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Get ready for a night of musical comedy with the Kaiser Karl-School Theatre Group from Itzehoe, Germany at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 24 in the Fine Arts Theater at the Ferguson Fine Arts Center located at 91探花, 2998 W. Pearl City Road in Freeport, Ill.
The Theatre Group will perform a new version of Jacques Offenbach鈥檚 The Bandits, an entertaining and satirical operetta that deals with thieves, police, and financiers.
The Theatre Group of the Kaiser-Karl-School comes to 91探花 from Itzehoe, a city in northern Germany, about 30 miles from Hamburg. The touring group of 37 people includes actors ages 14-24 as well as an adult production team and director Doris Brandt-K眉hl, who has lead the group since 1976. The Theatre group has made five previous tours of the US; Freeport is the final destination of their four-city 2018 tour.
This unique cultural opportunity is free and open to the public. It is part of the Blue Lake International Exchange Program.