The TADA Theatre Company, located in the creamery building in Lincoln's Haymarket district, will be opening their most recent show "Suds" Thursday.
The bubbly musical that uses popular songs from the ‘60s will be running for four weekends with four shows each weekend, one show Thursday through Sunday, excluding Sept. 26 due to the Cornhusker's football game.
Steven Rich, who plays the role of six various characters in the show, currently lives in New York and has acted in a traveling production of "Cats" and other various regional theat re productions.
"It's a fun musical using ‘60s popular music that people will enjoy recognizing," Rich said. "For instance, we have songs from James Brown, Aretha Franklin and the Beatles."
"Suds" centers around Cindy, a laundromat attendant who receives bad news from a postman and decides it's time to end her life. Just in time to save her life, two strangers walk into the laundromat, and the journey begins from there.
The ladies, who actually turn out to be her guardian angels, help teach her about love and life. Cindy, in turn, starts to help the other characters with their problems as well.
Rich described it as a fun, bright story with great music.
Jaime Unger, a recent UNL alumna who majored in musical education, is working with TADA for the first time. She has worked on many different plays before. This is her first time performing back in Lincoln after graduating in 2008.
She said she has had a great experience preparing this show and is very excited for it to open.
"The space is unique. It is small and intimate, very different from most theatre experiences," she said. "It's a bubbly, bright and uplifting show. You get to see good acting and good singing. It has its down-point but you leave feeling happy."
Working on the show has been a universally good experience for both Rich and Unger. It offers an opportunity that is rare to musical theatre: a small cast. It's a challenge for the cast who have to stay on stage for the entire show and perform without backup from a large chorus, said Unger.
"The harmonies are great; we have a chance to sing together but also have our time to shine," Rich said. "We're all stars of the show but also part of a wonderful ensemble."
The production is hoping to draw in a great crowd from the Lincoln area with the power of popular music and a fun script. It's a cheap show that offers great entertainment that has originated within the Lincoln area, and it's a chance to see a local theater in a local setting, said Rich.
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