RISING
Are you Hero material? Or, are you an outlaw? What’s the difference? Maybe, where you draw the line? When standing up for a cause makes you an outlaw, when speakingup for the oppressed, rallying for the disenfranchised, and rising for the greater good threatens to shake you out of your comfort zone, when it asks you to give something more of yourself, and maybe risk losing something… that is when the outlaw becomes a hero. Rising up has never been easy and without a cost, and this season’s stories tell the tales of people – some fictional, some real – standing up for what they believe is right; to protect the innocent, to fight for eQuality, to recognize the marginalized, to make sacrifices for the greater good. Outlaws, each of them. And all of them heroes.
Sherwood Rising
Fall Mainstage Play (7th -12th grades)
Original Script by Cait Cassee
Every season needs its stage combat show, and this is a classic. If ever there is a story
to launch our Season of Rising, this is the one. Iconically holding a place in human
history for looking out for the underserved, standing up for what’s right, creating a family
with the friends and allies who believe as you do; that equality and the common good
surpass the needs of the few, and justice can be found – and made – from the ground
up. Or, in this case, from a forest. Sherwood Forest to be exact. Sherwood Rising is our
Fall Mainstage Play for 7th -12th graders.
Newsies, Jr. MTI
Winter Multi-Age Musical (6 th -12th grades)
Rise up with this rousing musical that has thrilled and inspired young people for
generations.
Inspired by a true story from turn-of-the-century New York City, this musical features a
Tony Award-winning score and book. When powerful business owners raise prices at
their employees’ expense, one charismatic boy rallies forces from across the city to
strike against the unfair conditions. Together, they learn that they are stronger united
and create a movement to fight for what’s right – for their fellow… Newsies!
Newsies,
Jr. is our Winter Mainstage musical for 6th -12th graders.
Antigone In Munich: The Sophie School Story (Stage Partners)
Spring HS Play (9th -12th grades)
The power of words spoken freely. When that is criminalized – when your voice is
denied – and you can no longer speak up against the wrongs you are witnessing
without risking your life – what will you do? Will you rise up anyway? This true story tells
of Sophie Scholl, a young student and activist in World War II Germany, and the society
she and her friends started to spread awareness and inspire resistance against the Nazi
regime. Their White Rose Society, started in 1942, lasted less than a year before they
were arrested, facing devastating consequences, but their work stands as a testament
to the importance of being a voice for the voiceless.
Antigone in Munich is our Spring
Black Box Production for
9th -12th graders.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (MTI)
Summer Family Classic (10+ thru Alumni)
If you’re a fan of the updated fairy tale with a little sci-fi thrown in, then this beloved
summer classic is the one for you. Based on a novel by Ian Fleming – of James Bond
fame – and a screenplay by Roald Dahl, this musical features a theme we can all get
down with: That life is filled with science-as-magic, toe-tapping songs, a little danger,
and a lot of standing up for those in need and those you love.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is
our summer family classic musical for 10 and up to include alumni.