The Mauldin Cultural Center has always been a welcoming space for the performing arts. In 2017, the facility became home to the newly established Mauldin Youth Theatre as they produced their inaugural play, Disney’s The Lion King, JR. Now, our performing arts schedule is expanding to include more youth theatre, musical revues, and a community theatre for both adult and youth actors!
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2024-2025 Season
A Chorus Line
This show took place August 15 – September 1, 2024
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, August 15 – Saturday, August 17, 2024
3:00 p.m. | Sunday, August 18, 2024
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, August 22 – Saturday, August 24, 2024
3:00 p.m. | Sunday, August 25, 2024
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, August 29 – Saturday, August 31, 2024
3:00 p.m. | Sunday, September 1, 2024
A Chorus Line is a stunning concept musical capturing the spirit and tension of a Broadway ensemble audition. Exploring the inner lives and bittersweet ambitions of professional Broadway performers, the show features one powerhouse number after another. Memorable musical numbers include “What I Did for Love, “One,” “I Can Do That,” “At the Ballet,” “The Music and the Mirror,” and “I Hope I Get It.” A brilliantly complex fusion of song, dance, and compellingly authentic drama, A Chorus Line was instantly recognized as a classic.
*This show contains mature themes & language and is recommended for ages 13+.*
Sweeney Todd
This show took place November 7 – November 24
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, November 7 – Saturday, November 9, 2024
3:00 p.m. | Sunday, November 10, 2024
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, November 14 – Saturday, November 16, 2024
3:00 p.m. | Sunday, November 17, 2024
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, November 21 – Saturday, November 23, 2024
3:00 p.m. | Sunday, November 24, 2024
An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up… and the carnage has only just begun!
*This show deals with mature themes and displays of violence and is recommended for ages 13+.*
Mauldin City Singers present: Sounds of the Season
7:30 p.m. | Friday, December 13, 2024
3:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. | Saturday, December 14, 2024
The Mauldin City Singers Community Choir, directed by Pam Mayfield, invites you to get into the holiday spirit and come enjoy festive choral music ranging from traditional to contemporary!
Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party
Tickets go on sale December 30, 2024
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, January 30 – Saturday, February 1, 2025
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, February 6 – Saturday, February 8, 2025
Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie’s wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs’ jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who’s been shot?
*This show contains mature themes & language and is recommended for ages 13+.*
Mean Girls JR.
Tickets go on sale February 21, 2025
7:30 p.m. | Friday, March 21, 2025
2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. | Saturday, March 22, 2025
2:00 p.m. | Sunday, March 23, 2025
7:30 p.m. | Friday, March 28, 2025
2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. | Saturday, March 29, 2025
2:00 p.m. | Sunday, March 30, 2025
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. Cady and her friends devise a “Revenge Party” to end Regina’s reign with Cady going undercover as an aspiring Plastic. When the lines between the real Cady and her Plastic self get blurred, she must find her way back to herself and her true friends.
Romeo & Juliet
These performances take place at the Mauldin Cultural Center Amphitheater – guests are welcome to bring their own blankets/lawn chairs! Shows are free to attend.
6:30 p.m. | Friday, April 11 – Sunday, April 13, 2025
In this Shakespeare classic, an age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict by gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s choice, the County Paris.
The Bodyguard
Tickets go on sale April 1, 2025
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, May 1 – Saturday, May 3, 2025
3:00 p.m. | Sunday, May 4 , 2025
7:30 p.m. | Thursday, May 8 – Saturday, May 10, 2025
3:00 p.m. | Sunday, May 11 , 2025
Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge; what they don’t expect is to fall in love. A breathtakingly romantic thriller and West End smash hit, THE BODYGUARD features a host of irresistible classics including “Queen of the Night,” “So Emotional,” “One Moment in Time,” “Saving All My Love,” “Run to You,” “I Have Nothing,” “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” and one of the biggest-selling songs of all time: “I Will Always Love You.”
SPOTLIGHT SERIES
The Last Five Years
January 10 – January 11
Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk winner, The Last Five Years, has been translated into a handful of languages and was named one of TIME Magazine‘s ten best shows of 2001. A testament to the show’s longevity, and spurred by the show’s regional popularity, The Last Five Years enjoyed an Off-Broadway revival at Second Stage in 2013. A film adaptation was released in 2014, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.