If you didn’t hear the bad news, it’s true. “Rent” was denied. A sad day for many a teenager in Kitsap County as both Andrea and I were very excited to direct what we hoped would be the first production of the school edition in Washington.
Unfortunately, professional productions take precedence over amateur ones and “Rent” has a big national tour coming to Seattle close to the time CSTOCK would’ve been doing it. I know…. you ask why would they care if a group of kids were doing the show? I wish I could answer that question for you, my young friends. But Andrea and I promise we’ll try to get that show into another season if it’s at all possible.
In the meantime, we both decided that “Seussical” was our second show of choice. It’s fun, filled with a lot of great music and characters and we think the audience will love it. If you didn’t know, Andrea had originally planned to do this show back in 2005 but the licencing company yanked it from us as a Seattle based professional theatre chose to do it at the last minute. So in a sense, this is our reward and not just a ‘replacement’ show. We get to do this show with a lot of talented kids, teens and young adults. We think it’ll be awesome!
I was fortunate enough to get a chance to watch a rehearsal of this year’s Children’s Summer Workshop production (which happens to be ‘The Jungle Book’ if you couldn’t figure it out by the blog title!).
It’s going to be a great show! These 41 kids (between 6-13 years old) are absolutely amazing. There are kids with a lot of stage experience as well as kids with no stage time whatsoever and they are all seamlessly working together and creating a show that will knock your socks off!
I’m really impressed with Andrea and her team of DIT’s. They are doing some amazing work - these kids onstage will be the future of our theatre. And our DITS are our future directors so come on down and support a good cause (CSTOCK is taking donations for the Kitsap Humane Society and for the 4-H Club) as well as see a great show!
Well, it’s finally here. It’s closing night for our “kids for kids” production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘The Pirates of Penzance.’ I sincerely hope you’ve had a chance to see it but if not you have ONE MORE chance left!
Sunday’s show starts at 6 pm. Tickets are still available (although they are selling quickly!) online at Brown Paper Tickets. This is the best way to guarantee your tickets!
Doors open at 5:30 pm but get there a little earlier if you’d like to sit closer.
Congrats to the cast and crew for a great show!