SHEFFIELD-TVAA is hosting our annual Summerstock production in July. This year is the musical “Something Rotten!”. Dates for this fun play will be July 11, 12, 18 and 19 showtime 7PM and July 13 showtime 2PM. Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased from Tennesseevalleyarts.org or call 256.33.0533.
Here is a little information about this play from Suzanne Reese-Mills, our artistic director at TVAA:
“Something Rotten! is a spectacular show that I’ve dreamed of putting on for years, and it takes a special group of artists to tackle it. My SummerStock at The Ritz team is so lucky to work with local actors and musicians who are both beautifully thoughtful and hilariously playful in their approach to scripts and scores. This seeming contradiction is mirrored in Something Rotten!, which is an absurd and irreverent comedy that somehow also rings strikingly true.
One reason I was drawn to Something Rotten! is that it is a huge crowd pleaser for theatre regulars and theatre novices alike. The writing is clever and self-referential, with lots of jokes and allusions to other musicals that the die-hard fans will recognize, and preposterously funny takes on historical figures and periods that are familiar to all. Combining all that with Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick’s brilliant music, Something Rotten! is a show I would encourage anyone to run to see any time it is playing, and I look forward to watching it many times myself from the back of the historic–and newly renovated–Ritz theatre as this amazing cast and orchestra bring it to the stage. I hope everyone in the Shoals area will join me!
– Suzanne Reese-Mills“
Media Release/Ashley Finkelstein/Executive Director/Tennessee Valley Art Association | The Ritz Theatre
