Cast List for "The Explorers Club" + Tickets on Sale Now!

The director would like to thank all who came out and auditioned for the show, this was a very competitive audition and not everyone was able to receive a part in the show. The cast list is as follows:

LUCIUS FRETWAY - Sean Snow

PHYLLIDA SPOTTEHUME - Maia Carnicom

HARRY PERCY - Rick Wyman

LUIGI - Tait Jerde

PROFESSOR COPE - Michael Martin

PROFESSOR SLOANE - Ron Hungerford

PROFESSOR WALLING - Brian Bauman

SIR BERNARD HUMPHRIES - Isaac Olson

BEEBE - Harry Lantto

Tickets are now on sale for all 7 performances!

Performances at the Dassel History Center

• October 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 at 7:00 PM

• October 13 (Talkback with cast following) & 20 at 2:00 PM

London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire, and how do you make such a decision without a decent drink? Grab your safety goggles for some very mad science involving deadly cobras, irate Irishmen and the occasional airship.

2024 - 2025 Season Announced!

Our full season for 2024 - 2025 has now been announced!

This October we will present, “The Explorers Club” by Nell Benjamin:  London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire, and how do you make such a decision without a decent drink? Grab your safety goggles for some very mad science involving deadly cobras, irate Irishmen and the occasional airship. Auditions will be held August 22 and 24 here at the history center with performances in Mid-October. Tom Nelson will direct. THE EXPLORERS CLUB is presented through special arrangement with Dramatist Play Service.

For our holiday show we will present, “Forever Plaid” by Stuart Ross. Once upon a time, there were four guys (Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie) who discovered that they shared a love for music and then got together to become their idols – The Four Freshman, The Hi-Lo's and The Crew Cuts. Rehearsing in the basement of Smudge's family's plumbing supply company, they became "Forever Plaid". On the way to their first big gig, the "Plaids" are broadsided by a school bus and killed instantly. It is at the moment when their careers and lives end that the story of Forever Plaid begins.... Performances will be in December. Randy Wilson will direct. FOREVER PLAID is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

For our winter production and our 2025 AACT Entry we will be reviving “Finishing School” by Elaine Liner. This comedy about life’s second act finds older gents Al and Wizzer meeting on a park bench every morning to read and mock newspaper obits. Their daily rituals—shooting the bull about sports, women loved and lost and the many annoyances of aging—are suddenly shaken up by the appearance of a friendly young woman and her flirty mom. Wizzer pep-talks lonely widower Al to convince him to break out of his self-imposed “quantum of solace” and maybe find love again, while also dealing with his own fear of ending up in the memory care unit at their assisted living facility. Punctuated with true-to-life moments familiar to anyone with an aging parent or spouse, the play takes an upbeat attitude toward life after 60, 70 and beyond. Performances will be in February. Linda Metcalf will direct. FINISHING SCHOOL is presented through special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois

For summer 2025 we will produce "Annie" at the Dassel-Cokato Performing Arts Center.
Based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The beloved book and score by Tony Award winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, features some of the greatest musical theatre hits ever written, including "Tomorrow."
"Annie" will be presented by the FungusAmongus Players July 18 - 20 & 25 - 27 2025 at the Dassel-Cokato Performing Arts Center. Please stay tuned our website and social media channels for information regarding auditions.
ANNIE is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

FungusAmongus presented "Death Knocks" at Fast*Fest 2024

The FungusAmongus Players presented at Fast*Fest 2024 held in Cloquet MN on August 17. "Death Knocks" by Woody Allen was presented to many nice comments following the performance. Both David Metcalf and Ron Hungerford reprised their roles from when this one act was performed during our evening of short plays in March of 2023.

15 shows were presented in one day, which ranged from light hearted comedies, to serious dramas. County Seat Theatre in Cloquet were excellent hosts and MACT put on another great event! The next MACT event will be the bi-annual MACTFest which will be held in Duluth in March of 2025. 

FungusAmongus Participate in Corn Carnival and Red Rooster Parades

Thanks to everyone that came out and walked with us and handed out bookmarks during the Cokato Corn Carnival and Red Rooster Days parades this year. It was great to see so many smiling faces and get our new season bookmark handed out! If you did not get a bookmark we will have extras (while they last) at all performances this season at the box office.

So many ways to have fun with FungusAmongus!

You don't need to be on stage to have fun with FungusAmongus. For example, we're always looking for: 

• AV Club members - learn to run sound or light for our shows!

• Stage Managing / Crew Members. Do you want to help behind the scenes with the magic that goes on during the show? Help manage the stage and with set during our productions!

• Treat wranglers. Could you bake some yummy bars for us to serve at intermission? Could you serve those treats and coffee at our shows?

• Stud sensors. Can you drive a nail, or paint a wall, or perhaps work some interior design magic? Our set-building crew is looking for you.

Get started by contacting us through our website or social media channels.