Presenting on average six Main Stage and three Late Night productions annually, Footlight Players is notably one of the leading community theatres in the South focused on providing quality entertainment for and by the community. For more information on this production or to purchase tickets, call the Footlight Players box office at (843) 722.4487 or visit #įootlight Players theatre is the longest continuously performing theatre company in the Southeast and has been producing performances since 1931. Ticket prices are $26 for Adults, $22 for Seniors, $15 for Students, $12 for Children 10 and under. Performances are at the Footlight Players Theatre, located at 20 Queen Street in the French Quarter district of downtown Charleston.
Performances of It’s A Wonderful Life are December 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, and 17 at 8p.m. Prior to his moving to the Lowcountry, Thomas acted professionally in New York City, Boston, and Atlanta.
He is Assistant Professor and Director of Theatre at Charleston Southern University. Keating has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Georgia and a Master of Arts from Columbia University. He opened the Players’ 80th season with his direction of South Pacific. It’s A Wonderful Life is the second show Thomas Keating has directed for Footlight this season. This is the perfect holiday treat for the entire family.ĭirector, Thomas Keating says, It’s incredible to see the transformation of George Bailey-going from having lost it all financially to realizing he was a rich man all along. This fine dramatization celebrates the faith of the season, and the American philosophy of life: hard work, fair play and the love and support of one’s family are all that any of us need. This faithful adaption includes all your favorite characters: George and Mary, Clarence, Uncle Billy, Violet, and, of course, the Scrooge-like villain, Mr. Teetering on the edge of tragic despair, his guardian angel descends upon him on Christmas Eve to show him what the world would have been like had he never been born. Bailey’s dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty. The play, which is presented in two acts, is the story of George Bailey, the everyman from the town of Bedford Falls.
Pictured from Left-Right: Elizabeth Ludlam (Janie Bailey), Brooks Rowley (Tommy Bailey), Gary Ludlam (George Bailey), Ava Rowley (Zuzu Bailey), Deborah Culbreth (Mary Hatch Bailey), and James McKenna (Pete Bailey). Rogers, is based on the 1946 American Christmas drama that was produced and directed by Frank Capra, as well as the short story entitled The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern. It’s A Wonderful Life, which was adapted for the stage by James R.
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This production is the third of the Players’ Main Stage series and has been generously under written by Terrace Oaks Antique Mall. The Footlight Players Theatre, 20 Queen StreetĬHARLESTON, SC – Charleston’s oldest performing arts group, The Footlight Players, continue their successful 80th Season with the Lowcountry premier of the American holiday classic, It’s A Wonderful Life. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.)įile contains brief narrative history (1989, unattributed) chain-of-title (1859 to 1932) page from 1960 Preservation Progress with photo.Charleston’s Oldest Performing Arts Group Premieres The Holiday Classicĭecember 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, and 17 at 8p.m. The group moved to the Dock Street Theatre in 1954 and retained this building for training and for productions by other groups. The Footlight Players presented the last production at the Academy on King Street before its destruction. The theater seats nearly 300 and a wood carving from the Academy of Music hangs over the stage. The Footlight Players, founded as a community theatre effort, acquired the building through the generosity of Eliza Duncan Kammerer, a preservationist and philanthropic figure in Charleston's artistic renaissance. Running 140 feet to the rear along Philadelphia Alley, once called Cow Alley, the building served as a warehouse until 1932. This 2-story building, built as a cotton warehouse in about 1830 by Arthur Kiddle, retains a high degree of its original exterior character with its arched ground floor openings, gabled parapet with a central lunette, and weathered coat of lime and sand stucco. 20 Queen Street (Footlight Players Workshop)Ĭonstructed ca.
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