Friends Club News 1st Quarter 2024

Something Rotten! Theatre Cedar Rapids (102 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids) Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 2:30pm

Welcome to the Renaissance! From the co-director of The Book of Mormon and the producer of Avenue Q comes something original…something hilarious…Something Rotten! Brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing, and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical! Cost is $51 per person and includes ticket, taxes, and fees. Register by Thursday, February 1. Chicago Hancher Auditorium (141 Park Rd, Iowa City) Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 2:00pm After 25 years, CHICAGO is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one show stopping song after another and the most astonishing dancing you’ve ever seen. No wonder CHICAGO has been honored with 6 Tony Awards, 2 Oliver Awards, a Grammy, and thousands of standing ovations. As we celebrate our 25th anniversary—you’ve got to come see why the name on everyone’s lips is still…CHICAGO. With a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb, CHICAGO is now the #1 longest-running American musical in Broadway history—and it still shows no sign of ever slowing down! Cost is $107 per person and includes Zone 1 seating, taxes, and fees. Register by Wednesday, April 3.

School of Rock Theatre Cedar Rapids (102 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids) Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 2:30pm

Rock got no reason, rock got no rhyme…You better get me to school on time! School of Rock, based on the hit Jack Black movie, follows Dewey Finn, a wannabe rock star who poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight–A pupils into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. But can he get them to the Battle of the Bands without their parents and the school’s headmistress finding out? School of Rock – with its sensational live kids’ rock band, is a loving testimony to the transforming power of music. Cost is $51 per person and includes ticket, taxes, and fees. Register by Thursday, April 11.

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