Spoon River Anthology - MTA Festival Show

By Charles Aidman, Edgar Lee Masters and Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn

Directed by Robert G. Anderson
SCT's 1981 Mississippi Theatre Association Festival Show
* Spoon River Anthology was SCT's first entry into the MTA Festival.

Public performance - January 14, 1981
Wesley Foundation Building

Featuring – Marilyn Blake, David Cook, Edwin Ellis, John Graef, Frances Heller, Jeri Mangum, Suzanne Moore, Joe Ray Underwood, and Laurie Wolverton

Via musical interludes, we are introduced in a cemetery to the ghosts of those who were inhabitants of this town, and whose secrets have gone with them to the grave. There are 60 odd characterizations and vignettes in this constantly interesting entertainment offering an amazingly varied array of roles and impersonations, from young lovers and preachers and teachers to the funny chronicle of the confused Jewish man who ends up in the wrong cemetery. Both the solid and humorous sides of life are portrayed, with fetching ballads, and the free verse form of Masters.

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