Milwaukee Happy Note–May 5th, 6th, and 7th, 2023

Mornin’ All,

Happy Friday, Happy (almost) Weekend, and Happy End of the Week!😃

Wow. OK. Seems like this weekend is the start of a mega end-of-the-season theater blowout. There are theater productions EVERYWHERE this weekend! But wait, there’s more!! It looks like our area nature centers are coming alive for the season this weekend with TONS of outdoor activities planned. And we all know that we Milwaukeeans have been locked inside a whole lot the past several months. Hygge has gotten us through the dark damp cold ick but the out of doors is CALLING! Time to answer the call!! But ponder this: one gets to enjoy the out of doors while getting to a theater production! Twofer! Win-win! Driving, parking, and walking is SO much better right now and the weather is looking to be superb this weekend. Supporting our performing and fine arts is the only way we will continue to have the arts enriching and enhancing our lives and our community so please get out there and enjoy!!😊

Interested in a few (happy) Milwaukee weekend things to do? Well, without further ado here are a few Milwaukee weekend things for you (weekend of May 5th, 6th, and 7th, 2023):

-Milwaukee Domes continues its Spring Show: Metamorphosis–The Lives of Frogs and Butterflies through May 29th (how about toads?).

-Sunset Playhouse in Elm Grove wraps up its performances of Young Frankenstein (Blucher!!!🐎).

-Cinco de Mayo Festival at UMOS.

-Wisconsin Marathon in Kenosha (which is in Wisconsin).

-Carthage Theater wraps up its performances of Legally Blonde: The Musical (are you legally blonde if you dye your hair?🤷‍♂️).

-Haggerty Museum of Art presents Tomas Saraceno: Entangled Air through May 21st (sounds meteorological…without meteors).

-Tripoli Shrine Circus at State Fair Park.

-Milwaukee Chamber Theatre wraps up its performances of The Mountaintop (sounds geological).

-Racine Art Museum’s Free Family Hands-On Art.

-Waukesha Civic Theater presents Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express.

-Milwaukee Public Museum’s Survival of the Slowest continues to slowly make its way toward its finale on May 19th.

-Lakeside Players of Kenosha wraps up its performances of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast (there’s something there that won’t be there anymore…).

-Wisconsin’s Largest Sports Card Show at the Salvation Army Community Center in Oak Creek (is it really the largest?).

-Milwaukee Repertory Theater continues its performances of God of Carnage through May 14th.

-Oxygen Ball 2023 (benefiting the American Lung Association) at Discovery World Museum (I can hear you breathe…watchin’ over me…).

-Next Act Theatre continues its performances of God’s Spies through May 21st.

-Winnie The Pooh (play) in the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall.

-Animal Encounters continues at Discovery World (I encounter animals every day in my house).

-Fruhlings Festival at the Sugar Maple (dust off your lederhosen).

-Milwaukee Monarchs Ultimate Frisbee Games at Hart Park in Tosa (my beaten up old frisbee is less than ultimate…it’s barely adequate).

-Suburban Singers Spring Potpourri Concert in the Liberace Auditorium at West Milwaukee Intermediate School.

-Disney’s Descendants: The Musical at Sunset Playhouse in Elm Grove (what are they descended from?).

-Sunday Matinee at the Milwaukee Black Historical Society/Museum.

-Free Range Art Spring Show at the Free Range Art Farm in Grafton (does it come from free range eggs?).

-Hadestown at the Marcus Performing Arts Center (life down under…and I’m not talkin’ ‘bout Australia).

-Choral Collage Concert at the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts.

-TOSA Locally Made Spring Pop-Up at The Landing at Hoyt Park in Tosa.

-Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra presents Joyce Yang Plays Mozart.

-“Mother of All Art Crawls” Waukesha Art Crawl in Downtown Waukesha (walking is allowed).

-UW Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Season Finale Concert at the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts.

-Milwaukee Repertory Theater continues its performances of The Greatest Love for Whitney: A Whitney Houston Tribute through May 28th (and I………………will always…).

-Maxie’s 16th Annual Derby Day Party for Hunger Task Force.

-Bombshell Theatre Company wraps up its performances of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Sunset Boulevard at the Broadway Theatre Center.

-L.A.B. Resinate Workshop at 5 Wise Workshop (not resonate).

-Theatre Gigante presents Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell at Kenilworth 508 Theatre.

-Lynden (Sculpture Garden) by Night (will it be so dark we can’t see the sculptures?).

-Art and Design Open Studios at Kenilworth Square East.

-Angelic Roots in Oak Creek presents Awaken Your Soul Workshop AND Gong Bath Sound Vibrations.

-Riveredge Nature Center presents: Milwaukee River Trailhead–Ice Age Trail Guided Hike; Bird Banding Orientation and Refresher; Become a Water Action Volunteer; Vinyasa and Restorative Flow Yoga; Volunteer and Learn–Herbaceous Invasive Species Management; Paddling from WI to the Gulf of Mexico–Mississippi Adventure; Growing Green–Spring Herb Walk with Linda Conroy; Hookology–Casting and Mending on the Milwaukee River.

-Wehr Nature Center presents: Birding Beyond the Feeder Bird I.D.; Nature Wizard for Families–Weeds in the Wild; Wehr Birders; Birding With Paul; Guided Forest Bathing Walk (where?🤷‍♂️).

-Digging Deeper: Cultivating Edible Mushrooms: A Mushroom Inoculation Workshop at the Garden Conservancy in Mequon.

-Urban Ecology Center presents Biking Basics AND Explore Milwaukee’s Backyards.

-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center presents: Saturday Morning Bird Walk; Raptor Saturday; Totally Turtles!; Birding Exploration; I Spy–May Flowers; Nature Ambassadors; Word With a Bird; Family Geocaching Scavenger Hunt; and Art Club.

-Boerner Botanical Gardens presents Art in the Gardens Art Fair.

-Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest presents Frog Hike (do frogs hike? Might be cool to see frogs out hiking?🤷‍♂️).

-Old World Wisconsin in Eagle presents Sheep Shearing Weekend (wool helps make Hygge more Hygge).

-Chicago Botanic Garden presents: Photographing The Garden; Outdoor Walking Workout; Weeping Trees; Natural History of the Tulip; Nature and Rhythm Fitness; Central States Dahlia Society Sale; and Spring in the Woods.

-Farmer’s Market (yep, they’re starting up!)? How ‘bout the Waukesha Farmer’s Market? Crawl (or walk) over to the Waukesha Art Crawl afterwards?

-Hike? How ‘bout Riveredge Nature Center or Wehr Nature Center or Schlitz Audubon Nature Center or Boerner Botanical Gardens or Lapham Peak State Park or Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest or Old World Wisconsin or Chicago Botanic Garden?

-Live Music/Comedy? Holy Crap Everywhere! Venues include ComedySportz, Shank Hall, Rave, Cactus Club, Jazz Estate, Ally’s Bistro, Red Rock Saloon, Da Bar, Helene Zelazo, Miller High Life Theater, County Clare, Nashville North, Colectivo, X-Ray Arcade, Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Bar, Centro, Turner Hall Ballroom, Miramar, Club Girabaldi, Fiserv, Potawatomi, Sugar Maple, Cooperage, Suburban Bourbon, Anodyne, Mad Planet, Blu Milwaukee, Sharon Lynne Wilson, Riverside, Pabst, etc., etc., etc.

Whew! And there you have it!! Please, please, please enjoy your Weekend. And please take care of yourself and your friends. Get out and enjoy all the good that life (and Milwaukee and our beautiful planet) has to offer. And always know that being still and quiet and relaxing and renewing is ALWAYS an outstanding accomplishment.😊

Best regards and I’m hoping to see you around town.

Doc

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