If you care about great theater, and great musical theater, in the Twin Cities, now's the time to show it by doing business with Theatre de la Jeune Lune, long one of the most imaginative and adventurous companies in the country.
The Star Tribune's Rohan Preston reports on the Strib front today that Jeune Lune's whopping $900,000-plus deficit and the departure of its top executive a few weeks ago mean the troupe's future is in question. As artistic director Dominique Serrand says, "I've invested 30 years of my life in this company, and it is everything to me. Whether we are here and strong, disband, or move to some place like Berlin -- that's up to the community. But the art will continue."
What a tragedy for Minnesota if the art continues in Berlin, rather than here.
Among Jeune Lune's greatest hits has been the amazing mashup of "Don Giovanni" and Beaumarchais' "Marriage of Figaro," called "Don Juan Giovanni," a clip of which is here. Now on stage is "The Deception," reviewed here by David Hawley.
Most important, here's how to buy tickets.
Dominic Papatola, the boy genius of Twin Cities theater critics, is less alarmed, as his column in the Pi-Press two weeks ago says.
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