On Sunday night, MCT Community Theatre wrapped up its two-week run of Gilbert & Sullivan’s satirical operetta, “The Mikado,” with a frolicking performance at its home theatre on East Broadway in Missoula.
On Monday morning, MCT executive director Michael McGill set about the hard business of mending all that had gone awry over the weekend, when word spread across the Internet that MCT’s production advocated the beheading of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
What began with a single letter to the editor, published in last Friday’s Missoulian, quickly erupted into a nationwide controversy after dozens of political bloggers picked up the thread and ran with it – some adding their own colorful amendments to the story. [Read More...]
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Last week, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin took the podium at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia to lead that city’s venerable orchestra in a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Requiem.” Critics lauded the performance and the work of the French-Canadian conductor, who last summer was named the orchestra’s new music director, after a troubling period without a permanent leader.
But the program itself perhaps signaled something else about the times. [Read More...]
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I received an email that I thought I would post up here about a contest that Missoula Children’s Theatre is involved in. The winner gets $250,000, which would surely be a nice shot in the arm for the company. Here’s the email I received, with instructions on how to help out: [Read More...]
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Anybody who’s looked at Friday’s Entertainer knows that there’s a ton of interesting stuff happening as part of this year’s First Night Missoula festivities on Dec. 31. One performance that carries special significance is the appearance by the Frederico Brothers, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. [Read More...]
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Last weekend, more than 2,300 people turned out to cheer and sing along at Montana Actors’ Theatre’s production of “The Rocky Horror Show” at the Wilma Theatre. With four performances spread over just 32 hours, it was a watershed weekend for local professional theatre — a moment when good timing and material (“Rocky Horror” at a spooky old theatre on Halloween weekend) combined with a great production to set new standards for what’s possible in locally produced, professional theatre.
So Grant Olson can be excused if his head is still in the clouds.
“I didn’t sleep Friday after the shows,” said Olson, MAT’s artistic director. “When we finished, everybody in the cast was like, did we really just do this? Is it really over? When do we get to do that again? It felt almost surreal.”
For longtime Missoula theatergoers, it might have felt more like a flashback. [Read More...]
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