The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is a professional theatre company in

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, founded in 2000. They often have over 300 performances of more than 40 different productions with over 70,000 patrons each season. MarqueeAH

List of Shows

(''This is an incomplete list. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.'') 2004-2005 * "Vagina Monologues" * "Defending the Caveman" * " Odd Couple" * "A Midsummer Night's Dream" * "Forever Plaid" 2005-2006 * " Beyond Therapy" * "Steel Magnolias" * "Run For Your Wife" * "Brighton Beach Memoirs" * "The Nerd" 2006-2007 * "I Love You, You're Perfect. Now Change" * "Barefoot in the Park" * "A Streetcar Named Desire" * "Don't Dress for Dinner" 2007-2008 * "High School Musical" * "Deathtrap" * "Sylvia" * "The Musical of Musicals the Musical" 2008-2009 * "Damn Yankees" * "The Foreignor" * "Lend Me A Tenor" * "Baby" 2009-2010 * "Pump Boys and Dinettes" * "Out of Order" * " Side Man" * "Midlife the Crisis Musical" 2010-2011 * "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" * "The Boys Next Door" * "The Butler Didn't" * "Nunsense" 2011-2012 * "Married Alive!" * "The Andrews Brothers" * ''The Complete History of America (Abridged)'' * ''10 Ways To Kill Your Husband'' 2012-2013 * ''

The Marvelous Wonderettes ''The Marvelous Wonderettes'' is a jukebox musical comedy with a book by Roger Bean. The show, which uses pop songs from the 1950s and 1960s as a vehicle to tell its story, pays homage to the high school Songleader squads of the 50s. When called ...

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A Christmas Carol ''A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'', commonly known as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ''A Christmas C ...

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There's a Girl in My Soup '' There's a Girl in My Soup'' is a 1970 British romantic comedy film based on the stage play of the same name, directed by Roy Boulting and starring Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn. The film was Sellers' last commercial success until '' Return ...

'' * ''Accomplice'' * ''Five Course Love'' 2013-2014 * ''Route 66'' * ''

The Last Five Years ''The Last Five Years'' is a musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It premiered at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2001 and was then produced Off-Broadway in March 2002. Since then it has had numerous productions both in the United States and ...

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Greater Tuna ''Greater Tuna'' is the first in a series of four comedic plays (followed by '' A Tuna Christmas,'' ''Red, White and Tuna'', and '' Tuna Does Vegas''), each set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the "third-smallest" town in the state. The se ...

'' * ''Half and Half'' 2014-2015 * ''

Laughter on the 23rd Floor ''Laughter on the 23rd Floor'' is a 1993 play by Neil Simon. It focuses on the star and writers of a TV comedy-variety show in the 1950s, inspired by Simon's own early career experience as a junior writer (along with his brother Danny) for ''Your ...

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'' * ''Private Lives'' * ''An Evening with C.S. Lewis'' * ''

Drowsy Chaperone ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' is a Canadian musical with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. The story concerns a middle-aged, asocial musical theater fan who, feeling "blue", decides to pl ...

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Moon Over Buffalo ''Moon Over Buffalo'' is a 1995 comic play by Ken Ludwig set in Buffalo, New York in 1953. This play marked the return, after a 30-year absence, of Carol Burnett to the Broadway stage. Characters *George Hay, a traveling actor. *Charlotte Hay, ...

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Spamalot ''Spamalot'' (also known as ''Monty Python's Spamalot'') is a musical comedy with music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle, and lyrics and book by Idle. It is adapted from the 1975 film ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail''. Like the motion picture ...

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'' * '' The 39 Steps'' * ''

Rent (musical) ''Rent'' is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera ''La Bohème''. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lo ...

'' * ''Ring of Fire'' 2016-2017 * ''Young'' ''Frankenstein'' * ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'' * ''Hair'' * ''Peter and the Starcatcher'' 2017-2018 * ''Into the Woods'' * ''Boeing Boeing'' * ''Avenue Q'' * ''Beehive: The 60's Musical'' 2018-2019 * ''A Chorus Line'' * ''The Mousetrap'' * ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' * ''Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story'' 2019-2020 * ''Anything Goes'' * ''Noises Off'' * ''Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (''virtual'')'' 2021-2022 * ''Little Shop of Horrors'' * ''My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra'' * ''Legally Blonde'' * ''A Christmas Carol'' * ''Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill'' * ''SHOUT! The Mod Musical'' * ''Sister Act''

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* Regional theatre in the United States Theatrical organizations in the United States Arts organizations based in Illinois Arlington Heights, Illinois Arts organizations established in 2000 2000 establishments in Illinois {{US-arts-org-stub