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Palace Players prepare ‘Newsies’ performance
A lifelong Farragut resident in his 20s is combining forces with his sister to gather talented teens and adults alike to create special performances — many are musicals — to audiences across the Knoxville metro area. In its fourth full season and the brainchild of Xandria Cross and Remington Stavros, The Palace Players performers “have a mixture of high school kids — around 26 of the 36 total Players — and young adults and some full-on adults as well” from Farragut and around the immediate area, said Stavros, artistic director for The Palace Players. Doing about three shows per season, their next is the musical “Newsies,” to be performed in Knoxville Catholic High School’s St. Gregory the Great Auditorium starting at 7 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Aug. 7-8; at 2 and 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 9, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 10. Tickets are $25 each per night, or four tickets bought together for $80 (go to palaceplayers.com) “So the story is based on the newsboys’ strike from the 1890s and the story of the newsies and how it got started and all that,” Stavros said. “(Matthew Sensing) is playing the leader of the newsies, Jack Kelly. “We also have one of the teachers from Concord Christian School performing in it, Abigail Sensing; she is one of their high school drama teachers,” he added. “Her husband is Matthew Sensing. “Abigail is playing Katherine Plummer, who is a female reporter who is covering the story. She’s trying to get her big break in the reporting world because, obviously in the 1890s, women were more told to do the entertainment side of things, and so she wanted to do a real story.” As a result, “she helps the newsboys, and then she learns about their cause and wants to start helping them,” Stavros said.
Read MoreUnderappreciated state heroes is first Museum Series topic
Introducing its new monthly “History Hour” Speaker Series, Farragut Museum’s featured speaker offered insight into lesser-known but influential Tennesseans with its first installment in the Museum, in Farragut Town Hall, Tuesday morning, July 22. With featured speaker Ben Collins being “a favorite teacher at Farragut High School” according to Historic Resources coordinator Kristi Vining, this Tennessee and U.S. history teacher said he was oblivious as a boy to the background of the historic sites and people, such as Davy Crockett and Andrew Johnson, who once made Greeneville — Collins’ home town — their home. “I don’t want my students to do what I did,” he lamented. “To have things around them and not know (the history).” However, instead of talking about the more famous, therefore historical, figures of Tennessee, Collins chose people rarely mentioned. He related the history of such figures as Clarence Saunders, founder of the Piggly Wiggly stores; the murder of U.S. Sen. Edward Carmack; former slave Dolly Johnson of Greeneville — who was freed from slavery — Gen. Robert Neyland, the legendary University of Tennessee football coach in the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s and early ’50s, and aviator Cornelia Fort, who was the first U.S. pilot to encounter the Japanese air fleet, witnessing the Pearl Harbor attack by air. Collins also addressed the 1890s’ Anderson County’s Coal Creek coal mining clash with state militia, which used prisoners from Brushy Mountain to work in the mines.
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