THEATRE + COMEDY

The Grand 1894 Opera House presents Leading Ladies, Friday, February 19, at 8pm.

The Montana Repertory Theatre  delivers laughs in spades at The Grand 1894 Opera House with one special performance of Leading Ladies, Friday, February 19, at 8 pm. From Some Like it Hot to Dame Edna, men disguised as women is one of theatre’s oldest and surest comic devices. This story of down-on-their-luck thespians hatching a hair-brained swindle couldn’t be a more delightful example. Leading Ladies is “a well-spring of gut-busting laughter.”

A hilarious comedy by the creator of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, two English Shakespearean actors, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Moose Lodge Circuit in America. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two, long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren’t nephews, but nieces! Do they pass themselves off as her beloved female relatives and do they get the cash?

Established as the theatre- in- residence at the School of Fine Arts at The University of Montana, Montana Repertory Theatre has been providing top-quality theatre to audiences across the country since 1967. Past seasons have included works by Tennessee Williams, Wendy Wasserstein, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Horton Foote, Ken Ludwig, and William Gibson.