This Weekend: To the Moon!

Mike Paulus |

Every day this weekend, you’ve got a chance to check out the big stage production over at UWEC: Lunacy. It’s a fictionalized account of what happened to the women who were denied opportunities in NASA’s space program. The show offers previously unknown information about the history of women who have been involved with NASA.

BUT! While it portrays the real history of women, it is also a surreal journey for a modern female astronaut as she discovers her own place in history after encountering Galileo’s daughter, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, astronomer Caroline Herschel, the dancing Pleiades, a trio of cosmic courtesans, and the women pilots who participated in astronaut testing in the 1960s. Wacky. Stuff. Characters roll onto stage on rollerblades, others are disco dancing, and popular music from the 70s and 80s has been integrated into the show.

Also this weekend: The Get-Rites + Tom Feldmann, The Shouting Matches, Pool Tournament, Brian Bethke, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Sue Orfield Band, and ... drum roll ... Out of Sight Magic by Amazing Jeffo.