One-Act Team Prepares for Upcoming Performances
Launch the media gallery 1 playerThe Leigh High School One-Act play production team’s season is in full swing, preparing for their upcoming performances and competitions.
This year’s team is one of the biggest teams in history with 60 cast and crew members! This year’s production is the Broadway classic, “Anything Goes” by Cole Porter.
The story features the madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London in the 1930s. Billy Crocker, played by Luke Eisenmann, is a stowaway in love with the famous heiress Hope Harcourt, played by Reese Wietfeld. The problem is that Hope is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, played by Wyatt Langhorst. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney (Brianne Kuhr) and Public Enemy #13, “Moonface” Martin (Trevor Hoffman) join Billy in his quest to win over Hope.
Other notable roles in the performance include Hope’s gold-digging mother Evangeline Harcourt (Baylee Settje), Billy Crocker’s boss who has a great love of alcohol (Tyce Larson) the man-eating temptress Erma (Sydney Messerlie), the ship’s Captain (Blake Loseke) and Purser (Kyle McMullin), a reverend (James Moore) and his two newest religious converts Spit and Dippy (Liz Hoffman and Cade Hoesly) a reporter and photographer (Izzy Hollatz and Carmen Malena) as well as Reno Sweeney’s “angels” (Lexis Gleason, Kammy Held, Karly Wendt, and Easton Brabec).
This student director for this year’s play is senior Emily Stender. She will also be the head lighting coordinator.
The play is directed by Mrs. Justine Fischer and assisted by Mrs. Megan Hillen, Mrs. Michelle Held, and Mrs. Kamin Held. Dennis and Linda Hillen are helping once again with set design and construction, and Loretta Tejkl is helping with set design and costuming. Special thanks to Mr. Jarrod Bazata’s shop class for all their help with set pieces as well.
“We are all really excited about this year’s play!” Mrs. Fischer said. “We often do pieces with a lot of magic or fantastical elements, and “Anything Goes” does not have any of that. So that will be our biggest challenge this year to make real-life people really come to life in a big way. We have a fairly young cast and crew this year with many new people in large speaking roles. So there is a lot of learning to do, but they have all had amazing attitudes so far, so we are excited about where we can take this show! We are fortunate to be able to host districts in Leigh again this year, so we hope everyone will make plans to join us at one of our performances!”
The performance schedule is as follows:
--Friday, November 15 – Afternoon Matinee Performance – 2:15 pm (Admission: Freewill donation)
--Tuesday, November 19—East Husker Conference Play Competition at Howells-Dodge – Please begin at 8 am—LHS performs at 1:15 pm (Admission: EHC admission price)
-Sunday, December 1—“An Evening of Drama & Desserts” –Join us for coffee, cider, hot cocoa, and dessert at 6:30 pm with the show performance beginning at 7 pm! (Admission: Freewill donation)
-Wednesday, December 4—“Class D-1 District One-Act Competition at Leigh—plays begin at 9 am, LHS performs LAST at 2:45 pm with awards to follow (Admission: NSAA admission price)