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Theatre of Gadsden’s “Looking for a City” in 2019 played to sold-out audiences drawn by the Southern Gospel music it spotlighted.
A follow-up production last year was a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a cast of more than 60 singers of all ages is prepared for “Looking for a City: The Gospel Journey Continues,” set for July 22-25 at the Ritz Theatre in Alabama City.
It will be the theater group’s first full production in more than a year (“Charlotte’s Web” was staged earlier this month).
“It is so exciting to be opening the Ritz Theatre again after more than a year,” said Director Mike Beecham. “Music and theater are such a vital part of our lives.”
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Squire Parsons, 72, was born in 1948 in Newton, W. Va., and was introduced to music by his grandfather, Will, and father, Squire, Sr., a choir director, who both taught him to sing using shaped noted.
In 1970 Parsons earned a B. S. degree in music from W.V.U. Technology Institute, taught school for several years, and served as music director at various churches. During this era he wrote his signature song, “Sweet Beulah Land,” which won The Singing News Fan Award for song of the year in 1981.
He joined the Kingsmen Quartet as a baritone it 1975 and stayed with them for four years before starting a solo career. Parsons was ordained as a minister at Trinity Baptist Church in Asheville in 1975 as well. He appeared with the Rev. Billy Graham in the Little Rock Crusade, has performed on the Gaither Homecoming Choir series, and currently lives in Leicester, with his wife Linda. He is a prolific songwriter having written dozens over the years and has received num
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