directed by Sheryl Scheffert
January 2010 New Minowa Players Family Show

Tickets are on sale for New Minowa Players production of The Wind in the Willows.  The Wind in the Willows, based on Kenneth Grahame’s book,  can be seen at the New Minowa Players Theatre, 906 South Mill Street in Decorah, January 21-24.  Tickets are available at the Once Upon a Time Book Shop and the Oneota Community Co-op.  Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door.  Cast is $10 for adults and $5 for children age twelve and under.  Evening show times Thursday, January 21 through Saturday, January 23 are 7:30 pm.  Two matinees will also be performed, one Saturday and one Sunday, beginning at 2:00 pm.

“Hand spring cleaning!  And hand whitewashing!  Oh the light!  The air!  The freedom,” Mole shouts, as he reaches the River Bank for the first time. 

So begin the adventures in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, to be presented January 21-24 by New Minowa Players.  Mole (Jason Hettinger) explores the River Bank with his new friend Rat (Ruth Bruce), and is soon introduced to Toad of Toad Hall (Rick Scheffert).   Toad has already left his love of boating to embrace the joys of caravanning.  He convinces his friends to caravan across England, but along the way becomes enamored of motor cars.  And motor cars land him in jail.  Finally escaping with the help of the Gaoler’s Daughter (Olga Rinco), Toad journeys through the Wide World, arriving at Badger’s (Jerry Bruce) house only to find the weasels (Chuck Humphrey-Klimesh  and Gavin Markee) have taken over Toad Hall.  In the end the friends work together to reclaim Toad Hall, and even the weasels join in the final celebration.