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The Recipe for Laughter You've Been Waiting for!
Church Basement Ladies
Inspired by the best-selling book
Growing Up Lutheran
by Janet Martin and Suzann Nelson
Script by Jim Stowell and Jessica Zuehlke
Music & Lyrics by Drew Jansen
A celebration of the church basement kitchen and the women who work there, CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES, is a new musical comedy featuring four distinct characters and their relationships as they organize the food and solve the problems of a rural Minnesota church about to undergo changes in 1965. From the elderly matriarch of the kitchen to the young bride-to-be learning the proper order of things, we see them handle a record breaking Christmas dinner, the funeral of a dear friend, a Hawaiian Easter Fund Raiser, and, of course, a steaming hot July wedding. They stave off potential disasters, share and debate recipes, instruct the young, and keep the Pastor on due course while thoroughly enjoying, (and tolerating) each other as the true "steel magnolias" of the church. Funny and down to earth, audiences will recognize these ladies as they witness the church year unfold from below the house of God.
CHURCH BASEMENT
LADIES uses the renowned
Scandinavian Lutheran humor
writings of The Lutheran
Ladies, Janet Martin and
Suzann Nelson, authors of
a host of humorous books
the most famous being GROWING
UP LUTHERAN. The script is
by Jessica Zuehlke and Jim
Stowell with music and lyrics
by composer Drew Jansen,
who gave us the music for
the popular long-running
hit musical, HOW TO TALK
MINNESOTAN, THE MUSICAL.
FOR TOURING INFORMATION CONTACT:
Art
Fegan
Art
Fegan
Entertainment,
Inc.
320
Old Hickory
Blvd.
Unit
408,
Nashville,
TN 37221
Phone: (615) 646-9606
Website: www.artfegan.com
E-mail: Art@artfegan.com
 "Church Basement Ladies" Press Release
For booking information, contact
Troupe America, Inc. at 612-333-3302.
Press Photos
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Minneapolis
Star Tribune
"...wickedly
funny"
"...winning
music and some wickedly
funny portrayals."
"...should
fill Plymouth Playhouse
for many months."
"...celebrates
moments that constitute
poignant
memories for nearly anyone."
" 'Church
Basement Ladies'
is exquisite."
"...a
clever take on worship
life, no matter what
your stripe."
"...a
hot-dish musical
that is doing casserole
business..."
-
Graydon Royce, Star
Tribune
Minnesota
Monthly (MPR):
"...
dishing up laughs
and poignancy in
equal measure."
-
Minnesota Monthly
St.
Paul Pioneer Press
"...an
affectionate peek
at community life
with a pinch of whimsy..."
"After
a year, The 'Church
Basement Ladies'
are still cookin' "
"The
best example of a
'made in MN' show
that has gone on
to long lucrative
runs here, and in
other parts of the
country."
-
Dominic Papatolla,
St. Paul Pioneer Press
FM
107.1 WFMP
"You'll
laugh until your
side dish hurts!"
"So
funny, people might
go to church to hang
in the basement."
- Ian
Punnett, FM 107.1,
Mpls. WFMP
Fargo
Forum
"...most
certainly funny!"
"...an
affectionate send-up
to the women who
keep the
wheels of ritual running."
"You
don't have to be
Lutheran to get all
the gags..."
"...full
of not just laughs;
it's covered with
a sweet affection
that
goes
down like a desert bar."
-
Tom Pantera, Fargo
Forum
Minot
Daily News
"Bus
drivers report people
still are doubled
over with laughter
when they get back on their chartered bus."
-
Kim Fundlingsland,
Minot Daily New |
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