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Carey Dinner Theatre to present “Pin-Up Girls”
Carey Dinner Theatre will open its 47th season this summer with “The Pin-Up Girls,” a musical love letter featuring songs from World War I to Afghanistan.
Performances will be July 6-22, Tuesdays through Saturdays, in the Joe & Virginia Tatum Theatre on William Carey University’s Hattiesburg campus. Dinner is served at 6:30 p.m. and the performance follows.
“The Pin-Up” Girls is a collaboration between playwright James Hindman and composer Jeffrey Lodin.
In the play, Leanna and her friends are singing at a local VFW when they find a collection of letters and photos from soldiers covering a hundred years. The girls perform a cavalcade of hits inspired by what they find – and their performances are filled with humor and heartbreak, laughter and nostalgia.
The emotions of airmen, sailors and soldiers overseas, and their loved ones left at home, are brought to life with songs like “You Made Me Love You,” “Please Mr. Postman,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “These Boots Were Made for Walking,” and “Single Ladies.”
Tim Matheny, chair of the WCU Theatre & Communication Department, is director of the production.
“It is always a positive experience when students are introduced to a wide variety of musical genres, but when it relates to war, it is especially funny, romantic, and heart-breaking,” Matheny said.
The musical director is Tae Young Hong of WCU’s Winters School of Music. The choreographer is Hadley Howell, coordinator of the Lucky Day Scholarship program at Mississippi State University. The scenic designer and technical director is Cody Stockstill, formerly of the University of Mississippi’s theatre department and now a freelance designer. Bronwyn Teague of Mississippi University for Women’s theatre faculty is the lighting designer. The costume designer is Taylor Busch, who recently completed a master’s degree in fine arts at the University of Southern Mississippi.
The box office opens Monday, June 26. It will be staffed Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Tickets are $35 and include the show, buffet, and sales tax. For reservations, call (601) 318-6221.
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