Little Shop of Horrors Creative

Director

Mystie Wilke

Mystie was born and raised in Middle Georgia and graduated from WRHS. She went on to earn her Bachelors of Arts degree in Voice with a minor in Theatre from Shorter University. Her family serves and worships at Sandy Valley Baptist Church. You may have seen her on Perry Players stage as Alice Beineke in Addams Family or Winnie Foster's mother in Tuck Everlasting. She has also enjoyed performing with Centerstage for Christ.

Music Director

Dallas Wilke

Dallas studied music at Brewton-Parker College. As a soloist, he performed at Carnegie Hall and in England. Notable roles include The Baker in Into The Woods, Carriere in Maury Yeston’s Phantom, and Gomez in The Addams Family. He was a soloist and assistant director for the St. Augustine Chorus and Youth Chorus, premiering both tuba and baritone solos, and frequently appeared with First Coast Opera. In summer 2024, he served as music director for Matilda. 1 Corinthians 10:31

Choreographer

Kyla Michelle Coakley

Kyla has been dancing since the age of 5 and teaching dance for 3 years. She is both excited and grateful to be the choreographer for these hard-working ladies and gentlemen participating in the show. Kyla wants to thank her family, the show’s directors and the Lord for this experience.

Original Creative Team

Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1969) to Cinderella (2021), his work has been consistently seen on world stages. Before the COVID pandemic hit, Lloyd Webber had shows continually running in the West End for 48 years and on Broadway for 41. When Sunset Boulevard joined School Of Rock, CATS and The Phantom Of the Opera, he equalled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.

Lloyd Webber owns seven London theatres, including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Over the past three years the latter has been completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. It is one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings has meant that considerable work has been undertaken across his theatre portfolio during the pandemic, including the complete remodelling and reseating of the Gillian Lynne.

Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997. To mark his 70th birthday, his bestselling autobiography Unmasked was published by Harper Collins in March 2018.

Tim Rice has worked in music, theatre, and films since 1965 when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fellow struggling songwriter. Rather than pursue Tim’s ambitions to write rock or pop songs they turned their attention to Andrew’s obsession – musical theatre. Their first collaboration was based on the life of Dr. Thomas Barnardo, the Victorian philanthropist, The Likes of Us. Their next three works together were much more successful – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.

Tim has since worked with other distinguished popular composers such as Elton John (The Lion King, Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast), Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess), and Stuart Brayson (From Here to Eternity). He has also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach and Rick Wakeman among others.

Tim founded his own cricket team in 1973, which has now played over 750 matches, and was president of MCC, founded in 1789, in 2002. He crops up here and there in all branches of the media, drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of popular music.

As an EGOT, he is one of only 17 people in the world to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award, was knighted by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1994, and is the proud owner of a boxer dog and two dozen chickens.