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Tweet Four SM East students are lending their talents to the opening show of Theatre in the Park’s 2013 season. Twins Justin and Alec Armer and younger brother Tyler are among the performers in “Children of Eden,” which closed its opening weekend of shows Sunday. The musical will return to Shawnee Mission Park this weekend [...]
Tweet By Chris Heady A talented group of SM East thespians received some metro-wide recognition Thursday at Starlight Theatre’s 11th Annual Blue Star Awards Ceremony. SM East’s February production of The Drowsy Chaperone garnered the theatre department 10 nominations — including Outstanding Overall Production — heading into awards night. And when the envelopes were opened, four [...]
Tweet And the SM East parade of champions continues… So to recap: We already have women’s swimming league champs, women’s soccer league champs, men’s golf league champs, and a lacrosse team in the title game. Phew! But there’s more! SM East’s speech and drama team took home the top honor in the state at last [...]
Tweet The nominations are out. And the cast and crew of SM East’s The Drowsy Chaperone couldn’t be much happier. Starlight Theatre on Thursday officially released the nominees for this year’s Blue Star Awards, honoring the best of Kansas City-area high school musical theatre. SM East learned last week that it had 10 nominees among [...]
Tweet Those talented thespians at SM East have drawn plenty of attention for their big production this year. But their young peers at Indian Hills Middle School have impressive talent of their own. The middle school’s performance students are preparing to stage their annual musical May 2-4: The Little Mermaid. Here’s the show description from [...]
Tweet Looks like it could be a big year for SM East’s theater department… Director Brian Cappello has received word from Starlight Theatre’s Blue Star Awards that SM East’s production of the Drowsy Chaperone has received 10 nominations. (The Blue Star Awards — basically the Tony Awards of Kansas City high school musicals — give awards [...]
Tweet “The Drowsy Chaperone,” SM East’s 2013 musical, hit the stage for its first of four performance Thursday, and, if you’ll forgive a brief bit of editorializing: Wow. Go see this show. You will not believe these are high school kids. That is all.
Tweet You crazy web kids out there probably think you invented the concept of self-referencial “meta-ness,” don’t you? Don’t you! Wellsirs, I invite you to visit SM East starting this Thursday to take a virtual trip back in time — all the way back to the ancient year 1998 — when “The Drowsy Chaperone,” this year’s SM [...]
Tweet When Liz Dimmel’s “Mystery of Christmas” hits the stage for the 15th time this year, two young Prairie Village dancers will be helping bring the artistic director’s vision to life. The ballet combines the music of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite with the Christmas story. This year, Prairie Village’s Olivia and Molly McAuliffe will join a [...]
Tweet The Barn Players Community Theater in Mission is now selling tickets for its 58th consecutive season. The company will produce six regular shows during the 2013 season, two Barn Kids productions, the annual Barn Benefit Concert and its 10-minute play festival. The Barn Players Theatre is at 6219 Martway, across from the Sylvester Powell [...]
Tweet The SM East Theatre department’s annual musical revue fundraiser is set for three performances next week — and this year’s show is sure to be number one. Working under a “#1 Hits” theme, the revue will feature songs from the 1950s to today. Around 40 student performers are scheduled to take the stage. Performances are [...]
Tweet For many high schoolers, summer is a time to laze away long, hot days. But for two incoming SM East seniors, this summer provided an opportunity to hone — and show off — some amazing talents. Flute virtuoso Emma Reno and musical theatre standout Lily Kaufmann returned earlier this week from the Interlochen Summer Arts [...]
Tweet Local natives Lee Conrads, Carly Putnam and Sam Slosburg shared a love of theatre when they graduated from SM East in 2008. Four years later, they’ve maintained that passion, and have turned it into an original stage production that will make its debut during the Kansas City Fringe Festival this weekend. “Winter House,” penned [...]
Tweet SM East student Abby Cramer wanted to get out of a babysitting job a couple of years ago. So she lied. So she told her babysitting clients that she had a choir concert that night and had to cancel. Then she told her parents that the kids she was supposed to babysit for were [...]
Tweet One minute, Westwood resident John Rensenhouse is digging deep, channeling the tragic drama of a great love affair gone bad. The next, he’s the king of the fairies. Such is the challenge of the actors in this year’s Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, which opens its nearly month-long run of two plays, Antony and [...]
Tweet Some of Kansas City’s brightest young performers had to wait out an hour-long rain delay before they got to shine Thursday during the 10th annual Blue Star Awards. SM East junior Lily Kaufmann was one of five metro-area girls tapped for a featured performance before a crowd of hundreds at Starlight Theatre for the [...]
Tweet Take a bow, SM East theatre program. Starlight Theatre last week announced the nominees for the annual Blue Star Awards, which recognize the metro-area’s top high school musical theatre productions and performances, and SM East received three nods. Lily Kaufmann is nominated in the Best Actress in a Lead Role category for her portrayal [...]
Tweet Being a first time thespian can be nerve wracking. But you don’t need for luck to be a lady on the stage when you’ve been practicing for four months. Tomorrow night the curtain opens on the first performance of Indian Hills Middle School’s production of Guys and Dolls. Performances will run Thursday, Friday and [...]
Tweet Even at their young age, SM East students Emmy Hadley, 17, and Madeleine Heigele, 15, are no strangers to big audiences. They’ve performed on the stages of the Coterie, Theatre in the Park and Starlight in productions like the Sound of Music, Cinderella and Xanadu. But the chance to perform at the state-of-the-art Kauffman [...]
Tweet There are still two showings left for Bye, Bye Birdie, SM East’s 2012 musical. A matinee starts today at 2 p.m. with an evening showing at 7 p.m. The crowd was loving last night’s performance in the Dan Zollars Auditorium at SM East:
Tweet Dress rehearsals are done. Stomachs are filled with butterflies. And soon enough, the curtain will come up. SM East’s theater department will debut its 2012 musical tonight. Bye, Bye Birdie, starring Andrew Beasley as Albert Peterson, Lily Kaufmann as Rose Alvarez, Maddie Sullivan as Kim MacAfee, and Chase Ainsworth as Conrad Birdie. The show [...]
Tweet SM East’s theatre department kicks off its 2011-2012 season tonight with the Shakespeare classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Theatre teachers Brian Cappello and Tom DeFeo tell the Harbinger Online they’ve worked to make the play more accessible to modern audiences, cutting out a sizable chunk of the Elizabethan dialogue that might have been too [...]
Tweet SM East parent and accomplished actor Kip Niven‘s Equity Actor’s Readers’ Theatre’s second series kicks off tonight with a reading of Kaufman and Hart’s Once in a Lifetime. The theatre’s first series included five plays, and EARTh has five more scheduled to run through April 2012. Additional readings will include George Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance [...]
Tweet Tale as old as time. Song as old as rhyme. Performed by students as old as 14. Indian Hills Middle School opens its three-day staging of Beauty and the Beast tomorrow. The show will run at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday on the Indian Hills stage. A limited number of tickets will be available [...]
Tweet We regret to admit that amid all the election hubbub, the fact that SM East’s theatre department is putting on their spring play this weekend escaped us. The theatre crew will put on its third and final performance of “The Government Inspector,” in the Dan Zollars Auditorium at SM East at 7 p.m. tonight. [...]
