January 21, 2016, Thursday - Ten Thousand Things' Dear World at Open Book (4 nights)

Time:  (See ticket link for daily show times)

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Ten Thousand Things presents: Dear World

Book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee
Based on "The Madwoman of Chaillot"
Music by Jerry Herman

Also: February 4, 5, 6, 7

Ten Thousand Things continues its season with the company’s first-ever production of Dear World, a musical based on Jean Giraudoux’s 1943 book The Madwoman of Chaillot. The Dear World book is by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee, with music by Jerry Herman. Sarah Rasmussen guest directs, with Peter Vitale as music director. Dear World follows of group of eccentrics and outcasts in Paris who band together to thwart the plans of businessmen plotting to extract oil from the land under the city’s streets and cafés. The play celebrates the power of unconventional outlooks that are unburdened by greed. The cast features Christina Baldwin, Sheena Janson, JuCoby Johnson, Kris Nelson, Janet Paone, Thomasina Petrus, Shawn Vriezen and Fred Wagner.

Following a tour of correctional facilities, low-income centers, schools, and shelters, the show will play to the public January 15–17 and 21–24 at Open Book in Minneapolis; January 28–31 at Bedlam Lowertown in St. Paul; and February 4–7 back at Open Book. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows start at 7:30 pm and Sunday shows at 4 pm.

Tickets are $30; pay what you can for audiences under age 30 (please present ID at the door). Information and tickets.