Carey Dinner Theatre: "I Love a Piano"
Carey Dinner TheatreTatum Theatre, Hattiesburg- June 14-30: "I Love a Piano"
- Show times: Tues. to Sat., 7 p.m.
- Tickets: $30, includes meal & show
- Tickets: Box office opens June 4.
For reservations, call (601) 318-6221.
Carey Dinner Theatre will celebrate its 43rd season with two musicals in June and July at the Joe and Virginia Tatum Theatre on the Hattiesburg campus of William Carey University.
The first show is “I Love a Piano,” a musical featuring the timeless and beloved tunes of Irving Berlin, one of America’s greatest song writers. Using an upright piano as a centerpiece, the action follows Berlin’s career from his earliest hit, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” The piano, with its one bad key, takes six performers through the 20th century, and becomes the instrument of record at a sheet music store, a pre-WWI parlor, a silent movie theater, a Depression-era dance hall, a WWII canteen, a 1950s summer-stock theatre, and finally to the present.
Conceived and written by Ray Roderick and Michael Berkeley, the show features more than 60 of Berlin’s classics, from “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm,” “Blue Skies,” “Cheek to Cheek,” and “Always,” to show-stopping numbers such as “God Bless America” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” The show runs June 14 through 30.
Ticket information To make reservations or to be added to the mailing list, call (601) 318-6221. The box office is open from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, beginning Monday, June 4. The admission price of $30 includes a buffet meal, the show and sales tax. Dinner is served at 7 in the Joe and Virginia Tatum Theatre, and the performance follows. There are no performances on Sundays and Mondays.