Whoosh! Makes a Return Engagement. 3 Days only 8/17-8/19

I’m really excited for the chance to see this again and wanted to make sure you faithful readers knew about it. Andrew Erskine Wheeler’s tour de force historical show is one of the best shows I saw at last years Minnesota Fringe Festival and when I ran into Andrew at the first day of this years Fringe he let me know that there was a slightly expanded remount being done later this month at Mill City Museum.

Here is the text from my review of the show from the 2022 Minnesota Fringe Festival:

Whoosh!… is… well first off, it’s The Stages of MN Fringe of the Day Award Winner. Secondly, wow! What a performance by Andrew Erskine Wheeler. Portraying multiple characters throughout, each is a brilliant characterization, distinct and fully realized. It’s a story that incorporates so many different elements. The Civil War, post war, Artist Douglas Volk, it’s part ghost story, part comedic tale of an Irish immigrant and his survival going over the St. Anthony Falls. It’s so many different things yet it tells a cohesive and well structured tale. Allison Vincent does an amazing job directing the show. The timing and staging of how and when to move, pull props out, refer to visual aids, subtle changes in costume, all done brilliantly. Which brings us again to Wheeler’s performance, It is absolutely the best piece of acting I’ve see at Fringe, a true tour de force and a master class in stage acting. Saturday he has performances back to back, if you haven’t gotten to it, make sure you do. Frankly, I’m staggered by the thought of him performing twice with but 40 minutes between them, it is such a physical and intense performance it hardly seems possible.

Whoosh! Runs for August 17 – 19th For more information and to purchase tickets go to https://www.mnhs.org/events/772