This year’s spring musical is the Broadway show Curtains, directed by Mr. Damon Norko with the assistance of middle school social studies teacher and LHS alumna, Ms. Amanda Venable and senior Carissa Gregory. Opening night is Thursday, April third at 7:00 pm.

The shows continue Friday, April fourth at 7:00 pm, April fifth at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm, and April sixth at 2:00 pm. Tickets are on sale in advance for $9.00 for adults and $8.00 for students. At the door, tickets will be $12.00. (Purchase online at showtix4u.com)

Based in February of 1959, the musical centers around a wacky cast of characters who are trying to put on a show, but something goes horribly wrong and cast members start dying mysteriously. The musical contains songs such as, “Thinking of Him,” “Show People,” and “Thataway.”

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In the beginning, Jessica Cranshaw (Morgan Buchanan) collapses on stage and after some time in the hospital, is pronounced dead. Soon, detective Frank Cioffi (Matt DeMember) determines that she was murdered by a fellow cast member. Craziness ensues.

“We are going to have to clean up some of the language as the show is a bit risqué. We will also need to build two different sets, one for the show that the characters are doing and one for the theatre that they are in backstage. It is a show within a show. The characters are all actors who are stuck in the theatre they are working in until they find the killer,” says Lazarus about potential struggle with the set, which will be a Wild West town and backstage at a theatre.

Sophomore Emily Cofer plays lead role, Niki Harris, a sweet and honest person who is later found with incriminating evidence against her, causing the rest of the cast to doubt her “honest” ways.

Cofer says she is excited about the comedic factor, and the audience should expect to enjoy lots of jokes and silliness.

“I think the first step is just getting really into the character and thinking through the lines. There are a hundred different ways you can say one word. It’s like Laz always says, ‘it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it,’” says Cofer.

Morgan Buchanan will be choreographing all of the dance numbers.

Below is the full cast list. The following characters will be played by the corresponding students:

• Lieutenant Frank Cioffi: Matt Demember
• Niki Harris: Emily Cofer
• Georgia Hendricks: Abbie Weinel
• Carmen Bernstein: Kierstin Klimas
• Aaron Fox: Austin Dye
• Sidney Bernstein: Dillon Mitcham
• Christopher Belling: Andrew Baughman
• Bambi Bernet: Rebecca Moorman
• Daryl Grady: Noah Sommer
• Johnny Harmon: Chris Defranscisci
• Oscar Shapiro: Erik Chapman
• Bobby Pepper: Lincoln Robisch
• Jessica Cranshaw: Morgan Buchanan
• Sasha Iljinsky: Grace Demember
• Randy Dexter: Joe Dirndorfer
• Mona Page: Katie Gallagher
• Harv Fremont: Riley Bruning
• Roberta Wooster: Jana Fenstermacher
• Detective O’Farrell: Alicia Rambo
• Cowgirls, Michaela DeRosa, Dee Dee Dolan, Julie Smith, Chaney Schultz, Danny Plugge, and Courtney Fisher.
• Cowboys, Elise Fenstermacher, Sarah Maertin, Sarah Bennett, Gina Defranscisci, and Moses Watson.
• Stagehands, Andrew Walker, Christine Turlik, Kathy Furniss, Brigid Hobson, Grace Weaver, Genevieve Finn, Emma Weaver, Sean Blough, and Grace Yingling.
• Dancers, Erin Stewart, Elizabeth McWilliams, Rachael Buker, and Emma Wynkoop.