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Advance tickets go on sale March 15th
Special to The Mountain Times
Are you looking for Broadway entertainment without the gas expense
of actually going to Broadway? Then check out the Lees-McRae Summer
Theatre 2008 production line-up!
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Last year, Lees-McRae Summer
Theatre produced the smash hit musical Damn Yankees. The
2008 summer season includes the Broadway musicals A Chorus
Line, Little Shop of Horrors, and Oklahoma. Photo
by Jeff Eason. |
We open our main stage line-up with A Chorus Line, running June
29th through July 6th. In an empty theatre, on a bare stage, casting
for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. The field’s
been narrowed down to just 17 dancers. For these men and women,
this audition is the chance of a lifetime. It’s what they’ve
worked for – with every drop of sweat, every hour of training,
every day of their lives. It’s the one opportunity to do
what they’ve always dreamed of. Not to be the star, but to
get the job…to have the chance to dance and come through.
Performed as a series of vignettes, A Chorus Line is a celebration
of those unsung heroes of the American Musical Theatre and a celebration
of the America Musical itself.
Next on the calendar is Little Shop of Horrors, running July 18th
through 24th. A down-and-out skid row floral assistant, Seymour
Krelborn, becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an
exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood in this
dark comedy with music by Alan Menken and lyrics and book by Howard
Ashman. Soon, “Audrey II” grows into an ill-tempered,
foul-mouthed, R&B singing carnivore who offers Seymour fame
and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally
revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination.
We close the 2008 season with Oklahoma, running August 1st through
7th. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains,
in many ways their most innovative, having set the standards and
established the rules of musical theatre still being followed
today. Oklahoma tells of fund, love, and romance in the lives
of the families living in the Oklahoma territory at the turn of
the century. Although the road to true love never runs smooth,
with two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love’s journey
is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will
succeed in making a new life together there is no doubt, and that
this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate
climax to the triumphant Oklahoma.
Be sure to also see our second stage productions. Running June
19th – 22nd, Dr. Tessa Carr and Dr. Charlotte D’Armond
Talbert return with Southern Voices: Stories, Poems, and Humor
Celebrating the South. Our children’s show also returns with
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, running June 28th, July
5th, 12th, and 19th. And rounding out our second stage productions
is Don’t Hug Me, running July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, and
August 3rd.
Tickets go on sale March 15th. Tickets may be purchased through
our website, www.lmst.lmc.edu
or call the box office at 828-898-8709.
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