Complicated Fun:
the Minneapolis Music Scene
By Alan Berks
Directed by Dominic Taylor
Music direction by Nic Delcambre
April 30–May 29, 2016
An alternative theater experience
198x. Ronald Reagan, Rubik's cubes, and the underground music scene of Minneapolis. Get swirled up with two young misfits who discover themselves in the musical madness pouring out of First Avenue. Everybody's dressin' in this mixtape love letter to the counterculture sounds that made the city famous. Relive the legendary '80s scene with a band that stirs up the sounds of the Replacements, the Suicide Commandos, Hüsker Dü, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, the Suburbs, and many more.
Find out how a cold Midwestern metropolis gave birth to so many geniuses of punk and funk!
Reviews are in! Check it out:
- Complicated Fun celebrates Prince, and the Minneapolis Sound (Ross Raihala, Pioneer Press)
- Minneapolis Music Scene - epicenter of music-Minneapolis in the 1980s (Rebecca Marx, riftmagazine.com)
- Complicated Fun is fast, funny and loud (John Olive, howwastheshow.com)
- Complicated Fun (Arthur Dorman, talkingbroadway.com)
- A Celebration of the ['80s] Music Scene (Jill Shafer, cherryandspoon.com)
- Q&A: Complicated Fun (Kendra Plant)
- Complicated Fun can't catch the spirit of Minneapolis music scene (Graydon Royce, Star Tribune)
Learn more about Complicated Fun:
- Listen: Complicated Fun on MPR Morning Edition (mpr.org 4/29/16)
- History Theatre Musical Complicated Fun is a Minneapolis Mixtape (Star Tribune)
- History Theatre Musical is a mixtape love letter to 1980s Minneapolis Music (Pioneer Press)
- Complicated Fun: Play about Minneapolis music scene (The Current)
- Steve McClellan talks about early days of First Ave (The Current)
- The Suicide Commandos (twintone.com)
- Behind First Avenue's Stars: Husker Du (The Current)
Take a listen:
- Spin with Cyn (KFAI)
- Wall of Power (AM 950, Paul Metsa)
- Love is the Law (The Suburbs)
- I Will Dare (The Replacements)
Watch Complicated Fun promo! Click Here
