Carlton County High School students are going for the laughs with "The Great All-American Musical Disaster," a farce that takes on Hollywood and the motion picture industry.
Director Larry Anderson describes the play's main characters as "an egotistical untalented director, a child star who isn't really a child, a stage mother from Hades" ... along with a producer who mistakenly thinks he's talented, who inherited a movie studio from his father, who actually was talented.
Wow.
"It's a fun show," said the veteran actor. "The kids have worked really hard."
The show opens Thursday night with a dinner theater in the Carlton High School cafeteria starting at 6:30 p.m., featuring lasagna, breadsticks, salad, dessert and the show for $10 a ticket. Shows start at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (all without dinner) at the high school; tickets for those performances are $7 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets will be sold at the door, check or cash only.
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Although they broke with the tradition of a spring musical, Anderson said he deliberately chose a farce with a little bit of music.
"Actually, the kids are singing a cappella and doing a very credible job," Anderson said. "They are ready."
