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Welcome to Our 30th Season!

Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre is proud to celebrate its 30th year of producing professional, quality shows to you for a fraction of the price of a Broadway ticket! This season we return with a new production of a show from our very first MSMT season, a brand new classic fresh from the Broadway stage, and a show for young audiences that has been a favorite for nearly forty years.

Gilbert & Sullivan's
THE MIKADO

Having made its first appearance for MSMT in our debut season, The Mikado is sure to be riot for the whole family! Find out more

Paul C. Empie
Theatre,
Dorothy & Dexter Baker
Center for the Arts

June 16 - July 3

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The 25th Annual
Putnam County
SPELLING BEE

Spectacular musical comedy (and maybe even nostalgia) for grown-ups! Find out more

Dorothy Hess Baker Theatre,
Trexler Pavilion
for Theatre & Dance
July 14 - August 1
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SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE!
A new twist on an old Saturday morning favorite! Find out more

Studio Theatre,
Trexler Pavilion
for Theatre & Dance
June 23 - July 30
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The Mikado

Melissa Frey as Yum-Yum and Michael Bloom as Nanki-Poo, in 2010's The Mikado. Photo by Ken Ek.

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Gift Certificates are available for birthdays, anniversaries and graduations as well as special holidays! Gift certificates give your family, friends and colleagues all the flexibility they need to take advantage of your generosity!

Subscription Tickets for the 2010 Mainstage Season are available now! Download the order form, or call to receive our season brochure.

Single tickets to each of the three summer shows this season are now available online:
     The Mikado
     The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
     Schoolhouse Rock Live!

Or order by phone, beginning June 1, at 484.664.3333
Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Bring a group and save! All Mainstage tickets are just $25 for groups of 15 or more, and Schoolhouse Rock Live tickets are just $8 for 15 or more. Call 484.664.3087 to make your group reservation.

We hope to see you in the theatre this summer!


Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre Festival mounts major original productions of Broadway musicals with professional artistic staff and orchestras. The company has presented critically-acclaimed productions of Tommy, Fiddler on the Roof, Carousel, George M!, Annie Get Your Gun, The Pirates of Penzance, Gypsy, Of Thee I Sing, Evita, Kiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady, On the Twentieth Century and Crazy for You, among many others. Now in its 30th season, the founding and continuing Artistic Directors are Charles Richter, Curtis Dretsch and Jeremy Slavin of the Muhlenberg College theatre and music faculties.

Each season, the festival produces an affordable subscription season of stage musicals and a musical for children. The performance company is composed of Equity guest artists, veteran regional actors, and exceptional emerging young professionals. Each main stage musical runs for three weeks, playing Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Dorothy Hess Baker or Paul C. Empie Theatre. The children's musical runs for five weeks, playing Wednesday through Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Studio Theatre in the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance.

The Muhlenberg College campus is located in a safe and friendly neighborhood on West Chew Street in Allentown, PA. The Baker Center of the Arts and adjacent Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance are located in the center of the campus, two blocks north of Hamilton Street east of Cedar Crest Boulevard. Shows are produced in professionally designed theatres and on-campus parking is free for patrons of the Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre.
 

PAST SEASONS NEWS & REVIEWS

The 2009 Season

The 2008 Season

The 2007 Season

Highlights of the 2006 Season

There's No Stopping Us Now
(25th Anniversary)
(pdf)

Complete Show History (pdf)

"Big splashy musicals... cast with local actors and designers with Lehigh Valley roots and Broadway credits, populate the 29th season of Muhlenberg College's Summer Music Theatre series."

-The Morning Call, Sunday May 31st, 2009

 

Forever Plaid 2009

 

 

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