The Westmoreland Jr./Sr. High School Drama Department once again presented another fantastic production to a live audience!
On November 11 and 12, the Drama Department performed Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel that answers all the unanswered questions about the beloved fairytale Peter Pan. Both performances took place in the Jr./Sr. High School Auditorium.
Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair... and the bonds of friendship, duty and love.
A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.
The production was directed by Emily and Jason Davis. The cast was made up of the following students:
Joey Aurigema - Alf
Ashlynn Clanton - Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Allison Davis - Prentiss
Owen Davison - Black Stache
Madison Dee - Lord Aster
Gavin Haggerty - Boy/Peter
Wesley Larish - Grempkin, Mack, Sanchez, Fighting Prawn
Bailey Metzger - Smee
Ella Perrault - Slank and Hawking Clam
Natalie Robinson - Molly
Hannah Soulia - Mrs. Brumbrake and Teacher
Ann Sweet - Ted
Samantha Parzych - Understudy and Ensemble
Kamdyn Stanek - Understudy and Ensemble
Ellen Batson - Ensemble
Alexis Batur - Ensemble
Ahaneka Hilliker - Ensemble
Loghan Ingerson - Ensemble
Kaleigh Plumb - Ensemble
Victoria Williams - Ensemble
Congratulations to the cast and crew!
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