Bingo: The Winning Musical
A playful nautical world for Okoboji Summer Theatre, using lakeside color, retail-comedy brightness, and musical-theatre clarity to support the show's fast humor and local charm.
- Year
- 2013
- Company
- Okoboji Summer Theatre
- Project
- Musical Theatre
- Location
- Okoboji, IA
The Okoboji Lakes region gave Bingo: The Winning Musical its scenic identity. Instead of treating the piece as a generic community-hall comedy, I pulled from nautical motifs, cheerful color, and polished local charm to root the world in place.
The production needed a bright, legible environment that could support the pace of musical theatre. I wanted enough regional specificity for the setting to feel personal, but enough openness for the staging, music, and comedy to move easily.
That balance gave the show its scenic identity: playful, buoyant, and community-centered. The design became a welcoming frame for a story about friendship, ritual, and the shared joy of gathering around a game.
Creative team
- Music and Lyrics By
- Michael Heitzman, Ilene Reid, and David Holcenberg
- Book By
- Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid
- Directed and Choreographed By
- Tricia Brouk
- Music Director
- Andrew David Sotomayor
- Scenic Designer
- Brandon PT Davis
- Costume Designer
- Kirsteen Buchanan
- Lighting Designer
- Justin Hoffecker
- Sound Designer
- Michael Burke
- Projection Design
- Dylan Bean
Million Dollar Quartet
The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove
The Glass Menagerie
Bell, Book, and Candle
Head Over Heels
Romeo & Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
¡LOTERIA: GAME ON!
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Romero
Urinetown
An Inspector Calls
All's Well That Ends Well
Little Shop of Horrors
Tomás and the Library Lady
The Penelopiad
Company
American Idiot
Parliament Square
An Enemy of the People
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Boeing, Boeing
The Bald Soprano
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The Man of La Mancha
Dial “M” for Murder
All My Sons
Last Train to Nibroc
Rich Girl