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!