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2024-2025 Season


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Murder on Route 66
  • Synopsis:
    • We follow Mable & Myrtle, two mature women, on their bus trip to the Grand Canyon. Things don't go as planned. The bus breaks down at a rickety hotel and a murder or two occurs. This show is a hilarious WhoDunIt-- don't miss the fun.
  • Casting students 6th grade and up
  • Performance dates: July 11-14, 2024
  • See the show page for more information

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Disney's Aladdin KIDS
  • Synopsis:
    • Based on the iconic animated film, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s Aladdin KIDS is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure.
    • When the street urchin, Aladdin, vies for the attention of the beautiful princess, Jasmine, he uses a genie's magic power to become a prince in order to marry her. Iago, Jafar, the Genie, and more are here in Disney’s Aladdin KIDS, a musical adventure filled with magic, mayhem and the power of love.
  • Casting 1st through 5th grade
  • July 25-28, 2024
  • See the show page for more information

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Annie
  • Synopsis:
    • With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage that is run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the Orphanage, Annie escapes to the wondrous world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations... and even befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! She finds a new home and family in billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
  • Casting kids - adults
  • ​Performance dates: September 12-14 & 20-22, 2024
  • See the show page for more information

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What Could go Wrong the Night Before Christmas & A Christmas Crisis
  • Synopsis:
    • What Could go Wrong the Night Before Christmas:
      • A host attempts to do a lovely reading of The Night Before Christmas but is stymied by every imaginable interruption.  First, the children show up wearing costumes and outfits for all the wrong holidays, then it ends up the mice might not be stirring, but they sure are shuffling as they play a game of Go Fish. 
    • ​​A Christmas Crisis:
      • ​It’s Christmas Eve and everything’s falling into place.  That is, until a crisis hits:  Santa’s reindeer have come down with some sort of bug.
    Casting 1st through 5th grade
  • ​Performance dates: November 15-17, 2024
  • See the show page for more information

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Christmas Shorts
  • Synopsis:
    • There’s something for everyone in this one-act holiday delight made up of short scenes and monologues.  You’ll find everything here, from kids writing letters to Santa, to the big guy getting ready for Christmas himself, to a bunch of elves who accidentally rip Santa’s gift bag at the last minute.  (Don’t worry, Mrs. Claus can fix it!)  There’s a sports segment featuring the 845th annual Reindeer Games and a holiday quiz show featuring Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghost of Christmas Future.  A soap opera, As the North Pole Turns, a news segment from the North Pole News, and some Christmas-themed commercials round out this fun seasonal comedy. 
  • Casting 6th through 12th grade
  • Performance dates: December 5-8, 2024
  • See the show page for more information

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Elementary Winter Drama Club
  • Our Elementary Winter Drama Club this year will be focusing on musical theatre.
  • The club will begin on January 26th and run for a total of 4 weeks. Each class will meet from 2-4pm on Sundays.
  • Jackie Jones will be our choreographer and Rachael Lashbrook will be our music director.
  • The students will learn a song, a dance, and work on developing 
    strong acting skills.
  • See the show page for more information

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Once Upon a Mattress: Youth Edition
  • Synopsis:
    • Many moons ago in a far-off place, Queen Aggravain decreed no couples could marry until her son, Prince Dauntless, found a bride. Princesses came from far and wide to win the hand of the prince, but none could pass the impossible tests given to them by the Queen. That is, until the “shy” swamp princess, Winnifred the Woebegone, showed up. Would she be able to pass the Sensitivity Test, marry her prince and help Lady Larken and Sir Harry to the altar? Carried on a wave of wonderful songs, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and melodic, this rollicking spin on the classic tale The Princess and the Pea provides some side-splitting shenanigans. After all, a princess is a delicate thing.
  • Casting 6th through 12th grade
  • Performance dates: February 27-March 2, 2025
  • See the show page for more information

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The Miracle Worker
  • Synopsis:
    • Immortalized on screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this Tony Award-winning play is the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing at the age of 19 months. With compassion, humor and dramatic tension, The Miracle Worker explores the volatile relationship between a lonely teacher and her headstrong charge.
    • Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, young Helen is violent and spoiled, treated by her family as subhuman. Only Annie sees a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from Helen's dark, tortured silence. After scenes of intense physical and emotional struggle, Helen's breakthrough finally arrives with the utterance of a single, glorious word: "water."
  • Casting kids - adults
  • ​Performance dates: April 24-27, 2025
  • See the show page for more information
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The Commons Theatre
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Alexandria, IN 46001

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