Master Butchers Singing Club

A friend and I went to the Guthrie Theatre to see "Master Butchers Singing Club" - a play based on the novel by Louise Erdrich.  This was my first trip to the new and blue Guthrie Theater. We got there early. We had time to walk the "Bridge to Forever" which is a walkway that extends over the river bank.  We enjoyed the views of the stone arch bridge and marveled at the high water level.  I'm sure any canoer would be on a faster journey down the river compared to a trip in July.  The Guthrie has comfortable leather arms chairs where you can sit, enjoy watching the sun set over Minneapolis, and pretend you live in a fancy high rise condo.  The play is set in North Dakota and features people of German and Native American backgrounds.  Among the many characters are a hard working butcher who likes to sing, a stalker, a gymast pretending to be a husband who is also a homosexual, a jealous spinster sister, a mysterious and secretive junk collector, an alcoholic father, a feminist mortician, and two really good friends named Eva and Delphine.  There is singing but this is not a musical.  There is quite a bit of humor but this is not a comedy.  I'd say it's a drama.  The book had a lot of events and characters.  Not too many details were left out thanks to the narration by Step-And-A-Half who plays the mysterious and secretive junk collector. I enjoyed going to the Guthrie. We were in the Wuertle Thrust Stage.  The stage had audience on three sides just as I remember in the original Guthrie theatre.  I definitely plan to go to the Guthrie again.  I am thinking of volunteering to usher there because the ticket takers have these totally awesome computerized ticket readers that make a sound just like a phaser in the original Star Trek.  "Peeeeuuuuu.  Peeeeuuuuu."  Wouldn't that be fun?