“I didn’t know that that’s what it was about.” I was sitting in the lobby at intermission when I overheard the above stage-whispered from one friend to another. I glanced at the two of them – both were women in their late 70s, give or take a few years. Her friend didn’t respond within the time i .
Minnesota’s top theater, classical, dance and art of 2022 included “Beauty and the Beast,” Osmo Vänskä’s farewell, “Carmen” and “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence.”
The lines are all memorized and the lighting and technical staging is in its final rehearsals. But when the audience starts filing into Illusion Theater this weekend they will experience a script that’s been five years in the making and written with real-life experience.