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St. James' Concert Series St. James’ Episcopal Church Delta Center Stage and Delta Children’s Museum Present Tom Key as C.S. LEWIS ON STAGE Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:30 p.m.
1026 South Washington Ave.,
Greenville, Mississippi C. S. Lewis on Stage captures the personality and fiction of the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, and Mere Christianity. C. S. Lewis was the subject of the Anthony Hopkins film Shadowlands and an Oxford don who could make his audience think as deeply as he made them laugh. Tom Key is Executive Artistic Director of the acclaimed Theatrical Outfit at The Balzer Theater at Herren’s in downtown Atlanta. It is a professional company giving dramatic voice to the themes of spirituality, race and community in the American South. As a solo performer, Tom Key has been in demand across North America for three decades, including appearances at The Lambs Theater off-Broadway, The John F. Kennedy Center of Washington D.C., The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Theater Center, The Westwood Playhouse of Los Angeles, The Alliance Theater, Harvard and Yale Universities as well as Oxford University of England. He is well known as the actor and creator of the off-Broadway musical hit Cotton Patch Gospel—“Turns a whimsical Bible Story into an exuberant country western hoedown.” (Mel Gussow The New York Times). He has been featured in the award winning television series In the Heat of the Night and I’ll Fly Away, as well as the Mirimax Family Films Gordy, and The Adventures of Ociee Nash. For his performances, direction, or script adaptations based on works including Leonard Bernstein, Harry Chapin, Truman Capote, Saint John, Clarence Jordan, CS Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Hank Williams and Tennessee Williams, he has won critical praise from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Boston Herald, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Most recently he directed the critically acclaimed world premiere at Theatrical Outfit of Thomas Ward’s Keeping Watch. Key’s dynamic as a performing artist has been described in the Atlanta publication, Creative Loafing, as: “An actor with such energy that even standing still, he seems to quiver like a divining rod.” CS Lewis On Stage runs 75-85 minutes and is presented in one act. It is funded in part through a grant from the Southern Arts Federation.
Lost in the Cosmos Delta Center Stage
November 6-9, 2008
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The St. James’ Concert Series was instituted to coincide with the installation of the Letourneau organ in 2003 and is supported by generous donations and memorial gifts. Concerts have included guest organ recitals, Christmas music for organ and brass, Evensong sung by the Delta State University Chamber Singers, noted black gospel musician Dr. Horace Boyer, and recitals by organist Mark Butler. The concerts are free of charge and open to the public at large and are seen as part of the parish’s outreach. An important goal of the series is to expose area school children to both the organ and a variety of music experiences. Daytime children’s concerts have been held at the church in coordination with the Greenville Arts Council with great success. The Concert Series was recognized with the 2007 Special Achievement Award presented by the Greenville Arts Council at a major gala. The series is organized and planned by the parish’s concert committee.
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