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Got your MayDay cape flowing?

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

So far this month, there have been three weeks worth of MayDay Public Workshops. The first Sunday in May is this coming weekend.

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The Public Recluse

THEATER REVIEW | Theatre in the Round's "Treasure Island" is magical

By Madeline Salmon, TC Daily Planet

Jason Paul Andrews in Treasure Island. Photo © Act One, Too, Ltd., courtesy Theatre in the Round.

Should you choose to see Theatre in the Round’s production of Treasure Island, your evening may go something like this: an usher takes you to your seat, walking you across the treasure map painted on the stage, and the first thing you notice is the smell of wood and smoke. When you take your seat, you realize you never left the set at all, because rigging and seagulls and pirate paraphernalia adorn the walls around you. Then the lights come down, the waves roll, and the story begins. You join Billy Bones in singing “Dead Man’s Chest” in spite of yourself. Soon Jim and the pirates are dashing through the aisles beside you and perching in the balconies above you, and you wonder for a split second if you remembered to feed the cat before going in search of buried treasure.

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ArtsLab: Embracing the Beloved

By Bradley Machov, TC Jewfolk

On a snowy Sunday in April, I crashed a rehearsal of Embracing the Beloved, a performance so hot the snow will surely melt by their debut in the Jewish community at the Sabes JCC on May 1st at 7:30 PM.

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TC Jewfolk

"Mary Poppins" musical: Simply supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

By Allie Brown, Critical Review

On Tuesday, April 23, I saw Mary Poppins at the Oprheum Theatre. There were two distinct age groups: middle aged people and families.

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"Mary Poppins" musical: Just the right amount of sugar

By Jenn Fabian, Critical Review

Walking into the Orpheum this past Tuesday night it was safe to say that I had very high expectations.  I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen that movie over the past seventeen years and really, once you’ve gone Disney, you can’t go back.  And after a few rough starts, it’s safe to say this show was certainly a spoonful of sugar.

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"Mary Poppins" musical: Supercali-nope

By Emma Dalen, Critical Review

When, as a small child, I was first shown the movie Disney’s “Mary Poppins” by my mother, I didn’t like it all that much.  I recently was shown it as a teenager, and I quite enjoyed it.  The catchy music was enjoyable, and I thought that the storyline was quite interesting.  Seeing the Broadway musical was something that I was starting to look forward to.  After seeing the musical on stage, my opinion on it is that I much prefer the movie.  Disney’s “Mary Poppins” is being performed at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis till the twenty-eighth of April.  It was written by Julian Fellowes and directed by Richard Eyre.

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"Mary Poppins" musical: Sugar helps the medicine go down

By Kyanna Sturm, Critical Review

Mary Poppins, a whimsical Disney classic, is showing at the Orpheum and it is a show you do not want to miss.

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Critical Review

DARE to bring your children to the "Mary Poppins" musical

By Becca Tincher, Critical Review

Did you see that title? That's right, you can dare to bring your children along to a theater production! There will be no nudity, very little destruction of innocence and childhood, and altogether shocking amounts of child-appropriate humor! It's almost scandalous!

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"Mary Poppins" musical: Just a touch of magic

By Alison Grausam, Critical Review

It was nearly three hours of my childhood playing on repeat. Mary Poppins, a musical playing at the Orpheum Theatre, is the innocence of childhood complete with the kind of magic that

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