Ryan Bowie News

The Roxy Regional Theatre is alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC this summer with the opening of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical on Friday, July 15, at 8pm.

The Roxy Regional Theatre is alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC this summer with the opening of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical on Friday, July 15, at 8pm.

Five exceptional young talents take on the songbook of one of America's favorite pop/folk/country music performers in Roxy Regional Theatre's production of Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver, now onstage in Clarksville through July 2. Directed with obvious affection and respect for the musical revue's hero by Tom Thayer, it's as if the pop music soundtrack of the early- to mid-1970s (with attention paid to Denver's later efforts as well) has come to life in the just under two hours of music.

During the June 7th, 2011 Comedy on the Cumberland show, the Roxy Regional Theatre gave a sneak peek of their upcoming show Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver. Weaving together the songs of John Denver with interviews, fan letters and passages from his autobiography, Almost Heaven was originally conceived by Harold Thau with orchestrations, vocal arrangements and music supervision by Jeff Waxman. Directed by Tom Thayer, the musical revue features Keith Panzarella, Erica Haines Cantrell, Bryan Benware, Kendall Anne Thompson and Ryan Bowie, with David Lovell on guitar, Tom Thayer on piano and Thad Wallus on bass.

Tennessee's best and brightest stage stars took to the stage at Franklin's Boiler Room Theatre Monday night, June 6, for First Night: The Tony Concert, to kick-off the 2011 First Night season in Nashville. Performing songs from Tony Award-winning musicals, the concert featured performers from throughout Tennessee - from Nashville to Crossville to Clarksville.

Tennessee's best and brightest theatrical stars will take to the stage of the Boiler Room Theatre -to celebrate The Tony Awards during First Night: The Tony Concert, presented by Keeping Scores Concerts on Monday, June 6 - and to perform an evening of songs from Broadway musicals that have won the Tony Award for best musical.

The Roxy Regional Theatre pays tribute to the life and music of John Denver with the feel-good hit musical ALMOST HEAVEN, opening Friday, June 10, at 8pm.

Like Rodney Dangerfield before him, Frank Wildhorn gets no respect in musical theater circles. Despite the relative success of his first widely known work for musical theater - Jekyll and Hyde, a popular if not exactly critical success - Wildhorn's subsequent musicals have been met with lukewarm praise, at best, including his just-closed Wonderland, which got some of the season's most scathing reviews on Broadway. The Roxy Regional Theatre, never a company to let reviews influence their show selection, brings Wildhorn's Tony Award-nominated The Civil War to the stage in Clarksville, in a largely successful and watchable production featuring a young, committed and capable cast.

Tennessee's best and brightest theatrical stars will take to the stage of the Boiler Room Theatre -to celebrate The Tony Awards during First Night: The Tony Concert, presented by Keeping Scores Concerts on Monday, June 6 - and to perform an evening of songs from Broadway musicals that have won the Tony Award for best musical.

Ryan Bowie, now firmly ensconced in his new professional life in Clarksville, Tennessee, made his way southward from New York City to do one show and, thanks to fate, ended up deciding he'd found his way home. Now onstage in the Roxy Regional Theatre's production of The Civil War, the Frank Wildhorn musical that continues through May 21, he won acclaim (both critical and otherwise) at The Baker in the Roxy's 2010 revival of Into The Woods (ranked among the year's best performances by First Night and BroadwayWorld.com readers).

Beginning Friday, April 22, at 8pm, the Roxy Regional Theatre marks the Sesquicentennial with THE CIVIL WAR, a musical tribute covering the enormous emotional landscape of the most difficult test our nation has ever endured.

Beginning Friday, April 22, at 8pm, the Roxy Regional Theatre marks the Sesquicentennial with THE CIVIL WAR, a musical tribute covering the enormous emotional landscape of the most difficult test our nation has ever endured.

The epic adventure of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is relived in the regional premiere of BEA(U)TIFUL IN THE EXTREME*, opening at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Friday, April 1, at 8pm.

The epic adventure of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is relived in the regional premiere of BEA(U)TIFUL IN THE EXTREME*, opening at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Friday, April 1, at 8pm.

The epic adventure of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is relived in the regional premiere of BEA(U)TIFUL IN THE EXTREME*, opening at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Friday, April 1, at 8pm.

'A ghost and a prince meet and everyone ends in mincemeat" at the Roxy Regional Theatre with the opening of HAMLET on Friday, March 11, at 8pm.

The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930s Harlem lives on in the Roxy Regional Theatre's production of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN': The Fats Waller Musical Show, beginning February 11.

'A ghost and a prince meet and everyone ends in mincemeat" at the Roxy Regional Theatre with the opening of HAMLET on Friday, March 11, at 8pm.

Where you could possibly find five more charming and engaging performers than the cast assembled by director/choreographer Ryan Bowie for his winning revival of Ain't Misbehavin' - now onstage through March 5 at Clarksville's Roxy Regional Theatre - is beyond me! These five dazzling entertainers deliver a musical jolt of electricity that completely enlivens the dark, frigid days of winter, taking audiences on a musical and historical journey through the Harlem Renaissance via the life and career of Mrs. Waller's bouncing 250-pound baby boy, Thomas - better known as 'Fats.'

The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930s Harlem lives on in the Roxy Regional Theatre's production of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN': The Fats Waller Musical Show, beginning February 11.