Vicksburg Theatre Guild's 2011-2012 Season

Regular memberships for the 2011-2012 season are less than half the cost of tickets for four main stage plays and two Gold in the Hills performances. Wait, there's more! Family Members receive a $20-per-child discount for Fairy Tale Theatre registration.
To-date, we have raised over $9,500 toward our goal of $11,447 for the 2008 Building Fund for the Arts grant campaign. More information.
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We are excited about our 2011-2012 Season! We are thrilled to present Breaking Up is Hard to Do, It's a Wonderful Life, Forever Plaid, and The Foreigner, plus Gold in the Hills and Fairy Tale Theatre.

New This Season: Special rates for ads in pre-printed Full-Season Program. Orders must be placed by 26 August 2011.

Breaking Up is Hard to Do, a musical comedy featuring the songs of Neil Sedaka, opens on Sept. 9.
Shows: Friday & Saturday, September 9, 10, 16, & 17 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, September 11 & 18, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.

Set at a Catskills resort in 1960, this is the sweetly comic story of Lois and Marge, two friends from Brooklyn in search of good times and romance over one wild Labor Day weekend. The score showcases 18 Neil Sedaka classics, including “Where the Boys Are,” “Sweet Sixteen,” “Calendar Girl,” and, of course, the chart-topping title song.

Cast List List of characters

Directors Andrea Fairchild and Jeff Hensley will hold auditions for It's a Wonderful Life Sat. Sept. 17, 2011 at 2 p.m. and Mon. & Tues. Sept. 19 & 20, 2011 at 6 p.m. Show dates are Dec. 2-4 & 9-11, 2011.

Cast: 12 men, 10 women, 2-4 young boys, and 2 young girls.

Shows: Friday & Saturday, December 2, 3, 9, & 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 4 & 11, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.

The saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him — by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born — that his has been, after all, a wonderful life.

VTG News

Vicksburg Theatre Guild presents the following open auditions for the 2011-2012 season at the Parkside Playhouse:
Directors Andrea Fairchild and Jeff Hensley will hold auditions for It's a Wonderful Life Sat. Sept. 17, 2011 at 2 p.m. and Mon. & Tues. Sept. 19 & 20, 2011 at 6 p.m. Show dates are Dec. 2-4 & 9-11, 2011.
Director Paul Ballard will hold auditions for Forever Plaid, a musical, Sat. & Sun. Oct. 1 & 2, 2011 at 2 p.m. Show dates are Jan. 20-22 & 27-29, 2012.
Director Jim Miller will hold auditions for The Foreigner, a comedy, Sat. & Sun. Feb. 11 & 12, 2012 at 2 p.m.

American Profile Magazine had a feature about American melodrama, including Gold in the Hills, in the Wednesday, July 13, 2011 newspaper. The article is online. The online edition also includes a video clip. Thanks to writer Marti Attoun!

Click here for Affairs of the Heart photos.

VTG had a float in the 2011 Vicksburg Mardi-Gras Parade with Gold in the Hills cast members and an encore appearance by the “Drama Queen.”

We held a ceremony after the 27 February 2011 performance of I Remember Mama to recognize Roy Bailey, its director, with the 2011 VTG Lifetime Achievement Award. Roy has been acting and directing in Vicksburg and Baton Rouge since the early 1960s.

The secret is out! Gold in the Hills is listed in a Readers' Southern Secrets feature in the September 2010 issue of Southern Living magazine, and on their web site.

Videos of the 2010 Ten-Minute Play Project performances. Congratulations to playwright Katrina Byrd, Jackson Free Press person of the day, June 10, 2010! Article

Building Fund for the Arts Grant. The Mississippi Arts Commission has awarded VTG a matching-fund grant to build a 16 by 24 foot props-storage building and upgrade the sound system. We have raised over $9,500 towards our matching goal of $11,447. We will receive $10,000 in State matching funds. Click here for a donation form; they are also available in the lobby. Thanks to our generous donors!

The Gold in the Hills and other performances at The Vicksburg, 801 Clay Street, are not affiliated with VTG.

Janet Birch's Photos of Stalag 17, Gold in the Hills, Searching For Eden, Always… Patsy Cline, Fairy Tale Theatre, and The Best of Broadway III.

Julia and Nick Blake in Dido's music video Don't Believe in Love

Congratulations to Julia Blake for winning four blue ribbons for knitting with the Warren County Homemaker Volunteers during the 2010 Mississippi State Fair.

Entergy has approved VTG as an organization in the Community Connectors Volunteer Portal. Entergy employees can log into the Entergy Portal to record their hours volunteered to VTG. For every 20 hours volunteered, VTG receives a grant of $250, with a limit of $750 per employee/retiree per year. Questions? Thanks to Entergy employees Janet Birch, Johnny Booth, Cody McKellar, Garrett Wallace, and Richard Van Den Akker for their volunteer work in support of VTG!

Regional Theatre Activities

This Property is NOT Condemned! The Bay St. Louis Little Theatre has taken the first step on its path to a new permanent home after being totally destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The New John F. Holmes Theatre will be in a building known locally as the “This Property is Condemned” building, a building that was featured prominently in the 1966 film of the same name. Based (loosely) on a Tennessee Williams one-act play, the movie starred Natalie Wood and the devilish Robert Redford, and is believed to be the only movie filmed in Bay St. Louis. The Bay St. Louis Little Theatre broke ground on their new John F. Holmes Playhouse November 6, 2009. The Bay St. Louis Little Theatre presented its Grand Opening Gala October 1 & 2, 2010. The original theater on Boardman Avenue was totally destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. After five years, the Bay St. Louis Little Theatre finally has a permanent home.

Musical Theatre Talk live episodes and replays by Mississippi musical theatre performer and composer Trish Causey
To listen live on BlogTalkRadio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/musical_theatre_talk ... or Call in: (347) 237-5224... or listen to the Replay two hours later: http://www.MusicalTheatreTalk.com

Black Rose Theatre in Brandon presents Oklahoma July 28-31 & August 4-7, 2011.

Biloxi Little Theatre presents Rent August 4-7, 11-14, & 18-20, 2011.

Actor's Playhouse in Pearl presents The Dixie Swim Club August 5-7 & 12-14, 2011.

The Westside Theatre Foundation in Vicksburg presents Li'l Abner August 5-7 & 12-14, 2011. Westside Theatre Foundation performances are not affiliated with VTG. Congratulations to Westside Theatre Foundation stage actor Jack Burns for portraying Confederate President Jefferson Davis in a Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Civil-War sesquicentennial re-enactment at the Vicksburg Old Court House Museum on February 12, 2011.

The Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera presents The Modern Musical: The Best Of Stage And Screen August 10-14, 2011

Theatre Oxford presents A Streetcar Named Desire August 11-13, 2011.

The Tallahatchie River Players in New Albany present The Adventures of Tom Sawyer August 11-13, 2011.

The Bay St. Louis Little Theatre presents Mystery Dinner Theater Murder Is In the Air August 12-13 & 19-20, 2011.

Open Auditions for New Stage Theatre's 2011-2012 Season are August 13 for adults. Check out New Stage's website for more information. They will be auditioning for the following shows: Dracula, Annie, Lombardi, All My Sons, The Marvelous Wonderettes, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Black Pearl Sings, and It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play and for Unframed and Eudora Welty New Plays Series. Call 601-948-3533 ext. 222 for an audition appointment.

Mississippi Murder Mysteries presents Final Cut August 16 & 22, 2011 in Ridgeland.

The Laurel Little Theatre presents The Wizard of Oz August 18-21 & 26-27, 2011.

Natchez Little Theatre presents Hairspray August 25-28, 2011.

Starkville Community Theatre presents See How They Run September 8-11 & 13-17, 2011.

Gulfport Little Theatre presents Night of One Acts September 9-10, 2011 and Broadway Musical Review September 17-18, 2011.

The Desoto Family Theatre in Southaven presents Little Women September 9-18, 2011.

Delta Center Stage in Greenville presents I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change September 29 - October 2, 2011.

Mississippi Theatre Association Youth Playwriting Competition for Grades 9-12. The MTA is electronically accepting one-act plays for this year's Playwright Festival. Due October 17. $10 entry fee. For more information: http://www.mta-online.org/playwriting-competition/youth-playwriting-competition.

The Greenwood Little Theatre presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat October 20-23, 2011.

The Detectives Mystery Dinner Theatre presents shows in the Jackson area and Meridian October 29-31, 2011.

The KNS Theatre in Ocean Springs presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat March 22-25, 2012.

Experience the excitement of live theatre!

All Friday & Saturday performances at 7:30 pm
except Fairy Tale Theatre at 7:00 pm
All Sunday performances at 2:00 pm

For more information, call 601-636-0471

Parkside Playhouse

101 Iowa (at the intersection with North Frontage Road)

P.O. Box 821472

Vicksburg, Mississippi 39182-1472

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