Is it hot yet?   We don’t know because the Strand is COOL.   Yippee!!   Please keep your fingers crossed that our 1954 era equipment keeps giving us good service.   This is not the type of weather to send Bob S. to the roof, but we will if we have to!

ShelbyIdol was a success.   Did you catch the very nice front page article in the Shelbyville News?   For those of you who live out of town, you can view it on-line at www.shelbynews.com    They have been great supporters of the Strand and have written numerous articles highlighting the great things that take place in the theatre.   In addition we publish an ad every Wednesday for upcoming events.   We find it is very worthwhile.  We know that this may be hard to believe, but there are those of you who are not on Facebook (are you a Strand Fan?), don’t have email or don’t have web access (in which case you are not reading this).   You can still find our events by reading the newspaper.   It might seem old fashioned, but to us it is still cutting edge.  Please support them.    If you look on our web site and keep going back, you will find newspaper articles from 1916 posted.   Some things never change.

ShelbyIdol is one of those shows that utilizes the Strand very well.   We had over 600 audience members visit during the course of the competition.   Energy2Action, LLC produces this event.  Gretchen Morgan usually organizes running and athletic events.   This foray into the Arts has been worthwhile and appreciated.   ShelbyIdol has proved to be an effective and enjoyable format.   We look forward to ShelbyIdol 2011.

This week the Shelby County Players will be rehearsing their show “And Then There Were None” at the theatre.   This play opens on August 5th for a total of 4 performances.   The director, Tiffany Wilson, is no stranger to the Strand stage.  She has performed and directed productions in the Strand many times.   We look forward to an exciting opening for the first production of the Shelby County Players 2010-2011 Season.   Get your tickets early, this is something you will not want to miss.

Between now and next week, we would like to send you on a little scavenger hunt.   We have a major announcement to make, but before we do, we would like to give all of you a hint:   Check out John Calvert (imdb will be a good start).   We’ll say more later.   Good luck.

Thanks for the support the Strand is FUN.   We hope you think so too.