Thank you BancorpSouth for your Fifth Year as our season sponsor! 

It's All Happening on Broadway . . . 201 North Broadway that is!  

Tupelo Community Theatre will hold auditions for

All Shook Up

on Monday, Feb 22 and

Tuesday, Feb 23

at 7 p.m. at the

Lyric Theatre on Broadway

in Downtown Tupelo. 

With a plot loosely base on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and book by Joe Dipietro, the show is inspired by and features the songs of Elvis Presley.   It deals with Smalltown, USA circa 1955 and just as in Shakespeare’s lighthearted comedies everyone falls under love’s spell, but with the “wrong” person.    When “a rolling roustabout with a song in his soul and an eye for the ladies” rambles into town on his motorcycle, guitar slung over the leather jacket on his back, everyone eventually responds with new attitudes and welcome results.   Add to all that the changing cultural climate of 1950s America and you get

“The best retro rock show since Grease” (NBC).

No advanced preparation is needed but each person auditioning will be expected to sing.   Auditions are open for high school age and older and this is a multi-racial cast.

Production dates for the show are May 6, 7, & 8 and June 3 & 6.

 For more information contact director Tom Booth at 844-1935 or 315-4771 or check the TCT website at www.tct.ms.

Enjoy these pictures from our Evening of Entertianment

West of Shakerag Improv
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgilbert/sets/72157623320035250/

Broadway Revue
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgilbert/sets/72157623320029756/

Also pictures from

 Dearly Beloved

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgilbert/sets/72157622708646455

Haunted Theatre
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgilbert/sets/72157622763358284/

TCT Executive Director Tom Booth's interview on the Mississippi Arts Commision Mississippi Arts Hour can be hear by going to   http://www.arts.state.ms.us/podcast/index.htm

Go to twitter.com and follow all the great events at TCT and the Lyric at

TCTLYRIC.

Thanks to Sprint Print for sponsoring our 4th annual Haunted Theatre!  Over 1400 people attended.

Our 2009-10 Season brochure is available online.

If you would like to download the

brochure, just click here!

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The pics from MMJ have been uploaded, the link is...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithgilbert/sets/72157619941534938/

Story by Scott Morris

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

March 28, 2009

Jess Mark's dedicated service to Tupelo Community Theatre resonates a year after his death.

At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28 at the Lyric Theatre, Mark's family will accept an American Association of Community Theatres' Spotlight Award.

"It's given for outstanding contributions to community theater," said Tom Booth, TCT executive director. "We'll do the presentation right before our evening performance of And Then There Were None.'"

The ceremony will take place on the Jess Mark Stage, which was named in 2006. His wife, Jo Mark, and their children, Janice, Barry and Ladd, will accept the award from a representative of the American Association of Community Theatres.

"He worked with TCT because he thought it was fun," Jo Mark said. "It was something he really enjoyed. It was also something he believed in."

A TCT board member from 1982 until his death on March 14, 2008, Mark directed and appeared in plays, built sets, kept the books and oversaw lighting and sound. Jo Mark said her husband believed TCT had an obligation to the audience to produce good work.

"He always thought it needs to be fun for the people who are doing it," she said, "but it also needs to be good for the people who come to see it and support it."

Lisa Bell, AACT Representative,

presents Spotlight Award to Jo Mark and children, Janice, Barry and Ladd. 

Thanks to former board member

Kenneth Griswold TCT is now on Facebook. 

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Photo courtesy of North Mississippi Daily Journal and photographer Thomas Wells

A Tuna Christmas

and its cast and crew had a great performance at the

Mississippi Theatre Association Festival in Natchez January 15-18.

Congratulations to Clint Reid and Judd Wilson

who both won All Star Cast Awards for Acting. 

The show also won Best Costume Design! 

Thanks to Lynn Nelson's leadership

the show was a great success. 

A Tuna Christmas Director Lynn Nelson chats at the Friday night social at Eola Hotel in Natchez!

Do you have a suggestion for a show for next year's season

or a workshop you would like TCT to offer. 

If so please let us know via email at 1tct@bellsouth.net or call the office at 844-1935.

Ever wonder why some theatre companies no longer allow the use of guns with blanks on their stages?

Visit this link and hear this amazing story. 

CNN STORY:Actor Shot In Head

TCT wins

2008 Southeastern Theatre Conference

"Best Scenic Design" 

for its Doubt set!

The Cast and Crew of Doubt also received an award from the SETC and the Chattanooga Theatre Centre for "Mass" Congeniality for being the group who was "best" to work with.   Doubt was the winner of the Mississippi Theatre Association "Best Production', Overall Technical Excellence, and Scenic Design.  Jennifer Cummings was selected "Best Actress" and Josh Mabus and Allana Austin were named to the All-Star Cast.  Congrats on a job well done! 

Also, we want you involved as a patron, actor, volunteer, backstage or tech worker, committee member or a part of the Lyric Krewe.   Just let us know your interest!

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Thanks for your support, and we look forward to seeing you at another TCT Production!