(2025-04&05) Scarecrow On Fire

Center for Performing Arts, Minneapolis

Play

About the Show

April 25th – May 4th, 2025

Written by Kevin Kling.

CREATIVE TEAM

Directed by Michael Robins

Feat. Kevin Kling*, Dan Chouinard, Simone Perrin, and Stephen Yoakam*

Music by the House of Mercy Band and Michelle Kinney

NOTE ON RESERVED SEATING: If you purchase our pay-what-you-can tickets at a price point of $50 or higher per seat, the front of house staff will reserve seats for your whole party, so there will be no need to arrive early to the theater.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Friday, Apr. 25th | 7:30 PM

Saturday, Apr. 26th | 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM

Sunday, Apr. 27th | 2:00 PM

Wednesday, Apr. 30th | 7:30 PM

Thursday, May 1st | 7:30 PM

Friday, May 2nd | 7:30 PM

Saturday, May 3rd | 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM

Sunday, May 4th | 7:00 PM (ASL-interpreted)

TICKETS

ILLUSION THEATER offers pay-what-you-can tickets to our community on a sliding scale starting at $15. We encourage those who can afford $35 tickets to pay our suggested price, as your generosity will help support ILLUSION with continuing to provide our community with affordable tickets.

Most of the seating for the show is general admission, but if you purchase tickets at the $50 price point or more, the front of house will reserve seats for you and your full party.

LOCATION

Center for Performing Arts

3754 Pleasant Ave

Minneapolis, MN 55409

ABOUT THE SHOW

Kevin imagines a twist to the story of The Wizard of Oz, as only he can. Dorothy is back in Kansas with a cyclone in her head, she’s in trouble and calls for help. Can the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion find their way from Oz to Kansas? With the all-star cast of Dan Chouinard as the Tinman, Stephen Yoakam as the Lion, Simone Perrin as Dorothy, and Kevin as the Scarecrow, these four plunge into one adventure after another and still arrive at the realization that, “Home. There really is no place like it.”

Kevin Kling was one of the first playwrights ILLUSION engaged for collaboration. He first performed his solo work 21A in ILLUSION’s studio warehouse (1984). Kevin played a collection of eight unforgettable characters on the Minneapolis to St. Paul bus route giving the play its name. ILLUSION produced his Lloyd’s Prayer twice, in 1989 with Kevin playing the Raccoon Boy and Michael Sommers playing Lloyd and later in 2002 with Nathan Christopher playing the Raccoon Boy and Zach Curtis as Lloyd. Kevin has also performed at LIVE at Lyndale Gardens for each of the four years of this free outdoor series.

*member Actors’ Equity Association