MEADOW BROOK THEATRE -

We attended a performance at Meadow Brook Theatre last week.

Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues.

Biloxi was terrific. It was funny. It was sad. It was poignant. It spoke to us on many levels. It made you think about yourself and what you have made of your life.

The director favored the audience with a ‘talk back’ after the play. We could ask questions and hear his take on the story and the production.

The Theatre Ensemble at Meadow Brook Theatre is a delight.

It is local.

It is professional.

It is superbly directed, sometimes with guest directors.

The sets are to die for.

The ticket prices are deliriously low.

And the audiences are depressingly small.

Over the last several decades, the numbers of theatergoers at Meadow Brook seem to have steadily declined.

The Theatre is now entirely self-supporting.

People of Oakland County pay big-ticket prices to travel to Detroit to see plays down there.

I fear that few of them even consider this excellent venue right in our own backyard.

Give it a try. You will not be disappointed.

Call up a couple of friends. Buy some reasonably priced tickets. Go out for a great meal in one of the many nearby eateries. Attend the play. Hit a quiet lounge for an afterglo.

Give the box office a call at 248-377-3300.

A couple of surprises this season are Nunsense with Cindy Williams in April and Lee Merriwether in Sister Amnesia's Country Western Nunsense Jamboree in May.

Take a break from the movies or the casinos or an evening in front of the TV.

Afterglos are especially fun.