Launching Tryon Little Theater’s 63rd season, “Clue: the Musical” is coming to the TLT (Tryon Little Theatre) workshop stage, Sept. 22.
Director Debbie Craig-Archer, who is new to TLT, but not to the art of directing, already has set builders, performers, lighting technicians, wardrobe and prop people doing what they do best, striving to bring another experience to area theater-goers.
Craig-Archer has been directing for over 25 years and singing, acting and dancing since she was four. Craig-Archer has directed in North Carolina at the Spring Lake Little Theatre, Mannie’s Dinner Theatre and Robeson Little Theatre before relocating to Spartanburg, S.C. where she has been involved with the Little Theatre there, as well as Greer Children’s Theatre and Trinity United Methodist Church collectively for 14 years.
Craig-Archer is the Office Manager and Paralegal for Security Finance in Spartanburg.
Ben Chumley has been involved in theater his whole life, but he also has an impressive musical background.  He’s bringing that expertise to TLT’s production of “Clue: the Musical,” and it’s a show that promises to surprise and stupefy, in a fun way, of course.
Apart from acting, directing and doing tech work, Chumley has also been pianist, composer and musical director for various organizations including New York Art Theatre, New York Opera Forum, Toronto’s Curtain Call Players, Endemol Productions in Paris, and locally with Spartanburg’s Repertory Company, Little Theatre and Youth Theatre, Greenville Little theatre, Limestone College Theatre and others.
Chumley holds BFAs in piano and musical theatre from New York University, and is currently pursuing his MA in ethnomusicology. He works as director of music for an area church, overseeing two choirs and four hand bell ensembles.
The musical is based on the internationally loved board game, “CLUE” and is full of comic antics, witty lyrics and music. It will run for two weekends, Sept. 22 – 25 and Sept. 29 – Oct. 2.Visit www.tltinfo.org for more information.
– article submitted by Monica Jones