The Center for the Arts

proudly presents

The 2010 Center Stage Series

The Jungle Book Jr.

directed by Michael McGee
Jungle Book Jr is a youth production based on Disney’s full length animation of the Jungle Book, now showing Thursdays/Fridays/Saturdays at 7pm; Saturdays/Sundays at 3pm.

February 5-21, 2010

Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00 pm
Saturdays, & Sundays at 3 pm
$12 Adult/$10 Senior-Students/$8.00 Children under 12
Tickets are on sale now, click here to purchase online or call the box office at 615-904-2787

Oliver!

Presented by MidSouth Bank

directed by Cyndie Verbeten
Musical adaptation about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.

April 9, 2010 – May 2, 2010

Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm
$14 Adult/$12 Senior-Student/$10.00 Children under 12

The Odd Couple

directed by Matt Smith
The Odd Couple is about two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing but slovenly.

June 11-27, 2010

Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm
$12 Adult/$10 Senior-Student/$8 Children under 12

Bye Bye Birdie

In Bye Bye Birdie, the exuberant rock n’ roll musical comedy, it’s 1958 and hip-swingin’ teen idol superstar Conrad Birdie hasbeen drafted into the army. Birdie’s manager Albert and his secretary Rosie have cooked up a plan to send him off with a swell new song and one last kiss fromone of his biggest teenage fans… on The Ed Sullivan Show!

Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm

$14 Adult/$12 Senior-Student/$10 Children under 12

Gypsy

directed by T.B.A.
Set during the vaudeville era, Gypsy is about a relentless stage mother, Rose, who travels the country with her two daughters, June and Louise, and their manager, Herbie. While June and Louise wish their mother would settle down and marry Herbie, Rose continues to pursue dreams of stardom for her girls. When June deserts the act, Rose turns her attention to the shy Louise, whom she hopes to fashion into a star. When the act is booked into a burlesque house by mistake, Louise is forced into the spotlight and Gypsy Rose Lee is born.

September 10-26, 2010

Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Saturdays & Sundays at 2pm
$14 Adult/$12 Seniors-Students/$10 Children under 12

L’il Abner

directed by Michael McGee
The hillbilly town of Dogpatch USA has been declared the “most unnecessary town” in the U.S. and is set to be turned into a nuclear testing site. At the same time, the baby tonic (Yokumberry Tonic) that Li’l Abner has been fed all his life by his mother, Mammy Yokum, is discovered to be a potion that makes men strong and handsome, but also utterly uninterested in romance. But that fact does not deter Daisy Mae, who is determined to win the handsome–but uninterested–Li’l Abner at the Sadie Hawkins Day race. Appassionata von Climax also has her sights set on Li’l Abner, but Daisy has hired Evil Eye Fleagle to help her win the race, and he brings in the beautiful Stupefyin’ Jones to distract the men. The men, meanwhile, take part in an experiment that makes them all good-looking but not interested in women.

October 15-31, 2010

Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm
$12 Adults/ $10 Seniors-Students/ $8 Children under 12

Scrooge

directed by TBA
This is a delightful musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol. Cold-souled Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirit visitations on Christmas Eve. Folks might not have had much to sing about in England in 1860, but this musical will make you believe otherwise. Scrooge is one of those musicals where you can sit down and let it wash all over you. Scrooge is a despicable, mean, and sarcastic man desperately in need of a transformation. Scrooge’s love and loss of Isabelle is touching as is Tiny Tim’s song about his dream of Christmas. The depth of feeling, character and love combines into this absolutely wonderful musical which, while showing the horrific differences between the two classes of society, shows how they can be combined with a little Christmas cheer. By the end of the play, you might just find that there is a little more to Christmas than you thought. We dare you to watch it and not sing along to all those catchy numbers!

December 3-19, 2010

Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Saturdays & Sundays at 2pm
$14 Adults/ $12 Seniors-Students/ $10 Children under 12