Our Season
June 2020
Dear Playhouse Members, Supporters and Friends,
I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy during this time.
Even though we are not cleared for a production, we are excited to say we are allowed to go ahead with our camps in July. We will have a 1-week Improv Camp July 6 – 10, 1 – 4 pm each day. This camp is directed by Paul Marks, of OTC Improv.
Our Performance Camps include a 1-week Beginners Performance Camp for rising 1st – 5th graders, July 13 – 17, 1 – 4 pm and a 2-week Actors Camp for rising 5th – 12th graders, July 13 – 24, 9 am – 12 pm. Co-directors for these camps are Lily Costner and Emily Krull.
We, of course, have guidelines to follow from the CDC and will be following all their regulations as to cleaning and distancing and there are some changes we are making for the health of all campers and staff. For more information on these camps, please see our website and we hope you will register NOW.
We are now shooting for August dates for our production of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. These dates are set just-in-case and we hope the remainder of our 2020 Season can remain as originally planned, but we are not sure of this presently. Like all of you, we continue to wait-and-see.
We wish you happy summer days and good health and we certainly hope to see you soon.
Martha Ferguson, President
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street
P.O. Box 354
Fort Mill, SC 29716
Phone: (803) 548-8102
e-mail: admin@FortMillPlayhouse.org
Web: www.fortmillplayhouse.org
Exit Laughing
Written by David Stern
Directed by Susan L.D. Smith
January 24 – Feb 09
Fri & Sat 7:30 PM / Sun 3:00 PM
What do you do when, after 30 years together for weekly bridge, one of the “girls” inconveniently dies? You “borrow” the ashes from the funeral home for one last card game, and the wildest, most exciting night of your lives involves a police ride a stripper and a whole new way of looking at all the fun you can have you’re truly living.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Music By: Jimmy Roberts
Directed By: Scott Albert
Book and Lyrics By: Joe DiPietro
March 20 – April 05
Fri & Sat 7:30 PM / Sun 3:00 PM
Presented in the form of a series of vignettes that are connected by the central theme of love and relationships, this play is ” Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit”.
Ken Ludwig’s THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY
Directed By: Erica Owens
June 5 – June 21
Fri & Sat 7:30 PM / Sun 3:00 PM
A tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, this play takes audiences on a hilarious romp which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club.
Native Gardens
Written by Karen Zacarias Brown
Directed by Polly Adkins
September 11 – September 27
Fri & Sat 7:30 PM / Sun 3:00 PM
Generational neighbors clash over boundary lines, fences and long-held beliefs.
Native Gardens is Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French,Inc., a Concord Theatricals Co.
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
Written by
Robert Fulgham
Directed by Andy Faulkenberry
November 06 – November 22
All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten is a funny insightful and heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. Conceived and Adopted By Ernest Zulia Music and Lyrics by David Caldwell.
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinios.
Holiday Reading:
Written by
TBD
Directed by :TBD
A performed reading of a holiday story.
Audition Notice
Fort Mill Community Playhouse hosting auditions for its upcoming show
EXIT LAUGHING
On Sunday, December 8th , 6:30 pm &
Tuesday, December 10th , 6:30 pm
**(Rehearsals begin December 12 th )
| Need 3 Women who can play age 50+ | 1 Woman who can play college-age | 1 Male who can play mid 20s |
|---|
Please Bring a Resume and Headshot if Available
Exit Laughing
Production dates:
January 24, 25, 26, 31, February 1, 2, 7, 8 (2 shows) and 9, 2020
Comedy By : Paul Elliott
Directed By: Susan L.D. Smith
Produced By: Special Arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., of Woodstock, Illinois.
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street Fort Mill, SC 29715
Synopsis:
When the biggest highlight in your life for the past 30 years has been your weekly bridge night with the girls, what do you do when one of your foursome inconveniently dies? You “borrow” the ashes for one last card game and the wildest, most exciting night of your lives and a whole new way of looking at all the fun you can have when you’re truly living.
Three’s A Crowd
Presents
The BACK TO SCHOOL
improv show
Saturday, August 24th 2019, 8 PM – 9:47 PM
The BACK TO SCHOOL
Along with The Canterbury Tales, The Grapes of Wrath, and Wuthering Heights, come three classics written by the greatest authors of our time. Whether your child wants to read about pre-mature aging and playing Santa at thirty-five; how to piss everyone off and never find a mate; or, living with leaking (pictures included), these autobiographical novels are sure-fire page turners for your high school student.
Come see the three authors hit the stage for their annual Back to School show.
Tickets are 8.00 in advance; 10.00 at the door. Click here to purchase your tickets in advance: tacauthors.eventbrite.com
Location
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street
Fort Mill, SC 29715
Tree’s A Crowd
Dec, 14th 8pm – 9:47pm
RECESS
Dec, 21st 8pm – 9:47pm
TAC for the holidays
In 2014 Madison (our daughter) was in the 7th grade and still fully believed in Santa. How could this happen? The kids in school had told her Santa wasn’t real. It seems Madison had equated Jesus and Santa together. To her, you couldn’t see either one of them and that meant complete faith in both. And apparently, Santa may have died for our sins!
So on Christmas night that year, Kelly told her the truth: “Mommy” is Santa.
Madison cried for hours. At times she was almost inconsolable. Around midnight,
she finally calmed down, relaxed, and after we explained everything, she went to bed
with a new understanding of the spirit of Christmas. She was going to be fine.
But at two in the morning Madison came in our room and said in a defeated tone,
“That…that means the Easter Bunny isn’t real”, then she paused for a second, fell
face first on our bed, and said, “Oh god, the tooth fairy is fake too”.
Later that morning she did crack a smile and say, “At least Mermaids are good”.
Fast forward to 2019 and Madison is a well-adjusted teen with no residual effects
from that “scarring” moment in 2014. Although now she hates the
Holidays, scoffs at the mall Santa, and is a devout atheist.
Madison will play her clarinet at both shows in December!! Come a little early
(7:15pm) see the atheist get her groove on!
Location
Fort Mill Community Playhouse
220 Main Street
Fort Mill, SC 29715
Our Programs
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Summer Camps
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Two camps are offered: Performance and Improv
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