55th STRAW HAT PLAYERS SUMMER THEATRE!

SEASON of ANNIVERSARY

MAY 29 – JUNE 1

HANSEN THEATRE | MUSICAL

If you want to learn the fine art of living and talking Minnesotan (even if you’ve lived in Minnesota all your life!), come join Ed and Lucy Humde up at the Lost Walleye Lodge. The Humdes and their friends will teach you all you need to know, like the positive power of the negative, how to accept food on the third offer, the basic uses of “You bet,” “Whatever,” and “That’s different,” and the perfect recipe via the song “Hotdish Hallelujah.”

JUNE 5 – 8

GAEDE STAGE | MUSICAL

All-singing! All-dancing! All-big band! Based on Bob Hope’s 1942 USO tour to the troops in the field, All Hands on Deck! features the songs, dances and laughs that America has loved since the ’40s. Packed with over 40 classic songs, including, “Chattanooga Choo-Choo,” “Don’t Fence Me In,” and “America The Beautiful,” this show will have you humming along and tapping your feet.

JUNE 12 – 15

GAEDE STAGE | MUSICAL

Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk winner, The Last Five Years, has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of TIME Magazine’s ten best shows of 2001. The Last Five Years, is an emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, tells her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

JUNE 19 – 22

HANSEN

THEATRE | MUSICAL

Hailed as one of the perfect musical comedies, this awardwinning classic gambles with luck and love under the lights of Broadway. Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Join Nathan Detroit, his girlfriend Adelaide, Sky Masterson, and Sarah Brown, as they ride the rollercoaster of love and all that goes along with it. Featuring such popular tunes as, “A Bushel and Peck,” “Luck Be a Lady,” and the title song, “Guys and Dolls,” this show will have you falling in love all over again.

BUY TICKETS NOW! Purchase online at mnstate.edu/tickets or call the MSUM Box Office at (218) 477-2271 M-F from noon to 4 p.m.