Minneapolis Theatre Meetup Group

Please go to https://securesite.guthrietheater.org/35455/35639/ to buy your ticket. I will be in Orchestra Center, Row F, 215. Please buy your ticket before signing up and if your plans change, be courteous and update your RSVP.

I will be at the Target Lounge on the 4th floor by 6:30. Please join us for refreshments and chat anytime from 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. We meet on the SIDE of the bar at the BACK. Just keep walking toward the bar and look to the right for the high tables. I look just like my Meetup picture. The show starts at 7:30.

There is a parking ramp across the street from the front door and sometimes street parking if you arrive early enough.

It’s been five years since divorcees Elyot and Amanda called it quits. It wasn’t that they didn’t adore each other — their union was just too tempestuous for their own good. Now they’re both on marriage number two and honeymooning at a popular resort town in France with their new spouses, Sibyl and Victor, who remain unconvinced that the flames between the former dynamic duo have fizzled. When the couples discover they are vacationing at the same hotel, insults and romantic sparks fly until everyone is caught in the emotional crossfire and forced to follow their hearts. This delicious will-they-won’t-they comedy will have you rooting for the lovers and leave you laughing the whole way home.

## Three things to know

• This witty comedy of manners is considered to be Noël Coward’s most famous work, and it is revived often on London’s West End and beyond.
• Private Lives is a Guthrie audience favorite: We previously produced the play in our 1975–1976, 1992–1993 and 2007–2008 Seasons.
• Director David Ivers most recently helmed the Guthrie's production of The Importance of Being Earnest in our 2023–2024 Season.

Approximately 2 hours, 15 minutes (including two intermissions)
We recommend this production for ages

Requested by a member! World Premiere.

Curtain is at 2. I will be in the lobby by 1:20 p.m. for meet & greet and beverage. (the MEET part of MEET-Up)

I am in Row E, Seat 21. Main floor.

Tickets here. https://parksquaretheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/?acode=fa91c75634f30c65dd9abaa7018f5306&#/instances/a0FNr000006lfibMAA/sectionGroups/a0bNr0000014BKTIA2

If you RSVP, please get a ticket immediately. (Some venues have sold out recently and people who RSVPed with our group couldn't get a ticket because they waited)

Parking: Lawson Ramp (my go-to) or the Victory Ramp. If you can find street parking, we will admire you!

A witty and suspenseful comedy thriller in the grand tradition of Dial M for Murder and Columbo.
Jeffrey Hatcher’s original mystery, The Butler Did It, takes audiences to a school for butlers that serves the fabulously rich, where a perfect murder has just been committed. The butler did it… but which butler? How? Why? And will the culprit get away with it when an unassuming detective named Inspector Denise is on the case?

Confession: I thought this was the Joe Orton play, "What the Butler Saw." I am delighted to see this new work, however!