The Litchfield Community Theatre production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” will open tomorrow night and will continue Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m. and on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Bernie Aaker Auditorium. Tickets are on sale at Litchfield Community Education and at litchfieldcommunitytheatre.com and will be sold at the door.
Sara Dollerschell is one of the 3 narrators in the production and says the cast and crew are ready to present a great show to the community. She says it’s all singing.
Dollerschell says there is so much happening on the stage and there is a huge pyramid and they perform on different levels of it. She says she, Ali Lundin and Mila Hanson do some 3-part harmony in their roles together as narrators and they will also bring props to the actors on stage.
Mila Hanson says “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” is very high-energy. She says there are a lot of costume-changes and the narrators even change costumes a couple of times.
Hanson says there are two acts and there’s a 15-minute intermission between the acts. For more information about “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” call Litchfield Community Education at 693-2354.
A Willmar man is dead after a crash between a car and a semi loaded with turkeys southwest of Willmar Tuesday morning. The crash happened during the heavy rainstorm on Highway 23 near Kandiyohi County Road 5 on the southwest corner of Willmar, around 7:47 a.m. Tuesday.
The 42-year-old driver of the Honda Civic, Jose Luis Nunez, was killed and the semi driver, 30-year-old Marlo Guevera of Willmar, was not injured. The semi was traveling eastbound, toward Willmar, and the Honda was westbound on 23 when they collided.
On July 23, 1969, James Brown walked out of Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty’s office when the mayor failed to show up on time to present the singer with a proclamation for “James Brown Day.”
In 1980, former Grateful Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux was killed in a car accident in Marin County, California. He was 32.
In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two children were killed during the filming of “Twilight Zone: The Movie” when a helicopter crashed. Director John Landis and four others were acquitted of charges in the deaths.
In 1984, Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, after nude photographs of her were published in Penthouse magazine.
In 1990, production began on the film “Falling From Grace,” which marked John Mellencamp’s acting and directing debut.
Also in 1992, the rock band Chicago got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1999, Woodstock 99 began in Rome, New York. The three-day festival started off peacefully but ended in fires, looting and accusations of rape.
Also in 1999, musician Phil Collins married Orianne Cevey in a private civil ceremony in Switzerland. He was 48, she was 27. They have since split up.
In 2010, Kings of Leon cut short a concert outside St. Louis after pigeons in the rafters defecated on the stage.
In 2011, singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her home in London. She was 27. Her death was attributed to accidental alcohol poisoning.
In 2015, a gunman killed two people and injured nine others before shooting himself during a showing of the film “Trainwreck” in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Ronny Cox (“Deliverance,” “RoboCop”) is 86. Actor Larry Manetti (“Magnum, P.I.”) is 81. Singer David Essex is 77. Singer and former Congressman John Hall (Orleans) is 76. Guitarist Blair Thornton of Bachman-Turner Overdrive is 74. Actor Belinda Montgomery (“Doogie Howser, MD”) is 74. Actor Lydia Cornell (“Too Close For Comfort”) is 71. Actor Woody Harrelson is 63. Guitarist Martin Gore of Depeche Mode is 63. Actor Eriq Lasalle (“ER”) is 62. Drummer Yuval Gabay (Soul Coughing) is 61. Guitarist Slash of Velvet Revolver and of Guns N’ Roses is 59. Actor Juan Pope (“My Name Is Earl,” ″Family Matters”) is 57. Model Stephanie Seymour is 56. Actor Charisma Carpenter (“Veronica Mars”) is 54. Singer Sam Watters of Color Me Badd is 54. Singer Dalvin DeGrate of Jodeci is 53. Musician Alison Krauss is 53. Drummer Chad Gracey of Live is 53. Actor-comedian Marlon Wayans (“The Wayans Brothers”) is 52. Country singer Shannon Brown is 51. Actor Kathryn Hahn (“Transparent,” “Crossing Jordan”) is 51. Actor Stephanie March (“Law and Order: Special Victims Unit”) is 50. Actor Shane McRae (“Sneaky Pete”) is 47. Fiddler David Pichette (Emerson Drive) is 47. Singer Michelle Williams (Destiny’s Child) is 44. Actor Paul Wesley (“The Vampire Diaries”) is 42. Actor Krysta Rodriguez (“Smash”) is 40. Actor Daniel Radcliffe (“Harry Potter” movies) is 35. Drummer Neil Perry of The Band Perry is 34. Actor Lili Simmons (TV’s “The Purge”) is 31. Country singer Danielle Bradbery (“The Voice”) is 28.