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"Boomtown 1925"
Boll Family YMCA Theatre
*NEW DATE!* November 9, 2006
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm (Performance starts at 8:00 pm)

Trip Fee:
$10.00 (for Undergraduate students and Group Leaders*)
$15.00 (for Graduate Students and Faculty and Staff)
*Group leaders must be U-M faculty, staff, or GSIs.

HOW DO I BOOK A GROUP OF 10 OR MORE?
Group sales deadline for this event is: Friday, October 20.

Boomtown 1925 is an original play about Detroit's Jazz Age, when the city was inventing a whole new way of living.

From 1922 to 1927, Detroit's population grew from 250,000 to one million people. From all over the globe, people came together to create a new city and a new way of life. Boomtown 1925 is the story of five women from five cultures who come together at Gus' All Night Diner across the street from the Ternstedt plant in Southwest Detroit. There, they share troubles, laughs, and food as they invent the city that created the 20th century. This original play was written by Matrix Collective Playwrights Workshop, and is being directed by Matrix Theatre Company Executive Director, Shaun S. Nethercott.

The play captures the excitement and transformation that marked the 1920's in Detroit. The Great War was over, the Jazz Age had begun. Prohibition turned ordinary people into criminals. Women were on the forefront of change. Suffragettes had just secured the right to vote, and women were in the factories in record numbers. Flappers were the image of the modern woman: they painted their lips, drank in speakeasies, and danced the Charleston. Come join us as we relive Boomtown 1925 through five women who chose Southwest Detroit to be their home.

For more info: www.matrixtheatre.org