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For twenty five years W. Kessler ltd. has been bringing The Best of Broadway to Jackson, Mississippi. Locally owned and operated, the company has presented the national tours of some of the most acclaimed productions on Broadway, as well as from Australia and Great Britain. Drawing a diverse audience of all ages and from all parts of Mississippi, the company presents irresistible musical comedy, cutting edge drama, and sparkling comedy, mixing classic Broadway favorites with the latest Tony winning shows. In past years, we have presented such hits as Les Miserables, Chorus Line, Riverdance, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Rent, Hairspray, and The Producers. |
Inside Notes - Averyell Kessler
Spelling Bee is still running on Broadway despite the on-going stage hand strike. The show is planning to continue its Broadway run at the Circle in the Square Theatre ( Bway and 8th ) until after the first of the year. The Theatre Directory published each day in the NYTimes has information about which shows have not been cancelled because of the strike.
A local celebrity speller will appear in Spelling Bee each evening.
Audience members may volunteer to come on the stage and spell during the show. Here's your chance to appear in a Broadway show at Thalia Mara.
Check out the Broadwayfanclub.com It's a monthly newsletter with the lastest info about every show on Broadway!
Here's what the NYTimes review said about Spelling Bee:
"Can you spell irresistable? Drat! I mean, irresistible? That's precisely the word for this lovable and entirely adorable new musical. Spelling Bee lives up to its goals in a way that the season's bigger, glitzier and more ambitiousd musicals mostly don't. The pleasures of Spelling Bee are gentle in spirit. It pokes serious fun at its twitchy tween contestants, but it pay affectionate tribute to these quirky young spelling titans, too. It sweetly, and just a little sentimentally, suggests that the youngster's initiation into the rigors of competition is at once an excruciating rite of passage and a cruicible for character-building...........The musical uncannily recalls another, now-classic, show that also dissects the joys and despairs of ruthless competition: Spelling Bee is, in essence, A Chorus Line with pimples. GOLD STARS ALL AROUND!
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
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