School starts next week, and with it begins calls to our box office regarding booking field trips. For bookings, teachers can reach us between 9:00am and 2:00pm, Mondays through Fridays, at (931) 645-7699 or roxytheatre@bellsouth.net. Grease is still playing and available as a field trip, which is perfect since many high schools around town have […]
Theatre 101
It seems strange to be touting Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as we just marked the beginning of summer. Perhaps it might go a bit toward deterring others from taking it on as part of their holiday offerings. I don’t think our production of A Christmas Carol is the best production ever — I wouldn’t be […]
The 50-plus Parks and Rec children and interns have done their best and hopefully enjoyed, learned and ended up more confident and self-assured by their efforts here this summer. You can still feel their energy and newfound love of this art form reverberating within these walls. Grease is our current offering and our third revival […]
Grease is the word! This is our fourth go-round with Danny Zuko and Sandy Dumbrowski. Our first was Jeff Hall partnered with Joy Ralls; then, sometime later, Keith Stoneking and Kris McCarthy. Joy and Kris had been in both previous productions, but for the second they switched roles: Rizzo for Sandy and Sandy for Rizzo. […]
The interns are almost ready for their performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to be given for their families next Friday at noon. However, later in the fall, it will be remounted for the public at noon on two consecutive Saturdays in September. More on those dates later. The Parks & Rec Summer Theatre […]
I took a busman’s holiday and went to TPAC to see War Horse. I had seen the Spielberg film and had heard so much about the stage version, produced by Great Britain’s National Theatre, that I had to see it. The TPAC ticket was $80. It cost me $10 to park, a half tank of […]
Parks and Rec Summer Theatre is in full swing. All 50-plus students are being put through their paces — jumping, dancing and stepping to the music of “Step In Time” from our upcoming production of Mary Poppins. The script of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — which Saturday School of the Arts students […]
It’s a miracle. Sometimes it’s the show. Sometimes it’s who’s in the show. And sometimes it’s something else entirely. Our summer has been made easier. First, Kyra Bishop designed and her father and grandfather, Rick and Ralph, built the set for our Little Shop of Horrors production, saving us time, energy and, most importantly, money. […]
What sells tickets? What brings in audiences? It’s a quandary which I have tried for the last 31 years to wrap my mind around, and as of yet I have no answer. But I know, for some, it’s simply name recognition. For others, it’s a dusty vinyl recording their parents or grandparents had which was […]
It was a bit surreal, waking up Sunday morning and knowing I didn’t have to go over lines, which I had done religiously for the past three months. This daily effort had not assured me that I would not fail in getting out all the lyrics of Les Miserables, but I am sure more chaos […]
