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For complete Theatre listings through 2010, click here to visit the KC Events calendar.

 Quality Hill Playhouse
Souvenir
Runs June 11 though July 11 at Quality Hill Playhouse
For tickets call 816-421-1700 or online at www.qualityhillplayhouse.com
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Florence Foster Jenkins wanted so much to make it to Broadway, and she finally did- by renting out Carnegie Hall and giving recitals that became legendary for her over-the-top (and under-the-pitch) performances. This show takes a humorous look at the true meaning of music and the art of performing.



Coterie Theatre's Lab for New Family Musicals
TYA Premiere: Lucky Duck
Runs June 22 through August 8 at Coterie Theatre
For tickets call 816-474-6552 or online at www.coterietheatre.org
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A singing swan supermodel!   It's The Ugly Duckling meets Project Runway, with music by the composer of Dreamgirls! Homely songbird Serena is viewed as an odd duck by her family, and escapes these fowl days of barnyard mockery to seek her special destiny-success as a supermodel swan.

Fishtank Performance Studio
53 Days and 52 Nights
Runs July 2 & 3, 8, 9, 10 & 12 at 9 p.m.
Crossroads Arts District at 1715 Wyandotte
For tickets call 816-809-7110 or online at http://fishtanktheater.blogspot.com/

The Fishtank Performance Studio premieres the Hybrid production of 53 Days & 52 Nights: A Clown Requiem, an original clown play in its storefront window in the Crossroads Arts District.  Under the direction of Fishtank Resident Damian Torres-Botello, Fishtank Curator Heidi Van along with collaborators Ingrid Andrea Guertsen and Coleman Crenshaw create a truly unique “theater al fresco.”

53 Days & 52 Nights is a story of dreams, desires, friendship and loss that unfolds on the platform of a train station.  The production, a cinematic clown epic, features original live music by Dan Eichenbaum and Fishtank Resident Peter Lawless, and animation created in collaboration with Digital Milk.

Paul Mesner Puppets, Inc.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Runs July 7 – 18 at 1006 E. Linwood Blvd.
For tickets call 816-235-6222 or online at www.paulmesnerpuppets.org
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Do you want to know the real story about Snow White and what really happened to her?  Come meet Snowdrop and her zany friends as they unravel the secrets of the vain Queen Fancy Pants and her talking mirror.  

Relevance Productions
Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)
July 8-11 and 15-18 at METSpace on Main Street
For tickets and information visit http://relevanceproductions.com
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The Kansas City Premiere of Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING) by Will Eno, 2005 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.  He's just like you, except worse. He is trying to save his life, to save your life—in that order. In his quest for salvation, he'll stop at nothing, be distracted by nothing, except maybe a piece of lint, or the woman in the second row.  Originating at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING) is an award-winning and unique theatrical experience not to be missed!
"Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the John Stewart generation... a small masterpiece."- The New York Times



American Heartland Theatre
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Runs July 9 through August 22 at American Heartland Theatre
For tickets call 816-842-9999 or online at www.ahtkc.com
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This adorable tale of six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, will have audiences in stitches. The show's Tony Award-winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes for whom a spelling bee is the one place they can stand out and fit in at the sames time.

This quirky yet charming group of misfits and outsiders learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. Spelling Bee is a light-hearted, feel-good show that prompts such easy to spell adjectives as charming, sweet, endearing and quirky.



Leawood Stage Company
Guys and Dolls
Runs July 15-19 and 22-24
Ironwoods Park Amphitheater,
147th and Mission Road, Leawood, Kansas
For tickets call 913-339-6700 x157 or online at www.leawoodstageco.org
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Guys and Dolls is often called "Broadway's perfect musical".  Celebrate the Tony-award winner's 60th Anniversary of its debut on Broadway with the Leawood Stage Company.  Guys and Dolls, a musical fable of Broadway, is based on a story and characters of "Damon Runyan, with book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows and music by Frank Loeser.



Starlight Theatre
Dreamgirls
Runs July 20-25 at Starlight Theatre
For tickets call 816-363-7827 or online at www.kcstarlight.com 
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Full of onstage joy and backstage drama, DREAMGIRLS tells the story of an up-and-coming 1906s singing girl group. This re-envisioned Tony® and Academy Award®-winning musical features unforgettable hits “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” “One Night Only” and “Listen.”

Starlight 2010 Broadway Series
Beauty and the Beast
August 10-15
The Producers
August 23-29
Rain
September 7-12



Kansas City Actors Theatre
Sam Shepard's "True West"
Runs July 23 through August 15 at City Stage, Union Station
For tickets call 816-235-6222 or online at www.kcactors.org
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Over twenty years ago, KCAT favorites Jim Birdsall and Mark Robbins brought Lee and Austin to life on the Missouri Repertory Theatre stage. Now see them again as they reprise their roles in this classic Sam Shepard play about a screen writer and his renegade brother, their testosterone-driven rivalries and what happens when the success of one brother means the failure of the other.
“True West has arguably become Shepard’s signature piece, the leanest, most pointed of his full length works.” ~ David Krasner, A Companion to 20th-Century American Drama
Directed by Bob Elliott



KC Fringe Festival 2010
Runs July 23- August 1.
Read the KCM preview here

For complete Theatre listings through 2010, click here to visit the KC Events calendar.