January Happenings

Welcome to the new year, we hope it's begun well for you and yours. Brunswick Little Theatre is gearing up for an exciting 2016. Here's a quick rundown (with helpful links for more information) of all our current doings.

---We'd like to congratulate and welcome newly elected Board of Directors members Eben Mastin, Judy MacNally and Beth Strickland. Thank you for your service and best wishes for a fun and productive term! The Board of Directors contact information and short bios can be found on our website here

---Tickets are on sale now for the next Stagestruck Players production, Thoroughly Modern Millie, JR. The show will run March 11, 12, 18, 19 at 7:30 pm and March 13 and 20 at 3:00 pm on the Brunswick Little Theatre Mainstage, 8068 River Road SE. Tickets are available at Ricky Evans Gallery, 211 N. Howe Street, Southport and through our Online Box Office here.

---The Star News Wilmington Theatre Awards show is this Friday, January 29, at 8:00 pm at Thalian Hall in Wilmington. BLT's big summer musical, Shrek the Musical, and it's costume mistress Jen Iapalucci are nominated for Best Costume Design. Tickets for the awards show are available from the Thalian Hall box office here.

---Auditions for BLT's next adult production, Moonlight and Magnolias, are scheduled for Saturday, February 6 from 2 pm - 5 pm and Monday, February 8 from 6 pm - 9 pm. Moonlight and Magnolias is a comedy based on the writing team that turned Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With The Wind into the screenplay of an American cinema classic. There are roles for three men and one woman. Actors are asked to bring a resume and head shot. Email Director Eben Mastin with questions ebenfm@aol.com

----Brunswick Little Theatre is proud to announce its participation in the NC History Museum's Shakespeare Marathon: 38 Plays In Five Days. To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death and the arrival of a touring copy of a First Folio to the NC Museum of History, readings of all the bards plays will be performed back to back beginning April 23rd at noon. BLT has been assigned Pericles, Prince of Tyre and will be reading at 12 pm on Wednesday, April 27 at the NC Museum of History in Raleigh. We are recruiting readers for this project and anyone with an interest and willingness to read aloud is welcome. Find out all about this project on our Happenings Blog here and email Jeffrey Stites at jgstites@yahoo.com with questions or to volunteer to take on a part.

---Looking ahead, our youngest thespians are enjoying a revived Let's PLAY! Children's Theatre Workshop under the direction of Elizabeth Flora. They will be hosting a Showcase to culminate the winter session on Saturday, February 20 at 1 pm. We hope you'll mark your calendars and join us!

---BLT's youth workshop, Stagestruck's Musical Theatre Apprentices, also began a new session this month and will present their Showcase Performance in May.

As always, thank you for your support. We can't wait to share this exciting new year with YOU!!

March Happenings

Spring Is Coming! Brunswick Little Theatre is moving into Spring as busy as ever. Here's a look at some of what we have in the works.

The children of our Let's PLAY! workshop have been hard at work (and PLAY) for the

last 12 weeks and are ready to show off all they've learned. The Spring Session Showcase will be tomorrow, Sunday, March 16 at the South Brunswick High School theater arts classroom. The show will begin at 4 pm with doors opening at 3:50 to allow the children as much time as possible to rehearse in their performance space. Come on out and see the creativity, talent and pure exuberance this great group of 4-12 year-olds brings to BLT. They are our future, and a bright one it is! A BIG thank you to Jen Iapalucci and Katie Deese for volunteering many hours to make this program the huge success it has become.

Speaking of the future of Brunswick Little Theatre, our Youth Division, Stagestruck Players, is also hard at work on its next production. Dear Edwina Jr. Tickets are on sale now in our online box office and will also be available at the door. The show features a cast of 13 portraying Edwina Spoonapple and her friends and family as they put together a musical based upon letters to Edwina's advice column, Dear Edwina. There are song and dance numbers galore, something from almost every genre you can dream of, so this show will be sure to be a hit with all ages. We will once again be performing at the Brunswick Center at Southport, 1513-1 N. Howe Street, behind the Wingate Inn. Showtimes are March 28-29 and April 4-5 at 7:30 pm with two matinees March 30 and April 6 at 3 pm. Be sure to make your plans to catch at LEAST one of these shows. Check out pictures from rehearsal here and hear from some cast members on our blog here.

To make it even easier to introduce your children or grandchildren to the magic of live theatre, BLT is giving away 20 children's (12 and under) tickets to the opening night performance of Dear Edwina Jr., March 28th at 7:30 pm. Simply follow this link to the BLT Giveaway page and get up to four entries! It's quick, easy and fun to enter, so please enter today and tell your friends to give it a try. Also, you can print a poster for the show from our Poster Page and hang it at school, church, work or anywhere else you can get permission to help spread the word. We would LOVE to see a packed house on opening night!

Excitement has already been building for Brunswick Little Theatre's big summer musical Into The Woods. Auditions have been scheduled for May 3 and 5 at Building F of Brunswick Community College. Visit our Auditions Page to learn all the details.

With the coming Spring comes the much anticipated return of BLT's FREE rock and roll show in Franklin Square Park. This year we shift from the British Invasion to our own shores as we present An American Band: Music of the Rock Revolution on two weekends, May 16-18 and 23-25. Shows begin at 8 pm nightly, so bring a chair and enjoy a great night of music under the stars. You can get a glimpse of what's in store at our Youtube channel, and be sure to check back, new songs are added all the time.

As always thank you for your support of Brunswick Little Theatre.

February Happenings

Brunswick Little Theatre is incredibly busy as we move into spring. The past two Sundays we've had three shows rehearsing and a children's workshop in full swing. We are thankful for the cooperation of so many in our community that help make that possible, especially our hosts at Brunswick Community College, South Brunswick High School, Trinity United Methodist Church and On My Toes Dance Studio that provide us the rehearsal spaces needed to do so much at one time. Community theater depends on this sort of support and we are extremely lucky to have such generous and accommodating partners.

All this rehearsing is great, but what REALLY has us excited is the opening of our first show of the season. I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change takes to the stage beginning 7:30 Friday, February 21 at the Brunswick Center at Southport, 1531-1 N. Howe Street behind the Wingate Inn. Tickets are available at www.brunswicklittletheatre.com and at the door for just $17 for adults and $12 for students with ID. You have five chances to catch this hilarious adult musical revue about the trials and joys of relationships -- three evening performances 2/21, 2/22 and 3/1 at 7:30 pm, and two matinees 2/23 and 3/2 at 3:00 pm. All seats are general admission and please note that sales at the door are cash or check only. We can't wait to see you at BLT's debut in the Brunswick Center. It's a wonderful facility and we look forward to filling it with happy patrons of the arts!

Having three shows in production at once is a wonderful thing, but it requires substantial

financial resources. One way we can keep this ball rolling, and have a bit of fun doing it, is to throw, well, a Masquerade Ball! Brunswick Little Theatre is going to laissez le bon temps roulez this year with a Fat Tuesday fundraiser party at the St. James Community Center on March 4th. Join us from 6-10 Fat Tuesday night for a feast of shrimp and grits and a gourmet pancake bar, entertainment by the Brunswick Big Band, a silent auction and a costume contest to name the King and Queen of Mardi Gras! You just know a costume party with theatre people is going to be a good time, whether you join in by wearing your Mardi Gras finery, come costumed as creatively as you can or just enjoy the spectacle from the comfort of your table. Our $30 ticket includes dinner, beer, wine, soft drinks and all entertainment. Get your tickets at brunswicklittletheatre.com or in person at The Grape & Ale in Oak Island or Isaac Allen Salon in Southport and help support YOUR community theatre while having a really great night out. 

How about those other shows in production, you ask? Well, right around the corner is

Stagestruck Players' Dear Edwina Jr. coming March 28-30 and April 4-6. A young but extremely talented cast is working hard on this musical about a middle school advice columnist and her friends creating a play to enter in the Advice-a-Palooza contest. This show includes songs from a huge array of musical genres and is sure to delight audiences of all ages. Dear Edwina Jr. will bring us once again to Brunswick Center at Southport and tickets will go on sale at brunswicklittletheatre.com on March 1st. Don't miss this one!

All the recent ice and snow has us longing for spring, and for the return of BLT's very own rock stars to Franklin Square Park. Rehearsals have already begun for American Band, Music of the Rock Revolution (1965-1973), the follow-up to last year's hugely popular My Generation shows. This time we turn our attention to American rock during the late sixties and early seventies and bring you the best of the era of Flower Power and California Dreamin'. Mark your calendars and pack your lawn chairs so you can join the party in the park May 16-18 and 23-25.

With all that we have going, how is one supposed to keep up? Brunswick Little Theatre is trying to make it easier than ever to get all the latest news and even some behind the scenes insights. Our website is updated frequently and carries all the latest info on show and audition dates and times. The brand new Brunswick Little Theatre Happenings blog is a work in progress, check it out and let us know what you think. The BLT Facebook page is always full of news and photos from all of our productions, if you haven't yet, please visit and give us a "like". We have also launched a new Twitter page with up-to-the-minute news and behind the scenes insights from BLT's unique cast of characters. If you haven't yet joined the Twitter-verse, now is the perfect time to set up an account and follow the fun! And just to round out our conquest of the social media world, BLT is also now on Instagram. Check us out there for a photographic tour of community theater at its best. 

Thank you for your support, and we look forward to seeing you at the show. Or ALL the shows :-)