Rubber Chicken
The Chicken Hat Plays, sponsored in part by Pizza Luce!
This Saturday, come see 8 plays that don’t exist right now.
Eight writers draw their prompts from hats full of suggestions on Friday night. (Odds are pretty good that someone will get “wiener.”)
Eight directors and a bunch of actors show up Saturday morning. Each director draws a script from a hat, then their cast from a hat, then they all go away.
Saturday is spent memorizing lines, finding costumes and props, and general cramming.
Saturday night at 7pm, you get 8 original world premiere plays from the area’s bravest theatrical artists.
All of this for ten bucks.
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Rubber Chicken Theater presents “The Awesome 80s Prom”
Friday, May 13, 20 and 27 at 7:30
Great Lakes Ballroom at the downtown Holiday Inn
Tickets: $25 couple, $15 single, $10 per person for tubular groups of 8 or more
It’s like Tony and Tina’s Wedding, if Tony and Tina had been at a high school prom in the 80s.
Dance the night away to Boy George, Michael Jackson, Men at Work, and more. Vote for Prom King and Queen. Play in an Air Band Contest. Party like it’s 1989!
Call (218) 213-2780 for most excellent tickets, dude.
Final Weekend for “Completely Hollywood”
The reviews are in!
“Frankly, my dear, you should give yourself a damn treat and see this show.” –Rhett Butler
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These boobs are real!
“Completely Hollywood (abridged)”, March 25-26, April 1-2, 8-9.
Rubber Chicken Theater takes on Tinseltown in this seriously silly show at The Shack. (Try saying that fast five times.) 186 classic movies, crammed into one show. Plus, yummy food and YOU could help recreate a zombie scene, live onstage!
Call (715) 392-DINE to reserve your spot.
Is that a Chip in your Cravaack or are you just happy to see me?
The only sketch comedy revue in town this holiday season.
WARNING: show features adult use of the word “Cravaack.”
December 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, and 30-31 at 7pm
The Venue at Mohaupt Block, next to Anderson Furniture
Stick around after the Saturday performances for the return of Cracked Egg Improv, free with paid revue admission.
More info: 218-213-2780, RubberChickenTheater.com
Rubber #@$! Chicken presents David #$@%! Mamet’s “American $#&*!@# Buffalo”
May was a great time for homegrown music. June is shaping up to be the month for homegrown theater.
Rubber Chicken Theater presents
“American Buffalo” by David Mamet
June 3-5, 10-12, 17-19
7pm at The Venue at Mohaupt Block.
Directed by Minden Anderson
Featuring Tony Barrett, Brian Matuszak and Tate Haglund-Pagel
218-213-2780, rubberchickentheater.com
Rubber Chicken Radio Hour is on the air!
Featuring Rockin’ Johnny Rocker, Morning Drive Homicide Detective
Father Stu, Naked City Hall and more general silliness.
Broadcast live from the Shack in Superior on KUWS 91.3FM.
Friday, May 7 at 7pm
Celebrity Guest: Matt Perrine from the Budgeteer News
Musical Guest: River (Ryan Jordan and Paul Vogel)
Be a part of the live studio audience for just $5.
(218) 213-2780, RubberChickenTheater.com.
Back by Popular Demand!!
Rubber Chicken Theater presents “The Great American Trailer Park Musical”
April 9-10, 16-17, 23-24, dinner seating at 6:30pm
April 11, 18, and 25, dinner seating at 12noon
Agoraphobia, 80s nostalgia, road kill, strippers and disco. It’s everything a musical should be.
Call The Shack at (715) 392-DINE for reservations. Hurry, they go fast!
Cheryl Skafte IS Don Ness!
Cheryl Skafte as Don Ness.
John Munson as Rockin’ Johnny Rocker, Morning Drive Homicide Detective.
Christa Lawler as Christa Lawler. And music from Sara Thomsen.
That’s a lot of entertainment for just five dollars.
The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour, broadcast live on KUWS 91.3FM this Thursday at 8pm. (But all the fun is had in the live studio audience at The Shack in Superior…) Call (218) 213-2780 for tix.
Free ticket to Cracked Egg Improv — Thursday, Jan. 28 only!
Free ticket! This Thursday, Jan. 28 only!
Mention this Super Secret Email and get TWO tickets for the price of ONE!
Cracked Egg Improv, a tiny wing of Rubber Chicken Theater, is back to making it up as they go along this Thursday at 7pm at Dubh Linn Comedy Pub, 109 W. Superior St. in downtown Duluth.
Five dollars gets you TWO tickets to this week’s shows. Plus, hold onto that ticket stub for a half price drink after the show.
See both you, and your friend, there!
Rubber Chicken Radio Hour has a permanent home at The Shack
The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour has a new permanent home at the Shack in Superior. (more…)
Come out to beautiful Cloquet for some G & S Comic Opera!
Rubber Chicken Theater heads down I-35 to stage An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan on Feb. 11, 12, and 13 at 7:30pm and February 14 at 2:00pm at the Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery in Cloquet, Minnesota. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. (more…)
“Waiting for Godot” by Rubber Chicken Theater
Two down-on-their-luck tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, fill their days as painlessly as they can as they wait for someone named Godot to show up. Godot, they believe, will be able to explain their interminable insignificance, or put an end to it. (more…)
The Great Thanksgiving Blizzard of 1983
Just wondering if anyone else remembers the big snowstorm of ’83? It actually hit the night before Thanksgiving. I was working at what was called the Duluth Arena then and we got snowed in. I got to pull my car inside and sleep in the auditorium mezzanine. It was pretty sweet. We took an Arena ice truck and tried to get to Superior for some beer, but had to turn back. We did manage to walk down in the middle of the blizzard and eat at Godfather’s on London Road, right before they closed up shop. I remember we even managed to throw a snowball or two at Jack McKenna’s weather window on Michigan Street.
Good times.
The coolest thing about this monster blizzard was the thunder and lighting. That was the first time I had ever seen that, and I don’t think it’s happened since.
“Have Yourself an H1N1 Christmas, or, Snufflin’ in a Swine Flu Wonderland”
Rubber Chicken Theater presents its second annual Holiday Comedy Revue, entitled “Have Yourself an H1N1 Christmas, or, Snufflin’ in a Swine Flu Wonderland.” (more…)
UWS Theatre Alumni production of “The Fourth Wall”
In conjunction with UW-Superior Alumni Days Events, and in honor of Professor John D. Munsell’s induction into the UW-Superior Communicating Arts Wall of Service, Rubber Chicken Theater is working in cooperation with University Theatre to present an All UWS Theatre Alumni production of the comedy The Fourth Wall by A. R. Gurney. The Fourth Wall will be performed at the Experimental Theatre inside the Holden Fine and Applied Arts Center at UWS.
The show will be performed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 8, 9, and 10 at 8pm. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors, and $5 for current UWS students and can be reserved by calling (218) 213-2780 and are also available at the door. (more…)
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Joyful and unashamedly vulgar, The Great American Trailer Park Musical has been called South Park meets Desperate Housewives, and Jerry Springer set to music by theater critics around the country. (more…)
Ride the Rubber Chicken Charter to Applefest this October!
On Saturday, October 3, make it a beautiful fall day of crunchy apples and corny jokes as KUWS Radio and Rubber Chicken Theater invite you to ride in style to Applefest in Bayfield aboard the Rubber Chicken Charter.
The Rubber Chicken Charter will leave from Wessman Arena on the campus of UWS at 11:00am, and gets back to Superior at 10:30pm. There will be plenty of time in beautiful Bayfield to enjoy the sights and sounds of Applefest, then, at 5:00pm, you will be in the audience for the LIVE broadcast of The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour. The show will be performed smack dab in the middle of Applefest, right on the main stage. The show will feature local musicians from Big Top Chautauqua, a Brett Favre apple sketch or two, and other fun surprises.
Cost to ride the Rubber Chicken Charter is just $20. Seating is limited, so reserve your spot today by contacting Kim Gustafson at KUWS Radio (kgustafs@uwsuper.edu, 715-394-8530). Credit cards are accepted.
Cracked Egg Improv, a wing of Rubber Chicken Theater, debuts this Thursday
Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at 8pm, starting July 23rd, come to Dubh Linn Comedy Pub and watch us make it up as we go along. Just five bucks. That is a lot of intentional comedy for five bucks. (I know, I know. You get more from City Hall every day and that’s free, but what can you do?)
www.RubberChickenTheater.com or (218) 213-2780 for more info.
The Chicken Hat Plays, July 10 & 11 in Proctor
The Chicken Hat Plays July 10 & 11 at Proctor Area Community Center – 7PM Both Shows
Rubber Chicken Theater presents 16 world premiere plays, all created in one weekend….It’s The Chicken Hat Plays, sponsored in part by Pizza Luce. (more…)
Rubber Chicken Theater presents “Humpty Dumpty: The Musical”
Funny jokes, men in dresses, silly puppets, The Egg Man himself….there’s something for everyone!
May 22-24 and 29-31 at the beautiful Scottish Rite Auditorium.
Fridays at 7pm, Saturdays at 3 & 7pm, Sundays at 3pm
Written and Directed by Chani Ninneman
Original Music by Patrick Colvin
Tix & Info: (218) 213-2780, www.RubberChickenTheater.com
Sponsored in part by the Lake Superior Zoo, Perfect Duluth Day, and also made possible in part by a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (www.ARACouncil.org) through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature.
Rubber Chicken Radio Hour, Live at The Thirsty Pagan
The next live broadcast of The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour will be Wednesday, April 29, from 7-8pm at The Thirsty Pagan in Superior, Wisconsin. The show will be broadcast live on KUWS 91.3FM, but being in the studio audience to see how it all comes together is the most fun, and admission is FREE…but you really should buy a pizza and a beer or two.
The Celebrity Guest for this show is Super Dave Anderson from the Northland’s News Center. Musical guest is Jim Madison, guitarist/singer/improvisational musician extraordinaire.
Some of the sketches in this edition of The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour include a behind-the-scenes peek at why Mark Winson decided to leave Mayor Don Ness after only two months, and how Dennis Anderson decides to spice up his newscasts after hearing about the success Pat Kelly had with The Full Monty at the Duluth Playhouse (The Full Denny, anyone?)
Final Weekend for “QED”
“QED”, starring Brian Matuszak & Cheryl Skafte, and directed by Minden Anderson.
March 20-22 at the Shack
Good food, great show!
Call (715) 392-3463 and reserve your spot soon!
Rubber Chicken Theater at The Shack for 2 more weekends!
“QED” by Peter Parnell
March 13-15 and 20-22
Starring Brian Matuszak and Cheryl Skafte
Directed by Minden Anderson
Physics can be fun! At least when taught by Richard Feynman, the real-life Nobel Prize winning physicist who also frequented topless bars, played bongos, and appeared in college theater productions. Oh yeah, he also figured out the atomic bomb and the space shuttle Challenger explosion.
Call (715) 392-3463 for tickets and a delicious dinner!