past events
Arsenic & Old Lace
• At The
Gallery November 2011
• The
Rewinders •
Greater Tuna Dinner Theatre • Tennessee Mafia Jug Band
• Little Shop Of Horrors
• The Farewell Drifters Album
Release Concert
• The
Odd Couple Dinner Theatre
• At The Gallery March 2011
• Once
On This Island
•
Children's
Theatre: Alice in Wonderland • Dinner
& A Movie
•
Our
Town
• At
The Gallery • Steel
Magnolias Dinner Theatre
• The
Wiz • Les
Miserables
• At The
Gallery Nov.
2010
•
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• The Steeldrivers • Dracula •
Junior Brown
• Joseph & the
Amazing
Technicholor Dream
Coat • Musicals
by year
Arsenic &
Old Lace
A Franklin-Simpson High School Play sponsored by FSHS & Franklin-Simpson Arts Council
Dec. 2011Goodnight Auditorium
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs with insanity running in his family. A frenzied, hilarious, madcap black comedy you won't want to miss.
At The Gallery: Featuring Curtis Burch and The Songfarmers November 2011
At the Gallery On The SquareThis show featured the great Curtis Burch along with our house band, The Song Farmers and your faithful host Frank Wakefield.
The Rewinders: "One of These Nights" - a Tribute to the Eagles November 2011
At the Goodnight AuditoriumThe Rewinders presented the greatest hits of the Eagles in a special concert to benefit The Franklin-Simpson Arts Council. Featureded were classic songs like Take it Easy, Witchy Woman, Desperado, Tequila Sunrise, The Best of My Love and Hotel California.
Greater Tuna - Dinner
Theatre: October 2011
What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye and Rev. Spikes have in common? In this hilarious send-up of small town morals and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas' third smallest town. The population of Tuna is a comic tour de farce not to be missed.
Tennessee Mafia Jug Band: September, 2011
From the pastoral hills, hollers, shopping malls and interstate highways of Goodlettsville Tennessee, home of Bill Monroe, Bashful Brother Oswald, Stringbean, Grandpa Jones, Keith Whitley and some living country music performers, comes the most entertaining “blast from the past” since Lester Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys. They’re the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band — five guys and a scrubboard, with roots like wisdom teeth.
The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band have shamelessly stolen a feature of the old Roy Acuff Show — a bit known as “Pap & the Jug Band”. There’s only so many graveyard numbers or raunchy love songs that even the most rabid country audience can sit through without some kind of relief. This frolicking fivesome brightens up the stage with rib-tickling old time tunes. Even better, they have an utter lack of self-consciousness (and some might say any sense of decorum). The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band not only know the music, they wear the costumes, tell corny jokes and even do slapstick gags that throw a cable-tv-numbed audience into hysterics. Grown women have lost control of internal organs when the Jug Band entertains … crying so bad there was tears a’ runnin’ down both legs!!
Little Shop of Horrors
The
Franklin-Simpson Community
Arts Council Summer MusicalJuly 22nd - 24th, 2011
A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon "Audrey II" grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination!
Thank you to The Franklin Bank and Trust Company for sponsoring the show!
The Odd Couple - Dinner Theatre: April 2011
FSCAC is proud to announce another exciting Dinner Theatre event. The Odd Couple, directed by Iajhanni Von presented at the Roxy Theatre.
Director - Iajahnni Von
Assistant Director - Janice Ranburger
At The Gallery with Bill Lloyd - March 2011
The fourth installment of At The Gallery, an acoustic music series presented in the intimate setting of The Gallery on the Square. Join our host Frank Wakefield and musical director Tommy Johnson along with The Songfarmers as they welcome our special guest Bill Lloyd.
This nationally known singer-songwriter and producer is a Kentucky native. At the Gallery features the best homegrown music that Kentucky is known for around the world. This live music event will be broadcast live on WFKN. Come join us as we fly without a net on live radio. anything could happen!
Once On This Island - FSHS Spring Musical: March 2011
Book/lyrics: Lynn AhrensMusic: Stephen Flaherty
Based on the novel: "My Love, My Love" by Rosa Guy
The students of the Franklin-Simpson High School present Once On This Island, a captivating legend of romance between a peasant girl and a rich city boy whom she saves from death. This calypso-flavoured re-telling ofThe Little Mermaid opens on a Caribbean island where villagers comfort a little girl with the story of the orphan Ti Moune, destined to love too much for the human heart to bear. Once On This Island delivers melody, love and joy in tropical abundance.
Children's Theatre Alice in Wonderland - Feb. 2011
Alice's adventures begin when she follows White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole and falls down, down, down. Alice is an ordinary little girl who lives an ordinary sort of life, until the day she finds herself in the most wonderful world of mad tea parties and remarkable characters like the Mad Hatter, the Duchess, the Cheshire Cat and the Mock Turtle. As everything grows 'curiouser and curiouser', Alice is delighted to find that nothing in Wonderland is the least bit ordinary.Dinner & A Movie - Feb. 2011
Dinner & Movie presented by the FSCAC. Join us Thursday, February 24th for dinner and the movie "Forrest Gump" at the Roxy Theatre in Franklin.
"Our Town" - FSHS Drama: Dec. 2010
The students of The Franklin-Simpson High School present the classic Our Town. Described by Edward Albee as “…the greatest American play ever written,” the story follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually—in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre—die.
"Steel Magnolias Dinner Theatre" - October 2010
Dinner theatre presented by the FSCAC at the historic Roxy Theatre.
"Steel Magnolias is a comedy-drama play about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. It is written by Robert Harling, based on the his experience with the death of his sister."
"The Wiz" - July 2010
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The summers musical was a modern Version of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz have been set to music in a dazzling, lively mixture of rock, gospel and soul music. Everybody knows the story, but now it's a new fantasy for today-- mysterious, opulent and fanciful.
"Les
Miserables" - May 2010 (A
Franklin-Simpson High School Play)
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This epic story recounts the struggle against adversity in 19th century France. Imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, petty thief Jean Valjean is released from his 19-year term and not only becomes an honest man, but the mayor of a prosperous town and a loving adoptive father - violating his parole in the process. The relentless Inspector Javert, who makes a decent life for Valjean impossible, consequently pursues him. Only years later, after Valjean proves his mettle during a bloody student uprising and saves the life of a young man hopelessly in love with Valjean’s adopted daughter, does the ex-convict finally feel fully redeemed.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - February 2010
Presented in conjunction with the African American Heritage Center
Leaping on to the world stage on Paul Simon's ground breaking album "Graceland", Ladysmith Black Mambazo have married the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South African musical traditions to the sounds and sentiments of Christian gospel music for more than thirty years. Ladysmith Black Mambazo has performed for South African President Nelson Mandela, for the Queen of England and the Royal
Family at Royal Albert Hall. The group have performed at two Nobel
Peace Prize Ceremonies, a concert for Pope John Paul II in Rome, the
South African Presidential inaugurations, the 1996 Summer Olympics and
in the summer of 2002, Black Mambazo was again asked to represent their
nation in London at a celebration for Queen Elizabeth’s 50th
Anniversary as Monarch. In addition to their work with Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has recorded with numerous artists from around the world, including Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, The Wynans, Julia Fordham, George Clinton, The Corrs and Ben Harper. Their film work includes a featured appearance in Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker video and Spike Lee’s Do It A Cappella. Black Mambazo provided soundtrack material for Disney’s The Lion King, Part II as well as Eddie Murphy’s Coming To America, Marlon Brando’s A Dry White Season, Sean Connery’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and James Earl Jones’ Cry The Beloved Country. A recent film documentary titled On Tip Toe: Gentle Steps to Freedom, the story of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, was nominated for an Academy Award. The group is well known for its Life Savers candy commercials. Their performance with Paul Simon on Sesame Street is legendary and is one of the top three requested Sesame Street segments in history.
The newest offering by Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a tribute to Shaka Zulu, the iconic South African warrior who united numerous regional tribes in the late 1800s and became the first king of the Zulu nation. Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu was released worldwide in January 2008.
The Steeldrivers - January 2010
With special guests, Green On The Vyne
The hottest "new" group on the Bluegrass scene is actually made up of some of Nashville's best studio musicians and writers. The Steeldrivers 1st album blasted on the scene in 2008 and quickly garnered Grammy, Country and Americana nominations and awards. Come see what all the fuss is about, the group Vince Gill calls "an incredible combination." Special guests opening the show "Green On The Vyne."
