OOPS - I’m a little late on this note from Janet Colson:

4/15-16-17 - I know highlighting High School shows isn't typical, but neither is Holt High School's spring play "Arts or Crafts" which runs this Friday and Saturday (April 15 and 16th) at 7:00 and Sunday the 17th at 2:00. This play was written by MSU's Rob Roznowski and a version of it was previously workshopped/performed at MSU. Arts or Crafts at Holt High School is directed by Seth Burk, and includes additional material by the cast. 
5780 W Holt Rd, Holt, MI 48842

Also, even though it's a bit of a drive, The Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea Michigan is now showing the World Premiere of "Gaps in the Fossil Record" by Matt Letscher, which I have no doubt will be field-trip worthy. Some of our GLUT and Ripples Community may recognize "Gaps" from the staged reading at Riverwalk Theatre. The play is directed by Guy Sanville and features local actor Mark Colson in a leading role. With previews of the play this week and opening night Friday 22nd, the show runs through May 28th. 

734-433-7673 - PurpleRoseTheatre.org

5/2-3 Janet Colson reports The Seussical The Musical Jr is at Holt Jr. High. I think it's going to be a great show (and I'm not just saying that because my daughter Adele is playing The Cat in the Hat!) and it should be fun for an audience of all ages with singing, dancing, and more! 

Seussical the Musical Jr. at Holt Jr. High School, Directed by Seth Burk who was last seen music directing Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and In The Heights with Peppermint Creek Theatre Company as well as Fantasticks, Adrift in Macao and Baby with Summer Circle Theatre. 

May 2nd 7 PM and May 3rd 2 PM and 7 PM.Holt Jr. High School
1784 Aurelius Rd., Holt
Tickets are $5.00 and can be purchased at the door

OOPS -- these HS shows are getting away from me. Emily is a great performer. Her mom/agent report that promotion has been shaky for this sure to be good show - and now I'm late, too! ANYway...

Emily Hadick was Marcy Park in the "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" in the 2012 production at Grand Ledge (she did the cartwheel) and she was Pepper in RWT's "Annie." Her first big role was Baby June in LCP's "Gypsy."  This is her last production at Holt High School and she has the lead female role of 'Babe' in the show.  She will be majoring in musical theater in college and is wait-listed at Michigan, her dream school. 
Holt High School Presents
"The Pajama Game" at the Holt High School Margaret Livensparger Theater5885 Holt Rd, Holt, MI 48842

"The Pajama Game" is a nostalgic trip to the 1950’s - a time of innocent romances, a time of “company spirit," and a time when seven and a half cents actually bought something. 

Billed as a "bright, brassy and jubilantly sassy show," the musical Pajama Game won the Tony Award for Best Musical when it opened on Broadway in 1954. Based on the novel 7 1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell, the show tells the story of a union fight in a pajama factory for a seven and a half cent raise, complicated by the superintendent of the factory falling in love with one of the union reps.

Show Dates & Times

Friday & Sat., March 28-29 @ 7:00 pm
Sunday, March 30 @ 2 pm

Tickets $10 Adults/$8 Students

 Would you like to hear the legend of Robin Hood?  If your answer is “ I Sherwood,” then hitch up your gauntlets and get ready to laugh.  This hilarious send
up of the Robin Hood story leaves no stone unturned or, at least, tripped over.

    You see, it’s a little known fact that the famous English bandit was bit of a klutz.  As a kid he practiced with a bow and violin instead of a bow and
arrow, so naturally to fight the king’s injustices he needed his famous band of women.  Women?  That’s what you get when you send Little John to do the
recruiting!

    But just as the ladies are persuaded that after they steal from the rich they have to give the goodies to the poor, Robin is tricked by a rhyming witch and is
taken captive by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham.  At the palace, King John, far from sounding like royalty with his hick accent, holds a festival to trap all of Robin’s
followers.

    Sword play and derring-do plus a lot of cheap tricks allow goodness to triumph over evil and Robin Hood to win the hand of the lovely Maid Marian.  

Performances are Friday and Saturday November 8 & 9 at 7 pm and Sunday, November 10th at 2 pm at the Margaret Livensparger Theater at Holt High School; 5885 West Holt Road, Holt MI 48842.  Tickets can be purchased at the door and are $8 adults and $6 students/seniors (those 60 and better).

7 p.m. Thu-Fri-Sat, April 18-19-20
2 p.m. Sun, April 21, 2013

Holt Performing Arts Complex
Margaret Livensparger Theater
At Holt High School
5885 W Holt Rd - Holt, MI 48842

Tickets available at the door
$8 children & current students with valid ID, Seniors age 60 or better
$10 all others

Jeff Miller
Theater & Events Manager
Holt Performing Arts Complex
Holt Public Schools · 5885 W Holt Rd · Holt, MI 48842
517-699-6439 voice · fax 517-699-3439