the 2015-2016 Season Brochure

Years of Professional Live Theatre...
because you believe in the Magic of the Mill!
Written by Greta Grosch
Music and Lyrics by Drew Jansen and Dennis Curley
September 17 - October 24, 2015
They’re servin’ it up again!
The ladies of the church basement return
with an all-new version (a second helping) of
their escapades. The original Church Basement
Ladies was a huge hit here at the Mill in 2012, and
we promise that you won’t be disappointed with
the latest goings-on among the casseroles and
covered dishes. Loaded with heartwarming humor
and hilarious antics. Join Mrs. Snustad and the
other ladies as they cook up a storm below the
house of God.
Written, directed and choreographed by Stuart Ross
November 12, 2015 – January 9, 2016
By Irene Ziegler
January 28 – March 5, 2016
The legendary Plaids come back
to earth to spread yuletide joy!
They’re ba-a-a-ck! The most popular quartet
in the Mill’s history returns to the stage with a
wonderful holiday version that is truly heavensent. The legendary Plaids come back to earth
to spread yuletide joy with the greatest holiday
hits of the ages. This show will lift your spirits and
leave you filled with nostalgia for a bygone era.
Everyone loves the Plaids!
World Premiere DRAMA!
This world-premiere drama by playwright
Irene Ziegler is based upon the book by Nancy
Wright Beasley, who is also the author of the
highly-acclaimed Izzy’s Fire: Finding Humanity in
the Holocaust. Set in and around the Kovno Ghetto
in Lithuania during World War II, this powerful
story chronicles the struggle of a Jewish family to
survive the Holocaust and the heroism of Laibale
Gillman, a teenaged boy, known as the little lion,
who never stopped fighting for freedom.
Hallelujah
Girls
the
Bo n u
A Jones Hope Wooten Comedy
July 30 –
August 29
2015
Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
By Howard Ashman / Music By Alan Menken
June 9 – July 23, 2016
March 24 – May 21, 2016
From the writers of the dixie swim club
A Mill Triumph returns!
You haven’t seen Little Shop... until you’ve
seen THE MILL do Little Shop…!! Our original
1986 production took the town by storm and
became the longest-running show in our theatre’s
history: eight months of thrills and chills and overthe-top fun! The voracious Audrey II will once
again consume the Mill stage (and, indeed, the
entire theater) with music and mayhem. It’s a notto-be-missed event of monstrous proportions!
Swift Creek Mill Theatre is
Sponsored in part by
a jones hope wooten comedy
Another great show by the authors of last
season’s runaway hit, The Dixie Swim Club.
Five enterprising Southern women have leased
a dilapidated church and turned it into a special
retreat for the ladies of Eden Falls, Georgia: the
SPA-DEE-DAH! But look out – there are secrets in
the basement and romantic entanglements above!
If you loved the ladies of the Swim Club, we think
you’ll love the ladies of the Spa-Dee-Dah, too! A
side-splitting, joyful comedy that will make you
laugh out loud and shout Hallelujah!
Because you loved this show so much (and we loved
doing it!) we are happy to bring The Dixie Swim Club
back for a brief pre-season run during the summer.
Tickets for this bonus production can be purchased
separately or added to your Anniversary Season
Mainstage Subscription at 25% off. (Regular rates apply
for non-subscribers.)
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING SUBSCRIPTIONS: Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, all shows and dates are subject to change. Buffet Dining is $17.00 each + tax and may
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photo © Robyn O’Neill
Featured Artists
The Mill is seeking artists to display artwork
during the 2015-2016 Mainstage Season. Each
art exhibition will coincide with a Mainstage
production and include pieces by one or more
Featured Artists (at Selection Committee’s
discretion.) Email [email protected] for
guidelines and submission requirements.
Youth Series Plays
The Latin Ballet of Virginia
October 27 - 30, 2015, T - F 10:15 a.m.
Grades 6 - 12; Approximately 65 minutes
Theatre price $12.50, Add $2.00 for lunch
Drifty and the Chocolate Factory by Paul Deiss
November 30 - December 22, 2015, M - F 10:15
a.m. & 12:00 p.m., Sat. 10:15 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.;
Grades Pre-K - 3; Approximately 45 minutes;
Theatre price $8.75, Add $2.00 for lunch
The Little Lion by Irene Ziegler
February 1 - 26, 2016, M - F 10:15 a.m.
Grades 6 - 12; Approximately 90 minutes;
Theatre price $12.50, Add $2.00 for lunch
Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman and
Alan Menken
Friday, April 8 & Friday, May 13, 2016, 10:15 a.m.
Grades 6 - 12; Approximately 90 minutes;
Theatre price $12.50, Add $2.00 for lunch
Johnny Appleseed by Tom Width
April 11 - May 12, 2016, M - F 10:15 a.m. & 12:00
p.m.; Grades Pre-K - 4; Approximately 45 minutes;
Theatre price $8.75, Add $2.00 for lunch
2016 Theatre Camp
Our day camps are fun, teaching a variety of Theatre
Arts concepts in a hands-on atmosphere, with lunch
provided! Applications are available in our office or at
swiftcreekmill.com
Exploratory Camp:
June 20 - 24, 2016 OR
July 18 - 22, 2016
Performance Camp:
August 1 - 12 (Two weeks)
Performances August 12 & 13
Contact Children’s Programming Director Pat Foley at
804-748-5203 or [email protected].
Private Events &
Facility Rental
Mainstage
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Theatre Only $38.00 + $3.25 handling fee
Theatre Plus Buffet $55.00 + $3.25 handling fee
(plus tax on the meal portion)
Evening Performances - Curtain 8:00 pm
Matinee Performances - Curtain 2:30 pm
Doors for Dining Open Two Hours Prior to Curtain.
Theatre Reservations Recommended.
Dining Reservations Required
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, all
shows and dates are subject to change. Theatre plus Dinner/
Lunch prices do not include sodas, cocktails or gratuity.
Subscription tickets are nonrefundable and nontransferable
to other shows outside the Mainstage Season, and cannot be
traded for gift certificates. ALL ATTENDEES TO SWIFT CREEK
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Have your party, meeting, wedding reception,
rehearsal dinner or other event at the Mill! Up to
220 people, with or without our delicious on-site
catering. Rates start at $500. Contact Restaurant
Manager Darlene Arrington at 804-748-5203 or
email [email protected].
Groups & Tourism
THEATRE PACKAGES FOR
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TOURS: minutes from I-95,
FREE bus and car parking
and “step-on” service for buses. Group Packages
include our Virginia-Style Lunch or Dinner Buffet,
theatre, service charge, taxes & gratuity for
$55.50 per person. Lower rates may apply to
certain dates. Group Sales at 804-748-5203 or
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Katrinah Carol Lewis in Side Show, 2008, photo © Robyn O’Neill
50th Anniversary
Mainstage Season
2015 - 2016
Swift Creek Mill
Theatre’s
In 1965, three couples – the Callahans,
the Rubins and the Richardsons –
took a neglected historic property on
Route 1 in Chesterfield County and
turned it into one of Central Virginia’s
greatest artistic treasures: Swift Creek
Mill Playhouse. Over the decades,
we have been through ups and
downs, triumphs and failures, floods
and blizzards; but we’re still here,
providing our audiences with the finest
musicals, comedies and dramas in the
region. Our anniversary season will
be no exception: we’re reviving the
most successful musical in our history,
we’re bringing back our most famous
quartet, we’re producing a worldpremiere historical drama, and we’re
bookending the season with a musical
and a comedy that are both regional
premieres. It has been my privilege to
be a part of the Mill family for almost
forty of these fifty years, and I raise a
glass to the next
fifty! I hope you
will join us as we
celebrate!
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Ain’t it nifty? We’re turning fifty!
Swift Creek Mill Theatre
17401 Jefferson Davis Hwy
South Chesterfield, VA 23834
WWW.SWIFTCREEKMILL.COM
From The Artistic Director