Our 2018 Season:
Mainstage
Escanaba in Da Moonlight - February
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - August
Anatomy of a Murder - October
A Christmas Story - December
Second Stage
The Flower Girls - September
Special Events
A Night of Improv Comedy with GoProv - May
Plays-In-Development - June
Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company: As You Like It - November
Mainstage
The Beverly Hillbillies - February
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - June
The Full Monty - August
The Sunshine Boys - October
It's A Wonderful Life - November/December
Second Stage
Doubt, A Parable - March/April
Sauk Shorts - May
Does This Show Make My Butt Look Fat? - September
Special Events
A Night of Improv Comedy with GoProv - May
Plays-In-Development: On Art, Trees, The Flower Girls & Twelve Wild Swans - July
Pigeon Creek Shakespare Company: King Lear - November
Mainstage
M*A*S*H (at Phillips Auditorium)
Tarzan (at Markel Auditorium)
Big Fish
Holes
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Second Stage
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (at Phillips Auditorium)
A Festival of One-Acts (at Phillips Auditorium)
The Guys
Special Events
GoProv (at Phillips Auditorium)
Plays-in-Development: Ember & Zombie Apocalypse: A Love Story
The Sauk Gala: An Evening with Bud Vear
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
A Festival of One-Acts
GoProv
Titanic - The Musical
Plays-In-Development: Ephemera & The Inheritance
The Addams Family
The Mousetrap
The Homecoming
Lost in Yonkers
A Festival of One-Acts
GoProv
Les Miserables
Godspell
The War of the Worlds
A Charlie Brown Christmas
2013
Shrek - The Musical (regional premiere)
The Apple Tree
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Miracle on 34th Street
2012
Sweet Charity
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Proof
Fiddler on the Roof
It's A Wonderful Life - A Live Radio Play
2011 - 50th Anniversary Season
The King & I
The Drowsy Chaperone (regional premiere)
Twelve Angry Jurors
Frankenstein
Scrooge - The Musical
2010
Two By Two (co-produced with Branch County Community Theatre)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Bye Bye Birdie
Dracula
Narnia the Musical
The Lion in Winter (co-produced with Homer Community Theatre)
2009
Plays in May
The Fantasticks
The Sound of Music
Dial "M" for Murder
2008
Disney's High School Musical
Oliver!
Escanaba in Da Moonlight
On Golden Pond
2007
You Can't Take It With You
Barefoot in the Park
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (revised)
2006
Belles
West Side Story
A Little Princess
2005
Steel Magnolias
The Odd Couple
South Pacific
Cinderella
2004
Greater Tuna
Plays in May
Pippin
Our Town
The Music Man
2003
Talent Showcase
Plays in May
Footloose
Alice in Wonderland
Fall Funnies
2002
The Diary of Anne Frank
Plays in May 3.0
The Boyfriend
Damn Yankees
2001
The Miracle Worker
More Plays in May
I Do! I Do!
Grease
Fall Follies
2000
Seven Plays in May
Oklahoma!
Web of Murder
Beats Settin' Home
1999
Jake's Women
The Sound of Music
Little Shop of Horrors
Beats Settin' Home (special concert)
1998
Noises Off
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Beats Settin' Home (special concert)
1997
A Thousand Clowns
Nunsense II
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Harvey
The Homecoming
1996
Arsenic and Old Lace
Babes in Arms
Nunsense
A Christmas Carol
1995
Patchwork/How to Eat Like a Child
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Music Man
Wait Until Dark
Christmas Crisis at Mistletoe Mesa
1994
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Foriegner
Oliver!
Crimes of the Heart
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
1993
Cheaper By the Dozen
Finian's Rainbow
Faith County
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
1992
Annie
Jeemie (original musical)
Brigadoon (co-produced with Coldwater Community Theatre)
A Christmas Carol
1991
My Son is Crazy - But Promising
The Lottery (original play)
Camelot
Same Time, Next Year
The Ransom of Red Chief
1990
Hello Dolly
Steel Magnolias
How to Eat Like a Child
1776 (co-produced with Coldwater Community Theatre)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1989
The City Manager (original musical)
The Curious Savage
Carousel
1988
Annie Get Your Gun
Arsenic and Old Lace
Leader of the Pack
The Odd Couple (female version)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
1987
Godspell
On Golden Pond
Where's Charley?
Some Enchanted Evening
Babes in Toyland
1986
Grease
Anything Goes
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Scrooge's Christmas
1985
Ten Little Indians
California Suite
Bye Bye Birdie
Death on the Nile
The Music Man
Dinner Theatre Revue: Crème de la Crème
1984
The Wizard of Oz
The Importance of Being Ernest
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Something's Afoot
Falling Moons (world premiere)
The Sound of Music
Dinner Theatre Revue
Scrooge's Christmas
1983
The Hobbit
Barefoot in the Park
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Oliver!
Oklahoma!
I Do! I Do!
1982
Butterflies are Free
A Shakespeare Celebration
Kalamazoo Ballet in Concert
Harvey
My Fair Lady
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Sauk Theatre Showcase
Plaza Suite
1981 - Back at The Sauk
Spring Sauk Showcase
Kalamazoo Ballet
Little Mary Sunshine - first production back at The Sauk
The Good Witch of Boston
Brigadoon
Fall Sauk Showcase
The House on the Cliff
1980
Two By Two (at Women's Congress Building)
Rodgers and Hart: A Musical Celebration (at Women's Congress Building)
You Can't Take It With You (at Women's Congress Building)
1979 - Fire closes the Sauk Theatre
Man of La Mancha (co-produced with Hillsdale College)
1978
6 Rms Riv Vu
The Change of Life (world premiere)
Fiddler on the Roof (co-produced with Hillsdale College)
The Mousetrap
1977
The Sunshine Boys
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Sauk Theatre Review
Guys and Dolls
The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
Peter Pan
Ten Little Indians
1976
The Moon is Blue
1776
America the Musical (world premiere)
Don Juan in Hell
This is still a work in progress.
Come back soon for information on all 66 seasons!
The Sauk
Board of Directors
President - David Trippett (2019)
Vice President - Steve Cobb (2020)
Secretary - Bruce Crews (2021)
Treasurer - Angie Smith (2019)
Tim Ambrose (2020)
Barbara Cliffe-Miller (2021)
Rickie Freeman (2020)
Kristi Gautsche (2019)
Kristin Hood (2021)
Traci Jo Hubbard (2021)
Deb Lemke (2020)
Jan Mackie (2019)
Bud Vear (2019)
Executive Director: Trinity Bird
The Sauk Board of Directors meet the fourth Wednesday of each month (unless otherwise posted) at 7 p.m. in the Women's Dressing Room at the Sauk Theatre, 240 E. Chicago St. in Jonesville.
Their next meeting will be Wednesday, April 25 at 7 p.m.
Clint Johnson Award
Each year, The Sauk awards one long-time volunteer with the Clint Johnson Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to the organization. Those awarded are:
2018 - Kristin Hood
2017 - Joan Van Arsdalen
2016 - Kathi Boyle
2015 - Deb Smith
2014 - Peggy Youngs
2013 - Rickie Freeman
2012 - Michele Harmon
2011 - Trinity Bird
2010 - Jan Mackie
2004 - Mary Jean Dulmage
2003 - Luanne Bremer
2002 - Ron Boyle
2001 - Helen Gallup
2000 - Harland Wood
1999 - Walt Schray
1998 - Patrice Hudson
1997 - Beth Rials
1996 - Dave Rickard
1995 - Kristi Gautsche
1994 - Monty Powers
1993 - William Rials
1992 - Robert Webber
1991 - Scott Baker
1990 - Robert D. Fox
1989 - David Holcomb
1988 - H. Paul Carter
1987 - Fran Tipton
1986 - Russ Holcomb
1985 - Gloria Vear
1984 - David Griffiths
1983 - Dr. Charles "Bud" Vear
1982 - Doug Spike
The Sauk's Mission
The Sauk's mission is to enrich our community through shared theatrical experiences that inspire, nurture, challenge and educate artists and audiences.
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