PHOTO BY JOHN MUCHOW Roxy Theatricals presents eight performances of the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. With only 75 seats per show, phone and order your tickets now. There may only be a small number of seats or maybe even standing room only if you wait to buy tickets at the door, which […]
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Rocking in 2014
PHOTO BY JOHN MUCHOW Make sure to phone ahead for reservations to Hedwig and the Angry Inch Happy New Year because we’re not sure this limited seating New Year’s Eve shindig will not sell out by press time. The Legacy Theatre will rock in the New Year with music from two great bands, spirits and […]
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Hijinks and hilarity
Roxy Theatricals presents the charming and unique musical A Day in Hollywood: A Night in the Ukraine Sept. 20-22, 26-29. The Broadway sensation, directed and choreographed by legend Tommy Tune, is like two plays in one. The first act before intermission features the usher corps from the famed Hollywood Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in a song-and-tap-dance […]
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Putting on the glitz
Roxy Theatricals presents nine performances of the Sunset Boulevard: The Musical on June 28-30, July 5-7 and July 11-13 at The Legacy Theatre. Rights to the show, usually only given out to professional companies, were finally granted to Roxy. Set and costumes are as glamorous as the main character, Norma Desmond, an old silent film […]
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Friends forever
Roxy Theatricals presents the Always … Patsy Cline, April 12-14, 18-21, at The Legacy Theatre. The musical is based on the true story of Cline’s friendship with Houston fan Louise Seger. After meeting in a Texas bar in 1961, Seger and Cline continued to correspond until Cline’s death in a plane crash in 1963. The title […]
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Singing sassiness
If you missed The Marvelous Wonderettes two years ago when the delightful musical was as magical as the opening of the newly remodeled Legacy Theatre, you’ll be happy to know the production returns Feb. 15-17 and 22-24. Six performances are slated starring four locals with awesome vocals, Sara Baltusevich, Elizabeth Eckert, Cassie Poe and Teri […]
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Breakout musical
The musical Spring Awakening breaks out on the stage at The Legacy Theatre this weekend and next, Sept. 7-9 and 13-16. Winner of eight Tony Awards, Spring Awakening is full of pent up passions and rebellious sensibilities of a group of late nineteenth-century students trekking their way from adolescence to adulthood. And all that fervor […]
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Showing resolve
Roxy Theatricals presents nine performances of the Legally Blonde – The Musical. Based on the popular movie with Reese Witherspoon, college sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods, played by Springfield’s Katie Ford, doesn’t take no for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone serious, Elle puts down the shopping bags, hits the […]
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Big scream flicks
Route 66 Twin Drive-In at Knights Action Park has a special October in store for families looking for Halloween fun. During the last three weekends in October, families have a choice of two double features nightly with entertaining ghostly and ghouly films such as How to Train Your Dragon, Casper, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, […]
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Show-within-a-show
Roxy Theatricals was granted the rights to produce the five-time Tony-award winning musical, The Drowsy Chaperone, which plays at The Legacy Theatre for three weekends minus the last Sunday. Laugh along with the modern-day musical theater addict, known only as Man in Chair (Ed MacMurdo, also the director), who watches the characters and set of […]
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Bowling for hoots & hollers
Dixie’s Tupperware Party is a hilarious Drama Desk Award-nominated show written by Kris Andersson, who also stars as Dixie Longate, a fiery cross between Minnie Pearl and Dolly Parton with RuPaul. The production arrives in Springfield as the last stop on a 40-city national tour. Filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, product giveaways, audience […]
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A living legacy
Everything but the basic framework may be new, but the 60-year-old auditorium at 101 E. Lawrence Avenue will reopen next month with due honor to the past, says Scott Richardson, director with local community theater group Roxy Theatricals and the new private owner of the former Springfield Theatre Centre building. For $58,000, Richardson purchased the […]
