Theatrical Thursday: Checking on the set building ooompa loompas
November 7, 2024
A lot of magical set pieces are coming together for "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
This week Jamie goes exploring and discovers several wonders, and things that will make you wonder for "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" opening Dec. 6. Plus we recap several recent events and talk about upcoming auditions.
Theatre Lawrence News & Announcements
“THE MOUNTAINTOP” MEMPHIS TRIP SERIES: LORRAINE HOTEL The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings built around the former Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2016, the museum was honored by becoming an affiliate museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in early April 1968, while working to organize protests around the ongoing Memphis sanitation strike. While standing on the balcony outside his room on the evening of April 4, King was suddenly shot once through the neck by an unseen assassin's sniper's bullet. King fell to the ground, bleeding from his head and neck. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, but the wound was fatal. He died at the hospital an hour after the shooting.
Why The Mountaintop matters now: a powerful look at Dr. King’s humanity, the voices of the civil rights movement, and a journey that shaped this production.
A heartfelt thank you and bravo to everyone who auditioned! It was an utter joy to watch every single one of you, and extremely challenging to settle on just one cast from a pool of such tremendous talent. -Maeghan Bishop-Brienzo