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We are excited to host Savasda Gilmore for our school theater performance this coming year! This fall performance will be hosted the first week of December for tech week and shows. Night at the Wax Museum: The hysterical meets the historical in this comic romp through the wackiest wax museum in history! School’s out for summer, but not for six unlucky students who don’t know much about history — they have to re-take the class in summer school. First year teacher Heather Fairchild has arranged for them to help her two aunts set up a new wax museum as a class project. Though the students’ eyes glaze over with boredom, there’s a twinkle in the wax figures’ eyes when a mysterious incantation from the back of Cleopatra’s bracelet brings them to life! King Henry VIII finds himself smitten with Cleopatra, making his queen, Anne Boleyn, furious. If she can just not lose her head, John Adams is there to serve as her divorce attorney! When Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Blackbeard, and a bevy of lady pirates show up, everybody’s out for one thing — treasure! Supposedly, there’s a mighty valuable one hidden in the museum! It’s a wild goose chase to find it, with a greedy museum landlord and her bumbling son joining in the mad search. And why is Lizzie Borden lurking in the shadows, since the aunts say they never had a wax figure of her?! The magic of history comes alive — literally! — when spiced with Bill Francoeur’s cinematic score, including ’Egytian Love,’ ’Summer School,’ and ’Glory Days.’ Instructor: Savada Gilmore Savada is a middle school drama teacher and a director of children's theatre including at Starbright Youth Theatre.
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