Michigan Travel · Sault Ste. Marie
Sault Ste. Marie November shows: Cassie & Maggie, a U.P. orchestra suite premiere at the Soo Theatre and $5 Mauritius at LSSU
SAULT STE. MARIE — Halloween weekend is barely over before the Soo’s two main stages get busy. Between Nov. 6 and Nov. 21, the Lake Superior State University Arts Center and the downtown Soo Theatre have five concerts and shows on the calendar, and most tickets cost $15 or less.
The lineup runs from Nova Scotia fiddle music to a new piece written for string students across the Upper Peninsula. Here is what is scheduled, according to the venues’ own listings.
Before November even starts, the Arts Center has a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, listed for Oct. 31. Tickets are $10, costumes are encouraged and the show is for mature audiences only.
Cassie & Maggie open the month on Nov. 6
Sisters Cassie and Maggie MacDonald bring their Celtic, folk and roots act from Nova Scotia to the LSSU Arts Center on Friday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. The duo plays fiddle and piano and sings. Tickets are $15, or $5 for children 10 and under.
The next afternoon, Saturday, Nov. 7, at 4 p.m., the Soo Theatre String Orchestras perform “Scenes from UP North” at the theater at 534 Ashmun St. The centerpiece is the Upper Peninsula Orchestra Suite by Dr. Barbara Rhyneer of Northern Michigan University. She wrote one movement for each of seven U.P. areas with string programs: Sault Ste. Marie, Escanaba, West Iron County, the Keweenaw, Negaunee, Marquette and NMU.
Rhyneer described the suite as “a music portrait that both represented the Upper Peninsula, and that was collaborative,” built from melodies and ideas from people in each area. The Sault movement, “Eastern/Sunrise,” comes first. A Pure Michigan event listing says it uses “Ceremony,” a song by Dr. Martin Reinhardt, a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, with Native American flute, drum and voice. Rhyneer and Reinhardt will both take part, along with members of the NMU choir and orchestra. The concert closes with “Cloverland” by Tim DeMarte, Rhyneer’s husband. Admission is by donation.
A $5 play and a benefit for new stage lights
LSSU’s theater program stages Mauritius, Theresa Rebeck’s drama about two half-sisters fighting over a rare and possibly very valuable stamp collection, Nov. 11 through 15 at 7 p.m. nightly at the Arts Center. It is the cheapest ticket on the list: $5, or $2.50 for children 10 and under.
Back downtown, “Lights Up! A Broadway Review” plays the Soo Theatre on Friday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 14, at 2 p.m. Karen Beacom, Chris Hollingsworth and Tim Schmidt star with friends and family of the theater. The show raises money for the theater’s new stage lights, and admission is by donation.
On Saturday, Nov. 21, from 1 to 3 p.m., the Sault City Community Concert Band and the LSSU Chamber Orchestra open the university music department’s fall concert weekend, according to LSSU’s event page.
Looking ahead to December
Holiday tickets are already on sale. Broadway veteran Allen Fitzpatrick returns to the Arts Center for his one-man A Christmas Carol on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 2 p.m. ($15, or $5 for children 10 and under). LSSU books him in partnership with Great Lakes Center for the Arts, where he plays the show in Bay Harbor the day before. The Soo Theatre stages Nuncrackers, the Nunsense Christmas musical, Dec. 10 through 12, with tickets from $10 to $20.
The Soo Theatre box office is at (906) 632-1930. The LSSU Arts Center is at (906) 635-2787. Check each venue’s page before you go, since times and seating can change.
Sources:
Lake Superior State University Arts Center, events page (Rocky Horror Oct. 31, $10; Cassie & Maggie Nov. 6, 7 p.m., $15/$5; Mauritius Nov. 11–15, 7 p.m., $5/$2.50; A Christmas Carol Dec. 6, 2 p.m., $15/$5; phone), https://www.lssu.edu/centers/arts-center/
Lake Superior State University, “LSSU Instrumental Music Concert,” Nov. 21, 1–3 p.m., https://www.lssu.edu/todays-event/lssu-instrumental-music-concert/
Soo Theatre Project, “Scenes from UP North Upper Peninsula Orchestra Suite,” Nov. 7, 4 p.m., by donation (movements, Rhyneer quote, guest artists), https://www.sootheatre.org/product/2026-scenes-from-up-north-upper-peninsula-orchestra-suite/
Soo Theatre Project, “Lights Up! A Broadway Review,” Nov. 13–14, by donation, https://www.sootheatre.org/product/2026-light-up-a-broadway-review/
Soo Theatre Project, “Nuncrackers,” Dec. 10–12, https://www.sootheatre.org/product/2026-nuncrackers-the-nunsense-christmas-musical/
Great Lakes Center for the Arts, “A Christmas Carol” (Fitzpatrick, Bay Harbor, Dec. 5), https://www.greatlakescfa.org/events/detail/a-christmas-carol-2026
Pure Michigan event listing, “Scenes From UP North” (Reinhardt’s “Ceremony,” Sault Tribe membership), https://www.michigan.org/event/scenes-north-upper-peninsula-orchestra-suite
Photo: Gpwitteveen, “Soo Theatre.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soo_Theatre.jpg
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