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Big River
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Twelfth Night - What You Will Twelfth Night is noted as one of Shakespeare’s most studied and best loved plays: the twin-based comedy of cross-dressing and mistaken identity is very accessible and the play has also garnered much critical attention for its nuanced and sometimes elusive treatment of gender, love and ambition. It is named after the Twelfth Night holiday of the Christmas Season. Based on a critically acclaimed and award-winning Los Angeles adaptation, An Appalachian Twelfth Night, this production has been readapted to a Mississippi setting during the Civil War, where a steamboat wrecks a few miles north of Natchez, on a piece of land between Illyria Plantation and Sonnet Plantation. Viola and her brother, Sebastian, are cast out into the raging Mississippi River, each thinking the other has drowned in the river. Viola makes it to shore at Illyria Plantation, owned by Duke Orsino and poses as a man named Cesario, to gain employment. Orsino is in love with Olivia Sonnet of Sonnet Plantation and decides to use Cesario as an intermediary. Olivia believing Viola to be a man, falls in love with this handsome and eloquent messenger. Viola, has in turn fallen in love with Orsino, who believes Viola is a man, and regards her as a confidant. When Sebastian arrives on the scene, confusion ensues. Mistaking him for Viola, Olivia asks him to marry her, and they are secretly betrothed, with a promise to be married when the time is right. Finally when the twins appear in the presence of both Olivia and Duke, there is more wonder and awe at their similarity, at which point Viola reveals that she is really a female and that Sebastian is her lost twin brother. Much of the play is taken up in comic subplots , in which several characters conspire against Malvolio, Olivia’s lawyer, to make him think that Olivia is in love with him. Poster, Cast Photo, Photo Gallery |
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A Natchez Christmas Carol Jacob Marley died seven years ago and left his home and his half of the business to his partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Marley was a stingy old man, and Scrooge happily carries on the tradition. Scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone. He doesn’t believe in charity, and he is certain that those who do are just lazy bums looking for a handout. Scrooge’s entire life is his Natchez cotton brokerage and bank and he shuts out his nephew who is the only relative he has. Bob Cratchit, his loyal employee, is a free man of color who supports his growing family on Scrooge’s meager wages. Once prosperous Natchez planters and merchants are down on their luck after the War of Recent Unpleasantness and compete with carpet baggers and newly freed slaves for income. Scrooge has profited greatly by repossessing plantations and business alike; putting out war widows and orphans; and taking advantage of newly freed slaves. But Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him that if he continues to live his life in such an unchristian way, he will spend all eternity trying to make up for it. Three more ghosts visit Scrooge and show him the errors of his ways. Because of what he sees and learns, Scrooge opens his heart to the people around him and learns charity and love and saves himself from the doom of which Marley warned him. |
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Coming in January!
The Yale Whiffenpoofs
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The world famous men’s acappella group, The Yale Whiffenpoofs, will return to the NLT stage to start their 2009 International Concert Tour. The Centennial Whiffenpoofs concert date is Sunday, January 4, at 2:00 p.m. at the Natchez Little Theatre auditorium at 319 Linton Avenue at Maple Street in historic Natchez, Mississippi. This will be the third year for Whiffenpoofs to perform at Natchez Little Theatre. The group has been in the news and around the country a lot lately, including publications like the New York Times, Vanity Fair, NBC Television, CBS affiliate KBTX, as well as various newspapers and on television in various countries related to their world tour, including India, New Zealand, Russia, Israel and Turkey. The Natchez Little Theatre concert will be a benefit for the Dawn Taylor Memorial Scholarship that Natchez Little Theatre presents annually to a local youth volunteer to aid with college tuition. Natchez Little Theatre is proud to be able to offer the area such top rated international talent. Tickets will be $20 and reservations are highly recommended due to the popularity of the group and past sold-out performances. Don’t miss this rare opportunity for an afternoon of beautiful music in an intimate setting and following reception with the Centennial Whiffenpoofs, celebrating 100 years of entertaining. There’s no better way to start the New Year! Flyer The Yale Whiffenpoofs Website Photo Gallery |
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Rough Crossing Playwrights Sandor Turai, Alex Gal and their new composer Adam Adam have embarked on the trans-Atlantic ocean liner, The S.S. Italian Castle and are about to surprise their actors Natasha Navratilova and Ivor Fish with the newest song from their nearly-finished (or so they hope) musical comedy, The Cruise of the Dodo. Unfortunately, they go to surprise the pair just as Ivor declares his love for Natasha, as Adam listens on in horror. Sending Gal to take Adam back to his cabin to comfort him, Turai hatches a plan to convince Adam that what they actually overheard was Ivor's pathetic attempt at playwrighting. Turai stays up the whole night writing a scene for Ivor and Natasha to play as an alternative version of Turai's ending, with the declaration of love played as a scene. They are assisted by the sometimes dimwitted, sometimes brilliant, but always unconventional steward, Dvornichek. Despite many near revelations of Turai's plan, Adam and Natasha are reunited, and the playwrights find inspiration for a new comedy, courtesy of a script by the ship's captain. Having scripts thrust upon them by amateurs is only one of the running gags of the play. Others include Dvornichek's inability to gain his sea legs, until the ship is thrust into a turbulent storm, when only he is able to stay upright; Natasha and Ivor's inability to keep their scripts, both for the stage and their life, straight; Adam's peculiar speech impediment, he has trouble starting a sentence and often must continue a monologue indefinitely for fear of not starting ever again; and a very long delayed Cognac for Turai. |
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To Kill A Mockingbird It is the summer of 1935 and Scout, a young girl in a quiet southern town, is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and her brother, Jem, are being raised by their widowed father, Atticus, and by a strong-minded housekeeper, Calpurnia. Scout is fascinated by the people of her small town but does not understand why the black people of the community have a special feeling about her father. A few of her white friends have become hostile, and Scout doesn’t understand this either. Scout asks her father and Atticus explains that he’s defending a young Negro man wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Scout asks him why he’s doing it. “Because if I didn’t,” her father replies, “I couldn’t hold my head up.” When she asks why take on such a hopeless fight he tells her, “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason not to try.” He goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come. “We’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter thing get, they’re still going to be our friends.” Things do get bitter-to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he’s defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified, Scout jumps into the confrontation, and her youthful presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, “Stand up. Your father’s passing!” |
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Southern Exposure It is azalea season in Natchez, Mississippi, and the annual pilgrimage of tourists is swarming through the historic mansions. In Mayweather Hall, Penelope Mayweather, a once beautiful Southern belle, is horrified by the tourists who are led through her home by an energetic guide at fifty cents a head. But the money isn’t enough to keep Penelope from the clutches of those “damn Yankees” down at the bank. Thus when a young author, John Salguod, turns up, she is persuaded to take him in as a roomer. However, it develops that John is visiting under an assumed name because he has written a book banned in Natchez. The locals consider it a gross libel on their way of life, but it is a best-seller everywhere else. Penelope’s frantic efforts to keep him hidden from her neighbors are frustrated when Carol, her soon-to-be-married, pretty young cousin, comes to spend the night. When her parents discover she stayed a second night, scandal looms. The irate parents, blaming Penelope, threaten to take over Mayweather Hall, which they can do by forcing foreclosure through the bank. But meantime John finds Penelope’s diary which she wrote over a period of forty years, giving embarrassing details about most of the town’s citizens. John’s publisher arrives on the first morning of the Pilgrimage and offers Penelope a fabulous sum for her memoirs and Mayweather Hall is out of hock! |
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Sweeney Todd The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe! Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising, Sweeney Todd, nevertheless has a great sense of fun, mixing intense drama with howling funny moments of dark humor: audiences find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise the next. |
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