Mount Vernon Community Theatre inaugurates a new Songbook Series: "Duets, An Evening of Entertaining Pairs" in three performances in Monett, Mount Vernon and Aurora this weekend. The impetus for doing such a show, says Matt Teel of MVCT, was borne of necessity. The company normally presents a fully-staged musical during the summer. "But we do share the space (the Mount Vernon Arts and Recreation Center, or 'MARC') with several other groups, including another theater group in Mount Vernon (Rebels Bluff Troupe), and they have the space for this summer. They're going to be doing Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! at the end of July. But our group still wanted to do something. We have an awful lot of talent that needs to be contained somewhere--we need an outlet. The board got together, and we tossed around some ideas. One of them was this idea of a 'songbook.' The idea is, you take some selections from the Great American Songbook and put them on stage with some of your talent." The
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