General Admission tickets are $17 and Senior/Studenttickets are $13. Tickets for We Did It Together are on sale now andavailable by calling the Historic Visitors Center at 42 or online /tickets. Other cast members are familiar faces to the area’s theater scene,including Sabra Hayden, Stefanie Murphy, Ubinibi-Afia Short, Mika Hoilman, andthirty more gifted actors and singers in this ensemble cast which showcases thegreat talent this region is known for. whose parents are both featured as characters in theplay. Nearly forty actors have come together to create this production,many of whom are playing their own friends and relatives, including Ernest(Buttons) McKinney, Jr. The cast is large, and reflective of Jonesborough’scommunity. Director Richard Owen Geer, composerHeather McCluskey, music director and accompanist Brett McCluskey, andchoreographer Kevin Iega Jeff of Deeply Rooted Dance Company in Chicago, joinedby local set designer J.J.Jeffers will bring this exciting play to life. Joining Corriere on the production are the original creativeteam members who directed, composed, and choreographed Jonesborough’s firstcommunity play, I Am Home, in 2011.
Her winningscreenplay mirrors the style of We Did It Together, which celebrates theextraordinary lives of ordinary people.
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This play is the fourth in a series of original communityplays at the McKinney Center written by playwright Jules Corriere, who thismonth won and placed in eight international film festivals, including takingfirst place at the Hollywood Just 4 Shorts Screenplay Competition and is afinalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. We Did It Together explores the ways that the familiesand neighborhoods in this small Appalachian community have come together toaccomplish great things. Teenage girls called to serve in the Cadet Nurse Corpsduring WWII a doctor and his family in Cubaforced to flee as Castro’s rebel’s take over, leading them to find freedom inNortheast Tennessee the election of Ernest McKinney, the first AfricanAmerican Alderman to serve in Jonesborough a historic home filled withotherworldly guests, and the famous Rambo cattle drive on Greenwood Drive andSpring Street. The play focuses on ordinary people of thissmall community who accomplish remarkable feats as they are caught inextraordinary times. Set in the mid-twentieth century in Jonesborough, Tennessee, WeDid It Together weaves compelling true-life stories in a new original playwith show-stopping music and dance. We Did It Together is the new original StoryTowncommunity play which will have its premier at the McKinney Center on June 3 at7:30 PM. “We Did It Together” NewCommunity Play Opens June 3
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