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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..."
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Graydon Royce, Star Tribune
Minnesota
Monthly:
(Top Five "Must See" picks for 2005)
"...
dishing up laughs and
poignancy in equal
measure."
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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' "
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Dominic Papatolla, St.
Paul Pioneer Press
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."
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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."
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Kim Fundlingsland, Minot
Daily New
Duluth
News/Tribune
"Church
Basement Ladies brews
up yuks."
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Duluth News/Tribune
Minnetonka
Magazine
"Want
to see a white-haired
lady wearing an apron
and
orthopedic
shoes dance the polka?"
-
Suzanne P. Campbell,
Minnetonka Magazine
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