The World’s Most Successful Rock N Roll Musical

Before the Beatles, there was Buddy Holly and the Crickets. It’s the 1950’s and a young man from Texas with big glasses and an even bigger dream is catapulting to the top of the Rock and Roll charts. With classic songs like “Peggy Sue,” and “That’ll Be The Day,” along with “La Bamba,” this high octane musical is a celebration of a man whose music and values were ahead of his time.

Rated PG for Parental Guidance. This play contains some mild adult themes.

WRITTEN BY Alan Janes

DIRECTED BY Suzanne Agins CHOREOGRAPHED BY Jamal Story

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Military Appreciation Night- Wed. October 20, 2021

Teacher Appreciation Night- Fri. October 22, 2021

Based on the movie you know and love!

Click your heels together and join Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, Dorothy, and her little dog, too. They’re off to see the Wizard in the magical land of Oz, but in order to make it there, they have to face the Wicked Witch of the West. This iconic musical reminds us that there truly is no place like home. Join us for this beloved family friendly musical that has entertained generations.

Rated G for Everyone

BY L. Frank Baum WITH MUSIC & LYRICS BY Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg BACKGROUND MUSIC BY Herbert Stothart DANCE & VOCAL ARRANGEMENT BY Peter Howard ORCHESTRATION BY Larry Wilcox ADAPTED BY John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company BASED UPON THE CLASSIC MOTION PICTURE OWNED BY Turner Entertainment Co. & distributed in all media by Warner Bros.

DIRECTED BY Tiffany Green CHOREOGRAPHED BY Becca Vourvoulas

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Military Appreciation Night- Wed. January 26, 2022

Teacher Appreciation Night- Fri. January 28, 2022

TREAT YOUR MUNCHKINS TO OUR VIP EXPERIENCE AFTER OUR MATINEES! Dates TBA.

Each day come by our gallery to see the beautiful work of area glass artists.  Cups, vases, bowls, ornaments, lighting, sculpture and jewelry along with many other fabulous objects.  All made by hand by area artists of North Carolina!  While you visit you will be able to also see our studios where glass artists are at work and people from across the country come to experience glass firsthand!  

About the Book:

Set in the run-up and aftermath of the 2016 election, Pop brings the Canard County trilogy to a close as Dawn, the young narrator of Gipe’s first novel, Trampoline, is now the mother of the seventeen-year-old Nicolette. Whereas Dawn has become increasingly agoraphobic as the internet persuades her the world is descending into chaos, Nicolette narrates an Appalachia where young people start businesses rooted in local food culture and work to build community. But Nicolette’s precocious rise in the regional culinary scene is interrupted when her policeman cousin violently assaults her, setting in motion a chain of events that threaten to destroy the family—and Canard County in the process.

In the tradition of Gipe’s first two novels, Pop’s Appalachia is full of clear-eyed, caring, creative, and complicated people struggling to hang on to what is best about their world and reject what is not. Their adventures reflect an Appalachia that is overrun by outside commentators looking for stories to tell about the region—sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but almost always oversimplified.

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About the Author - Robert Gipe lives and works in Harlan County, Kentucky. Pop is his third Ohio University Press novel. His first, Trampoline, won the 2016 Weatherford Award for Appalachian novel of the year. His second novel, Weedeater, was a Weatherford finalist. For the past thirty years, he has worked in arts-based organizing and is the founding co-producer of the Higher Ground community performance series. He has contributed to numerous journals and anthologies, is a playwright, and is currently a script consultant on a forthcoming television show based on Beth Macy’s Dopesick. Author photo by Amelia Kirby.

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