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Here’s a sign that Mahopac has just the right girl to play Elle Woods in this week’s “Legally Blonde”: Mention her character’s name and Mahopac senior Olivia De…
At Woodlands High School this week, the kid playing the jock who loves musicals (despite the fact that his friends give him grief about it) is a jock who loves musicals despite the fact that…
Before this week, the biggest role Alex Guzman had ever held in a play at Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers was as the ship captain in “Anything Goes.” Or maybe a businessman i…
Will Youmans (inset) is from a show-business family. His mom is playwright Elizabeth Egloff. His dad builds sets for Broadway, including the Sinatra musical, “Come Fly Away” and …
The Yellow Brick Road on the stage at Mount Vernon High School this weekend won’t just be trod by MVHS students. This year’s production, the first on the stage since 2013, will f…
Marianna Ceccatti, 16, sophomore from Croton, is a musical kid. She was in the Ursuline School’s Honors Chorus that traveled to Rome in January and sang for Pope Francis. “One of…
The subjects know it. Members of King Sextimus’ court know it. Queen Aggravain knows it. “A genuine princess is exceedingly rare.” New Rochelle High School junior Kaitlyn G…
For more than five years, if there’s been a show at Lakeland High School, Declan Moore has had a hand in it, handling all things technical. The Lakeland senior is helping to cook up a …
In Chappaqua, Horace Greeley has the region’s only seniors-only musical and the Class of 2015 made a memorable choice: “Hair,” the “Age of Aquarius” musical, wi…
Putnam Valley’s Dr. Gerard Micera has chosen a milestone musical for 2015, the first in which the school is eligible for the Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, to be handed out i…
Zoe Kaplan’s character in Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” was once an evangelist. Now she’s a nightclub singer. She’s Reno Sweeney, and “she’s a…
Westlake High School opens a two-week run of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” the Stephen Sondheim-Larry Gelbart musical about a slave Pseudolus (senior Joey Tag…
The kids at Clarkstown High School South are turning themselves into the hand-jiving students of Rydell High this week, with a production of “Grease.” They’ve got the moves…
Eastchester is chock full of fairytale creatures this week, as director John Gwardyak brings “Shrek: The Musical” to the Eastchester High School stage. The irreverent and wickedl…
In the middle of a season of high-school musicals across the Lower Hudson Valley comes “A Chorus Line,” presented by Hastings-based Broadway Training Center of Westchester this w…
For years, people have asked Spring Valley director-choreographer Stacey Tirro when she was going to do “West Side Story.” The dance teacher had an answer. “I would tell th…
Matthew Quinones loves baseball. And he loves singing. This weekend, the Albertus Magnus High School sophomore gets to combine the two, as he makes his theatrical debut in “Damn Yankee…
Doesn’t it look like Tappan Zee’s Quiana Iacobellis is saying “Nooooooooo!”? Who could blame her, after snow canceled Friday’s opening night of “Annie Get…
“Shrek the Musical,” which opens at Brewster High School this week, is essentially a buddy musical with the unlikeliest of buddies. There’s Shrek the green ogre, played by …
The kids at Ramapo High School knew they wanted to break out this year, to follow last year’s ground-breaking production of “In the Heights” with another milestone producti…
For a decade, Ed Steele has chosen out-of-the-ordinary musicals for Fox Lane. Think “Hot Mikado,” “Smile,” “The Boyfriend.” This year, his last as directo…
Mama Rose had a fever of 102. But there she was, in the theater, talking about the role of a lifetime that came along so early in her lifetime. Where else would you expect to find the stage …
At long last, Friday is the first day of spring. There will be robins and crocuses and daffodils soon enough, but first, there will be Yankees: “Damn Yankees,” at North Salem Mid…
Craig Long has to be honest. Ask the Suffern High School senior how he likes playing J. Pierrepont Finch—that’s F-I-N-C-H—the lovably over-ambitious window-washer at the ce…
In middle school, Liam Herbert ran the lighting board for “Seussical” and was a stagehand for Port Chester Council for the Arts’ summer productions. Liam was a tech kid. Un…
