Youth Conservatory Season


A Midsummer Nights Dream: November 7th-16th (Cast: HIGH SCHOOL)
By William Shakespeare
Tickets: $12 adult, $8 student or senior
Type: Non-Musical Play
This drama is one of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare. The play revolves around the adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The story takes place in Midsummer and is a complex farce featuring Hermia & Lysander and Helena & Demetrius. 


The Velveteen Rabbit: November 14-23 (Cast: 3rd Grade- ADULT)
Adapted by Anita Larson
Tickets: $8 
Type: Non-Musical Play
The Velveteen Rabbit is the timeless tale of love and sacrifice as revealed through the story of a small stuffed rabbit given as a gift to a little boy. This adaptation creatively and beautifully renders for the stage the miraculous story of a stuffed animal made real by a child's love and a little magic.


The Castaways: February 6th-15th (Cast 3rd – 8th Grade) 
By Michael and Jill Gallina
Tickets: $8
Type: Musical
In the years prior to coordinated social services, many poor families found it impossible to support and shelter all of their children. Some of these children were either abandoned or chose to leave the family setting for what they hoped would be a better life on the streets. The hardships and ordeals experienced by these homeless castaways forms the basis of this story. 

The Outsiders: April 17th-26th (HIGH SCHOOL)
Adapted by Christopher Sergel. From the book by S.E. Hinton.
Ticket Price: $12 adult, $8 student or senior
Type: Non-Musical Play
S.E. Hinton, who wrote this modern classic when she was 16 years old, comments: "The Outsiders, like most things I write, is written from a boy's point of view. That's why I'm listed as S.E. Hinton rather than Susan. (I figured most boys would look at the book and think 'What can a chick know about stuff like that!') None of the events are taken from life, but the rest—how kids think and live and feel—is for real. The characters—Dallas, who wasn't tough enough; Sodapop, the happy-go-lucky dropout; Bob, the rich kid whose arrogance cost him his life; Ponyboy, the sensitive, green-eyed Greaser who didn't want to be a hood—they're all real to me. Many of my friends are Greasers, but I'm not. I have friends who are rich, too, but nobody will ever call me a Soc—I've seen what money and too much idle time and parental approval can do to people. Cool people mean nothing to me—they're living behind masks and I'm always wondering "Is there a real person underneath?" This entirely practical stage adaptation deals with real people, seen through the eyes of young Ponyboy, a Greaser on the wrong side of life, caught up in territorial battles between the have-it-made rich kids—the Socs—and his tough, underprivileged "greaser" family and friends.


A Little Princess: April 24th- May 3rd (3rd Grade – HIGH SCHOOL)
Adapted by: June Walker Rogers
Tickets: $8
Type: Non-Musical Play
Sara Crewe is one of the most beloved fictional heroines is brought to life in this funny, sad, wonderfully imaginative adaptation. Join Sara as she begins her adventures in "Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies"; laugh with her as she brings happiness to others; weep with her as her fortune changes from rich girl to poor orphan; and rejoice with her when strange events bring still another reversal of her destiny. 


A Kidsummer Nights Dream: June (3rd-8th Grade)
By Lynne Bartlett, Mark Leehy and Kevin O'Mara.
Tickets: $8
Type: Musical
This musical adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is a marvelous musical that explodes in a joyous celebration of Shakespeare's classic comedy. Kidsummer is full of mischief and mayhem, misunderstandings and magic potion mix-ups, as kings and queens, humble workers, fairies, parents and kids all chase their dreams. This show is simply… MAGIC!