It started as a very simple question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

After 12 years, over 100 performances, thousands of cheering patrons and unspeakable amounts of blood: the answer is an emphatic yes.

However, much like Christmas itself, it can't last forever. 

The time has come to hang up the tank-top on the Twin Cities funniest, bloodiest and BLB-iest holiday tradition.

Announcing the final season of the greatest Christmas story ever told with all the trimmings: music, magic, and mayhem!

Come on down to the BLB, have a few laughs and take one more trip up and down Nakatomi Plaza.

"Yippee Kai Yay Father Christmas!"

Tickets are $28. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end 2 hours before doors open.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 10 PER CUSTOMER

Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Hark! Mistress Ginger is here to make your Yuletide extra gay. With her 3rd annual X-mas spectacular, this cabaret queen is serving up a sleighful of holiday tunes from Christmas past, some from beloved TV specials, some from your favorite pop divas, and some from way, way back (Nutcracker, anyone?). With George Maurer on piano and dancer Jarod Boltjes, it’ll be a rousing romp brimming with live music, high kicks, and a stud muffin or two – sure to get your chestnuts roasted.

Mistress Ginger is a singer and dancer, captivating audiences with her cabaret performances in the Twin Cities since 2006. From intimate gatherings at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater to enchanting evenings at the Crooners Supper Club, she weaves stories through her songs, inviting listeners on whimsical journeys brimming with heart, imagination, and the occasional fan kick. And she can cook too! Her cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks, is a campy primer for plant-based eating with pizzazz, and signed copies will available after the show – a perfect holiday gift!

“Mistress Ginger is a cabaret singer who brings warmth and depth to a lyric, and always lets the song shine through. She moves easily from the steam of a torch song to the campy wink of a double entendre – always while holding up the classic composers and lyricists she loves.” –Michael Whistler of Interact Center for the Arts, for MPR News Art Hounds, 2021

“Mistress Ginger took their Broadway, Circa 1986 audience on a journey from musical-obsessed, closeted queer kid, to fully-formed, gender-expansive diva in a transcendent, camp show. She joked that their vocal range is like Bea Arthur’s, but strong vocal skills were presented all throughout the show. Not once did she falter, in a show that felt well-rehearsed — yet off-the-cuff — with room for improvisation, like personally interacting with the audience on a first-name basis…” -Derek Maurawski-Harguth of Derek Please, Twin Cities Gay Scene

George Maurer (piano) is a performer, arranger, music director and composer – talents that have taken him all over the world. He has performed with Eric Clapton, shared the stage with Bruno Mars, composed for renowned musicians, and music directed the Tony- and Grammy-awarded original cast of Broadway’s Jersey Boys in The Midtown Men. He was also the recipient of a McKnight Composers Fellowship in 2014. More info: georgemaurer.com

Jarod Boltjes (dancer), a MN native, is a current company member with James Sewell Ballet and Collide Theatrical. Some previous credits include Contempo Physical Dance, St. Paul Ballet, and Twin Cities Ballet. Outside of the dance studio you can find Jarod teaching yoga and barre fitness classes as a certified instructor, under the circus tent cross-training aerialist at Circus Juventas, and embracing the MN seasons outside with his two dogs Thomas and Luna.

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Tickets are $18 in Advance / $22 at the Door. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 5PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Hark! Mistress Ginger is here to make your Yuletide extra gay. With her 3rd annual X-mas spectacular, this cabaret queen is serving up a sleighful of holiday tunes from Christmas past, some from beloved TV specials, some from your favorite pop divas, and some from way, way back (Nutcracker, anyone?). With George Maurer on piano and dancer Jarod Boltjes, it’ll be a rousing romp brimming with live music, high kicks, and a stud muffin or two – sure to get your chestnuts roasted.

Mistress Ginger is a singer and dancer, captivating audiences with her cabaret performances in the Twin Cities since 2006. From intimate gatherings at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater to enchanting evenings at the Crooners Supper Club, she weaves stories through her songs, inviting listeners on whimsical journeys brimming with heart, imagination, and the occasional fan kick. And she can cook too! Her cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks, is a campy primer for plant-based eating with pizzazz, and signed copies will available after the show – a perfect holiday gift!

“Mistress Ginger is a cabaret singer who brings warmth and depth to a lyric, and always lets the song shine through. She moves easily from the steam of a torch song to the campy wink of a double entendre – always while holding up the classic composers and lyricists she loves.” –Michael Whistler of Interact Center for the Arts, for MPR News Art Hounds, 2021

“Mistress Ginger took their Broadway, Circa 1986 audience on a journey from musical-obsessed, closeted queer kid, to fully-formed, gender-expansive diva in a transcendent, camp show. She joked that their vocal range is like Bea Arthur’s, but strong vocal skills were presented all throughout the show. Not once did she falter, in a show that felt well-rehearsed — yet off-the-cuff — with room for improvisation, like personally interacting with the audience on a first-name basis…” -Derek Maurawski-Harguth of Derek Please, Twin Cities Gay Scene

George Maurer (piano) is a performer, arranger, music director and composer – talents that have taken him all over the world. He has performed with Eric Clapton, shared the stage with Bruno Mars, composed for renowned musicians, and music directed the Tony- and Grammy-awarded original cast of Broadway’s Jersey Boys in The Midtown Men. He was also the recipient of a McKnight Composers Fellowship in 2014. More info: georgemaurer.com

Jarod Boltjes (dancer), a MN native, is a current company member with James Sewell Ballet and Collide Theatrical. Some previous credits include Contempo Physical Dance, St. Paul Ballet, and Twin Cities Ballet. Outside of the dance studio you can find Jarod teaching yoga and barre fitness classes as a certified instructor, under the circus tent cross-training aerialist at Circus Juventas, and embracing the MN seasons outside with his two dogs Thomas and Luna.

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Tickets are $18 in Advance / $22 at the Door. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 5PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its first shows of 2024 at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater. 

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Show is free! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar!
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM. Full menu available from your seat! Come eat and drink in the theater before and during the show!

One Woman. 10 Characters. Teetering on the edge.

For more than twenty years, Janelle Ranek, a comedic powerhouse renowned for her sharp wit and transformative abilities, has captivated audiences at the Bryant Lake Bowl with her acclaimed one woman holiday show. Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, the show changes every year. Ranek embodies ten widely diverse characters - each more outrageous than the last. Her unique fearless style has earned her a devoted following who have made this their holiday tradition.

Meet POLLY, obsessive about everything from clothing tags to dish soap; AMANDA HUMP, a bouffant styled beautician / taxidermist; DELORES, the proud new Kwik Trip Rewards Member recounting her run-ins with the Amish, LUCILLE; the bird loving, squirrel hating, Target Greatland team member, and other unforgettable characters that you never knew you needed in your life! Don’t forget the legendary GLORIA; the chain smoking, martini-drinking old broad who answers audience questions with all of the subtlety of a freight train.

Get your tickets NOW and prepare to laugh until your face hurts (and you may even pee a little).

Last year this show sold out fast, so don’t wait!

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Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 5PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

These are the darkest days...but for the full Moon that shines tonight. Hope of the Moon, a brother's love, preserving the light of sister Sun. Lean into darkness in the darkest of days - together - with runes and runos - poetry magic. Join in traditions of song and dance carried in the body - just for these times. Because we must. Kari Tauring brings together family and friends to celebrate the dark nights of Winter Solstice with song, dance, poetry, and ritual. Her son Jack joins on favorite songs from her 1999 release, "A Yuletide Celebration." Carol Sersland brings light into our hearts with Norwegian song and dance. Finnish American poets Lynette Reini-Grandell and Morrey Nellis stir thoughts and feelings with word magic. It has always been important to come together in the winter. It’s time to look out for the most vulnerable of our community. Feelings of anxiety, depression, and sadness can overwhelm us. In these fragile times of change and uncertainty, we can look to myth and music as a guide. What is certain in this world? The Sun and Moon and our ability to be together in the quiet and dark.

Featuring Jack Tauring-Traxler, Lynette Reini-Grandell, William Morrey Nellis, and Carol Sersland

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Tickets are $12 in Advance / $14 at the Door. Doors open at 2PM. Online ticket sales end at 12PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

It started as a very simple question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

After 12 years, over 100 performances, thousands of cheering patrons and unspeakable amounts of blood: the answer is an emphatic yes.

However, much like Christmas itself, it can't last forever. 

The time has come to hang up the tank-top on the Twin Cities funniest, bloodiest and BLB-iest holiday tradition.

Announcing the final season of the greatest Christmas story ever told with all the trimmings: music, magic, and mayhem!

Come on down to the BLB, have a few laughs and take one more trip up and down Nakatomi Plaza.

"Yippee Kai Yay Father Christmas!"

Tickets are $28. Doors open at 9:30PM. Online ticket sales end 2 hours before doors open.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 10 PER CUSTOMER

Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

One Woman. 10 Characters. Teetering on the edge.

For more than twenty years, Janelle Ranek, a comedic powerhouse renowned for her sharp wit and transformative abilities, has captivated audiences at the Bryant Lake Bowl with her acclaimed one woman holiday show. Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, the show changes every year. Ranek embodies ten widely diverse characters - each more outrageous than the last. Her unique fearless style has earned her a devoted following who have made this their holiday tradition.

Meet POLLY, obsessive about everything from clothing tags to dish soap; AMANDA HUMP, a bouffant styled beautician / taxidermist; DELORES, the proud new Kwik Trip Rewards Member recounting her run-ins with the Amish, LUCILLE; the bird loving, squirrel hating, Target Greatland team member, and other unforgettable characters that you never knew you needed in your life! Don’t forget the legendary GLORIA; the chain smoking, martini-drinking old broad who answers audience questions with all of the subtlety of a freight train.

Get your tickets NOW and prepare to laugh until your face hurts (and you may even pee a little).

Last year this show sold out fast, so don’t wait!

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Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 5PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Bring Your Kids!

A comedy variety show for kids and their grown ups.

Perfect for ages 5 and up.

Featuring comedians, musicians and generalized silliness.

Kids - bring a joke to tell! Grown ups - I hope you like jokes.

More information at bringyourkidscomedy.com

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Tickets are $7 for Kids / $12 for Adults. Doors open at 2PM. Online ticket sales end at 12PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

It started as a very simple question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

After 12 years, over 100 performances, thousands of cheering patrons and unspeakable amounts of blood: the answer is an emphatic yes.

However, much like Christmas itself, it can't last forever. 

The time has come to hang up the tank-top on the Twin Cities funniest, bloodiest and BLB-iest holiday tradition.

Announcing the final season of the greatest Christmas story ever told with all the trimmings: music, magic, and mayhem!

Come on down to the BLB, have a few laughs and take one more trip up and down Nakatomi Plaza.

"Yippee Kai Yay Father Christmas!"

Tickets are $28. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end 2 hours before doors open.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 10 PER CUSTOMER

Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

It started as a very simple question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

After 12 years, over 100 performances, thousands of cheering patrons and unspeakable amounts of blood: the answer is an emphatic yes.

However, much like Christmas itself, it can't last forever. 

The time has come to hang up the tank-top on the Twin Cities funniest, bloodiest and BLB-iest holiday tradition.

Announcing the final season of the greatest Christmas story ever told with all the trimmings: music, magic, and mayhem!

Come on down to the BLB, have a few laughs and take one more trip up and down Nakatomi Plaza.

"Yippee Kai Yay Father Christmas!"

Tickets are $28. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end 2 hours before doors open.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 10 PER CUSTOMER

Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

The 19th annual Star Wars Holiday Special Toys For Tots screening is going to be on December 11th with shows at 3:30p, 6:30p & 9:30p.
Tickets will be available at noon on Dec 11th at BLB. Y’all know the deal, bring a rad, unwrapped toy or two for each attendee and I’ll give you a ticket to watch this sweet, hot garbage the safest way possible. Over the years you, our amazing and generous gluttons for punishment, have helped make the holidays merry and bright for countless children.

On behalf of Toys For Tots Twin Cities, Central Garrison - 501st Legion, Minnesota Costumers for a Cause and BLB, thank you for coming back year after year and making this celebration part of your holiday traditions. I am happy to share that once again proceeds from the sale of the event poster will be donated to TPT in honor of our friend Lev Mailer who passed away in February of 2022. Lev was a gem. A warm and bright personality who so graciously invited Zechariah Thormodsgaard, Philip Glover, Teresa Bolwerk and I into his home years ago to talk about his experience on the Star Wars Holiday Special. He also had the baddest mustache in the galaxy. That’s the details, friends! Go forth, spread the word and prepare yourselves for the strangest holiday celebration in the galaxy!

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Free Entry with an Unwrapped Toy! Doors open 30min before showtime.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its first shows of 2024 at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater. 

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Show is free! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar!
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM. Full menu available from your seat! Come eat and drink in the theater before and during the show!

Mix N' Mash is an experimental film festival led and curated by your favorite local MCAD students. We at Mix N' Mash celebrate variety, diversity, creativity, and the voice of the emerging artist, and are featuring a mix of live-action and animated short films!

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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $5-15 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 1:30PM. Online ticket sales end at 11:30AM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

It started as a very simple question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

After 12 years, over 100 performances, thousands of cheering patrons and unspeakable amounts of blood: the answer is an emphatic yes.

However, much like Christmas itself, it can't last forever. 

The time has come to hang up the tank-top on the Twin Cities funniest, bloodiest and BLB-iest holiday tradition.

Announcing the final season of the greatest Christmas story ever told with all the trimmings: music, magic, and mayhem!

Come on down to the BLB, have a few laughs and take one more trip up and down Nakatomi Plaza.

"Yippee Kai Yay Father Christmas!"

Tickets are $28. Doors open at 9:30PM. Online ticket sales end 2 hours before doors open.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 10 PER CUSTOMER

Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

One Woman. 10 Characters. Teetering on the edge.

For more than twenty years, Janelle Ranek, a comedic powerhouse renowned for her sharp wit and transformative abilities, has captivated audiences at the Bryant Lake Bowl with her acclaimed one woman holiday show. Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, the show changes every year. Ranek embodies ten widely diverse characters - each more outrageous than the last. Her unique fearless style has earned her a devoted following who have made this their holiday tradition.

Meet POLLY, obsessive about everything from clothing tags to dish soap; AMANDA HUMP, a bouffant styled beautician / taxidermist; DELORES, the proud new Kwik Trip Rewards Member recounting her run-ins with the Amish, LUCILLE; the bird loving, squirrel hating, Target Greatland team member, and other unforgettable characters that you never knew you needed in your life! Don’t forget the legendary GLORIA; the chain smoking, martini-drinking old broad who answers audience questions with all of the subtlety of a freight train.

Get your tickets NOW and prepare to laugh until your face hurts (and you may even pee a little).

Last year this show sold out fast, so don’t wait!

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Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 5PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

It started as a very simple question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

After 12 years, over 100 performances, thousands of cheering patrons and unspeakable amounts of blood: the answer is an emphatic yes.

However, much like Christmas itself, it can't last forever. 

The time has come to hang up the tank-top on the Twin Cities funniest, bloodiest and BLB-iest holiday tradition.

Announcing the final season of the greatest Christmas story ever told with all the trimmings: music, magic, and mayhem!

Come on down to the BLB, have a few laughs and take one more trip up and down Nakatomi Plaza.

"Yippee Kai Yay Father Christmas!"

Tickets are $28. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end 2 hours before doors open.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 10 PER CUSTOMER

Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

It started as a very simple question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

After 12 years, over 100 performances, thousands of cheering patrons and unspeakable amounts of blood: the answer is an emphatic yes.

However, much like Christmas itself, it can't last forever. 

The time has come to hang up the tank-top on the Twin Cities funniest, bloodiest and BLB-iest holiday tradition.

Announcing the final season of the greatest Christmas story ever told with all the trimmings: music, magic, and mayhem!

Come on down to the BLB, have a few laughs and take one more trip up and down Nakatomi Plaza.

"Yippee Kai Yay Father Christmas!"

Tickets are $28. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end 2 hours before doors open.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 10 PER CUSTOMER

Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

An improvised musical love story inspired by this month’s holiday

Ding Dong Ding Dong Romance Bells Are Ringing!

It's Christmas! Time for everyone to fall in love as they fall in the snow. Holidating is excited to put their musical spin on the holiday tradition of bad romance.

Holidating is a musical celebration of the Hallmark spirit year round, and that means we go extra hard at Christmas! Each month, the cast improvises a musical about love, breakups, and meet cutes themed around this month’s holiday, Christmas. Grab your tissues and your laugh buckets, holiday lovers!

Produced By: Sarah Arnold-Simondet & Philip Simondet
Music Director: Daniel Goldschmidt

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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 4PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

It started as a very simple question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

After 12 years, over 100 performances, thousands of cheering patrons and unspeakable amounts of blood: the answer is an emphatic yes.

However, much like Christmas itself, it can't last forever. 

The time has come to hang up the tank-top on the Twin Cities funniest, bloodiest and BLB-iest holiday tradition.

Announcing the final season of the greatest Christmas story ever told with all the trimmings: music, magic, and mayhem!

Come on down to the BLB, have a few laughs and take one more trip up and down Nakatomi Plaza.

"Yippee Kai Yay Father Christmas!"

Tickets are $28. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end 2 hours before doors open.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 10 PER CUSTOMER

Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

It started as a very simple question: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

After 12 years, over 100 performances, thousands of cheering patrons and unspeakable amounts of blood: the answer is an emphatic yes.

However, much like Christmas itself, it can't last forever. 

The time has come to hang up the tank-top on the Twin Cities funniest, bloodiest and BLB-iest holiday tradition.

Announcing the final season of the greatest Christmas story ever told with all the trimmings: music, magic, and mayhem!

Come on down to the BLB, have a few laughs and take one more trip up and down Nakatomi Plaza.

"Yippee Kai Yay Father Christmas!"

Tickets are $28. Doors open at 9:30PM. Online ticket sales end 2 hours before doors open.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 10 PER CUSTOMER

Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Local chanteuse Nichole Carey returns to the Bryant Lake Bowl with another heartfelt and hilarious holiday cabaret!

Following in the footsteps of Dean Martin and Carol Burnett, this high-energy variety show features live music, burlesque, big laughs, surprise guests, and so much more! With only two performances to enjoy, don't miss your chance to spend an evening with the always-entertaining Nichole Carey and company and kick off the season the right way.

Also featuring the talents of:
Jordan Goette, Megan Guidry, Doug Hooker, Megan Kim, Andrew Lester, Justin Michael, Courtney Miner, and Nicole Wilder

Musical Direction by:
Blake Brauer

Choreography by:
Doug Hooker and Andrew Lester

Nichole Carey is a versatile and accomplished vocalist who has graced notable Twin Cities venues, including Jazz Central, Honey, Vieux Carré, Crooners, the Acadia, and the Dakota Jazz Club. Her talent has also taken her beyond Minnesota, with performances at the historic Duplex in New York City and Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret in Chicago. In addition to her vocal career, Nichole is a published playwright, contributing to local companies such as Freshwater Theater, Smartmouth Comedy, and Theatre Unbound. She is an active member of the Twin Cities Cabaret Artists Network and a proud alumnus of the prestigious International Cabaret Conference at Yale University.

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Tickets are $20 in Advance / $22 at the Door. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 4PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Local chanteuse Nichole Carey returns to the Bryant Lake Bowl with another heartfelt and hilarious holiday cabaret!

Following in the footsteps of Dean Martin and Carol Burnett, this high-energy variety show features live music, burlesque, big laughs, surprise guests, and so much more! With only two performances to enjoy, don't miss your chance to spend an evening with the always-entertaining Nichole Carey and company and kick off the season the right way.

Also featuring the talents of:
Jordan Goette, Megan Guidry, Doug Hooker, Megan Kim, Andrew Lester, Justin Michael, Courtney Miner, and Nicole Wilder

Musical Direction by:
Blake Brauer

Choreography by:
Doug Hooker and Andrew Lester

Nichole Carey is a versatile and accomplished vocalist who has graced notable Twin Cities venues, including Jazz Central, Honey, Vieux Carré, Crooners, the Acadia, and the Dakota Jazz Club. Her talent has also taken her beyond Minnesota, with performances at the historic Duplex in New York City and Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret in Chicago. In addition to her vocal career, Nichole is a published playwright, contributing to local companies such as Freshwater Theater, Smartmouth Comedy, and Theatre Unbound. She is an active member of the Twin Cities Cabaret Artists Network and a proud alumnus of the prestigious International Cabaret Conference at Yale University.

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Tickets are $20 in Advance / $22 at the Door. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 4PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its first shows of 2024 at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater. 

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Show is free! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar!
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM. Full menu available from your seat! Come eat and drink in the theater before and during the show!

Babe Train Presents CRUSH

Have you ever had... a CRUSH?! 

Come join Babe Train on November 23rd & 24th at Bryant Lake Bowl and get swept away in the power of infatuation. 

This will be a totally unscripted long-form improvised narrative based on audience members gushing about their past (or current?!?) crushes.

We promise you won't want to miss this show.

xoxo, Babe Train

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Tickets are $10 in advance / $15 at the door. Doors open at 6PM. Show starts at 7PM. Online ticket sales end at 4PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Borinqueña Bonita and Del the Funky Homosexual are teaming up to bring you The LIFT. This show is a community-centered cabaret aimed at upLIFTing and highlighting BIPOC artists of all forms. BLB's full food and drink menu are available in the theater to enjoy during the show!

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**Show may contain nudity and use of flashing lights.**

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VIP Tickets are $25. General Admission is $15. Doors open at 9:30PM. Online ticket sales end at 7:30PM.
VIP seats are the floor seats that go right up to the stage and along the catwalk with tables. These seats have the most potential for performer interaction and ensure an up close experience. GA seats are the theater seats behind the VIP section and also include the bench and accessible seating. Theater seats are raked, and include space for food and beverages.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Babe Train Presents CRUSH

Have you ever had... a CRUSH?! 

Come join Babe Train on November 23rd & 24th at Bryant Lake Bowl and get swept away in the power of infatuation. 

This will be a totally unscripted long-form improvised narrative based on audience members gushing about their past (or current?!?) crushes.

We promise you won't want to miss this show.

xoxo, Babe Train

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Tickets are $10 in advance / $15 at the door. Doors open at 6PM. Show starts at 7PM. Online ticket sales end at 4PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

Hiahli:: Hiahli (high uh lie) is a live hip-hop band that plays rock n roll instruments. This Minneapolis-based group formed in 2020. The high-octane MC Cold Sweat delivers his Golden-Age Hip-Hop lyrics over a variety of musical stylings. In addition to the usual fatback rhythms, you may hear some undercurrents of outlaw country, disco, and grungy rock. Hiahli is also known to throw in a few deep covers from the archives of hip-hop.
For Fans Of: The Roots, Rage Against The Machine, Brother Ali

Jantzonia:: Jantzonia is a hiphop artist from Grand Forks, ND. Coming from such an unclaimed area, Jantz has been focusing on giving his listeners anthems they can call their own.
For Fans Of: Mac Miller, Ab-Soul, Joey Bada$$

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Tickets are $10. Doors open at 9:30PM. Online ticket sales end at 7:30PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

With her co-star unaccounted for, ever-positive Lizzy Sunshine carries a vaudevillian double act alone…because THIS is a show that GOES ON!

This show-within-a-show is giving "Fleabag" meets Bo Burnham... the GLEE VERSION!

A FUNNY, FULL-ON HOUR CHOCK FULL OF:
Musical numbers
Special effects & magic
Bottomless props, boundless energy
Audience participation
Crowd work
Take-home rose-colored glasses under your seat!
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Costumes & Cartwheels.

Liz Coin is a NYC-based improviser, actor, and comedian originally from Bettendorf, Iowa. Liz holds a BA from Northwestern University and is a proud Second City alum. As a professional silly goose, Liz has appeared on stages and screens around the country – notably, The Second City, The PIT, Magnet Theater, and regional sketch tours. She tours with “Broadway’s Next Hit Musical” as their emcee.

"Lizzy Sunshine" was first produced at The PIT's SoloCom Festival where it completely SOLD OUT. The PIT brought it back as a stand-alone show in July, this time it was a RECORD-BREAKING performance, overselling and almost doubling the house!

After her run in NY, “Lizzy Sunshine” is off to see the USA! She played at the 200-seat Center for Living Arts (IL) this summer and is thrilled to be in Minneapolis!

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Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 4PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.

We'll be singing, when we're winning. Join us with a whiskey drink, a vodka drink, a lager drink, or a cider drink, any kind of drink. And enjoy a comedy variety show. Each monthly Thursday show will feature unique comedy from short/long form improv groups, comedians, and/or comedy sketches.
Comedy for the good times, and comedy for the better times.

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Tickets are $12. Doors open at 6PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.