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Escanaba In Love

by Jeff Daniels

April 30-May 25, 2008

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BoarsHead Theater is Mid-Michigan's oldest professional theater. Started in 1966 in a large barn in Fitzgerald Park in Grand Ledge as a summer stock company by John Peakes and Richard Thomsen, it became a year round theater company in 1970 and moved its winter quarters into a converted church on River Street in Grand Ledge.

In 1975, they moved into their present home in Lansing's Center for the Arts on the corner of Grand and Lenawee in downtown Lansing.

BoarsHead is nationally acclaimed for producing new plays and renowned for its top-quality productions, with many award winning performances and productions and for its very innovative and comprehensive Education and Outreach Programs.

Alumni History

Larry Atlas (playwright)

Ken Beechler

Mayor Virg Bernero

Prentiss Benjamin

John Bowman (actor, comedian)

Jim Burton

Larry Joe Campbell

Kim Carney (playwright)

Laura Collins

Stephen Dietz (playwright)

Kyle Euckert

Dann Florek

Robert Hall (actor, artist)

John Hammond

John Hardy

Anthony Heald

Dennis Howard

Gary Houston

Mary Beth Hurt

William Hurt 

Patricia Idlette

Margaret Ingraham

Andrew Johns (playwright)

Ora Jones

Gus Kaikkonen

Nancy Elizabeth Kammer

William Lyman

Laural Merlington

Stephan Metcalf (playwright)

Robert Miller

John Olive (playwright)

Michael John Paige

John Peakes ( BHT Founder)

Ian Peakes

Gordon Phetteplace (designer)

Paula Prentiss

John Randolph

Richard Riehel

Buck Schirner

John Dale Smith

Tim Stapleton (designer, artist)

Milan Stitt (playwright)

Karen Stock

Kraig Swartz

Kristine Thatcher

Richard Thomsen (BHT Founder)

Lenny Von Dohlen

Greg Vinkler

 

 
Production History

 

2007-2008 Season

Mrs. Warren's Profession Photos

Doubt

Moonlight and Magnolias

Murderers

Souvenir

Gidget

Summer 2007

The All Night Strut! (Remount) Photos

2006-2007 Season

Trying Photos

Unnecessary Farce * Photo

Holiday Memories Photo

The People vs. Friar Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet Photo

Court-Martial at Fort Devins (Edu./Michigan Premiere)

Voice of Good Hope Photo

If the Shoe Fits (Edu.) Photo

Underneath the Lintel Photo

Summer 2006

The All Night Strut! Photos

2005-2006 Season

King o' the Moon

No Way to Treat a Lady

Stones in His Pockets Photos

A Visit With Thomas Jefferson Photos

Bad Dates Photos

Pantomime Photos

Moonglow Photos

2004-2005 Season

Over the Tavern Photos

Humble Boy Photos

Christmas Carol Photos

Side by Side by Sondheim Photos

The Story

Comedy of Errors

Over the Tavern (encore)

2003-2004 Season

Our Town

Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Dance Like No One is Watching

Sarah, Ella & Pops Photos

Soccer Moms Photos

2002-2003 Season

The Exact Center Of The Universe

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!

Fully Committed Photos

Art

The Piano Lesson

Proof Photos

2001-2002 Season

Inherit The Wind

Golf With Alan Shepard

Wit

3 Days Of Rain

Mother's Day Photos

Ain't Misbehavin'

2000-2001 Season

To Kill A Mockingbird

Visiting Mr. Green

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You/The Actor's Nightmare

Blithe Spirit

The Old Settler

Always... Patsy Cline

Season 1999-2000

Cripple of Inishman

Grace and Glory

Woman In Black

Gross Indency: The 3 Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Soldier’s Play

Closer Than Ever

Season 1998-1999

Rough Crossing

Inspecting Carol

Gin Game

Hamlet

Having Our Say

Boomers*

Season 1997-1998

The Miracle Worker

The Compleat Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)

Escanaba In Da Moonlight

Wrong Turn At Lungfish

You Never Can Tell

Sylvia

Season 1996-1997

Losing Father's Body

Tuna Christmas

Diva Days*

Travels With My Aunt

Devil's Disciple

Forever Plaid

1995 - 1996 Season

The Seagull

Greetings

Escanaba In Da Moonlight

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Timesteps

1994 - 1995 Season

Candida

Sleuth

Laughing Wild

The Miser

The Man Who Came to Dinner

A…My Name is Still Alice

1993 - 1994 Season

The Crucible

Lettice and Loveage

Arms and the Man

I Hate Hamlet

Marvin’s Room

Ah, Wilderness

1992 - 1993 Season

Other People’s Money

Inspecting Carol

Shirley Valentine

The Hostage

Waiting For Godot

You Can’t Take it With You

1991 - 1992 Season

Eleemosynary

Fiddler on the Roof

The Mousetrap

Handy Dandy

The Mystery of Irma Vep

1990 - 1991 Season

Mass Appeal

King Lear

Under Milk Wood

Big Sister, Little Brother & Dumbarton Oaks

Vikings

Two Rooms

Driving Miss Daisy

1989 - 1990 Season

Educating Rita

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Lion In Winter

Not About Heroes

Voice of the Prairie

Painting Churches

Steel Magnolias

1988 - 1989 Season

Little Footsteps

The Importance of Being Ernest

Krapp’s Last Tape/ No Exit

Winterfare

A… My Name is Alice

1987 - 1988 Season

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Cat’s Paw

Habeus Corpus

Winterfare

Bulldog and the Bear

Master Harold … and the Boys

1986-1987 Season

Greater Tuna

In The Sweet Bye and Bye

The Time of Your Life

Winterfare

The Fifth of July

Pump Boys and Dinettes

Summer 1986 (Muskegon)

Greater Tuna

Jacque Brel

The Time of Your Life

The Foreigner

1985-1986 Season

The General’s Daughter*

The Foreigner

Our Town

Winterfare*

Home

Jacque Brel

Almauria: Voyage of the Dragonfly*

Summer 1985 (Muskegon)

Of Mice and Men

Josh: The Man and his Music

The Gin Game

Fallen Angels

1984-1985 Season

Crimes of the Heart

Nice Faces of 1943

Mornings At Seven

The Gift of the Magi

Foxfire

None of the Above*

A Doll’s House

Of Mice and Men

Hercules and Friends*

Summer 1984

The Michigan Play

Beyond the Fringe

Loot

1983-1984 Season

Da

Time Steps

Harvey

The Gift of the Magi

The Courtship of Carl Sandburg *

Tartuffe

Taking Comfort *

Why Am I Always Alone When When I’m With You*

The Little Prince*

Summer 1983

On Golden Pond

Kenneth and Barbara’s Musical Dreamhouse

The Sea Horse

1982-1983 Season

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All To You/ The Actor’s Nightmare

Second Prize: Two Months in Leningrad*

Scenes From an American Life

A Christmas Carol

REO: Internal Combustion*

How I Got the Story

The Miss Firecracker Contest

Half a Lifetime*

Josh*

Burnish Me Bright*

Summer 1982

White Linen

Feathers

I’m Almost Famous

Hypochondriac

1981-1982 Season

The Elephant Man

The Chinese Viewing Pavilion*

Fridays*

A Christmas Carol

The Gin Game

Talley’s Folly

Holy Mary*

Strange Snow*

A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking

Songs of the Mermaid*

Summer 1981 (Grand Ledge)

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Godspell

Deathtrap

1980-1981 Season

Waltz of the Toreadors

Gemini

The Palace of Amateurs*

Letters From Bernice*

Ah, Wilderness

Clara’s Play*

Oh, Coward!

Total Abandon*

Uncle King Arthur*

Summer 1980 (Grand Ledge)

California Suite

Hello, Dolly!

Broadway Spirit

Twig

1979-1980 Season

The Passion of Dracula

Brontosaurus Tales*

Sly Fox

The Glass Menagerie

Back in the Race*

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

Minnesota Moon*/Blue Note Memory Of Harvey & Rickey*

Summer 1979 (Grand Ledge)

Harvey

Man of La Mancha

George M!

Same Time Next Year

1978-1979 Season

Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolias

The Underpants

Dandelion Wine

Life in the Theater

Uncle Vanya

Steambath

Timesteps

The House of Blue Leaves

Summer 1978 (Grand Ledge)

Sunshine Boys

Cabaret

Fiddler on the Roof

The Male Animal

1977-1978 Season

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

The Norman Conquests

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Private Lives

Equus

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

The Runner Stumbles

Vanities

Summer 1977 (Grand Ledge)

Play It Again, Sam

Inherit The Wind

Dial “M” For Murder

George Washington Slept Here

The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd

1976-1977 Season

Two For The See Saw

Lion in Winter

Wait Until Dark

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

She Stoops to Conquer

Habeus Corpus

Pygmalion

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Summer 1976

The Mousetrap

Don’t Drink the Water

Three Penny Opera

Guys and Dolls

Luv

1975-1976 Season

The Amorous Flea

Savages

Misalliance

The Owl and The Pussycat

Born Yesterday

Who’s Happy Now?

The Hot L Baltimore

That Championship Season

Summer 1975 (Grand Ledge)

Jesus Christ Superstar

Man of La Mancha

Sound of Music

The Man Who Came to Dinner

What The Butler Saw

1974-1975 Season

6 Rooms Riv Vu

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Macbeth

Blithe Spirit

The Real Inspector Hound

Dames at Sea

The Tempest

Jesus Christ Superstar

Summer 1974 (Grand Ledge)

Butterflies Are Free

Our Town

Arsenic and Old Lace

Fiddler On The Roof

The Time of Your Life

Barefoot In The Park

I Do, I Do

1973-1974 Season

Staircase

When The Cat’s Away

There’s a Girl In My Soup

The Gingerbread Lady

The House of Blue Leaves

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

The Knack

Butterflies Are Free

Summer 1973 (Grand Ledge)

Springtime For Henry

Mandragola

The Typists/Black Comedy

Come Blow Your Horn

Children of Darkness

Money

1972-1973 Season

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

The Strongbox

Hay Fever

Arms and the Man

Loot

The Ms. Of The Inn

Waiting For Godot

Summer 1972 (Grand Ledge)

Anything’s Legal If You Don’t Get Caught

Once Upon a Mattress

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

The Boyfriend

Lion In Winter

The Owl and The Pussycat

1971-1972 Season

Mary, Mary

How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

The Fantasticks

The Underpants

What The Butler Saw

Hedda Gabler

The Apple Tree

A Taste of Honey

Private Lives

I Do, I Do

Summer 1971 (Grand Ledge)

You Know I Can’t Hear You When The Water’s Running

Plaza Suite

The Fantasticks

Charley’s Aunt

Ernest in Love

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

1970-1971 Season

Feiffer’s People

Oh, What a Lovely War!

Ernest in Love

The Marriage Proposal/On The Harmfulness of Tobacco/Krapp’s Last Tape

Luv

The Fantasticks

A Thousand Clowns

The Moon Is Blue

The Zoo Story/Next

The Private Ear and The Public Eye

Adaptation/Too Much Rope

Summer 1970 (Grand Ledge)

The Tiger/The Bear

Slow Dance on the Killing Ground

Jimmy Shine

Little Mary Sunshine

The Millionairess

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Star Spangled Girl

Eh? 

She’d Rather Kiss

The Odd Couple

Summer 1969

Any Wednesday

Amorous Flea

Hamlet

The Italian Straw Hat

Sunday in New York

The Knack

Death of a Salesman

Blithe Spirit

Never Too Late

Summer 1968 (Grand Ledge)

Luv

Candida 

The Deadly Game

Volpone

Romanoff and Juliet

The Odd Couple

Dracula

Twelfth Night

Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mom’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad

Barefoot in the Park

Summer 1967

Miracle Worker

A Shot in the Dark

The Fantasticks

Othello

The Taming of the Shrew

The Lady’s Not For Burning

Ring Round the Moon

Waltz of the Toreadors

Arms and the Man

Scapin

Summer 1966 (Grand Ledge)

A Thousand Clowns

See How They Run

Ah, Wilderness

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Under Milk Wood

King Lear

The Late Christopher Bean

Come Blow Your Horn

Private Lives

Waiting For Godot

 

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