2009 - 2010 Season
Disney's Mulan, Junior (Kidzu Production)
October 23-25, 2009 | Hernando Performing Arts CenterTravel back to the legendary, story-telling days of ancient China with this action-packed stage adaptation of Disney’s Mulan. The Huns have invaded, and it is up to the misfit Mulan and her mischievous sidekick Mushu to save the Emperor! Mulan Junior is a heart warming celebration of culture, honor and a fighting spirit. The score includes favorites like “Reflection,” “Honor to Us All” and “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” as well as new songs that will make you want to dance!
Mulan will be performed at the Hernando Performing Arts Center October 23 and 24 at 7:00pm and October 25 at 2:00pm. Tickets are $10 Adults and $5 Students and Senior Citizens and can be purchased at the door.
Charlotte's Web
April 23-25, 2010 | Southaven Performing Arts CenterThis exciting, new musical version of Charlotte's Web brings a new dimension to E.B. White's beloved classic. With music and lyrics by Charles Strouse (Annie, 'Bye, 'Bye Birdie) and book by Joseph Robinette (national award-winning children's playwright), everyone will thrill to a musical score which includes "Eating," Wilbur the pig's humorous yet poignant song about growing up; "Who Says We Can't Be Friends," an enchanting duet between Wilbur and his new-found companion Charlotte; "Welcome to the Zuckerman Barn," featuring all the story's unforgettable animals in a hand-clapping, toe-tapping hoe-down; and "Summer," a haunting, nostalgic chorus number which evokes a time and place from everyone's childhood.
Bye Bye Birdie
July 9-18, 2010 | HPACConrad Birdie is the biggest rock & roll star of the 60's ever to be drafted into the army. None-too-successful songwriter Albert Peterson hatches a plot with Rosie, his secretary (and long-suffering girlfriend), to get Birdie to sing one of Albert's songs on the Ed Sullivan show. The pop star would then symbolically kiss goodbye a young lady chosen at random from the country's womanhood, this being his last appearance before being drafted. Kim MacAfee of Sweet Apple, Ohio, is chosen to receive the kiss. This excites the town's teen-age girls, but Hugo, her boyfriend, is not very happy. Complicated to start with, things get more tricky as everyone, including Albert's clinging mother, descends on the small town. Even Albert's chemical inventions come in useful.