Flickinger Center is Back with Lorrie Black in Charge, Live Theater August brings the "The Orphan Train" & More

Flickinger Center is again lights on and about to be able to go live with action under the leadership of the new executive director Lorrie Black ran the Showtime Dance Studio for 3 decades.

The Flickinger Center will be gran reopening post Covid-19 restrictions with the Miss New Mexico Pageant on June 5 and the 4th Army Band of the New Mexico National Guard performing on June 29.

The musicals season is expected to begin in August. Children's Musical Theater is planning to perform "The Orphan Train" in August. "The Orphan Train" tells the story of the real movement to send orphaned children across the United States, primarily to farmers in the west.

The play tells the story of nine orphans on an "orphan train" that left New York City on May 28, 1914. The train travels to Midwestern towns in search of homes, any homes, anywhere for the orphaned and unwanted children. There's Mary, Evie, spunky Pegeen, Annie and Little Lucy, a quiet one. Other orphans include Frank (who later becomes Frankie, a small girl), Raymond, Lucky and Danny the song-and-dance boy. And there are the men and women hoping for children. The lonesome whistle wails as the train chugs between encounters of anxiety, laughter, wistfulness, rejection and acceptance. Eight stories unfold, each a memorable surprise. The Orphan Train is a charming heart-warmer and all we expect from one of legendary playwrights for children, Aurand Harris. The staging creates a highly theatrical story, moving, amusing and always tellingly human.  This will be an amazing story and timely reminding of us of our humanity, given the orphan crises at the border.

In November, the adult Alamogordo Musical Theater will be performing Steven Sondheim's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" which is inspired by ancient Roman farces, namely those of Plautus. The funniest, bawdiest and most enchanting musical that Plautus, with a little help from Stephen Sondheim, ever wrote according to some. This is a true gem for the new season bringing cultured arts back to downtown Alamogordo and the Alamogordo Main Street area of New York Avenue.

There will also by concerts including Countrified at Patron's Hall on June 4 and Michael Marti Murphey at the Flickinger Center on Sept. 1. Shows have been scheduled including Mariachi Christmas in December and others soon to be announced.

Let's make sure we support the cultural arts in Alamogordo and the New York Avenue area. This is the zone for arts and entertainment and with the support of the public this area of town has the potential into becoming and arts and cultural zone of significance for Southern New Mexico.

Other ways you can support the center is via membership and more. Check out 

https://flickingercenter.com/keeping-the-lights-on

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