Photo Flash: First Look at Milwaukee Repertory Theater's GUYS ON ICE

Milwaukee Repertory Theater's Stackner Cabaret Season continues with the Midwest's favorite musical, GUYS ON ICE. Deemed a "...legendary play, featuring two fine actors" by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this ice-fishing odyssey returns to Milwaukee after thrilling audiences across Wisconsin and in Michigan, Oregon, California, Texas, and New York since 1998. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

This National-Geographic-Special-gone-musical-comedy features fishing buddies and home-grown philosophers Marvin and Lloyd in their natural environment: an ice shanty. They wax philosophical in songs like ""Ode to a Snowmobile Suit" and knock back a few cold brews, all while protecting their cooler from Ernie the Moocher. Nothing makes a Wisconsin winter warm like listening to the musings of Marvin and Lloyd!

The iconic cast features Doug Mancheski (Northern Sky Theater: Lumberjacks in Love, The Bachelors, Loose Lips Sink Ships, Windjammers), seen in the premiere production of GUYS ON ICE in the 1998/99 Rep Season, as Marvin; Steve Koehler (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: Lend Me a Tenor; Skylight Music Theatre: The Sound of Music; Forward Theater: The Other Place), who has joined Doug in over 1000 performances of GUYS ON ICE since 2003, as Lloyd; and Bo Johnson (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, First Stage), in his second appearance at The Rep and GUYS ON ICE debut, as Ernie the Moocher.

The creative team for GUYS ON ICE includes: Jeffrey Herbst♦ (Director/Choreographer); James Kaplan (Composer/Music Director); James Maronek (Scenic Designer); Neen Rock (Costumer Designer); Jason Fassl (Lighting Designer); Christian Gero (Sound Designer); JC Clementz (Casting Director); and Daniel J. Hanson* (Stage Manager)

GUYS ON ICE runs in the Stackner Cabaret from November 13, 2015 - January 17, 2016 (Opening Night is November 15). Tickets (starting at $45 and subject to change) can be purchased online at www.MilwaukeeRep.com, by phone at 414-224-9490 or at the Ticket Office (108 E Wells Street). GUYS ON ICE is presented by Executive Producers Elizabeth and Peter Gottsacker. The Rep is sponsored in part by The United Performing Arts Fund.

Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow

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