The Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Theatre has announced the shows for its 2022-23 season.
The first show is Uptown Cabaret, which will feature musical theater tunes from a variety of community members. It’s also a fundraiser for MVLCT.
The show is slated for Feb. 17 and Feb. 18 at the First Street Community Center and will be directed by Leslie Hyland and Kami Zbanek Hill.
The call for auditions for that show went out in mid-December, with people or groups asked to submit any songs they might like to perform. Singers must be 12 and older, and more than one song can be submitted for inclusion. Opera, musical theater or Disney songs are what the group is looking for.
All songs should be self-prepared. Performers will get the opportunity to rehearse with Hyland, the music director and accompanist for the evening at least twice before performance time, and there will be one full dress rehearsal with all singers.
In addition to the song submission, MVLCT asks that you submit a 30 second to one minute video of yourself performing one of the songs you would like to perform. Please email videos to [email protected]. You only need to submit one video, even if you are submitting several songs for consideration.
MVLCT’s next show this spring is “Treasure: The History of Mount Vernon, Iowa,” a work written by Joe Jennison and Amy White about the history of our local community. That show has dates in early March for performances.
This summer’s production for MVLCT will be “Peter and the Starcatcher,” with dates of July 21 through 23 and July 28 through 29.
“Peter and the Starcatcher” is written by Rick Elice. It’s an adaptation of how a miserable orphan becomes the The boy Who Would Not grow up (also known as Peter Pan).
This September’s “Shakespeare in the Park” presentation will be “Macbeth,” with dates of Sept. 7 through 9 and Sept. 14 through Sept. 16 at Memorial Park.
The final show of the 2022-23 season will be MVLCT’s production of “Glorious!: The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the Worst Singer in the World” with dates of Nov. 10 through 12 and Nov. 17 through 18.
It’s a comedy set in 1940s New York, where Florence Foster Jenkins plays a soprano whose pitch is far from perfect. From Concord Theatricals website – “Known as ‘the first lady of the sliding scale’, she warbled and screeched her way through the evening to an audience who mostly fell about with laughter. But this delusional and joyously happy woman paid little attention to her critics, instead she was surrounded by a circle of devoted friends who were almost as eccentric as she was.”
MVLCT’s board of directors include Courtenay Baker, Trevor Baty, Mary Blacharski, Dan Campagna, Kim Kerry-Tyerman, Braden JP Rood, Pat Struttman, Amy White and Kami Zbanek Hill.