The Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre Festival mounts major original productions of Broadway musicals with professional orchestras.The Festival Company is made up of professional Equity guest artists, Muhlenberg alumni, college theatre students, high school interns, and community members under the direction of skilled professional staff. The annual summer festival of stage musicals is sponsored by Muhlenberg College. Our productions are presented in the Baker Center for the Arts and the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance on the Allentown campus. Shows are performed Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., with matinee performances at 2 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre 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 28th 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 in the Baker and Empie Theatres and a studio production of a musical for children. The performance company is composed of Equity guest artists, veteran regional actors, and exceptional emerging young professionals.
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