2009-2010 Season
Each performance slot for the 2009-2010 Madison Theatre Guild season will feature two productions in repertory. Advance ticket purchase is recommended as there will be fewer overall performances for individual productions than in past seasons. All performances will take place at The Bartell Theatre, 113 E. Mifflin Street in Madison.
Exact performance dates and times are posted on each individual show page for the 2009-2010 season.
October 9-24, 2009 in the Evjue Theatre
Dennis Yadon, Stage Director
David Sytkowski, Music Director
One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.
October 14-24, 2009 in the Evjue Theatre
Directed by Betty Diamond
The story of real-life Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York socialite and tone-deaf diva who thought she was a great soprano.
January 8-30, 2010 in the Drury Theatre
Directed by Sam White
The Hotel Baltimore is seedy, run-down, and slated for demolition. Over the course of one day, the group of residents who call the Baltimore home, meet, talk, and play out the everyday encounters that make up the human comedy. The resulting mosaic is a poignant, though often hilarious plea for a return to a kinder and gentler world.
January 15-24, 2010 in the Drury Theate
Presented by Madison Savoyards in cooperation with MTG
Directed by Joan Brooks
The story of the famous Gilbert & Sullivan partnership; the meeting, the association with D’Oyly Carte, the mounting success, the divergences of temperament, the conflicting ambitions and the trouble caused by Gilbert's obsession with his lozenge story.
February 19-March 6, 2010 in the Evjue Theatre
Directed by David Woldseth
The story takes place in, as the title suggests, two rooms. One is a cell in Lebanon where Michael Wells is being held hostage by terrorists. The other is his office in his home in Washington D.C. where his wife Lanie waits for his return. The play deals with the subjects of the terrorism and the government, the media, and the love of a husband and wife.
February 25-March 13, 2010 in the Evjue Theatre
Directed by Joan Brooks
With the action of A Man for All Seasons as backdrop, Meg explores the forces imprisoning Margaret More, daughter of Sir Thomas More. "Meg", a uniquely isolated from her time and environment finds being an intelligent, independent woman in such a male-dominant society a double-edged sword.
Postponed until the 2010-2011 season
Music and Book by James Valcq with Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley
The Off-Broadway musical depicts the journey of a young woman just released from prison who decides to start her life anew in a rural Wisconsin town. She precipitates a journey within the town itself toward its own tenuous reawakening.
May 13-28, 2010 in the Drury Theatre
Directed by Betty Diamond
The Sea Horse is the name of a waterfront bar. It is populated by Gertrude, the owner (Big Old Two-Ton Gerty, they call her) and Harry - sailor, hired hand and stud. Harry persists in trying to get Gertrude to marry him. Gertrude persists in resisting.