Monthly Archives: December 2018

A Time to Kill auditions

Tupelo Community Theatre will hold auditions for Rupert Holmes’ “A Time to Kill” on Sunday, January 6, 2019, at 5:00 PM and Monday, January 7, 2019, at 6:00 PM in the rehearsal hall of the Lyric Theatre at 201 N Broadway in Downtown Tupelo. Based on John Grisham’s book by the same name, the show is set in 1980s Mississippi and deals with issues of racial, economic, and social disparities of the time. The cast calls for 3 to 4 females, ages 25 and above and 14 to 17 males, ages 25 and above. This show affords an excellent opportunity to “get your feet wet” in community theatre with the numerous roles. The show does include some harsh adult language and adult situations. No advanced preparation is required. Production dates are March 7, 8, and 9 with rehearsals beginning on January 27. For more information, call 662-844-1935 or email the director, Bobby Geno, at [email protected].

{title of show} Auditions

TCT will hold auditions for {title of show} December 10 and 11 at 6 p.m. at Tupelo Off Broadway, 213 E. Franklin Street. Parts are available for women and men, ages 18 -35 and all actors must be able to sing. The one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and a book by Hunter Bell chronicles the struggles of an author and composer/lyricist and their two actress friends during the creative period, along with subsequent events leading up to the show’s production. The writer and stars of the show, as well as its director, all won Obie Awards for their work on the off-Broadway production, and the author was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Production dates are February 14-16, 2019. Those auditioning should bring their own recorded music if singing something other than from {title of show}. If auditioning with a song from the show TCT will have that accompaniment track available. Haley Agnew Johnson and John McCustion will direct.
For more information, you may call the TCT office at 662-844-1935 or email [email protected]