Milwaukee Theater Groups

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• Acacia Theatre Co at Church in the City
• The Alchemist Theatre & BAY VIEW LOUNGE
• Alverno Presents: performing arts series at Alverno College
• Bay Players: Whitefish Bay Player Community Theater
• Boulevard Theatre: Boulevard Ensemble Studio Theatre
• Chamber Theatre: Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
• First Stage: First Stage Children's Theater
• Grant Park Players: Community Theater Troupe in South Milwaukee
• Husty Players: Community Theater group in Hustisford, WI 
• Intandem Th: In Tandem Theatre; professional, live theater company located at Walker's Point Center for the Arts
• Lake Country Playhouse Hartland, WI
• The Haylofters,  Burlington, Wisconsin
• MPT: Milwaukee Public Theatre; creates and presents theatrical and performing arts productions through a professional company
• NextAct: Next Act Theatre; professional non-profit theater company
• Off The Wall Theater - Semi professional theater in downtown Milwaukee
• Opera Skyllight: Skylight Opera Theatre; professional opera and music theater company encompassing baroque opera, European operetta, Gilbert and Sullivan, Broadway musicals, contemporary chamber operas and original musical revues; in English; located in the Broadway Theatre Center
• Over Your Head Players at Sixth Street Theatre in Racine, Wisconsin
• Pink Banana Theatre: encourages new and emerging artists
• Renaissance: Renaissance Theaterworks; specializing in the feminine voice; located off-Broadway at the corner of Water and St. Paul Streets
• In Tandem Theatre
• Sunset Playhouse - Elm Grove, WI
• The Rep: Milwaukee Repertory Theater; professional, live theater company located in the heart of the Downtown Theater District in the Patty & Jay Baker Theater Complex, located in the Milwaukee Center
• Theater On Main: Local theater group in Oconomowoc 
• West Allis Players
• Windfall: Windfall Theatre; a non-profit, professional theater company with a three-production season
• Youngblood Theater - Youngblood Theatre Company’s mission is to support Milwaukee’s emerging theatre artists by creating unique professional experiences for early-career actors and technicians.

Monologues

Other People's Money

Lawrence Garfield

Amen, Amen and Amen.  You have to forgive me. I'm not familiar with the local custom. Where I come from, you always say "Amen" after you hear a prayer. Because that's what you just heard -- a prayer. Where I come from, that particular prayer is called "The Prayer for the Dead." You just heard The Prayer for the Dead, my fellow stockholders, and you didn't say, "Amen." This company is dead. I didn't kill it. Don't blame me. It was dead when I got here. It's too late for prayers. For even if the prayers were answered, and a miracle occurred, and the yen did this, and the dollar did that, and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead. You know why? Fiber optics. New technologies. Obsolescence. We're dead alright. We're just not broke. And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. Down the tubes. Slow but sure. You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? You invested in a business and this business is dead. Let's have the intelligence, let's have the DECENCY to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future. "Ah, but we can't," goes the prayer. "We can't because we have responsibility, a responsibility to our employees, to our community. What will happen to them?" I got two words for that: Who cares? Care about them? Why? They didn't care about you. They sucked you dry. You have no responsibility to them. For the last ten years this company bled your money. Did this community ever say, "We know times are tough. We'll lower taxes, reduce water and sewer." Check it out: You're paying twice what you did ten years ago. And our devoted employees, who have taken no increases for the past three years, are still making twice what they made ten years ago; and our stock, one-sixth of what it was ten years ago. Who cares? I'll tell ya: Me. I'm not your best friend. I'm your ONLY friend. I don't make anything? I'm makin' you money. And lest we forget, that's the only reason any of you became stockholders in the first place. You wanna make money! You don't care if they manufacture wire and cable, fry chicken, or grow tangerines! You wanna make money. I'm the only friend you've got. I'm makin' you money. Take the money. Invest it somewhere else. Maybe, maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be used productively. And if it is, you'll create new jobs and provide a service for the economy and, God forbid, even make a few bucks for yourselves. And if anybody asks, tell 'em ya gave at the plant. And by the way, it pleases me that I am called "Larry the Liquidator." You know why, fellow stockholders? Because at my funeral, you'll leave with a smile on your face AND a few bucks in your pocket. Now that's a funeral worth having!

Andrew Jorgenson: Well, it's good to see so many familiar faces, so many old friends. Some of you I haven't seen in years. Well thank you for coming. Now, Bill Coles, our able President, in the annual report has told you of our year, of what we accomplished, of the need for further improvements, our business goals for next year and the years beyond. I'd like to talk to you about something else. I wanna share with you some of my thoughts concerning the vote that you're gonna make and the company that you own. This proud company, which has survived the death of its founder, numerous recessions, one major depression, and two world wars is in imminent danger of self-destructing -- on this day, in the town of its birth. There is the instrument of our destruction. I want you to look at him in all of his glory, Larry "The Liquidator," the entrepreneur of post-industrial America, playing GOD with other people's money. The Robber Barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake -- a coal mine, a railroad, banks. This man leaves nothing. He creates nothing. He builds nothing. He RUNS nothing. And in his wake lies nothing but a blizzard of paper to cover the pain. Oh, if he said, "I know how to run your business better than you," that would be something worth talking about. But he's not saying that. He's saying, "I'm going to kill you because at this particular moment in time, you're worth more dead than alive." Well, maybe that's true, but it is also true that one day this industry will turn. One day when the yen is weaker, the dollar is stronger -- or when we finally begin to rebuild our roads, our bridges, the infrastructure of our country -- demand will skyrocket. And when those things happen, we will still be here, stronger because of our ordeal, stronger because we have survived. And the price of our stock will make his offer pale by comparison. God save us if we vote to take his paltry few dollars and run. God save this country if that is truly the wave of the future. We will then have become a nation that makes nothing but hamburgers, creates nothing but lawyers, and sells nothing but tax shelters. And if we are at that point in this country, where we kill something because at the moment it's worth more dead than alive -- well, take a look around. Look at neighbor; look at your neighbor. You won't kill him, will you? No. It's called murder and it's illegal. Well, this too is murder -- on a mass scale. Only on Wall Street, they call it "maximizing share-holder value" and they call it "legal." And they substitute dollar bills where a conscience should be. Dammit! A business is worth more than the price of its stock. It's the place where we earn our living, where we meet our friends, dream our dreams. It is, in every sense, the very fabric that binds our society together. So let us now, at this meeting, say to every Garfield in the land, "Here, we BUILD things. We don't destroy them. Here, we care about more than the price of our stock! Here, we care about people.

12 Angry Men

Juror #10: I don't understand you people. I mean all these little picky points you bring up don't mean nothing. They don't mean nothing. How can you believe his story? You're an intelligent man and you're not gonna tell me you're not. You know the facts of life. Just look at what we're dealing with. Just look at what we're dealing with here. You know him. You know this kid. And this guy over here, I don't know what the hell is going on with him, all this talk about psychiatrists. Maybe he ought to go to one. Now let's look at the facts. These people are born to lie. Now that's the way they are and no intelligent man is gonna tell me otherwise. They don't know what the truth is. You take a look at them, they're different. They think different, they act different and they don't need some big excuse to kill somebody either. Well it's true, Everyone knows it. Smoking that crack. Nothing but crack heads. Look at him: Smart guy, Uncle Tom. What does that mean? Slamming the door. Anyway these people get drugged out and then BANG, all of a sudden somebody's lying dead in the gutter. Okay look, nobody's blaming them for it. That's just the way they are by nature. You know what I mean, they're violent. And human life don't mean as much to them as it does to us. Where you going? Where you going? Look while you're in there maybe you ought to clean out your ears. Maybe you can hear something. Now look, listen to me now. These Spics they stay high on dope and they fight all the time. Look, if somebody gets killed, so somebody gets killed; they don't care. And they breed like animals. Okay sure, there's some good things about them, I'm the first guy to tell you that. I've known some who are okay but that's the exception.