Musical Combat!

Musical Combat is coming your way, June 7^th and 8^th.  You already know that Bunny Gumbo fills the stage with a ton of talent, but did you know that talent can sing?  We’ve had plays with songs in the past, but this is the first Combat where half of the shows will be musicals.  Our superb cast of  Milwaukee talent will create 16 brand new shows in just 48 hours.

The Bunny Gumbo Theatre Company presents Musical Combat.

8 writers

8 directors

30 actors

16 plays is 48 hours

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC) 325 W. Walnut Street (on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive)

Friday, June 7^th and Saturday, June 8th at 8:00 pm.

Tickets are $18 and available at the door only.  Weekend packages are available for only $30.

For more info, visit us at www.bunnygumbo.com  and http://bunnygumbo.wordpress.com

Bunny Gumbo; we do it because we can!

Come see the show that’s naughty AND nice!

Have you heard?  A special holiday season Combat is coming your way this weekend.  Bunny Gumbo has put together a superb cast of Milwaukee talent to create 16 brand new shows in just 48 hours.  Work off that Thanksgiving meal, put Black Friday and Cyber Monday out of your head, and forget about your Christmas shopping list for a while.  Come see the show that’s both naughty AND nice.

The Bunny Gumbo Theatre Company presents Combat Theatre.

8 writers

8 directors

30 actors

16 plays is 48 hours

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC) 325 W. Walnut Street (on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive)

Friday, November 30th and Saturday, December 1st at 8:00 pm.

Tickets are $18 and available at the door only.  Weekend packages are available for only $30.

For more info, visit us at http://www.bunnygumbo.com or http://bunnygumbo.wordpress.com

Bunny Gumbo; we do it because we can!

 

Combat Weekend is Here!!!

Get your Combat on!

It only comes around twice a year.  Your chance to get your fill of Combat madness is this weekend.

8 writers, 8 directors, 35 actors and 1 pianist coming together to create 16 new shows over the course of 48 hours.

The Bunny Gumbo Theatre Company presents Combat Theatre

Friday and Saturday, June 1^st and 2^nd at 8:00 pm

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC)

325 W. Walnut St. (on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive)

Tickets are $18 and available at the door only

We do it because we can!

www.bunnygumbo.com

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Don’t Get Freaked Out!

It’s Combat Theatre, baby!

60 of your favorite theatre artists will be coming together once again to create a fantastic weekend of shows.  16 plays each written, directed and acted within 24 hours.  And all for less than you’d expect to pay for your average freak show.

Bunny Gumbo presents Combat Theatre.  June 1st and 2nd at 8:00 pm.  The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC), 325 W. Walnut Street (on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive).  Tickets are $18 and available at the door only.  Or buy the weekend pass for $30.

We do it because we’re really good at it!

Christmas Comes Early!

Ah, the holidays.  Shopping, food, drink, travelling, family, friends, office parties, football…and heartburn, lots and lots of heartburn.  That time between Thanksgiving and the New Year seems to fly by and sometimes we forget to simply take some time to relax and be entertained.  So in the spirit of giving, we wish to give you an evening of pure entertainment.

 

The Bunny Gumbo Theatre Company proudly presents The Best of Combat Theatre…so far!  One night, and one night only, you can revisit 8 of the best plays from the last decade.  8 gifts which will be presented one last time before they are put away forever.

 

The Cowboy by Patrick Holland

Desperately Seeking Septums by Michelle Hoffman

Heartbeats and Hoofbeats by Jim Thibodeau

Love Bites by Doug Jarecki

Pee Wee’s Fan Adventure by Randy Rehberg

So-So Sorenson Saves the Day by John Van Slyke

To Pee or Not to Pee by Julie Pandl

Triumph of the Still by Tony Wood

 

Saturday, December 17^th at 8:00 pm

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC)

325 W. Walnut (on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive)

Tickets for this special benefit show are $25 and available at the door only.

 

In addition to this fine evening of entertainment there will be many items up for grabs at our silent auction, so bring your checkbooks.

 

Bunny Gumbo; we do it because we can!

 

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A Strange Wind

Welcome to City Anywhere, USA.  Oh it might be just a town or it might be a thriving metropolis.  Size doesn’t matter; not in this story.  Joy has left this city, at least for the women.  They go to work at unsatisfying jobs, to gyms as much to stave off  boredom as stay in shape, they stop at grocery stores to pick up meals for one and they go to clubs hoping to find a companion if only for a night.  And so goes their routines, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.

Yes, nothing much of anything happens here in Anywhere USA and no one seems to mind.  And time, it does seem to pass.  But there’s a warm wind blowing through the streets of Anywhere, and it’s bringing something with it.  The change is subtle at first, nothing more than a little dust blowing through the streets, hardly worth mentioning.  But then the tumbleweeds begin to roll through.  Strange as that may seem, the citizens of Anywhere take no note of the change, or at least most of them don’t.  Seems there are these three women, three women who have never met each other, Linda, Kim and Amanda, and they do indeed see what is happening.  All three of these women set out to find the source of this strange wind and find…

…The Cowboy!  Patrick Holland brings us the uplifting tale of a man who isn’t what he appears to be.  A man who has one mission; to bring joy to the women of Anywhere, USA.  The Cowboy strikes up a relationship with each of these women, opening up their minds and their hearts.  He brings bliss where all hope was lost.  But can it last?  What happens on the fateful day when they all run into each other?  Will they continue to live out their new lives, or will they go back to their old ways?  Or is it all some kind of joke?  The answer can only be found in one place and on one night.

The Bunny Gumbo Theatre Company presents The Best of Combat Theatre…so far!
8 of the finest plays from the last decade.
Saturday, December 17th at 8:00 pm.
The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC)
325 W. Walnut Street, on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive

Tickets for this benefit show are $25 and available at the door only.

Bunny Gumbo: We do it because we can.

For more info visit us at http://www.bunnygumbo.com

A Scandal of Epic Proportion

There’s a sleepy little community on the east coast where life moves at a different pace.  It’s a little slice of heaven; cookouts, block parties, ice cream socials and everyone knows their neighbors.  The kind of place where doors are left unlocked and bikes are left on the lawn.  Secluded from the rest of the world, the people here don’t have to face the problems of the big city…or do they?

Someone is preying on the children.  There’s a dark secret that has been kept quiet for decades, but now, at long last, the truth is starting to leak out.  A man in this community, a seemingly harmless man with the perfect excuse to be working with children all the time, is not who he seems to be.  And when this secret comes to light it will rock the entire community.  This man must be stopped.  This man is a clown and his name is…

…Pennywise.

 

Abhorrent, yes, but dig beneath the surface a little bit and you’ll see that there’s another side to this child-eating clown.  Underneath the grease paint lies a deeply conflicted man, a man in love.  And against all odds his love, Susan, finds herself falling for this clown.  They both want children, but can they face his awful truth or will it tear their world apart?

Doug Jarecki tackles the difficult and all too relevant issue of child-eating clowns in his dark drama, Love Bites, and it can only be seen one place and on one night.

 

The Bunny Gumbo Theatre Company presents The Best of Combat Theatre…so far!

Saturday, December 17^th at 8:00 pm.

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC)

325 W. Walnut Street, on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive

 

Tickets for this benefit show are $25 and available at the door only.

 

Bunny Gumbo: you’ll laugh so hard you’ll sprout a clown nose.

 

For more info visit us at www.bunnygumbo.com

Pants on the Ground

It’s the nature of Combat Theatre that most of the pieces are comedic.  The writers are given a ridiculous pairing of a subject and location and the jokes tend to follow.  But every now and again one of our writers is inspired to write a drama, and that’s just what Michelle Hoff man did when she drew the pairing of Sleep Disorders on a Soap Opera.

Little Billy needs a septum transplant to save his life and there’s only one institution that performs such a delicate procedure and that institution is Desperate Hope Hospital.  And there’s only one surgeon with the hands capable of performing such a feat and that surgeon is Dr. Brock Stronghand.  And there’s only one actor capable of playing such a role, but we’re going to let Jarecki play it again anyway.

Watch as Brock, Dr. Haley McShane and Nurse Celeste race against the clock to save Little Billy’s life, and keep Doug from taking his clothes off.  It’s “Desperately Seeking Septums” and you only have one chance to see an encore of this play originally produced in June of 2007.

It’s “The Best of Combat Theatre…so far!” 

One night only: Saturday, December 17^th, 2011

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center , 325 W. Walnut (on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive)

Tickets for this benefit for the Bunny Gumbo Theatre Company are $25 and available at the door only.

You’ll laugh so hard, you’ll need a new septum.

What if you could go back?

The beauty of Combat Theatre is that it arrives in a flash.  A show that didn’t exist 24 hours earlier is fully realized, and those in attendance get to share the great joy of having 8 shows smack them in the kisser.  But those shows only exist for that single evening, residing in the collective memories of that particular audience, but never to be seen again.

But what if you could go back?  Maybe not to every show, but to those really special shows that everyone talks about; the ones you could kick yourself for having missed.  Would you?

You have that opportunity, but only for one night and in one place.  8 of the best plays from the last decade will grace the stage once again with many of the original cast members inhabiting the roles they originated.

Magicians in Northern Wisconsin

Fast Dating at the Running of the Bulls

A Fan Dance in Pee Wee’s Playhouse

Hamlet in a Kiddie Pool

Stephen King in a Nest

A Drug Experience at an Accident Scene

Sleep Disorders on a Soap Opera

and

Nazis in Mayberry

The Bunny Gumbo Theatre Company presents: The Best of Combat Theatre…so far!

Saturday, December 17^th at 8:00 pm

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC)

325 W. Walnut (on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive)

Tickets for this special benefit show are $25 and available at the door only.

You’ll be able to tell your grandkids you were there!

For more info visit our website at: www.bunnygumbo.com

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Bunny Gumbo – We do it because we can!

Win tickets to see The Best of Combat Theatre…so far!  Send pictures of your Halloween get up to bunnygumbo@wi.rr.com  The winning submission will receive two tickets to the show.  Act fast!  All submissions must be received no later than midnight on November 2^nd, 2011.  Get your Bunny on!

Get your Bunny on!

The year is 1960.  Things are well in America.  We’ve won World War II, survived the Korean War and Vietnam isn’t even on the radar yet.  Jack Kennedy is on the cusp of being elected and leading us into the golden age of Camelot.  CBS seizes upon this season of good will and introduces widower and sheriff Andy Griffith and his son Opie.  Set in the sleepy town of Mayberry North Carolina, Sheriff Andy sets out to clean up…well nothing.  Mayberry is as idyllic a place as you could wish for.  Wisdom is dispensed freely in the barber shop, fish are as fresh and abundant as the good will in the town, and apple pies cool on every windowsill for miles and miles.

Things are perfect in Mayberry…or are they?  Let’s slow that camera down just a wee bit and see what’s really going on.  Wait a minute, what’s that over there?  Is that..yes I believe it is…it’s NAZI’S!  Nazi’s in Mayberry!  For the first time explore what really happened in Mayberry during the Cold War.  It’s Tony Woods’ The Triumph of the Still and it will blow your mind.

Bunny Gumbo presents The Best of Combat Theatre…so far!  Eight of the greatest plays from the last ten years.  One night only, Saturday, December 17^th at 8:00pm.  The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC) 325 W. Walnut Street (on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive.)  Tickets for this special benefit are $25 and available at the door only.  You’ll laugh so hard, you’ll grow a little moustache.