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Little TheatreCasting UnderwayIf you’ve ever felt the lure of! footlights and grease-paint, or just plain been stage struck, then Sikeston Little Theatre is for you.Organized in the summer of*59, and no* going into its second successful season, it is one ofSikeston’s newer organizations.That summer Bing Linn ba ugh,then a student at Memphis State who had participated in Little The-tre productions in Memphis, found considerable interest and enthusiasm in Sikeston for the drama;o, with the assistance of DickBrown, then a drama coach at Sikeston High School, and Mrs. Jack (.’alter a meeting was called at the public library to put machinery in motion for orga a Little Theatre for Sikeston.At that first meeting, there wei eapproximately ISO enthusiasticboosters of the drama present.Tnev organized and elected thelirst Board of Directors eom;xsedof Mrs. Robert Thornton, Mrs. Helen Keuoei. Mr. Jean McCord,* * ± * vis. Marshall Craig, Chai Matthews, Jack Yount, Dick BrownFielding Potashnick, Dr. T L.Chide ter. with Karl Jarvis as president.Little Theatre organizations are operated on a strictly amateur ba-? is and as a non-profit institution, hence, tickets for each individual play cannot be sold. Therefore, at the beginning oi each season, memberships of ST jo each are solicitedentitling a member to participatein the plays in any capacity hemay choose from “emoting” to.' tage handling ’* Money collectedfor member hips is used to defray •play expenses and any excessgoes into a fund to provide a realLittle Theatre building of the Red Barn type now in wide use among Little Theatre groups. Such a building would also provide facilities tor S ware Dancing groups,or any organization that might need uch space tor thlt; ir activities; although, it should be understood Little Theatre if not tit com-petition with any g ut* having a hall to rent for public use,Last year Sikeston** first Little The.-ire presented three excellent p-lays which wore enthusiastically received bv the public. Each play.under the direction of a different director, and made up of a ferent casts, reported much and festivity during the production in spite of the tedium of rehearsals. HI V .*! ‘This vear the organisation under the able leadership of Dr T L.(hidester a* president, ha* *elt;ed the Shankle building on Center Street a more or less headquarter* for storing stage propertiesand for rehearsal*. Incidentally.anyone having suitable stage props ba ■tSf* ’ pent or atticwould tike to be relieved of a card dropped u Little Theatre, Box 125 or h call to an-, director will . t r that these Item* are picked for Little Theatre usemOpening this season's play* inNovember was the refreshingKauffman - Hart comedy. “You Can t Take it With You*’, given a: a Theatre-in-the Round pi*tton under the capable direction of Robert Walker, drama coach Sikeston High School This wasat” for the round-type preset tat ion hejp and it was well r«ceived by the audience.Casting l« now underway for th next {day. which will be “Th Rainmaker*' bv N, Richard Kast under the direction of Mrs I*aw renee Cleek. This day is to be orisented Febnmrv 28th and in thold High School Gymnasium So if you need shaking out lt;that, mid-winter slump and wouilike to challenge the old gramatter and have yourself a bal or if you are lust a plain “hattor,** then you belong in Siketon * Little Theatre oi gani/atioi(Jet your membership today » anone for “hubbv** tod*v!
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Sikeston Standard Democrat
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Thu, Jan 19, 1961
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