GM Playhouse to present “We Will Rock You young@part”

 

The Grand Marais Playhouse is proud to present “We Will Rock You young@part” June 24-26 at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.. Tickets are $15 adults and $5 youth. Available at grandmaraisplayhouse.com.

Youth in grades 3-8 have been learning 20 Queen songs since April and have put the show together in the last two weeks during the Playhouse’s June summer camp. “We Will Rock You young@part” features chart-topping Queen songs including “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen,” “We Will Rock You,” “Somebody To Love,” “We Are the Champions,” and many more, this 70-minute adaptation of the West End show follows two young rebels as they restore rock ‘n’ roll to “the iPlanet” in a post-apocalyptic world. WE WILL ROCK YOU Young@Part® is a musical for our time: a fist-pumping, foot-stomping anthem to individuality.

Cast includes

Redding Drews- Galileo TheaHedstrom-Scaramuche Aubrey Williams – Killer Queen Alivia Higgins- Khashoggi Lilja Smith- Brit Payton Quaife- Oz Scarlet Higgins- Buddy Ensemble: Eli Warton, Charlie Haussner, Sam Rickey, Avery Drost, Alex Ayers, Lydia Kelly, Jimmy McIntyre Light board operator August Kintop, Sound FX operator- Liam Kelly

The summer camp was led by Sue Hennessy with vocal direction from Amanda Engstrom and choreography led by Christine Curtis.

The Playhouse will hold auditions for Blythe Spirit on July 5 at 6:30 at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” one Madame Arcati. Performances are August 25-28 and September 1,2 and 4. more information is available at grandmaraisplayhouse.com. The play will be directed by Rose Arrowsmith.

The summer camp is sharing the stage with the cast of Little Shop of Horrors which is in rehearsal as well. Little Shop of Horrors opens on July 28 and runs through August 7. Show times can be found at Grandmaraisplayhouse.com.

Costumes for Little Shop of Horrors are designed by Pam Knourek who will be in Grand Marais the month of July creating costumes with our local volunteers. Ms. Knourek is the co-director of Costuming and Costume Technology at the North Carolina School of the Arts. The conference room of the ACA will be transformed into a costume shop creating multiple costumes for the cast. Anyone interested in costuming is encouraged to stop by or contact the Playhouse for more information. We are working on building our costuming volunteer base. Please join us! This is a great way to check it out! You don’t need to be a seamstress to help build costumes.

The Playhouse is a community theater that relies on volunteers to create every play. The Playhouse has been creating local performances for the local community and its visitors since 1971! Come be a part of a great community building organization. We need you. There are roles for all levels of commitment and experience. Working together on a play is a great family experience too! Come try it out! Our summer productions are a great way to start. We need builders, painters, help with costumes, lights, sound, ticket sales, ushers. For each show we also need a stage manager, backstage coordinator. Come join the fun! We need you!