The Great American Melodrama & Vaudeville

Celebrating 34 Years of Terrific Theater!

At the Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville, theatergoers are welcomed into a comfortable atmosphere of cabaret tables with sawdust on the floor and honky-tonk piano music in the air. Here, professional performers from all over the United States gather to present top-notch productions of great classic comedies, musicals and melodramas. Plus, every show includes a wonderful vaudeville revue full of song, dance and comedy. It's "not-to-be missed" fun for everyone!

In 2008, we will continue our special weekday matinees on four Thursdays, replacing our usual 7 pm performance with a 2 pm matinee. These special matinee days are noted on the Ticket Information section of our website.

All of us here at the Melodrama thank you for your continued support of live theater, and hope to see you many times in 2008!

Muskie Love

Set on the shores of Green Bay, Wisconsin, this laugh-a-minute fish tale is a comic musical loosely based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Ben and Bea are rival fishing guides, both single and happy that way. Through the scheming of Bea's Uncle Roy, his daughter Sarah, and her boyfriend Claude, Ben and Bea are lured into a romantic trap and find themselves inexplicably drawn together. Throw in an incompetent Fish and Game Warden, the ever-present Wisconsin love of the Green Bay Packers, and a wonderful blend of tuneful songs, and you've got a delightful musical comedy about romance, football and fishing... not necessarily in that order!