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LLT's Fabulous 50TH Golden Anniversary Season Begins This Fall!

Beehive - The 60's Musical

BEEHIVE!
THE 60's MUSICAL!

October 28th - 29th - 30th at 8pm
October 31st at 2pm
November 6th at 8pm
November 7th at 2pm

Directed by Wess Hughes

Auditions September 13 - 14

LLT's 50th season will kick off this fall with the hit revue BEEHIVE! THE 60's MUSICAL! Director Wess Hughes will hold auditions at the Arabian Theatre in just TWO WEEKS on September 13th and 14th at 7 pm. The show features 40 of the top pop tunes of the 1960's - the very decade LLT was founded. For further info, you can contact WestHughes@aol.com or 601.428.0140.

For more audition info, CLICK HERE

Do you remember when hair was hard and life was easy??? Big hair is back and so is the infectious 'shoo-be-do-wop-wop' sound of the 1960's. Take a stage full of wailing women and add 1 hot band, 48 big wigs, 60 costumes, 25 cans of hairspray and more than 40 of the greatest '60's hits, and you get BEEHIVE! THE 60's MUSICAL!

A hit Off-Broadway musical revue of the great tunes of that decade, BEEHIVE! is a high energy parade of pop songs by The Supremes, Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Connie Francis, The Chiffons, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin and many many others. It has all the fringe, the sequins and the towering hair-dos that marked that decade, and if you see a haze in the air around the Arabian Theatre this fall, it won't be smog. It'll just be...Aquanet.

Director Wess Hughes and Music Director Michelle Howells will have a powerful cast that'll knock your go-go boots off! Start practicing now so you can sing along to "The Name Game"...Shirley, Shirley, bo Shirley, banana fanna fo firley, fee fi mo mirley...Shirley!



LIKE TO GET OUR NEW SEASON BROCHURE?

Once the entire season is totally set in the next few weeks, we'll be mailing out our annual brochure in late September. If you haven't been receiving that each year and would like to be added to our mailing list, drop a line to us at LLTLaurelMS@aol.com with your address.



LLT's NEW 2010-2011 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Our new Board was just elected and next season's President Susan Mangum and her Board will be working over the next month on the show selections for our upcoming 50th Anniversary Season. We'll be announcing the season in early fall.

For a complete list of the new Board of Directors CLICK HERE

We're a community volunteer organization and always looking for help from anyone interested in serving on a committee to work on anything from sets, props, costumes, membership, tech, ads and all facets of a production. Drop a line if you're interested to LLTLaurelMS@aol.com.

LLT 2010/2011 Board of Directors
LLT Board of Directors 2010 - 2011
Front:Susan Mangum, Lacy Cockrell, Frankie Bennett, Marian Latimer,
Anne LaBelle
2nd:Missy Sanderson, Jennifer Coghlan, Teresa Raybourn
3rd:Christy Raiford, Cherie Boone, Pam Johnson, Cynthia Welborn
4th:Tod Lightsey, Jason Vanderslice, Becky Thomas
5th:Brent Holifield, Adam Trest
Not Pictured: Sandra Boutwell, Wess Hughes, Nora Ladd, Paul Shaidnagle


A BLAST FROM THE PAST !

Remember any of these folks below? Might be some of your neighbors.....or someone you work with or went to school with? For the next year throughout our 50th Anniversary Season, we'll be featuring some old photos from our productions over the last five decades.

We'll pick one or two different ones to post on this page each month, but you can also check out ALL the shots we have collected on our OnStage/BackStage Picture Pages. If YOU have any old shots, please scan and email to us or drop a line and we can scan them and return the originals to you. We'd love to get them posted here. Mail any photos you have or scans of old newspaper articles or show programs to: LLTLaurelMS@aol.com

CLICK HERE for our OnStage/BackStage Pictures.


The Fantasticks '70
LLT favorites John Bisnette and Ernest Graves as the two fathers in our 1970 production of The Fantasticks. Those two gents played dozens and dozens of roles in our shows in a span that covered over three decades.

The Fantasticks '70
Michael Howard in his role of El Gallo, the Narrator in The Fantasticks. Michael was the Choir Director at R. H. Watkins back in the 70's and is now the head of the Theatre Department at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Side Show '99
From the amazing 1999 production of Side Show, Missy McCraw (Sanderson) and Brittany Patten played the real life Hilton Sisters who were known back in the 1930's as the 'Siamese Twins.' Mike Weber and Jonathan McKenzie played their boyfriends.

Side Show '99
Part of the chorus from Side Show that played the 'Freaks' of the Carny. Let us know if you're in that picture. We can see Jay Baggett, Scott Luter, Cedric Bridges, Shane Cockrell, Kenny James, Scott Luter and Scotty Whithurst.

THANK YOU DONORS!


We asked for help for our beloved theatre and you, our beloved community responded! Thank YOU! Here are the plaques with YOUR names on them!
Take a Look:
1. Plaque 1.
2. Plaque 2.
3. The full list of our wonderful donors.

ARABIAN REOPENS

The new ARABIAN neon signs glows in downtown Laurel once again!
For stories and pictures on the renovation and the original Arabian opening from 1927
CLICK HERE.

For a list of the Renovation Donors CLICK HERE.


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P. O. Box 2131 Laurel, MS 39442
LLTLaurelMS@AOL.com
Reservations And Ticket Info 428.0140
(reservations taken only the week of each show)






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