The show opens the Commonweal space to in-person audiences Saturday, April 17, and runs through June 27.
Commonweal presented recorded productions and radio plays online while the COVID-19 pandemic kept live audiences at home last year. Producing Artistic Director Hal Cropp said the programming was well received, but didn’t describe the shows as “theater.”
Preparing a live show with an in-person audience has perked up the ensemble, he said.
“There was an almost giddiness in the room in beginning to move forward,” he said.
Theaters have been given the go-ahead to open to audiences of 50% their capacity as long as people from separate households can remain 6 feet apart from each other.
Under those distancing guidelines, Commonweal crowds will likely be closer to 25% capacity, Cropp said. Audience members will have assigned seats and be required to wear masks at all times. The lone actor on stage, Philip Muehe, who has received a vaccination for COVID-19, won’t wear a mask during his performance and will be at least 12 feet away from all audience members.
Muehe plays renowned chef and foodie James Beard.
“It’s witty, it’s charming,” Cropp said.
Muehe joined the ensemble six years ago as an intern and returned as an apprentice, spent a stint in Milwaukee and returned as an actor. He is adept at holding down the stage by himself in his first one-person show, Cropp said.
Cropp said he came across the show while looking for scripts with small casts to begin having in-person performances again. He said the fun theatrical “sense of play” in the script by James Still is what drew him to want to produce the show.
Small casts will be key to opening up, he said. However, Cropp added that the company is in a good position with an ensemble of eight, which includes four members living together as artists in residence and two couples who each cohabitate.
“We live in our own mini pod,” Cropp said. “We’re pretty well positioned to open.”
Tickets can be purchased at CommonwealTheatre.org.
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