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Welcome to Tibbits Summer Theatre!

West Side Story, TST 2019

West Side Story, TST 2019. Photo by Laura Pentecost.

Each year, artistic director Charles Burr hires a variety of professional actors, designers, and technicians from throughout the country and brings them together at Tibbits. Some cast members are only here for a show or two; others are here the entire season.

 

OUR 2020 SEASON…

All performances will be fully-staged readers theater, cabaret or concert-style.

Sing Happy * July 9-11

Best of Broadway Hits from the Past 50 Years

 

A Popped Potpourri* July 16-18

Family Favorites of Songs, Stories and Silliness

 

When Radio was King * July 23-25

Recreating the Golden Age of Radio 

 

Love Letters  * July 30, 31, Aug.1

Revelations of a Lifetime of Correspondence

 

Man of La Mancha * Aug 5-7, Aug 13-15

Don Quixote’s Inspirational and Impossible Dream 

 

What Mad Pursuit * Aug 19, 20, 22

Spun from the Comic Short Story of Noel Coward 

 

It Started with Eve * Aug 27-29

Fun Snippets of Relationships through the Decades 

A Unique Summer Theatre Season

We at Tibbits have been working very hard to “Keep Theatre Alive” even while the doors of the opera house are closed. As we look to the summer, we feel VERY strongly that Tibbits has a role to play helping lift the community. Months of isolation and tech-focused entertainment has created a craving for LIVE entertainment. The board and staff of Tibbits want to serve our community to meet that need.

There will be Summer Theatre at Tibbits Opera House this July and August, however, it will look very different. We want to address the safety of our patrons as well as our performers, with proper social distancing in the seating, on the stage and back stage.

With a very small company of performers and crew we will present a unique schedule worthy of the reputation Tibbits Summer Theatre has established over the past 56 years. The shows, for this year, will not have full sets or live orchestras. They will have great talent and many familiar faces. They won’t be full productions, but you will still be fulfilled…able to smile, laugh, tap your toe and maybe escape for a period of time. We will still have something for our youngest patrons even if it isn’t popcorn at intermission.

For all of this we will be slashing our prices, providing great value. Our plans still assume that by July we will be allowed to again gather within the theatre. 

Please stand with us for an exceptional Summer Theatre. We want to be there for you and with you.

 

Christine Delaney

Tibbits Executive Director

2020 Season

  • Sing Happy (July 9-11)
  • A Popped Potpourri (July 16-18)
  • When Radio Was King (July 23-25)
  • Love Letters (July 30, 31, Aug 1)
  • Man of La Mancha (Aug 5-7, 13-15)
  • What Mad Pursuit (Aug 19, 20, 22)
  • It Started With Eve (Aug 27-29)

2019 Season

  • Ken Ludwig’s Be My Baby (June 20-22, 26-29)
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (July 5-7, 10-13)
  • West Side Story (July 25-27, 31, Aug 1-3)
  • See How They Run (Aug 8-10, 14-17)
  • Plus a special fall performance of Next to Normal (Sept 6-8, 12-14)

2018 Season

*Mixed Emotions (June 14-16, 20-23)
*Jesus Christ Superstar (June 28-July 1, July 5-7)
*A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (July 19-21, 25-28)
*Resident Alien (Aug 2-4, 8-11)

Jesus Christ Superstar 2018 TST

Jesus Christ Superstar, 2018 TST. Photo courtesy of Stan Clayton/Classic Portraits.

 

2017 Season

Footloose, 2017. Photo courtesy of Mike Gorecki/SPI Photo

2016 Season

 

2015 Season

  • The Odd Couple – Classic Neil Simon Comedy
  • Peter Pan– Musical for the child in all of us who dream of soaring high & never growing up
  • Pippin – The original captivating, mischievous, magical, humorous Broadway musical sensation
  • Alone Together Again – Hilarious Broadway comedy about would be empty -nesters whose parents move in.

2014 Season

  • The Look of Love – Featuring the timeless songs of Burt Bacharach
  • A Chorus Line – One singular sensation of music and dance
  • Guys and Dolls – The underworld overflows with music, comedy & classic characters
  • Alone Together – Empty-nesters meet the boomerang generation

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