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SART’s 2013 Season Tickets are now available online! You can still get tickets by calling the Box Office at 828.689.1239.
The 25th Annual by Rebecca Feldman June 5-16, 2013 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a one act musical comedy conceived by Rebecca Feldman with music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School. Six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, run by three equally quirky grown-ups. The 2005 Broadway production, directed by James Lapine earned good reviews and box-office success and was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning two, including Best Book. An unusual aspect of the show is that four real audience members are invited on stage to compete in the spelling bee alongside the six young characters. During the 2005 Tony Awards, former Presidential candidate Al Sharpton competed.
Tickets are now available online! You can still get tickets by calling the Box Office at 828.689.1239.
A Tennessee Walk By Rob Anderson June 19-30, 2013 A Tennessee Walk, By Rob Anderson. SART's 60th World Premiere. Bobbie Coleman is a young girl of twelve when tragedies surrounding her close friend Willa Fay, and a circus elephant, who seems to be a kindred spirit, play out. She is ninety-nine when a freelance journalist attempts to break her silence and coax the truth from her about that fateful time so long ago. On September 13, 1916, in Erwin, Tennessee, they hung Mary by the neck until she died. She had killed a man, his head splattered along a street in Kingsport, Tennessee. Mary's execution was a media event. Mary's execution was long and drawn out. Mary was an elephant with the Sparks World Famous Circus. Willa Fay, a young African American girl living the best she knows how, finds herself on a parallel path with the infamous Murderous Mary.
Tickets are now available online! You can still get tickets by calling the Box Office at 828.689.1239.
Gypsy by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
July 3-21, 2013 Gypsy is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother." It follows the dreams and efforts of Rose to raise two daughters to perform onstage and casts an affectionate eye on the hardships of show business life. The character of Louise is based on Lee, and the character of June is based on Lee's sister, the actress June Havoc. The musical contains many songs that became popular standards, including "Small World", "Everything's Coming up Roses", "Some People", "Let Me Entertain You", "All I Need Is the Girl", and "Rose's Turn.".
Tickets are now available online! You can still get tickets by calling the Box Office at 828.689.1239.
The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon
July 24-August 4, 2013 The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway in 1972 and later adapted for film and television. The play focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time vaudevillian team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-stage throughout the final year of their act. The stubborn Clark, who was not ready for retirement, resented the wiser Lewis for breaking up the act when he opted to leave show business. It is now 1972 and CBS is inviting the team to reunite for a special on the history of comedy, with the pair representing the vaudeville era at its best.
Tickets are now available online! You can still get tickets by calling the Box Office at 828.689.1239.
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
August 7-18, 2013 Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" ("Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! / Bird thou never wert"). The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira, following the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.
Tickets are now available online! You can still get tickets by calling the Box Office at 828.689.1239.
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Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre Business Office Box Office SART presents the mainstage summer season of productions each year in the historic Owen Theatre on the campus of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill NC. Owen Theatre is equipped with hearing-impaired assistance devices and wheelchair designated seating / access. SART is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council |
