Years of Professional Live Theatre... because you believe in the Magic of the Mill!
Written by Greta Grosch Music and Lyrics by Drew Jansen and Dennis Curley
September 17 - October 24, 2015 They’re servin’ it up again! The ladies of the church basement return with an all-new version (a second helping) of their escapades. The original Church Basement Ladies was a huge hit here at the Mill in 2012, and we promise that you won’t be disappointed with the latest goings-on among the casseroles and covered dishes. Loaded with heartwarming humor and hilarious antics. Join Mrs. Snustad and the other ladies as they cook up a storm below the house of God.
Written, directed and choreographed by Stuart Ross
November 12, 2015 – January 9, 2016
By Irene Ziegler
January 28 – March 5, 2016
The legendary Plaids come back to earth to spread yuletide joy! They’re ba-a-a-ck! The most popular quartet in the Mill’s history returns to the stage with a wonderful holiday version that is truly heavensent. The legendary Plaids come back to earth to spread yuletide joy with the greatest holiday hits of the ages. This show will lift your spirits and leave you filled with nostalgia for a bygone era. Everyone loves the Plaids!
World Premiere DRAMA! This world-premiere drama by playwright Irene Ziegler is based upon the book by Nancy Wright Beasley, who is also the author of the highly-acclaimed Izzy’s Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust. Set in and around the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania during World War II, this powerful story chronicles the struggle of a Jewish family to survive the Holocaust and the heroism of Laibale Gillman, a teenaged boy, known as the little lion, who never stopped fighting for freedom.
Hallelujah Girls the
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A Jones Hope Wooten Comedy
July 30 – August 29
2015
Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten By Howard Ashman / Music By Alan Menken
June 9 – July 23, 2016
March 24 – May 21, 2016
From the writers of the dixie swim club
A Mill Triumph returns! You haven’t seen Little Shop... until you’ve seen THE MILL do Little Shop…!! Our original 1986 production took the town by storm and became the longest-running show in our theatre’s history: eight months of thrills and chills and overthe-top fun! The voracious Audrey II will once again consume the Mill stage (and, indeed, the entire theater) with music and mayhem. It’s a notto-be-missed event of monstrous proportions!
Swift Creek Mill Theatre is Sponsored in part by
a jones hope wooten comedy
Another great show by the authors of last season’s runaway hit, The Dixie Swim Club. Five enterprising Southern women have leased a dilapidated church and turned it into a special retreat for the ladies of Eden Falls, Georgia: the SPA-DEE-DAH! But look out – there are secrets in the basement and romantic entanglements above! If you loved the ladies of the Swim Club, we think you’ll love the ladies of the Spa-Dee-Dah, too! A side-splitting, joyful comedy that will make you laugh out loud and shout Hallelujah!
Because you loved this show so much (and we loved doing it!) we are happy to bring The Dixie Swim Club back for a brief pre-season run during the summer. Tickets for this bonus production can be purchased separately or added to your Anniversary Season Mainstage Subscription at 25% off. (Regular rates apply for non-subscribers.)
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Featured Artists
The Mill is seeking artists to display artwork during the 2015-2016 Mainstage Season. Each art exhibition will coincide with a Mainstage production and include pieces by one or more Featured Artists (at Selection Committee’s discretion.) Email info@swiftcreekmill.com for guidelines and submission requirements.
Youth Series Plays The Latin Ballet of Virginia October 27 - 30, 2015, T - F 10:15 a.m. Grades 6 - 12; Approximately 65 minutes Theatre price $12.50, Add $2.00 for lunch Drifty and the Chocolate Factory by Paul Deiss November 30 - December 22, 2015, M - F 10:15 a.m. & 12:00 p.m., Sat. 10:15 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.; Grades Pre-K - 3; Approximately 45 minutes; Theatre price $8.75, Add $2.00 for lunch The Little Lion by Irene Ziegler February 1 - 26, 2016, M - F 10:15 a.m. Grades 6 - 12; Approximately 90 minutes; Theatre price $12.50, Add $2.00 for lunch Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken Friday, April 8 & Friday, May 13, 2016, 10:15 a.m. Grades 6 - 12; Approximately 90 minutes; Theatre price $12.50, Add $2.00 for lunch Johnny Appleseed by Tom Width April 11 - May 12, 2016, M - F 10:15 a.m. & 12:00 p.m.; Grades Pre-K - 4; Approximately 45 minutes; Theatre price $8.75, Add $2.00 for lunch
2016 Theatre Camp Our day camps are fun, teaching a variety of Theatre Arts concepts in a hands-on atmosphere, with lunch provided! Applications are available in our office or at swiftcreekmill.com Exploratory Camp: June 20 - 24, 2016 OR July 18 - 22, 2016 Performance Camp:
August 1 - 12 (Two weeks) Performances August 12 & 13 Contact Children’s Programming Director Pat Foley at 804-748-5203 or childrenstheater@swiftcreekmill.com.
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Katrinah Carol Lewis in Side Show, 2008, photo © Robyn O’Neill
50th Anniversary Mainstage Season
2015 - 2016
Swift Creek Mill Theatre’s
In 1965, three couples – the Callahans, the Rubins and the Richardsons – took a neglected historic property on Route 1 in Chesterfield County and turned it into one of Central Virginia’s greatest artistic treasures: Swift Creek Mill Playhouse. Over the decades, we have been through ups and downs, triumphs and failures, floods and blizzards; but we’re still here, providing our audiences with the finest musicals, comedies and dramas in the region. Our anniversary season will be no exception: we’re reviving the most successful musical in our history, we’re bringing back our most famous quartet, we’re producing a worldpremiere historical drama, and we’re bookending the season with a musical and a comedy that are both regional premieres. It has been my privilege to be a part of the Mill family for almost forty of these fifty years, and I raise a glass to the next fifty! I hope you will join us as we celebrate!
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From The Artistic Director