{"id":2561,"date":"2006-09-20T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T11:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2006-09-20T11:13:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T11:13:46","slug":"o_fish_muskie_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"Go, Fish! Muskie Love, New Wisconsin-Set Musical, Begins Sept. 20 in Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/102176.html\">Kenneth Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In Wisconsin, where audiences like their new musicals quirky and with lots of local color, Madison Repertory Theatre opens its season Sept. 20 with Muskie Love &mdash; a rare musical named after a freshwater game fish.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t discount the show. After all, this is the same state where the ice-fishing comedy Guys on Ice and the great-outdoors comedy Lumberjacks in Love were smasheroos.<\/p>\n<p>Muskie Love opens Sept. 22. Performances continue to Oct. 15, in The Playhouse at the Overture Center for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Loosely based on Shakespeare&#8217;s Much Ado About Nothing &#8220;is a home grown Wisconsin delight&#8221; by the winners of the Richard Rodgers Award, Dave Hudson and Paul Libman, featuring Doug Mancheski and Lee Becker from Madison Repertory Theatre&#8217;s earlier Guys on Ice (which was also a hit at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Rep has a great deal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonrep.org\/\">for first time subscribers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Jones: In Wisconsin, where audiences like their new musicals quirky and with lots of local color, Madison Repertory Theatre opens its season Sept. 20 with Muskie Love &mdash; a rare musical named after a freshwater game fish. Don&#8217;t discount the show. After all, this is the same state where the ice-fishing comedy Guys on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}