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Minnesota Association of Community Theatres

Home of Minnesota’s Theatre Community

  • Hairball: By the Numbers

    02/04/2026

    John Miller

    Hairball: By the Numbers

    Behind the Scenes by John Miller – June 2025 No, it’s not the next winning Powerball numbers, but if they are, I want a cut! It’s Hairball by the numbers! ㉕ We got lucky! Hairball was originally scheduled for September 2024. But the September date conflicted with a radius clause for another of their concerts,

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  • Winter Dance Party

    01/28/2026

    John Miller

    Winter Dance Party

    Behind the Scenes by John Miller – January 2024 n January of 1959, a twenty-four day musical tour of the Midwest began in Milwaukee. Twelve days later the “Winter Dance Party” would end in tragedy on Feb 3, 1959. 2026 will mark the 67th anniversary of “The Day The Music Died.” The number one and

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  • Francis Ford Coppola and Finian’s Rainbow

    01/22/2026

    LPint

    The late 1960s brought a lot of expensive musicals to the screen

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  • Lion King Jr.

    01/16/2026

    John Miller

    Lion King Jr.

    Behind the Scenes by John Miller – November 2025 No one sets out to make a bad movie. No one sets out to make a classic movie. Somewhere during development, filming, editing and marketing a film can go either way.  In theater there are dozens of people behind the scenes, in film it’s thousands.  Sometimes,

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  • Theatre The Theatre Community Disdains (responses – part 2)

    11/27/2025

    Guest Author

    Here are a few more of the responses Howard got on his website from the article I printed two weeks ago.

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  • Theatre The Theatre Community Disdains (responses)

    11/20/2025

    LPint

    Here are a few of the responses Howard got on his website from the article I printed last week.

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    Categories: A. Newsletter, B. General Info, Z. Articles
  • Theatre The Theatre Community Disdains

    11/13/2025

    Guest Author

    I would like everyone to stop using “community theatre” as a punch line or punching bag.

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  • Sir Carol Reed and “Oliver!”

    09/23/2025

    Steven LaVigne

    By Steven LaVigne There are over 500 film adaptations of Charles Dickens’ writing.  At least 20 of these are based on his 1838 novel, Oliver Twist. Among them is a 1922 version starring Jackie Coogan as the title character opposite Lon Chaney, “the man of a thousand faces” as Fagin. Taking a look at this

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  • Sidney Lumet and “The Wiz”

    05/20/2025

    Steven LaVigne

    By Steven LaVigne Films based on the work of L. Frank Baum have been made for over a century. The first Wizard of Oz film was made in 1910. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) was a film before it became a novel, The first feature length version was released in 1925 starring Dorothy Dwan

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  • George Cukor and “My Fair Lady”

    04/15/2025

    Steven LaVigne

    My Fair Lady is one of the theater’s most phenomenal musicals.

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