Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 14, 1994 TAG: 9410150004
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: KEVIN KITTREDGE
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Also on the Mill Mountain stage will be "Romeo and Juliet" and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" - as well as two less well-known productions, "I Hate Hamlet" and "Forever Plaid."
The new season begins unofficially with The Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works, which runs through Sunday in Mill Mountain's 125-seat Theatre B.
On the main stage, "Always ... Patsy Cline," by Ted Swindley, runs Tuesday through Oct. 30. "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," a soft-rock version of a biblical story, by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, will be featured from Dec. 2-31.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet will be at Mill Mountain Theatre from February 17- March 12; "I Hate Hamlet," about a television writer offered the opportunity to play Hamlet on stage, by Paul Rudnick, from May 12-28; the award-winning musical "The King and I" from June 23 - July 16; and "Forever Plaid," about the reincarnatIon of four male singers killed in a car crash, by Stuart Ross, from August 4-27.
Scheduled for Mill Mountain's Theatre B are "Keely and Du," a drama by Jane Martin about the abortion debate, from Jan. 20-29; and "Grace and Glorie," about two dissimilar women who meet and learn about each other in the Virginia mountains, by Lexington playwright Tom Ziegler, from March 24-April 2.
In Theatre B after the new works festival this month will be one for the kids, "Over the Garden Wall: Beatrix Potter and Friends," in which the audience is introduced to Potter`s animal friends, in a play by Beverly Trader.
"Over the Garden Wall" runs Tuesday through Oct. 30.
by CNB