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[Event submission courtesy of Becca Mayersohn, Weston Drama Workshop.]
Weston Drama Workshop, a nonprofit youth theater organization in its 62nd anniversary season, will stage six productions this month at Regis College, featuring participants entering Grade 5 through age 23. Participants have been rehearsing for these productions since early June, and will perform at the Regis College Fine Arts Center between July 13 and July 27. With over 30 performances in the span of a jam-packed three weeks, Weston Drama Workshop continues its long-standing tradition of providing the MetroWest community and beyond with quality youth theater.
WDW’s younger ensemble—participants in the Morning Program and the Afternoon Program—will perform two productions: Alice By Heart, the touching musical based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and set in the rubble of the London Blitz of World War II, directed by Aidan O’Hara; and Old Jake’s Skirts, a one-act Theater for Young Audiences play about a lonely pumpkin farmer who finds an old trunk of calico skirts, directed by Callie Llewellyn. Among the young actors performing in these two productions are Sudbury residents Andrew Liberman, Peyton Murray, and Ellie Pestka.
The program’s older ensemble, ages 14–23, will perform three main stage musicals and one black box play. Audiences will explore the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives in Six: Teen Edition, directed by Julia Deter; experience Andrew Lloyd Webber’s enthralling score in The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Chris Brindley; follow two revolutionaries as they try to save rock ‘n’ roll against the backdrop of music by Queen in We Will Rock You, directed by Skylar Grossman; and witness Sarah Ruhl’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in Eurydice, directed by Tristan Burke. Among the performers starring in these four productions are Sudbury residents Kenly Murray, Bea Pestka, Sylvie Quinn, Jonah Rotondo, Jonah Rubin, and Ronnie Schmidt-Gross.
Tickets are available at westondramaworkshop.org, and questions can be directed to the box office at 781-768-7070. All performances are held at Regis College’s air-conditioned Fine Arts Center.
The performance schedule is as follows:
Alice By Heart: Saturday, July 20 at 10:30am; Monday, July 22 at 7pm; Tuesday, July 23 at 7pm; Thursday, July 25 at 10:30am
Old Jake’s Skirts: Friday, July 19 at 5pm; Sunday, July 21 at 10:30am; Tuesday, July 23 at 10:30am; Wednesday, July 24 at 5pm; Friday, July 26 at 5pm
Six: Teen Edition: Wednesday, July 17 at 8pm (SOLD OUT); Saturday, July 20 at 10pm; Monday, July 22 at 10pm; Wednesday, July 24 at 8pm (SOLD OUT)
The Phantom of the Opera: Thursday, July 18 at 8pm; Saturday, July 20 at 7pm; Sunday, July 21 at 2pm; Friday, July 26 at 8pm; Saturday, July 27 at 2pm
We Will Rock You: Friday, July 19 at 8pm; Saturday, July 20 at 2pm; Sunday, July 21 at 7pm; Thursday, July 25 at 8pm; Saturday, July 27 at 8pm
Eurydice: Thursday, July 18 at 7pm; Saturday, July 20 at 2:30pm; Sunday, July 21 at 2pm; Tuesday, July 23 at 8pm; Wednesday, July 24 at 9pm; Thursday, July 25 at 7pm; Friday, July 26 at 7pm; Saturday, July 27 at 5pm.
[Feature image: Left to Right: Jonah Rotondo, Ronnie Schmidt-Gross, Jonah Rubin, Bea Pestka, Sylvie Quinn, Kenly Murray]