Historical February 1986 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Usually known for their recreations of Baroque and Renaissance Europe, the Holy Roman Repertory Company, St. Louis’ national radio theatre, present their first concert program on an American subject.
On Friday and Saturday, February 7 and 8, the company will perform “The Life and Opinions of Mary Chesnut” at the Concert Hall, Conservatory and School for the Arts, 560 Trinity, in University City. Performances will be at 8 PM on both evenings, with a 2 PM matinee on Saturday the 8th. Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate civil servant, wrote the most compelling of all the period’s journals, a witty and trenchant book of observations on a doomed cause.
The program will combine dramatized excerpts from the journal with popular, religious, and concert music of the period, including songs by Stephen Collins Foster and Henry Clay Work.
The cast includes Hollis Huston, Harry Gibbs, Susie Wall, and Jeanette Lee, with a special appearance by soprano Mary Henderson.
Admission is $5 at the door for evening concerts, and $3 for the matinee. Twofer discounts are available for all students and KWMU “Studio Set” members.
Admission is free for the staff, faculty, and students of CASA.
For more information, call the CASA Box Office at 863-3033. Holy Roman Repertory Company is supported in part by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Missouri Arts Council (a state agency), the Missouri Committee for the Humanities (the state-based arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities), the Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission, and the CAMELOT Fund of the Arts & Education Council of Greater St. Louis. HRRC is a member of the Arts & Education Council of Greater St. Louis.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February 1986.
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Original source: SD_Times1986_02.pdf, printed page(s) 6; PDF page(s) 6.
