There hasn't been much dancing in the streets of downtown St. Paul since the Jim Scheibel administration (unless you count the tango between protesters and police last September), but that changes this week when "Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding" opens in the Lowry Theater.

The interactive theater show — wherein audience members play the roles of guests at a rollicking Italian wedding — ran in Minneapolis for about five years in two stints at the Hey City Theater before closing in 2004. Now Actors Theater is bringing it to the east side of the Mississippi River.

"We've found that lots of people in the east metro don't get over to Minneapolis all that often, and lots of people we talked to said they'd heard about 'Tony and Tina,' but never got over there to Minneapolis to see it," said Bill Collins of the Actors Theater.

Collins actually played two roles in the Minneapolis production years ago: the bride's brother, and Tony, the groom. So he's expecting to play either role, or any of the other male parts, over the course of this run.

Actors Theater opened the Lowry Theater — in the Lowry Building on Fifth Street, between St. Peter and Wabasha Streets — with "We Gotta Bingo" in 2005, another audience-participation show in the Tony and Tina tradition.

This Tony and Tina production actually starts across the street from the theater, in the "chapel," in the old Lee's Bookstore location next to a Dunn Brothers store. Guests attend the wedding there, then move across the street to the Lowry Theater for dinner and the reception.

Actors mingle with the guests as they cross Fifth Street from the church to the hall. Then, during the reception's wedding dance, the conga line heads out the door and onto the sidewalk. (For the next few weeks, the conga line should be quite lively moving through the cold winter air.)

Shows are Thursday through Sunday, and tickets range from $50 to $70. Details here.