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ABOUT

Mantorville Theatre Company is a Community Theatre based in historic Mantorville, MN.
​We produce a variety of shows including Musicals, Melodramas, Comedies and more.

HISTORY

In order to enhance the turn-of-the-19th-century nature of the City of Mantorville, in 1972 a group of citizens formed a corporation to provide theatre in the local Opera House. They targeted the melodramatic format because it was the popular style of theatre around the end of the 19th century.
The Corporation was and is named Mantorville Theatre Company.
Per the Articles of Incorporation: The purpose of this corporation shall be to establish and maintain a community theatre group and provide civic entertainment in the area of theatre, i.e. melodrama, musical plays, children’s plays and other related theater activities to provide facilities for meetings of members and to lease, rent or own real property and borrow money thereon by mortgage or otherwise and to sell such real estate in whole or in part. This corporation shall not afford pecuniary gain, incidentally or otherwise to its members.
Near the beginning of a new century, the City of Mantorville sold the Opera House to the Mantorville Restoration Association, who approached the Mantorville Theatre Company about expanding the summer melodrama schedule to something that would make use of this outstanding property year round – – and we jumped right in! The MTC now produces a wide variety of theatrical genres from October – April, while continuing our traditional melodramas in the summer.
The Mantorville Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
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Mantorville Opera House
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Past Shows starting from 1992

"1992
One Last Train to Nowhere or The Best-Laid Plans of Mice & Men Are Derailed at
the Junction (*2nd time)
Curse You, Jack Dalton (*4th time)
One Bad Apple or Rotten to the Core
A Golden Fleecing or The Undermining of Sarah Sweet flower's Sarsaparilla Saloon and Bridal Shoppe (*2nd time)
 
1993
No Price On Love
Little Nell or Pure and Simple (*2nd time)
The Wild flowering of Chastity (*2nd time)
A Case of Lost Gems (*2nd time)
Tillie The Teller or The Great Bank Robbery (*2nd time)
 
1994
Alaska or The Secret of Yonder Mountain (*2nd time)
She Was Only A Farmer's Daughter (*2nd time)
A Schreck in the Night or Yes, We Have Nosferatu
Willow Weep No More or A New Broom Sweeps Cleaner Beautiful Beulah Belle or Virtues Various Vicissitudes (*3rd time)
 
1995
The Villain Wore a Dirty Shirt or Always Wash Your Longjohns 'Cause It Makes a Lotta Cents The School House Mystery or One Bad Apple
Professor Pembroke's Predicament or A Curse Comes Home
How Now Brown Cow or Don't Bully Me
Dogsbreath Devereaux, The Dastardly Doctor or Nurses! Foiled Again!
 
1996
Ax Me No Questions
The Girl of the Frozen North
Egad, What A Cad
For The Love of Money
Willie Picadilly’s Woes
 
1997
The Lament of the Lupine Lover or What's the Big Hairy Deal
Belle of Bisbee
Riverboat's Gambler's Lament or Never Fold With a Pair of Queens
She Aspired to Greater Things or Up the River Without a Paddle (Boat)
Trapped in a Villain's Web or Weave Me a Loan
 

1998
Double Take at Beatrice's Boarding House or Things Ain't Always What They Seem The Wedding Will Out or A Night in the Nutt House
D.K. Molar the Devious Dentist or There's Gold in Them Thar Teeth
A Golden Fleecing or The Undermining of Sarah Sweetflower's Sarsaparilla Saloon and Bridal Shoppe
One Bad Apple or Rotten to the Core
 
1999
Switched At The Crossroads
Fairest Flower of the South or To Know Her Is To Love Her
Something Smells Rotten in Denmark or Soo-ee or Not Soo-ee
No Ghost of a Chance or Things That Go Bump in the Blackout
 
2000
Medium at Large or A. Sault on the Senses
Curse You, Jack Dalton
Mother Lulah's Traveling Medicine Show or What the Mind Forgets the Heart Remembers
A Snitch In Time or Time Flies When You're Having Fun
 
2001
Catered Valentine Sweetheart Dinner – Murder Mystery?  Ask Jennifer Gall
The Nerd
Willow Weep For Me or A New Broom Sweeps Cleaner
Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber of Sweep Street
Dual Identity or Betrayed By Her Secret Past
A Schreck in the Night or Yes, We Have Nosferatu
Turn of the Screw
Xmas show
 
2002
Lost in Yonkers
Nite at the Theatre
Do You Love Me or a Bump on the Head
Dogsbreath Devereaux The Dastardly Doctor or Nurses! Foiled Again!
The Lament of the Lupine Lover or What’s The Big Hairy Deal
Monster Soup or That Thing In My Neck is a Tooth
Dial M for Murder
The Plight Before Xmas
 

2003
The Queen of Bingo [by Jeanne Michels and Phyllis Murphy]
Star Spangled Girl [by Neil Simon]
One Last Train to Nowhere or The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Are Derailed at the Station [by Cheryl Frarck]
Belle of Bisbee or Expel All Wicked Ways [by Tim Kelly]
The Sacramento French Pony or There’s Gold In Them Thar Hills or It Could’a Hapend This Way [by Cheryl Frarck]
Professor Pembroke’s Predicament or A Curse Comes Home [by Gregory Miller]
Let’s Murder Marcia [by Monk Ferris]
Hjemma’s Dilemma or Who Stole the Lutefisk? [by Cheryl Frarck]
 
2004
The Foreigner [by Larry Shue]
Love Sex & the IRS [by William VanZandt]
Nostrums and Nonsense or Not My Marrie Gold, You Don’t! or Mum’s The Word! [by Cheryl Frarck]
Counting Calories in the Pancakes or The Crepes of Math [by Aaron Rocklyn]
The Great Hubbell House Pie Eating Contest or a Ghost of a Chance [by Cheryl Finnegan]
Courting Trouble or What’s the Hubbub Hubbell? [by Sandra H Miller]
Blithe Spirit [by Noel Coward]
A Nisse for Gudrun or The Mail Order Bride or Home Is Where The Lefse Is [by Cheryl Frarck]
 
2005
Last of the Red Hot Lovers [by Neil Simon]
No Sex Please We’re British [by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot]
Willie Picadilly’s Woes or Is This How The West Was Really Won? [by Sally Audiss]
The Ladies’ Man or Three Weddings and a Criminal [by Nan Johnson]
She Aspired to Greater Things or Up The River Without a Paddle(boat) [by Cheryl Frarck]
How Now Brown Cow or Don’t Bully Me [by Sandra H. Miller]
The Woman in Black [adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill]
Greetings [by Tom Dudzick]
 
2006
Same Time Next Year [by Bernard Slade]
Rumors [by Neil Simon]
Truth or Counterfeit or What’s My Lie? [by Nan Johnson]
The Road to Mantorville or The Left Doesn’t Know What the Right is Up To [by Thomas Gall]
The Wedding Will Out or A Night in the Nutt House [by Gregory Miller]
Wheel and Deal or No Pedaling Allowed [by Sandra H Miller]
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? [by John R. Powers with lyrics by James Quinn and Alaric Jans and music by James Quinn.]
The Roots of the Matter or Fir’s Folly [by Cheryl Frarck]
 
2007 – 8 (note: decision made to make “official season” from June-May to kick season off with the summer melodramas, so this list includes first two shows of 2008 as well as 8 shows of 2007)
The Fourposter [by Jan de Hartog]
Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii [byAllan Stratton]
Zartan the Mysterious White Jungle Cat – or – Beware of Hairless Monkeys Bearing Wits [by Denise Catherine Ruemping]
The Road to Sacramento – or – An Eye for a Tooth – or – Dig This [by Thomas Gall]
Ratcatchers Daughter – or – Death Valley Daze [by Tim Kelly]
No Price on Love – or – Bought and Sold for Tainted Gold [by Sandra Hennings Miller]
Angel Street [by Patrick Hamilton]
Uh Oh! Here Comes Christmas [by Robert Fulghm/Ernest Zulia/David Caldwell]
Barefoot in the Park [by Neil Simon]
Alone Together [by Lawrence Roman]
 
2008-9
"Ax Me No Questions" or "Pines Are Never Blue but Ever Green" [by Sandra Hennings Miller]
“The Labors of Love ” [by Jack Perry and Robert Neil Porter with music and lyrics by Jack Perry]
“The Road to Wasioja” or “Do You Feel a Draft?”  [by Thomas Gall]
“A Schreck in the Night” or “Yes! We Have Nosferatu” [by Gregory David Miller]
"Steel Magnolias"   [by Robert Harling]
"An O. Henry Christmas" [Compiled from the author's works and adapted for stage by Howard Burman]
“The Odd Couple” [by Neil Simon]
“The Nerd” [by Larry Shue]
 
2009-10
"Running in Crop Circles" or, "The Spaceman Cometh" [by Denise Ruemping]
"The Schoolhouse Mystery" or "One Bad Apple" [by Cheryl Frarck]
"The Road to Kasson" or, "When You Get to the Fork in the Road, Take it!" [by Thomas Gall]
"Grapes of Woe" or, "Please, No Wining" [by Sandra Hennings Miller]
“Wedding Belles" [by Alan Bailey and Ronnie Edwards]
"The Rented Christmas" [by Norman C. Ahern, Jr. and Yvonne Ahern]
"On Golden Pond" [by Ernest Thompson]
"Fools" [by Neil Simon]
 
2010-11
"Orphans In Candyland" [Book and Music by Christopher Mohr, Lyrics by Shubert Fendrich]
"Something Smells Rotten in Denmark" or "Soo-wee or not Soo-wee" [by Cheryl Finnegan]
"No Ghost of a Chance" or "Things that go Bump in the Blackout" [by Sandra Hennings Miller]
"A Golden Fleecing" or "The Undermining of Sarah Sweetflower's Sarsaparilla Saloon and Bridal Shoppe" [by R. Eugene Jackson]
"The Murder Room" [by Jack Sharkey]
“A Christmas Story" [by Philip Grecian]
 
2011-12
February – No Show
“Don’t Dress For Dinner” [by Marc Camoletti]
“The Sacramento French Pony” or “There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills” or “It Could’a Happened This Way” written by Cheryl Frarck
“Affording A Ford” or “All’s Fair In Love And War” written by Sandra Miller
“Under the Spell of Love” written by Sandra Miller
“Willow Weep For Me” or “A New Broom Sweeps Cleaner”written by Sandra Miller
“All Hallows Feast” murder mystery dinner theatre
December – No Show
 
2012-13
Weekend Comedy
"Blithe Spirit"
“She Aspired to Greater Things or Up The River without a Paddle(boat)” by Cheryl Frarck
“Curse You, Jack Dalton!”
“The Wedding Will Out or A Night in the Nutt House” written by G Miller; directed by Bob Soland
“How Now Brown Cow” or“Don’t Bully Me” written by Sandra Miller
AHF - Murder at Rutherford House Dinner Theatre
Uh-Oh Here Comes Xmas
(Hosanna Group Concert held)
 
2013-14
Nunsense
Charlie’s Aunt
Prof Pembroke’s Predicament written by Greg Miller, directed by Melisa Ferris
Dogsbreath Devereaux
Willy Picadilly’s Woes written by Sally Audiss
One Bad Apple written by Sandra Miller
AHF - Mousetrap Dinner Theatre
Nuncrackers
 
2014
Love Letters
Lend Me A Tenor
“Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch”
"Zartan the Mysterious White Jungle Cat" written by Denise Ruemping
“A Sault on the Senses” written by Greg Miller, directed by Rachel Soland
“Meet Me at the Rendezvous” written by Sandra Miller
AHF - Murder at Café Noir Dinner Theatre
Hjemma’s Dilemma or Who Stole The Lutefisk written by Cheryl Frarck
 
2015
Church Basement Ladies
Love Sex and the IRS
"Double Trouble in Soda, South Dakota or The Two Sides of Sheriff Tom" (D. Ruemping)
“For Whatever It's Worth” (Rachel Soland)
“One Last Train to Nowhere” or “The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Are Derailed at the Station”  written by Cheryl Frarck; directed by Karl Huppler
“Mary Goes for the Gold” or “Pick My Flowers Please” written by Sandra Miller
AHF - $11 Million Murder (directed by Cheryl Frarck)
Meshuggah Nuns  (directed by D. Ruemping)
 
2016
Steel Magnolias – directed by Cheryl Finnegan
No Sex Please We’re British – directed by Bill Schnell
Jack Eagle A Real American Hero - written/directed by D. Ruemping
Mairegold Will Heal My Heart or Mum's The Word! - written/directed by Cheryl Frarck
The Ladies’ Man or Three Weddings and a Criminal written/directed by Nan Johnson Strauss
Wheeling and Dealing or  No Pedaling Allowed written/directed by Sandra Hennings Miller
AHF Noir Suspicions – directed by Jeremy Kittleson
Nutcracker’s Nuts – directed by Cheryl Frarck
 
2017
Honk – directed by Denise Ruemping
No April Show
Truth or Counterfeit or What’s My Lie? Written/directed by Nan Johnson
Under The Spell of Love written/directed by Sandra Hennings Miller
The Ratcatcher’s Daughter or Death Valley Daze directed by Rachel Soland
Song of the Canyon Kid or Poem on the Range directed by Denise Ruemping
Nevermore – directed by Sarah Schaller
Rented Christmas – directed by Rachel Soland
 
2018
How To Talk Minnesotan – directed by Sarah Schaller
Sex Please We’re Sixty – directed by Cheryl Frarck
Three (3) Youth Melodrama Camps led by Denise Ruemping
Mantorville Men & Ladies of Leisure – directed by Cheryl Frarck
Déjà You or Phantasma of the Opera – Written/directed by Nan Strauss
Conundrum Incorporated or A Mystery Inkling Takes No Meddling – written/directed by Denise Ruemping
Is There Anyone in the House? Or Giving Up the Ghost written by Ben Peters/directed by Bob Soland
Assassins – directed by Sarah Schaller
Best Christmas Pageant – directed by Priscilla and Denise Ruemping
 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President:  Denise Ruemping
Vice President: Casey Saunders
Secretary: Karl Huppler
Member at Large: Andy Arndt
Larry Dobson, Bailey Fields, Cheryl Frarck, Levi Livingood and Bob Soland.

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CONTACT

507-635-5420

5 5th St. West, Mantorville, MN 55955

PO Box 194, Mantorville, MN 55955

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