Young actors from the Vicksburg area are preparing to put on four fairy tale-themed plays as part of the Vicksburg Theatre Guild's annual Fairy Tale Theater production. About 60 children ages 7 to 18 will take on roles like dragons and princesses in plays like "Rapunzel" and "A Dragon in the Mix." The productions allow the children to gain experience acting, directing, and working backstage. They will perform from June 21-24 at the Parkside Playhouse to help bring fairy tales to life for local audiences.

1. THE VICKSBURG POST
TOPIC SATURDAY, J une 16, 2012 • SE C TI O N D
COMICS D2 | KIDS PAGE D3
Karen Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: newsreleases@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 137
music
Kimberly Perry of The
Band Perry
Band Perry
builds global
fan base
at CMA Fest Actors, from left, Kennedi Fitzgerald, 9,
Anna Belle Hayes, 9, Ellen Pierce, 12, and
By The Associated Press Aaron David, 10, rehearse a scene from
one of the Fairy Tale Theater performances
NASHVILLE — The of the Vicksburg Theatre Guild. Kennedi is
Band Perry is working the daughter of Doug and LeTitia Fitzgerald,
to build an international Anna Belle is the daughter of Bradley and
fan base. They’ve played Sarah Hayes, Ellen is the daughter of Kristie
shows overseas and have and David Pierce and Aaron is the son of
more coming up. But at Michael and Katherine David.
CMA Music Festival last
week, roles were reversed
Young actors, directors and stagehands put on Fairy Tale Theater
as fans from around the
world
flocked
to their Online:
home- http://www.
town of theband- By Pamela Hitchins
Nashville.
“We’ve
perry.com
http://www.
phitchins@vicksburgpost.com If you go
seen The Vicksburg Theatre
cmafest. Young thespians will
people Guild’s Fairy Tale Theater
com take the stage, direct and
from will present four plays
handle backstage jobs,
Germany, Thursday through June
too, as the Vicksburg The-
Scandinavia, the U.K,” 24 at the Parkside Play-
atre Guild presents its
said Reid Perry, before 2012 Fairy Tale Theater
house, 101 Iowa Blvd.
signing autographs at performances beginning Tickets are $6 for adults
Fan Fair Hall. “So it’s like Thursday. and $4 for children under
Nashville is the center of “Fairy Tale Theater is 12. For more information,
the world for a week.” designed to be a kid-run visit www.vicksburgthe-
CMA Fest set a new production, literally,” said atreguild.com.
attendance record this Jo Beth Britt, FTT’s coor- • Thursday — 10 a.m.,
year, with 71,000 fans dinator, “though we do “A Dragon in the Mix”
showing up each day. have adults that help, and (audience will include
Attendees came from all adult supervision. Most of day care groups and pre-
50 states and two dozen the productions have a stu- schoolers); and 7 p.m.,
countries, including Aus- dent director and appren- “Rapunzel” and “Darius
tralia, Chile, China, Swit- tice director, and different the Dragon.”
zerland, United Arab kids act in each play.” • Friday — 10 a.m., “Su-
Emirates, South Africa About 60 young people percomics” (daycare/pre-
and several places in from 7 to 18 will be par- school); and 7 p.m., “Ra-
Europe. ticipating this year in four punzel” and “A Dragon in
“It’s a big goal of ours different productions: the Mix.”
to try and win the inter- “A Dragon in the Mix,” • Saturday, June 23
national heart this year,” “Supercomics,” “Rapun- —2 p.m., “A Dragon in
lead singer Kimberly zel” and “Darius the the Mix”and “Darius the
Perry said. “We’ve been Dragon.” Dragon”; and 7 p.m., “Ra-
over to the U.K. now twice Two dragons showing punzel” and “Supercom-
this year and are headed up onstage in the same ics.”
back over to Europe two season is coincidental, • June 24 — 2 p.m.,
more times, once with said Britt. “Each of the stu- melanie thortis•The Vicksburg Post “Supercomics” and “Dari-
(Brad) Paisley and once dent directors gets to pick Nine-year-old Anna Belle Hayes, left, rehearses a dance number with student direc- us the Dragon.”
to do a string of our own their play.” tor Theresa Frost.
shows. So it’s really excit- Anna Belle Hayes, 9, a
ing to know that coun- rising fourth-grader at St. “I like doing the plays,” A tradeoff is that the kids it is sometimes I can get vous smile. In his third
try music has footprints Francis Xavier Elemen- said Anna Belle. “There’s get to be someone else for away with having an atti- season with FTT, Aaron
across an ocean.” tary School, plays the a lot of work involved. We a while on stage, playing tude, which my mom won’t is a rising fifth-grader at
The sibling trio is work- “rock and roll dragon” in work on our lines over and a role. allow,” said Aaron David,
ing on a follow-up to the “A Dragon in the Mix.” over and over.” “I think what I like about 10, flashing a mischie- See Tales, Page D3.
band’s self-titled, platinum
album, featuring the No. 1
hit “If I Die Young.” They
are also promoting their
single, “Postcard From
Paris.” This year marked
their third CMA Fest as
Painting the
artists and the second
time they were asked to
blues away
play the big stage at LP
Field. Shirley Roe, left, and instruc-
With most major coun- tor Joyce Grey, right, work on
try stars in town for CMA paintings inspired by Missis-
Fest, The Band Perry also sippi blues musicians while
got to see some of their Shirley Waring of the Vicks-
own favorite artists. burg Heritage League and
“We are like the biggest the Vicksburg Blues Society
fans,” said Kimberly. “We watches at the Vicksburg
are fans first and fore- Senior Center. Artists from
most. I got Blake Shelton’s the Senior Center are put-
autograph.”
ting together a body of work
“I took a picture with
Glen Campbell,” added
on blues music that will be
Neil Perry. displayed during the Milt Hin-
“So, we would love to ton Memorial concert June
wait in those signing lines, 23 at the Coral Room and at
too,” said Kimberly with the Lower Mississippi River
a smile. Museum and Interpretive Cen-
If only they had the time. ter at a later date. For more
The group is on Brad information on concerts, visit
Paisley’s Virtual Reality www.vicksburgheritage.com
tour and also has other
gigs planned this summer. Brenden Neville•The Vicksburg Post

2. The Vicksburg Post Saturday, June 16, 2012 D3
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a pinup silhouette or a While your hair is still truly wet, apply
Be playful crocheted fabric that pays leave-in conditioner all over your hair
For the rest of the ensem- homage to the relaxed ’70s, and add a waterproof protective product,
ble, be playful, said Los Gruss suggests. There especially if you have color-treated hair.
Angeles-based designer is an ’80s scuba-inspired Use a blow-dryer on the ends but leave
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The associated press
The circular pipe organ is shown at the Agnes Flanagan
Chapel on the campus of Lewis & Clark College, in Port-
land, Ore.
Circular pipe organ
is one-of-a-kind
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — this organ is suspended from
The Agnes Flanagan Chapel the ceiling, allowing the music
is a 16-sided architectural to reflect off the floor and into
marvel that seats 650 under the crowd.
stained glass windows depict- “One of the challenges of
ing the book of Genesis. playing any organ is that no
In the early 1970s, it was two are identical,” said Gar-
also a big, conical quandary. rett, a professor emeritus of
Chapels aren’t really chapels music at Lewis & Clark. “Here,
unless they have an organ, and it’s unusually difficult because
the newly minted structure at the organist plays from the
Portland’s Lewis & Clark Col- balcony and the organ is sus-
lege was in need. pended from the ceiling.”
But those 16 sides presented The electro-pneumatic
a hitch. How do you fit an ordi- instrument and its 4,000
nary pipe organ into a build- pipes turned 40 last year. It
ing that’s anything but? has played to graduations,
You don’t. So the college memorials and holiday
went in search of an organ celebrations.
builder willing to try some- Players use three keyboards,
thing different. Several, said called manuals, along with
organ curator Lee Garrett, pedals and a series of knobs, to
backed away. But the world- create a range of sound. With
renowned Larry Phelps took a couple of setting changes,
the challenge. the organ can be altered to
Phelps’ solution was to build mimic other instruments, like
something to fit the chapel, a trumpet.
and the idea for the world’s Now, it serves as a recruit-
only circular pipe organ was ing tool for the college’s music
born. Unlike a traditional pipe school.
organ — played by someone “It’s one of the most unusual
sitting in front of the instru- instruments in the country, if
ment as the notes flow through not the world,” Garrett said.
the pipes into the audience —
Tales
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Porters Chapel Academy and The payoff is the training,
plays Prince Arthur in “A commitment and community
Dragon in the Mix.” “What I involvement the kids experi-
don’t like is having to wear ence, said 18-year-old Oscar
makeup. My little brother Frost, a recent Vicksburg
teases me and tells me I look High School graduate who’s
like a girl.” been a part of the VTG and
With his younger brother FTT for eight years.
Raegan acting with him this “It teaches you everything
year, those makeup cracks about the theater. Besides
might stop. acting, I’ve learned lights,
Aaron is also a pitcher with sound, backstage work,
the Vicksburg All-Stars, and painting and raising and low-
said he might have to miss a ering the flying backdrops,”
tournament game because of said Oscar. “I like doing it for
the show. the community and I don’t
Parent LeTitia Fitzgerald, want to get paid for it. I’m up
whose 9-year-old daughter, here all the time and I don’t
Kennedi, is in her third year get paid a dime.”
of Fairy Tale Theater, said Oscar said he wants to stay
getting busy kids to rehears- in community theater when
als and performances can be he attends Hinds Commu-
a juggling act. Kennedi plays nity College in Raymond. He
a princess in “A Dragon in plans to get general edu-
the Mix” and will also be a cation courses out of the
princess in the Miss Missis- way first and then pursue a
sippi Pageant, which kicks career in criminal justice, he
off in Vicksburg on July 24. said.
She’s attending vacation “As these kids grow up, if
Bible school, too. they stay in the theater they
“We had to hot-foot it learn to do all the jobs,” said
over here (for rehearsals),” Britt, FTT’s coordinator for
Fitzgerald said. “She’s always more than 10 years.
on the go.”
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