VALDOSTA \u2014 Peach State Summer Theatre will take an engagingly youthful, harmonic trip through the 1950s when it kicks off a 10-performance run of \u201cForever Plaid\u201d at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 16, at Valdosta State University\u2019s Sawyer Theatre. Tickets are on sale now.<\/p>\n
Known as one of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, \u201cForever Plaid\u201d is a rather amusing Off-Broadway musical revue written by Stuart Ross. It was first performed in New York in 1989 and is now performed around the globe \u2014 entertaining audiences of all ages with its boyish charm, brotherly bickering, quirky choreography, and classic barbershop quartet harmonies.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce upon a time, there were four guys \u2014 Sparky, Smudge, Jinx, and Frankie \u2014 who discovered that they shared a love for music and then got together to become their idols \u2014 The Four Freshman, The Hi-Los, and The Crew Cuts,\u201d according to a synopsis provided by Music Theatre International. \u201cRehearsing in the basement of Smudge’s family’s plumbing supply company, they became Forever Plaid. On the way to their first big gig, the Plaids are broadsided by a school bus and killed instantly. It is at the moment when their careers and lives end that the story of\u00a0\u2018Forever Plaid\u2019 begins….\u201d<\/p>\n
Directed by VSU\u2019s H. Duke Guthrie, Peach State Summer Theatre\u2019s production of \u201cForever Plaid\u201d is rated G.<\/p>\n
Individual admission is $32 for adults, $26 for students and senior citizens, and $24 for Peach State Summer Theatre fans in groups of 10 or more, including taxes and fees.<\/p>\n
The Peach State Summer Theatre Box Office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays. It is located on the first floor of the VSU Fine Arts Building, at the corner of Brookwood Drive and Oak Street, and can be reached by calling (229) 259-7770. The online box office at www.valdosta.edu\/psst<\/a> is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n Peach State Summer Theatre, or PSST!, is Valdosta\u2019s premiere professional summer stock theatre. Each summer, dozens of singers, dancers, technicians, managers, and creators gather on the campus of Valdosta State University for 10 weeks, and during that time, they rehearse, build, and present three musicals in rotating repertory. \u201cShrek the Musical\u201d kicked off a 16-performance run in early June. \u201cMy Fair Lady\u201d opens on Friday, June 23.<\/p>\n The 2017 Peach State Summer Theatre season marks the 28th<\/span><\/sup> year of VSU producing professional theatre for the city of Valdosta, the state of Georgia, and beyond. From 1990 to 2004, VSU produced the Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival. In 2005, the summer theatre program was relocated to the university and renamed PSST!<\/p>\n The Georgia Legislature designated Valdosta State\u2019s summer stock theatre program the Official Musical Theatre of the State of Georgia.<\/p>\n VSU\u2019s Jacque Wheeler serves as the artistic director of Peach State Summer Theatre. H. Duke Guthrie is the managing director.<\/p>\n Sawyer Theatre and the PSST! Box Office are located on the first floor of VSU\u2019s Fine Arts Building, at the intersection of Oak Street and Brookwood Drive.<\/p>\n Visit www.valdosta.edu\/psst<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n