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Biloxi Little Theatre
220 Lee St.
Biloxi, Mississippi 39531
(228) 432-8543
Mailing address: P. O. Box 955, Biloxi 39533
Go online and purchase tickets at:
www.4blt.org
For more information please call Biloxi Little Theatre
at 228-432-8543 or e-mail
bltpublicity@hotmail.com
2008 - 2009 Season
Butterflies are Free
by Leonard Gershe
Directed by Judy Madden
Performances: Sept 12 - 14 & 18 - 20, 2008
Synopsis: Synopsis: When you're a young bachelor in your own apartment
for the first time, even if it's a cramped cold water flat, you know what
exhilaration is. If a pretty actress moves into the next apartment, you've got
an even better beginning. Don has it better yet: the actress has proposed
friendship and the removal of the connecting door. Well into the play, the
audience and the actress discover that Don is blind. He is escaping from an
overprotective mother and trying to learn if he has the talent to become a song
writer. When mother and the girl meet, and the two simply do not mix. Mother
breaks up the relationship and the actress packs herself off to live with a
director. When mother realizes how she has demoralized her son, and wishes the
other woman was back. In comedy wishes can come true.
"A lovely play. It is funny when it means to be, sentimental when it is so
inclined, and heartwarming." N.Y. Daily News.
"A charming play. . . . Humorous, winning and quietly moving." N.Y. Post
Special Fall Fundraiser
The Laramie Project
Written by Moises Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Gary F. Taylor
Performances: October 10 - 12 & 16 - 18. Our opening night of October 10
will mark the 10th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death. Opening nights are on
Friday with the first weekend being Friday - Sunday. The second weekend will be
a Thursday - Saturday.
Tickets are $12 for regular admission and $10 for students, seniors, and active
duty military and may be purchased by calling the theatre box office at (228)
432-8543or buy online at
www.4blt.org
Don't forget! We continue to feature The Shed Barbecue Sandwiches at our shows!
For more information please call Biloxi Little Theatre
at 228-432-8543 or e-mail
bltpublicity@hotmail.com
Show Description: In October 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the
University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a
fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised
and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several
days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the
victim of this assault because he was gay. Moises Kaufman and fellow members of
the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year
and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young
men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the
people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case,
and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the
crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a
deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own
experiences. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking theatrical collage that
explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of
which we are capable. FROM THE DIRECTOR: The issues raised in the play are
numerous and range from capital punishment to sexuality. The play takes pains to
present numerous points of view on each issue, but it does not specifically
endorse one point of view or opinion over another, leaving the audience to make
its own decision. At the same time, however, the play offers a strong statement
in favor of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion.
It's a Wonderful Life
Written by James W. Rodgers and based upon the film by Frank Capra
Story by Philip Van Doren Stern
Directed by Judy Madden
Auditions: Sunday & Monday, October 5 & 6 at 6:00pm each night.
There are roles for 12 males and 10 females, ages 20's - 60's, 4 young boys
9 - 12 and 2 young girls 7 - 9 plus extras.
Performances: December 5 - 7 & 11 - 13 Opening nights are on Friday
with the first weekend being Friday - Sunday. The second weekend will be a
Thursday - Saturday.
Tickets are $12 for regular admission and $10 for students, seniors, and active
duty military and may be purchased by calling the theatre box office at (228)
432-8543or buy online at
www.4blt.org
Don't forget! We continue to feature The Shed Barbecue Sandwiches at our shows!
For more information please call Biloxi Little Theatre
at 228-432-8543 or e-mail
bltpublicity@hotmail.com
Synopsis: In our American culture It's a Wonderful Life has become almost
as familiar as Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The story is a natural for a stage
adaptation: 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 descent 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. This faithful adaptation has all your favorite characters: George and Mary
Hatch, Clarence, Uncle Billy, Violet, and, of course, the Scrooge-like villain,
Mr. Potter. This fine dramatization not only celebrates the faith of the season,
it also celebrates the American philosophy of life: hard work, fair play and the
love and support of one's family and community will be rewarded.
Intimate Apparel
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Lara Hall
Performances: February 6 - 8, 12 - 14, 2009
Synopsis: A deeply moving portrait of Esther, a middle-aged
African-American woman. Nottages play has a delicacy and eloquence that seem
absolutely right for the time she is depicting New York has no richer play. -
NY
Daily News.
Thoughtful, affecting, the play offers poignant commentary on an
era when the cut and color of ones dress and of course, skin determined whom
one could and could not marry, sleep with, even talk to in public. - Variety
Ms. Nottage has done so much good historical
research I want Ms. Nottage to
keep working with this form; we see it so little, and we need it so much. -
NY Times
A near-perfect balance between content and execution. - A.P.
As Bees in Honey Drown
by Douglas Carter Beane
Directed by Lisa Marie Dorgan
Performances: March 27 - 29, April 2 - 4, 2009
Synopsis: "A delicious soufflé of a satire, an extremely entertaining
fable for an age that always chooses image over substance." - NY Times
"In AS
BEES IN HONEY DROWN, Douglas Carter Beane gives a witty assessment of one of the
most active and relentless industries in a consumer society, the creation
of 'hot' young things, which the media have learned to mass produce with
efficiency and zeal." - NY Daily News
The Matchmaker
by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Gary Taylor
Performances: May 15 - 17, 21 - 23, 2009
Synopsis: The non-musical version of Hello, Dolly!. A
certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a
wife. He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two
of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an
expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into a hilarious
complications. After everyone gets straightened out romantically and has his
heart's desire, the merchant finds himself affianced to the astute matchmaker
herself. He who was so shrewd in business is putty in the hands of Dolly Levi.
He is fooled by apprentices in a series of hilarious hide and seek scenes, and
finally has all his bluster explode in his face.
For more information, please call Biloxi Little Theatre at 228-432-8543 or email
bltpublicity@hotmail.com
Biloxi Little Theatre
220 Lee St.
Biloxi, Mississippi 39531
(228) 432-8543
Mailing address: P. O. Box 955, Biloxi 39533
Go online and purchase tickets at:
www.4blt.org
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