YSKP’s Holiday Production–The New Bremen Town Musicians (December 17-19, 2009)

YSKP premiered what it hopes to be an annual holiday show – The New Bremen Town Musicians. Based on the Grimm Brothers fairy tale, the production also features, for the first time in company history, a mix of adult, teen and youth actors.

In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, are discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners and become musicians there.

On the way to Bremen, they see a lighted cottage; they look inside and see a group of robbers enjoying their ill-gotten gains. Standing on each other’s backs, they decide to perform for the men in hope of gaining food. When their ‘music’ has an unanticipated effect; the men at first run for their lives, not knowing what the strange sound is. Eventually, after some slapstick cajoling, the robbers abandon the cottage to the strange creatures, including a cluster of dancing mice, where the animals live happily for the rest of their days. At the end of the play the audience will be invited to join in a community waltz in celebration of youth, art and the holidays.

The New Bremen Town Musicians will had four performances: December 17, 18, 19 at 7:30pm and December 19 at 2:00pm.  All performances took place at the Glen Helen Building.

Thanks to the Morgan Family Foundation and the YS Community Foundation for helping to make this production possible!