Calendar of Performances
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Spring Break Cabaret Camp
Come sing, dance, and act your break away with Locally Grown Theatre. Learn the skills needed to become a triple threat while performing pieces from some of your favorite musicals! This camp is open to students in grades 6-12. Jane Gowen, music director.
More information here: https://www.locallygrowntheatre.org/spring-break-productions/
Dear Evan Hansen
The Minnesota High School Premiere of the Tony-Award Winning Musical Dear Evan Hansen! Music Direction by Jane Gowen.
Seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen has felt invisible his entire life. But when a tragedy shocks his community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to be somebody else. As his web of well-intentioned lies begins to unravel, though, Evan is forced to confront the fact that the price of belonging may be far steeper than he bargained for.
Frozen Jr. with Children's Performing Arts
See the magical world of Arendelle come to life in Children’s Performing Arts’ production of Frozen Jr., music directed by Jane Gowen.
More information here: https://childrensperformingartsmn.org/programs/
Iolanthe: Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company
Jane makes her debut with the GSVLOC in Minneapolis, MN! Catch in this thrilling Ensemble role in Gilber & Sullivan’s Iolanthe.
Performances every weekend in November.
Ticket information can be found here: https://gsvloc.org/on-stage/
“Where Happy Is: A Journey in Song” Masters Recital
The title of this program, Where Happy Is, comes from a lyric in Ingrid Michaelson’s 2024 musical The Notebook:
“Where am I? Where am I going?
Is it somewhere that I want to go?
And when I get there… is that where happy is?
Or is it somewhere I already know?”
The pursuit of happiness is universal. Across cultures, identities, privileges, and traumas, we all seek it. But where does happiness truly live? Perhaps it isn’t found in far-off destinations—but in moments, glimpses, right where we are.
Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate exudes happiness from its very veins. In contrast, Ravel’s haunting setting of the Hebrew Kaddisch finds reverence and peace amid grief. A pair of French works by sisters Nadia and Lili Boulanger examine happiness through deeper lenses—through solemnity, sacrifice, and reflection. The program closes with selections from both classic and contemporary musical theatre, where happiness reveals itself in its most familiar forms: love, freedom, and the courage to hope.