J"Wise Guys: Conversations for Men": U-M Turner Senior Wellness Program.JPaper Plate Flying Saucers: AADL Westgate.J“Investigate Labs”: U-M Museum of Natural History.J“How to Thrive While Aging Solo”: Pittsfield Township Senior Center.J“Nature Play Morning Pop-Ups”: Matthaei Botanical Gardens.JMah-jongg: U-M Turner Senior Wellness Program.J“Learning and Teaching by Gardening”: Washtenaw County Parks & Recreation Commission.JFlower Arranging: Pittsfield Township Senior Center.Theatre Nova presents Sugar Plum Panto from November 26 through December 23. Sweetest of all, the Panto Dame tosses candy to girls and boys–of every age–in each show. One night, even mayor Chris Taylor and his wife, actress Eva Rosenwald, dropped in and read aloud their favorite Christmas book.
Theatre Novas pantos continue that tradition, with magicians, musicians, and local childrens choirs doing short bits and interacting with the actors. MacKenzie Lewis, who composed the music for last years panto, has this year mixed in a little Tchaikovsky and added original songs, including Tick Tock and Kick Butt.īritish panto always has a community aspect, with every show incorporating guest cameo appearances by prominent and less familiar members of the local citizenry.
Weve taken loads of liberties, as usual, says Milarch.
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Sonja Marquis (most recently in Encore Musical Theatres Always Patsy Cline), Dan Morrison (who appeared in The Full Monty at EMT), and Sarah Stevens Briggs (who was also in The Full Monty and will be in Wild Swans upcoming A Christmas Carol) will between them portray Clara, the Mouse King, and Tante Drosselmeyer, this years Panto Dame, plus other characters new to the tale. The way we do the panto, says Theatre Nova founder and artistic director Carla Milarch, I come up with a first draft of the script, and then the cast takes it and improvises and inserts their own flavor. This years panto promises similar high jinks, with variations on yet another familiar and beloved Christmas tale, The Nutcracker, this time the original German version, Nussknacker und Mauseknig. Throughout the play the actors raced around breathlessly, chased each other through the aisles and the audience, and frequently slammed hilariously into the immovable metal pole in the center of the Yellow Barns stage. Santa Claus, an elf, and even the Abominable Snowman. Panto 2015, which was very loosely related to the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, featured Rudolph herself imaginatively costumed in antlers and pom-pom tail, a cross-dressed Mrs. Theatre Nova premiered a local Americanized version of a panto last holiday season with An Almost British Christmas. It is full of sly references to current events, jokes, and double entendres that fly right over the heads of the younger set but land unerringly on grownup funny bones. Its not sophisticated, highbrow theater, but rowdy, raucous entertainment filled with silly slapstick, frequent pratfalls, and madcap chase scenes. The traditional British family entertainment is more like vaudeville meets melodrama meets commedia dellarte: a zany, wacky mash-up of sketch comedy, music, and stock characterslike the cross-dressing Panto Dameplus bits of audience participation. Though panto is short for pantomime, it has nothing to do with silent mimes wearing white makeup, berets, and striped shirts.
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