Realtor Christmas Tour of Homes

Board member Terry Spatz hosted an open house at the theater during the Realtor Christmas Tour of Homes Dec. 6.  We had a good crowd through the theater in the afternoon.  Thanks to Melba Judd of Beachside Realty for organizing the Realtor Tour.

This is just one of the many holiday activities on Tybee Island.

Check out the Tybee For the Holidays website for more information.

Tybee Christmas Realtor Tour of Homes - Dec. 6

We are honored to be part of the

Realtor Christmas Tour of Homes on December 6.

Stop by between 3:00 & 6:00 for some cider and treats.

This is just one of the many holiday activities on Tybee Island.
Check out the Tybee For the Holidays website for more information.

Check out the Old Girl Now!!!

Wow, what a difference.  In just a few months we have gone from this ....

To This ...

We still have a few things to finish up, but this is so amazing!!

Thanks to the Historic Preservation Divison of Georgia, Department of Natural Resources

for their matching grant of $20,000

and all of our local donors who came up with the remaining $10,000

for making this project possible. 

Help us continue with our work on this important economic and cultural asset.

Donate today at www.tybeeposttheater.org

Lefty Check Presented at City Council

I thought I'd posted my last blog entry, but it turns out that there's one more chapter. Here are Mel and Eddie presenting Friends of the Tybee Theater with a check for $4,000! Looks like we found Lefty's buried treasure after all! The presentation was made at City Council meeting Thursday, Nov 12. If you'd like to see the video, (and hear me, Mel, Eddie, Cyndi and other Board members yammer), tune in to the Tybee access channel.

Frankly, Mel Gordon along with Jim Ingham put at least $4,000 worth of labor into building and moving sets. Eddie Wilson wrote the music and story for us, and we didn't have to pay copyright, as we do for other productions. Lucinda Morin donated her choreography skills. Chris Garbett was running the split-the-pot raffle, which was sheer profit. Cast and crew members spent their own money on costumes and props that did not come out of production costs. Gladys Wise and others loaned us materials for props. Volunteers painted sets. FoTT board members and volunteers spent their time staffing ticket sales, the refreshment bar, and doing other housekeeping tasks during the performances.  Bill Blakey,  FoTT Treasurer, worked his heart out as  Lefty bookkeeper, cast member and crew member.  Talk about a multi-tasker.

This can only mean one thing: there are a lot of people on Tybee who love community theater and who support it. We can't wait to get the Post Theater open! Christmas is coming. Consider buying someone a "brick" or a "star." There are lots of people who would really appreciate one! 

Jane Bridges

Let me add my thanks to everyone who made Lefty such a big success.  Special thanks to Tybee Times photography Jim Glass for the pictures at city council.

Pam Lappin

3rd Wench from the Left - Finale

 

 

3rd Wench from the Left - Opening Night

3rd Wench from the Left - Mayor's Proclamation

Jane Bridges, intrepid FoTT board member, is a cast member of the new original musical Treasure of Lefty the Pirate, Oct. 2 - 4 at the Tybee Gym. Music & book by Eddie Wilson, direction by Mel Gordon. Jane will be blogging about her experiences. Click on title above to link to info and tickets.

The beautiful Lefty's Island set was the stage for Mayor Jason Buelterman and Councilman Dick Smith who presented the Cast with a Proclamation from the City Honoring the first Original Musical created and presented on Tybee Island.

Of course this was the last night of rehearsal, so once the ballyhoo was over it was back to work!

3rd Wench from the Left - Part 6

Jane Bridges, intrepid FoTT board member, is a cast member of the new original musical Treasure of Lefty the Pirate, Oct. 2 - 4 at the Tybee Gym. Music & book by Eddie Wilson, direction by Mel Gordon. Jane will be blogging about her experiences. Click on title above to link to info and tickets.

Here are Roger and Kelly, aka Howard Bowden and Jody Buelterman. They have a love story, too; well, kind of. Roger loves money! But be assured that we have a happy
ending.

 

Christy Wilson has stepped into a major role at the last minute.  She's great and quite a pro.  Also helped all of us with our vocals.

The Captain aka Kenn Wade

The Pirettes

Our stage manager Sue Blakely

Althea also known as assistant director Renee DeRoessett.

Finally! We're practicing on the real set, and we have the lights and part of the sound. We're still having a great time, and hope the audience will, too! Opening night is just a few hours away!

Third Wench from the Left - Part 5

Jane Bridges, intrepid FoTT board member, is a cast member of the new original musical Treasure of Lefty the Pirate, Oct. 2 - 4 at the Tybee Gym. Music & book by Eddie Wilson, direction by Mel Gordon. Jane will be blogging about her experiences. Click on title above to link to info and tickets.

Did I say we had four different rehearsal venues? Make that five. We rehearsed Monday night on the concrete slab at Memorial Park!  Here are Mel and Wolfgang Hartz with the blue tape marking the stage, the exits, etc.,

AGAIN. And we were delighted to see Lucinda Morin,  our amazing choreographer. Here she is, going over a routine with Glory Padgett in the fine weather we had that evening. Don't we look studious with our books? Call it P-A-N-I-C. The show opens this weekend!

And here's our distinguished Captain Kenn Wade, having a wardrobe moment with Twila Davis, our costume designer. Don't ask!  Despite the hum of the generator powering Eddie's music and the chorus of 2,000 cicadas, it was a delightful evening until the sun went down.

We practiced by starlight and car light for a while longer, then we all went home!

See you at the Show!

Jane

3rd Wench from the Left - Part 4

Jane Bridges, intrepid FoTT board member, is a cast member of the new original musical Treasure of Lefty the Pirate, Oct. 2 - 4 at the Tybee Gym. Music & book by Eddie Wilson, direction by Mel Gordon. Jane will be blogging about her experiences. Click on title above to link to info and tickets.

One of our three rehearsal venues, the Black Box Theater, has two sides, and here we are practicing our conga line in the art and reception part.

Good thing for us it has some comfortable couches. All that dancing
makes us tired!

Now, here we are in the performing side of the Black Box. You may think that's Howard Bowden standing on a chair, but it's actually the character Roger, standing on the bow of the cruise ship; the one that Mel and Jim are building in the Tybee Post Theater.

Mel has been working on that thing too much! He told us how many feet wide this part would be, and how long that part would be, and where the wall would be, but he did stop short of telling us how many 2x4s he used. Come on, Mel! We just wanna sing and dance!

One of the secrets of Lefty's Island is the romance between Wendell and Susan, aka Tracy Priest and Samantha Claar. Aren't they a cute couple? They have a shipboard romance and a big secret!

Back at the Gym.  Pictured are Willow, Ritajane, Polly and Rick. Willow's a theater major performing with us for the first time! Ritajane co-directed our performance of South Pacific on  the pier in 2004. Polly is a welcome addition to our chorus, and you may remember Rick's unforgettable line as Chicken Man in Best Little Whouse in Texas.

 Eddie Wilson, script and music writer, and Lucinda Morin, choreographer extraordinaire are two of the main brains behind this production. Lucinda is a former Rockette who has danced on cruise lines and all up and down the east and west coasts and now dances in musical productions at the Savannah Theater.  She just listens to one of Eddie's songs, comes up with a dance and staging concept for it, and somehow, she gets us to make it into a Cecil. B. DeMille style production! At least, that's what we hope. We are trying to keep all our left feet on the imaginary stage in the gym. But at least we're in the room where the play will actually be performed!

All for now,

Jane