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2007-2008

Beauty & the Beast

"The cast of Western's Beauty and the Beast spread joy at the Chris Evert Children's Hospital." See Pictures>>


Metamorphoses

by Mary Zimmerman

Was presented by the WHS Drama Department on January 16-18, 2008.
A story adapted from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the play is about the Greek Gods from a modern perspective and it is performed in a pool of water. See Pictures>>

 

Dancing with the Stars Premiers at WHS

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2006-2007 Wildcat

Drama Presented...

"Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind- 30 plays in 60 minutes"
"Circa" a modern look at Shakespeare's Sonnets with multimedia elements
"Gypsy" a Musical
2007 Variety Show

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Previous Performances:

VaRiEtY ShOw 2007

Thursday April 26

at 7pm in the WHS auditorium

Tickets are $5 each

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Western High School Thespian Troupe 4259 proudly presented:
Jerry Boulger, Valerie Henley, Amanda Maxwell,
Stephen O’Neal, Britni Serrano, & Heather Strack in

Book by Arthur Laurents Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

April 11, 12, 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Western High School Auditorium
All Tickets Available at the Door One Hour Before Curtain
$10.00 Adults $7.00 Students and Senior Citizens
Thespians and Cappies Free with ID

ALL FACULTY AND STAFF AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE FREE

This musical chronologizes the life of Gypsy Rose Lee, a famous stripper in the 1930's - but relax, no one is naked! Strippers in the 1930's were actually Burlesque Dancers. The kind of strippers we now have didn't arrive in the theatre scene until the 1960's.

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Crimes of the Heart
Nov. 8th, 9th, 10th, 15th, 16th, and 17th at 7:30 p.m.
Western High School Auditorium

On November 8th, the Western High School Drama Department will present its second play of the season. A Pulitzer Prize winning play in Drama, Crimes of the Heart is set in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing martial prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, that are grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of Jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future – but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the lights have gone dim.

Starring in Crimes of the Heart are Britni Serrano, Amada Maxwell, Johnny Moniz, Dave Gayler, Caitlin Nelson, Devin Chapnick, Chelsea Cranshaw, Gabby Groten, Leeann Parker, and Lauren Allison. The stage crew includes Heather Scheick, Amy Lichtenstein, Danica Brozowski, Roxy Geimer and Patrick Gallagher. This production will be Western High School’s entry in the South Florida Cappies program (on November 9th and adjudicated for the placeStateFlorida State Thespian Conference (on November 10th). Mr. Bonnett will present Crimes of the Heart to his professors from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University as his thesis production for his Masters Degree in Directing.

Tickets are available at the door beginning one hour prior to curtain. Admission cost is $8.00 for students and senior citizens and $10.00 for adults. For more information, call the Drama Office at 754-323-2434.

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"Winners" the first act from Brian Friel's "Lovers"
Sept. 28 & 29 @ 7:30pm
The Pulitzer Prize winning comedy

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See Pictures of the Play>>

Read about Brian Friel the author>>

s a long and difficult road getting it to the stage at all. Producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin originally envisioned the musical as a serious romantic story along the lines of South Pacific. After hiring composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, they eventually went through 11 librettists before finally deciding to make the project a comedy and settling on Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, a radio and television writer with no theatrical experience.

Based on Damon Runyon's short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," Guys and Dolls revolves around Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York, who bets fellow gambler Sky Masterson that he can't make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. The next girl he sees happens to be Miss Sarah Brown, a pure-at-heart Salvation Army-type reformer, and the stage is set for an hilarious evening of complications.Guys and Dolls opened at the 46th Street Theatre on November 24, 1950 and enjoyed a run of 1,200 performances. The original cast included Robert Alda, Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene and Isabel Bigley. The 1955 film version featured Marlon Brando, Vivian Blaine, Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons. In 1976, a Broadway revival was staged with an all-black cast.