Davidson Community Players will reprise their award-winning production of “The Spitfire Grill” next month on the McGlohon Stage at Spirit Square in Charlotte.
All but one of the original cast will return from the show, which won best production at the North Carolina Theatre Conference Community Theatre Festival in November 2006. The Spirit Square production will have seven performances Jan. 4-13.
“The Spitfire Grill” is a musical by James Valcq and Fred Alley, based on a film of the same name written by Lee David Zlotoff. The story follows a feisty parolee who finds herself in Gilead, Wisconsin, working for a local grill. It is for sale with no buyers in the depressed town, so a contest is suggested with a $100 entry fee and the best essay writer to be awarded the grill. Mail arrives by the wheelbarrow and things pick up at Hannah’s Spitfire Grill.
Directed by Melissa Ohlman-Roberge, the production played in Davidson and Mooresville to full houses in November 2006. As winners of the NCTC state AACTFest, Davidson Community Players took the show to the regional SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference) AACTFest competition in Atlanta March 8-10, 2007. In that competition Lisa Smith, who plays Percy in the show, won the award for “Outstanding Vocal Performance.”
“The Spitfire Grill”
WHEN: Jan. 4-5 and 10-12, 8 p.m.; Jan. 6 and 13, 2 p.m. matinees.
WHERE: McGlohon Theater, Spirit Square, Charlotte
TICKETS: Evenings $20 for adults and $18 students/senior citizens; matinees $18 adults and $15 students/senior citizens.
CONTACT: Reservations available through the box office at The North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center at 704-372-1000 or at www.carolinatix.org. For more information call 704-892-7953 or check the website at www.davidsoncommunityplayers.org.
