April 29 - May 14, 2010

The Happy Show

directed by Ryan Underbakke
created by the entire ensemble

The Happy Show is an immersive theatrical experience taking the audience down a rabbit hole that is unique to each person. The audience follows a group of happy-makers who have created happiness throughout the ages. They encounter characters that often interact with audience at specific moments throughout the Bedlam Theater building. The show promises to be poetic, whimsical, joyous, tantalizing, memorable, unique, exhausting, creative, innovative, beautiful, strange, satisfying, intuitive, provocative, musical, and above all... happy.

You can have the same experience twice, but you'd really have to try.

Why are we happy? What makes us happy? And how can we stay in this temporary state of being?

Games, music, distractions, explosions. Fantasy becomes reality. The Happy Show performs at the Bedlam Theater April 29 - May 14
(16 performances over 3 weeks)

Thursday, April 29 - Preview Performance 7:30 pm
Friday, April 30 - Opening night 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 1 - 4 pm
Saturday, May 1 - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, May 5 - 7:30 pm (PWYC)
Thursday, May 6 - 7:30 pm
Friday, May 7 - 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 8 - 4 pm
Saturday, May 8 - 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 9 - 4 pm
Sunday, May 9 - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, May 12 - 7:30 pm
Thursday, May 13 - 7:30 pm
Friday, May 14 - 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 15 - 4 pm
Saturday, May 15 - 7:30 pm

The cheapest dinner theater in town. (although it really isn't "dinner theater")
Tickets are 25 on Friday and Saturday nights, 20 all other times.
discounts available. Ticket price includes food and beverage!
link to purchase tickets is coming soon.

Live Action Set introduces The NightCap Series Live Action Set proudly supports the exceptional talents of emerging and established artists following select performances of The Happy Show. The evolving roster includes ... May 1st and May 9th, 2010 to the Lighthouse! a transformation presented by Ally Carey and Joanna Harmon Join us for bursts of song, ballet-sans-ballerinas, and petite shadow shows created and performed by Tim Cameron, Ally Carey, Elizabeth Griffith, Joanna Harmon, Gabe Murphy, Skyler Nowinski, and Tony Sarnicki. We borrow Virginia Woolf's story of the desires of an English family and their houseguests who dream, “I want… I want to be somewhere else than here… but where? And how?” Woolf made the form of the novel her own. She inspires us to do the same with the theater, and to follow her into the imagination, asking: How do you put the imagination on stage? * * * Saturday, May 1st, 10 pm Sunday, May 9th, 10 pm @ the Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis $10 "regular" admission $5 for students, flame-throwers, and Virginia Woolf aficionados “The show is surprisingly clever, poignant and graceful. It bursts with light and levity.” -Rohan Preston, Star Tribune