2006-2007 WBHS Theatre Season
Season Theme: CHARACTER - THE NOBLE QUALITIES AND ATTRIBUTES THAT SEPERATE GREATER FROM LESSER HUMAN BEINGS.
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Fall Production: Robin Hood
In a land where the rich get richer and the poor are starving, Prince John wants to cut down Sherwood Forest to put up an arms manufactory, a slaughterhouse
and a tennis court for the well to do. This bawdy epic unities elements of wild farce and ancient mythologies with an environmentalist aassault o nthe arrogance of wealth and power
in the face of poverty and hunger using a highly whimsical cast of familiar and not so familiar characters from the classic tale. Maid Marian loses her clothes and her illusion among
the poor and Robin tries to avoid murder and elude the Dark Monk of the Wood who is Death and perhaps something more.
For complete production information, visit the Robin Hood Production Gallery Page.
Synopsis provided by Samuel French, Inc.
MIFA One-Act Festival: Moon Over Buffalo
An acting couple not exactly the Lunts are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac revised one nostril version and Noel Coward's Private Lives. This backstage farce by the author of Lend me a Tenor brought Carol Bernett back to Broadway and also starred Phillip Bosco as her megalomanic, often drunk husband and leading man. Fate has given these thespians one more shot at starring roels in The Scarlet Pimpernel epic and director Frank Capra himself is en route to Buffalo to carch their matinee performance. Will Charlotte Hay appear or run off with their agent? Will George Hay be sober enough to emote? Will Capra see Cyrano, Private Lives or a disturbing misture of the two? Hilarious misunderstanding pile on madcap misadventures, all of which are magnified by Charlotte's deaf mother who manages the theatre. For complete production information, visit the Moon Over Buffalo Production Gallery Page. Synopsis provided by Samuel French, Inc.
Film Festival: Curtain Call
The writing process for the 2007 Film Festival's feature film began at the start of the school year in the fall of 2006. By the conclusion of WBHS's fall production, a rough working screenplay was in hand. Curtain Call marked the third attempt at producting a feature-length film. The plot follows the path of Detective Finnigan Cuffs, a student with a knack for solving crimes that unfold within his high school. Curtain Call was honored as the official local high school selection at the Detroit area screening of Student Films Across America. For complete production information, visit the Curtain Call Production Gallery Page.
Spring Musical: Beauty and the Beast
Disney's stage adaptation of their 1991 annimated film, Beauty and the Beast, captivated Broadway audiences during an impressive 13-year run. WBHS's production of the
amazing show met with phenomenal success before packed houses. In the show, the beautiful, young and eccentric Belle seeks life beyond the physical and mental confines of her little village.
Her slightly addled father, Maurice, unknowingly sets into motion a chain of events that forever change the destiny of young Belle, the hideious Beast and a variety of talking objects in an
enchanted casstle. For additional pictures, videos and information about the show check out our Beauty and the Beast production website.
For complete production information, visit the Beauty and the Beast Production Gallery Page.
Detailed synopsis and show information available at Music Theatre International.
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