The next production in the series is The Last Five Years. Show dates and info are listed below:Įach performance will be held at the Queen Street Playhouse, home of the Footlight Players. The Footlight Players’ (FLP) new ACT TWO theatre series offers smaller, more adult oriented and accessible programming for newcomers and veteran theatre goers alike. Audiences will find themselves singing along to familiar tunes from some of Sondheim’s greatest accomplishments from Into the Woods, Company, Dick Tracy, Sweeney Todd, and much more while host and Executive Director Brian Porter will fill the audience in on tidbits and facts about Sondheim and his illustrious musical theatre career.įootlight Players will also be announcing their full 90th season lineup the week of May 17th. The series’ other show, Sondheim Nights, offers a more intimate affair of just voices and an accompanying piano celebrating one the greatest composer and lyricists in musical theatre history, Stephen Sondheim. A mixture of over the-top 80’s camp and some more intimate cabaret covers, the show, hosted by frequent Footlight collaborator Kyle Barnette, pays reverent homage to the decade that never slept. The first, Decade of Decadence: An 80’s Cabaret will feature a lineup of some of Charleston’s finest voices backed up by a live band belting out some of the greatest hits of the 80’s from Madonna and Whitney to the Eurythmics and Janet Jackson. The Queen Street Cabaret series will launch with two different shows running in between May 29th and June 11th during the time of the Spoleto Festival. “We’re all starved for live performances both as artists and patrons, and after such a dramatic shift in the world over the past year, we’re all ready for some fun and escape – and that is exactly what we intend to provide,” said Brian Porter, Executive Director of Footlight Players and its home at the Queen Street Playhouse. What began as a small group has become for Charleston a theatrical tradition, built and strengthened over many years by hundreds of willing hands, the priceless gifts of time and toil, and by faith, enthusiasm and talent.Fifteen months after their last live stage performance and after skipping the entirety of their 89th season, Footlight Players, Charleston’s oldest theatre company, is getting back to business with a couple of live music cabaret shows to launch their new Queen Street Cabaret series. Other nearby landmarks in Charleston include St Philips Episcopal Church, Dock Street Theatre, German Friendly Society, Theater District, Charleston Stage Company. In 1986, after another dramatic renovation, The Footlight Players moved into the old cotton warehouse at 20 Queen St., where it remains to this day. Footlight Players Inc is located at 20 Queen Street in Charleston, SC. Just a roof and four walls, 60 dedicated volunteers remodeled and renovated the old warehouse and converted it into an informal playhouse and workshop.įor the next 45 years, The Footlight Players continued to annually produce a number of regular season productions, both at the Dock Street Theatre and at Footlight. In 1941, a shortage of performance space caused the Players to again turn to the warehouse. During this time, the cotton warehouse was used for storage and scenery construction. Yet until 1938, all productions were presented in a variety of spaces around the Holy City, including the Academy of Music (corner of King and Market streets), the Victory Theatre (85 Society St.), Hampton Park, The Citadel, and the Dock Street Theatre. Eliza Huger Dunkin Kammerer with the idea of eventually converting it into a finished playhouse. In 1934, The Footlight Players was gifted an old cotton warehouse (circa 1850) by Mrs. The series was such a success and drew such a following that The Footlight Players formally organized and incorporated in the fall of 1932. Commander Charles Russell Price at the Charleston Navy Yard. The Footlight Players was ceremoniously launched in 1931 with a series of one-act plays directed by Lt.
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