2014-2015 SEASON
Boiling People in my Coffee & Elephant's Graveyard
Thursday, October 23rd & Friday, October 24th -- 7pm in the Sanderson Auditorium.
Tickets are $5 at the door
Tickets are $5 at the door
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Thursday, November 13 -- Friday, November 14 Saturday, November 15, 2014
7:00pm -- SHS Auditorium
Tickets: $10 General Admission / $8 Students & Seniors
Join the Sanderson Theatre Ensemble as they explore the world of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"!
The essential question of this story is, “what is happiness?” In the world of this play, people are created and conditioned to be “happy” at the expense of human connection and relationship.
An excerpt from the "Letter from Our Director" in the playbill: ...It was this element of the story that made (Mr. C) want to tell it with teenagers. High School is a time filled with high emotions and with young people who are still figuring out what “happiness” and “unhappiness” means. Brave New World shows them a world that they think they want, one where there is no responsibility and they are constantly entertained and never unhappy. It brings us to the ironic conclusion that, in order to be happy, we must be miserable sometimes.
If you are familiar with the book, you will no doubt notice that there are several layers of the story that are either not addressed, vaguely glossed over or different from the book. This is for several reasons 1) some aspects of the novel are very difficult to pull off live on stage 2) we wanted to make sure this script is one that can be enjoyed by our entire audience and 3) when transferring a story between mediums, things must be cut, changed, or altered for it to work.
7:00pm -- SHS Auditorium
Tickets: $10 General Admission / $8 Students & Seniors
Join the Sanderson Theatre Ensemble as they explore the world of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"!
The essential question of this story is, “what is happiness?” In the world of this play, people are created and conditioned to be “happy” at the expense of human connection and relationship.
An excerpt from the "Letter from Our Director" in the playbill: ...It was this element of the story that made (Mr. C) want to tell it with teenagers. High School is a time filled with high emotions and with young people who are still figuring out what “happiness” and “unhappiness” means. Brave New World shows them a world that they think they want, one where there is no responsibility and they are constantly entertained and never unhappy. It brings us to the ironic conclusion that, in order to be happy, we must be miserable sometimes.
If you are familiar with the book, you will no doubt notice that there are several layers of the story that are either not addressed, vaguely glossed over or different from the book. This is for several reasons 1) some aspects of the novel are very difficult to pull off live on stage 2) we wanted to make sure this script is one that can be enjoyed by our entire audience and 3) when transferring a story between mediums, things must be cut, changed, or altered for it to work.
Cabaret Night 2015!
Life is a Cabaret, Old Chum! Come to the Cabaret!
Please join us for
Sanderson Theatre Ensemble's
CABARET NIGHT!
Featuring Individual Acts, Music, and Improv
Friday, March 13, 2015
7pm in the SHS Auditorium
Tickets are $5 at the door
Proceeds benefit the SHS Theatre Booster Scholarship
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Bye Bye Birdie - SPRING MUSICAL!
Thursday, April 23 -- Friday, April 24
Saturday, April 25, 2015 7:00pm -- SHS Auditorium Tickets: $10 General Admission / $8 Students & Seniors A call-back to sweeter, simpler times, "Birdie" takes a look at what happens when a swivel-hipped 60s rock and roll star decides to plant a farewell kiss on one lucky young gal as a promotional stunt prior to his being inducted into the army.
Conrad Birdie is one hot dude, singing his heart out and sending the girls into a tizzy with every frenzied lip-curl. Birdie's manager and songwriter, Albert Peterson, is beside himself when the star receives his draft notice. The meal ticket, as it were, is about to disappear.
So Albert figures, why not write a song, have Birdie deliver it on national television while kissing the chosen fan -- symbolically representing girls everywhere, of course -- and cash in on the phenomenal projected record sales. Not as easy as it sounds. Albert has a loving secretary named Rosie Alvarez who wants him to give up show business and teach English, a mother who controls him, and a singing star who's a challenge to control. Even so, the whole troupe heads off to Sweet Apple, Ohio, to connect with the lucky kissee, Kim MacAfee. Kim's family, in turn, proves to be a handful as they host the gang from New York. Complicating things is Kim's boyfriend, Hugo Peabody, who's just "pinned" Kim and finds the national kiss publicity stunt -- to be executed on "The Ed Sullivan Show," no less -- highly objectionable. "Bye, Bye Birdie" first came to life on Broadway in 1960, picking up a Tony Award as Best Musical. |