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Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre is thrilled to announce its 2016 season. Run for Your Wife It all kicks off Dec. 29 with the return of Run for Your Wife , the funniest show ever performed at Beef & Boards. In this uncanny comedy, a cab driver manages to maintain two marriages – keeping each wife a secret from the other – until one mishap leads to an unraveling of his precise schedule. His double life is in danger of being revealed as complications and hilarious situations pile up faster than he can handle them. This fast-paced farce is on stage through Feb. 7 and is rated PG-13 for adult humor. Sister Act Opening Feb. 11 is the first of two new shows in 2016, Sister Act . Based on the hit movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, this musical follows disco diva Deloris Van Cartier who witnesses a murder and is put in protective custody – in a convent! Disguised as a nun, Deloris breathes new life into the church with her disco moves and singing talent, but blows her cover ...

Menopause the Musical is exactly what one might expect. The Beef & Boards debut is a cheeky, fun look at “The Change” set to song. Any woman who can identify with the experience is sure to love the show. Four very different women cross paths in Bloomingdales department store. Despite their differences they have an automatic sense of camaraderie because of the one thing they have in common: menopause! Unlike most Beef & Boards shows, there is no intermission. The musical is a brisk 90 minutes.  The songs are parodies of familiar classics from the 1960s. The songs poke fun at the systems of menopause. From the night sweats to hot flashes, memory loss to mood swings, the reworded versions of “California Girls” and “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” are a playful look at the challenges of Menopause. The set has art deco-style dressing room doors lining the back, allowing for quick entrances and exits. Over the course of one day in the mall the women commiserate and en...

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre celebrates its 40th Season with three fabulous new shows to its stage and several popular favorites from its richly entertaining repertoire. Kicking off the season is the hilarious classic Arsenic & Old Lace . Opening Dec. 28, 2012, this comedy follows the deadly deeds of two charming elderly spinsters who believe they are rescuing their lonely lodgers by poisoning them and burying their bodies in the cellar. Between their special secret and their brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt, their nephew is in for quite a surprise when he pays them a visit! On stage through Feb. 3. Book by Joseph Kesselring. Next on stage is the debut of the high-energy hit 9 to 5: The Musical . With music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, and based on the hit 1980 movie in which she starred, 9 to 5 is the story of three female coworkers who plot to get even with their sexist and egotistical boss – and take over the company while they’re at it! Outrageous, though...

Making "the change" funny since it opened in 2001, "Menopause the Musical" is now onstage at the American Cabaret Theatre in Indianapolis. It follows four women, with seemingly nothing in common, who meet in a department store. A business woman, soap opera star, Iowa housewife and a hippie, the women find that they are all in the midst of menopause. They bond over their shared ailments and sing their way through the woes of insomnia and mood swings. The show is geared towards women who are going through or have already gone through the change, so it's more commiseration than education. It provides laughs, while at the same time showing that menopause is a universal bond between all women. The songs are all well-known '60s and '70s classics, with a new sets of lyrics. Tiffanie Bridges, who plays the professional woman, has a wonderful voice, the strength of which carries many of the songs. Her version of "I'm Sorry," reworked as "I'...