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30 Years and Going Strong
On Saturday, March 29, the Meroney Theater, the downtown-Salisbury home of Piedmont Players, celebrates its 30th birthday, and you’re invited! The event takes a refreshing approach from its usual Night on the Stage fundraiser. This year, performers from the Meroney’s past three decades return to deliver an evening of Broadway showtunes. The Meroney Theater opened…
Read MoreRead Across America finale: Fun classic performed for preschoolers
SALISBURY — “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” a classic children’s story, was performed for the 3-5 year olds at St. John’s Child Development Center on March 7, serving as the center’s Read Across America finale. Kristy King, program coordinator at the center, said they had various volunteers come in during the week and read to…
Read MoreA Fresh Take: Steel Magnolias at Piedmont Players
At first, Robert Harling thought he had composed a drama based on his sister’s struggle with diabetes. But it’s comic lines such as these that have delighted audiences since 1987: “If you can’t say anything nice about anybody, come sit by me.” “I’m not crazy…. I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40…
Read MoreReflecting on 44 years with Piedmont Players
By Debbie Hubbard I have been performing since I was 8 and doing musical theatre since high school. My relatives would come over when I was young, and I would sing or tap dance or twirl my baton and they would put money in a jar. But that was nothing compared to the thrill I…
Read MorePiedmont Players’ gutsy ‘Sweeney Todd’ a great achievement
SALISBURY — “Sweeney Todd,” Stephen Sondheim’s deliciously macabre retelling of an old story about a barber who slits throats and a baker who seals up the razor’s victims in meat pies, is not just another Broadway musical. It is an opera that happened to make its debut on Broadway in 1979. The story of Todd’s…
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