Tim H. Mills, a Branch Manager-Downtown Middlesboro and a proud resident of the Historic Cumberland Gap area, will be singing a song written in tribute to the first pioneers that made their way to and through the Cumberland Gap. The song set to the 1750 time period is a tribute to the beauty and the trail west including the blue skies and the wonderful mountain herself.
This performance will be a return to Broadway for Mills and it is an evening he is excited about. “I love history, I love the Cumberland Gap, and I love music. It has been a while since I've been on stage singing in this way, but I am excited to be a part of the special invited guests that Blue Apple Players have invited to perform in this great event, and representing the Cumberland Gap and National City Bank is an honor,” Mills said.
“This friendship grew out of unique circumstances and began three years ago” said Paul Letz, the Producer of Blue Apple Players. Our actors were traveling conducting workshops and performances in the Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia area, and Tim provided our actors with dinner while conducting one of his week long Customer Appreciation Weeks and each year he has continued to make our folks feel at home when in the area. We know he can cook, and we learned last year he can sing too.”
Mills actually holds a music degree from Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Ky., where he majored in voice and studied with Dr. Harold Wortman for 17 years, who also served as his music mentor. He has performed at the Super Dome in New Orleans where he opened for Bob Hope in 1982 at the Kiwanis International Convention, singing show tunes. He was in the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors as the Slave Boy, was the baritone soloist for the Seven Last Words of Christ with the Orchestra of the Cumberland's, and has his own show at the Kentucky State Fair called “Chapel on the Circle”.
He has sung everything from South Pacific to Seventy Six Trombones and we are delighted to welcome him to the Brown Theater for his first performance with the Blue Apple Players.
Louisville Salutes Blue Apple Players will be held Saturday, Feb. 24, at the W.L. Lyons Theatre located at 315 West Broadway in Louisville.. The evening begins with a cocktail party reception at 7 p.m., followed by the performance at 8 p.m. The event will conclude with cocktails and dessert with the cast at 9:30 p.m.
The event, a fundraiser for the Blue Apple Players, features local community an government leaders performing musical skits from the group's library of original children's plays over the past 31 years.
Tickets, which are now on sale, are $75 single, $125 couple, $500 group of ten tickets, $500 for Blue Ribbon Sponsorship or $25 for patron sponsorship.
To order tickets or for more information contact Monica Hearne at monica@blueappleplayers.org; or call 502-587-7990. For more information about the Blue Apple Players visit their website at www.blueappleplayers.org.
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