas by its authors, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard. The play’s stars, Williams and Sears, played all twenty characters, and Howard directed. One year after its premiere, Greater Tuna opened Off Broadway, ran for over a year, and went on to tour major theaters all over America and spots overseas for the next thirty-some years, becoming one of the most produced plays in American theatre history.
Greater Tuna is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Elf The Musical
Book by: Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin
Music by: Matthew Skylar
Lyrics by: Chad Beguelin
Based on: The New Line Cinema film written by David Berenbaum.
July 26, 27, 28, 29, Aug 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 pm
July 30, Aug 2 at 2:00 pm
After discovering he is really a human raised as an elf, Buddy makes the journey from the North Pole to New York City to find his birth father, sharing the true meaning of Christmas along the way. Elf the Musical brings heart, hilarity, and holiday joy—after all, “the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!” Based on the hit Christmas film, the musical adaptation was nominated for one Drama League Award.
Dress up in your holiday apparel and join us for Christmas in July (and August)!
Elf The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com
Elf The Musical is rated PG
Book by: Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin
Music by: Matthew Skylar
Lyrics by: Chad Beguelin
Based on: The New Line Cinema film written by David Berenbaum.
July 26, 27, 28, 29, Aug 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 pm
July 30, Aug 2 at 2:00 pm
After discovering he is really a human raised as an elf, Buddy makes the journey from the North Pole to New York City to find his birth father, sharing the true meaning of Christmas along the way. Elf the Musical brings heart, hilarity, and holiday joy—after all, “the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!” Based on the hit Christmas film, the musical adaptation was nominated for one Drama League Award.
Dress up in your holiday apparel and join us for Christmas in July (and August)!
Elf The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com
Elf The Musical is rated PG
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