BASEMENT LADIES
IN
A MIGHTY
FORTRESS IS OUR BASEMENT
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7:30PM
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The fourth
installment of the Church Basement ladies series of Musical Comedies, A MIGHTY
FORTRESS IS OUR BASEMENT, will be presented in Des Moines, Iowa. The popular
series began at the Plymouth Playhouse in Minneapolis with the first
installment, CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES, in 2005. Its sequel, A SECOND HELPING, THE
CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES SEQUEL, and the Christmas Musical, AWAY IN THE BASEMENT,
A CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES CHRISTMAS, have been seen in venues coast to coast to
cheering, sell-out crowds.
In the latest
installment, these “bulwarks never failing” are at it again. The year is 1960
and a reformation is underway. With a new crop of Confirmands, Beverly, the
youngest of the bunch, dons her first pair of high heels for her confirmation
ceremony. Mrs. Snustad, the matriarch of the kitchen, wins top honors at the
County Fair for her “Grand Champion” pickles. Mavis, the able- bodied farm
wife, must find a way to deal with the new “Super Highway” which cuts through
her farm. Karin, the real homemaker of the kitchen, finds new freedom behind
the wheel of her husband’s pickup truck and must reconcile a new world of
change for her daughter, Beverly. Pastor, who has always found strength and
solace in the church basement, has found new love and announces his impending
nuptials. The Church Basement Ladies are once again required to face change
head-on. Against the changing tide, these pillars of the church stand strong in
their faith and in their friendships with more crazy antics, more great new
songs and more lessons reluctantly learned.
With all new
music by composer Drew Jansen who wrote the music and lyrics for the past
Church Basement Ladies installments and script by sketch comedy writer, Greta
Grosch, who also penned the sequel and the Christmas version, A MIGHTY FORTRESS
IS OUR BASEMENT continues to be inspired by the writings of author/humorists, Janet
Martin and Suzann Nelson including the best-seller, GROWING UP LUTHERAN.
Audiences from
coast to coast have fallen in love with these residents of the church basement,
and all agree that each new installment gets better and better. What’s more,
you do not have to have seen past installments in order to know what’s going
on. As the St. Paul Pioneer Press says; “ The genius in the writing of Church
Basement Ladies is that familiarity with previous incarnations is optional.”