Theatrical Thursday: Selling fast; lots coming up
September 19, 2024
From now until the end of October, there's no shortage of fun at TL
This week Jamie tries to get tickets to a sold out performance, plus we run down a lot of the great and exciting things we have coming up from now to the end of October!
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“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