Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance.
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Tickets are Non-refundable Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance.
All Tickets $15.00
Hair Spray (Aug. 25 - 27, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.)
Hairspray delighted audiences by sweeping them away to the 1960's Baltimore, where the 50's are out and change is in the air. Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love (singing, dancing all white of course) without mussing her hair-do?
Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan based on the 1988 John Waters film, Hairspray. The world premiere of Hairspray was produced with the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle Washington. The Broadway premier was at the Neil Simon Theatre on August 15, 2002, and won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of thirteen nominations. It ran for 2,500 performances closing on January 4, 2009. Hairspray has been performed around the world and was adapted into a 2007 film starring John Travolta.
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The Civil War Sesquicentennial: "Mississippi Medicine Show" ( Every Friday, Saturday, Monday and Wednesday Sept. 30 - Oct. 15, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. And Sunday Oct. 16, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.)
Mississippi Medicine Show premiered at Natchez Little Theatre during the Fall Pilgrimage in 1976. It takes you back to the Natchez of the mid 19th century. A recreation of old steamboat times when traveling shows pedaled their miracle cures up and down the mighty Mississippi River with the top talent of the day. Dr. Morphineus Codeine Shingles touts his "Magic Wondrous Healing Oil, the Elixir of Life!" and brings with him his hilarious sidekick, Miss Scarlette, Mark Twain and a group of comics, clowns, and performers singing the popular music of the 1800's and about the river. Classics by Stephen Foster, Jerome Kern, Roger Miller, spirituals and songs of the Civil War performed in period costumes as well as the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain and songs made famous by the Swedish nightingale, Jenny Lind who visited Natchez in the 1850's.
Mississippi Medicine Show, an original Natchez Little Theatre production, has been entertaining audiences from around the world since 1976. Conceived by the NLT Board of Directors in 1975, as an entertainment for visitors to Natchez during the Fall Pilgrimage, Mississippi Medicine Show derives it's name from the traveling shows, which traversed the country in olden times. When the audience gathered, the flamboyant Master of Ceremonies would hawk 'medicine, a cure-all tonic of questionable ingredients. From the first show presented at Natchez Little Theatre in the Millstein Room, this unique variety show has delighted hundreds of thousands of Natchez visitors, not to mention its road performances in New Orleans, San Antonio, Philadelphia, throughout Alabama and aboard the steamboat, Delta Queen. The show so delighted audiences that it was called back for seventeen performances during the New Orleans World's Fair of 1984
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Othello (Nov. 10 - 12, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.)
Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. It was first performed on Hallamas (All Saints Day), 1604, being the first of November at the Banketinghouse in White Hall. Based on the Italian short story “Un Capitano Moro” (“A Moorish Captain”) by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565, the work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army; his wife Desdemona; his lieutenant, Cassio; and his trusted ensign Iago. Because of its varied and current themes of racism, love, jealousy and betrayal, Othello is still often performed in professional and community theatres alike and has been the basis for numerous operatic, film and literary adaptations.
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A Natchez Christmas Carol (Dec. 9, 10, 13,16, 17 2011 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11 and 18, 2011 at 2:30 p.m.)
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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When Peggy, a good Christian woman hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas. Sordid Lives puts a comedic twist on a story of unconditional love, acceptance and "coming out" in an eccentric Texas family, as they all converge for the matriarch's funeral. "Sometimes it takes a death to bring a family together, but not necessarily.”
The original stage play premiered in Los Angeles on May 11, 1996, and was nominated for over thirty awards during its long Los Angeles run. Sordid Lives ultimately won 14 Drama League Awards. It was a very popular independent film made in 2000.
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Southern Exposure (Every Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday Evening at 8:00 p.m. March 9 - April 14, 2011 and Sunday, April 15, 2011, at 2:00p.m.)
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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The Rivals (June 7 - 9 2012 7:30 p.m. July 10, 2012 2:00 p.m.)
Sheridan premiered The Rivals in London in 1775, the same year the American Revolutionary War began, but romance-addled teenagers and domineering parents are as familiar today as they ever were. The playwright takes no pains to shade his characters with nuanced realism; instead, he exaggerates at every turn. The aunt, Mrs. Malaprop, forexample, mangles not only logic but the English language.
If there’s anything more ridiculous than young people in love, it’s parentsand guardians who try to interfere with them. But Richard Brinsley Sheridan does not choose sides; he makes merciless fun of them all inThe Rivals. If Sheridan’s portrayal is at all representative of the time, with young people so self-defeating in their pursuit of romance and adults so clumsy in their arranging of marriages, it’s s wonder the human race didn’t die out in the 18thcentury. But somehow the animal instinct for coupling manages to survive all the customs invented to help it along, and true love triumphs in the end.
In TheRivals, the aristocrats may be helpless fools, but the servants are as savvy as they are knowledgeable. This farces complicated plot is not hard to follow because each character is sovividly realized.
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Tickets are Non-refundable Natchez Little Theatre does NOT mail out tickets. Tickets will be waiting at the box office when you arrive. Please present your Pay Pal receipt when picking up your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to each performance.
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9th Annual Standing Ovation Awards Gala (July 14, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.)
Natchez Little Theatre celebrates the best of the 64th Season and all the volunteers who put in time to create the shows with the 9th Annual Standing Ovation Awards Gala. Come enjoy fabulous foods prepared by local area chefs, restaurants and caterers; bid on exceptional silent auctions items; quench your thirst with champagne, wine and punch; be serenaded by live entertainment featuring the hits of the 64th Season with a sneak preview of the 65th Season; and celebrate the winner during the awards ceremony! Come join the celebration and camaraderie!
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