Coming in December 2025: our 20TH ANNIVERSARY Festival!
pm:Fortune's Fool Theatre turns TWENTY this fall, and what better way to celebrate than to present FREE THEATRE, enabling anyone in the Twin Cities to attend? Playing in repertory will be two irreverent, bawdy musicals that thumb their noses at the powers that be: first, a remount of the biggest hit in our history, YARRRH! THE LUSTY, BUSTY PIRATE MUSICAL, a swashbuckling parody of classic pirate movies and traditional gender roles; second, the WORLD PREMIERE of an audacious, daffy sequel, HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!, which ridicules the holiday season and billionaires who aspire to run the country. Both shows feature a live orchestra and three extraordinary women singing, swordfighting, and playing over twenty roles (male and female) between them!
Performances to be held at The Hive Collaborative, 677 Hamline Avenue N., St. Paul, December 5-21. Join the rollicking FREE FUN!
Note: these ARRRH-rated shows are recommended for those 12 and over; younger kids may have some *interesting* questions after the show!
Written by Daniel Pinkerton and Chris Gennaula
Directed by Erika Sasseville
Music directed by Brenda Varda
Orchestra: Dee Langley, accordion
Stage manager: Chris Goddard
Featuring Wini Froelich, Ariel Pinkerton, and Caitlin Sparks as everybody -- pirates, villains, wenches, moppets, ghosts, and legendary beings!
Swing*: Victoria Pyan
*a "swing" understudies multiple performers (in this case, all three!)
PERFORMANCE DATES:
December 5, 7:30 pm: HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!
*December 6, 7:30 pm: YARRRH! THE LUSTY, BUSTY PIRATE MUSICAL
*December 6, 9:00 pm: HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!
*December 7, 2:00 pm: YARRRH! THE LUSTY, BUSTY PIRATE MUSICAL
*December 7, 3:30 pm: HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!
December 12, 7:30 pm: HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!
*December 13, 7:30 pm: YARRRH! THE LUSTY, BUSTY PIRATE MUSICAL
*December 13, 9:00 pm: HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!
*December 14, 2:00 pm: YARRRH! THE LUSTY, BUSTY PIRATE MUSICAL
*December 14, 3:30 pm: HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!
December 19, 7:30 pm: HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!
*December 20, 7:30 pm: YARRRH! THE LUSTY, BUSTY PIRATE MUSICAL
*December 20, 9:00 pm: HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!
December 21, 2:00 pm: HAVE YARRRHSELF A LUSTY, BUSTY XMAS!
*on these dates, you can see both shows in a row, with 30 minutes in between them
Each show has a run time of approximately 60 minutes.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created by the voters of Minnesota.