The Venue Theatre exists to provide an accepting and enriching environment for the youth of our community—for discovery, exploration, and celebration of their unique and extraordinary abilities.
2022-2023 Programs
High School Company
High School Company: The Addams Family
THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
Workshops & Auditions: 8/9, 8/10
Soft Rehearsal 8/11 5:30-8:30pm
Rehearsals Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:30-8:30pm starting 8/16
*Select Saturday rehearsals
Cost: $750 through 8/1 ($800 starting 8/2)
Performances 10/14-10/16, 10/28-10/29
REGISTRATION CLOSED
High School Company: Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is one of the best comedy play written by William Shakespeare. The play is thought to have been written in the year 1598 and 1599 in the middle of Shakespeare career. Much Ado About Nothing is included in First Folio, published in the year 1623.
Rehearsals start mid-October
Tuesday/Thursday 5:50-8pm
Cost: $400 through 9/30
Performances 1/20 & 1/21
High School Company: The Lighting Thief: A Percy Jackson Musical
As the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy Jackson has newly-discovered powers he can't control, a destiny he doesn't want, and a mythology textbook's worth of monsters on his trail. When Zeus's master lightning bolt is stolen and Percy becomes the prime suspect, he has to find and return the bolt to prove his innocence and prevent a war between the gods. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the thief. He must travel to the Underworld and back; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and come to terms with the father who abandoned him. Adapted from the best-selling book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and featuring a thrilling original rock score, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is an action-packed mythical adventure "worthy of the gods" (Time Out New York).
Rehearsals starting in November
5:30-8:30 Mondays/Wednesdays
Cost: $750 through 9/30
Grades 8-12
Performances 3/3-3/5, 3/10 & 3/11
Middle School Company
Middle School Company: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang explore life's great questions as they play baseball, struggle with homework, sing songs, swoon over their crushes, and celebrate the joy of friendship.
Workshops & Auditions: 8/9 and 8/10
Rehearsals starting 8/16 Tuesday and Thursday 3:30-5:30pm
Cost: $650 through 8/1 ($675 starting 8/2)
Performances 11/11-11/13, 11/18-11/19
Elementary Company
Elementary School Company: Aladdin KIDS
Based on the iconic animated film, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s Aladdin KIDS is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure.
When the street urchin, Aladdin, vies for the attention of the beautiful princess, Jasmine, he uses a genie's magic power to become a prince in order to marry her. Iago, Jafar, the Genie, and more are here in Disney’s Aladdin KIDS, a musical adventure filled with magic, mayhem and the power of love.
Rehearsals Mondays 4-5:30pm starting September 12
Cost: $800 through 8/30
Performances 4/21-4/23, 4/28-4/30
Summer 2023
Summer Experience: Monty Python's Spamalot
Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this middle school adaptation of MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The 2005 Broadway production won three Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, and was followed by two successful West End runs. The outrageous, uproarious, and gloriously entertaining story of King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake will delight casts and audiences as they search for the Holy Grail and “always look on the bright side of life.”
More information coming soon - SUMMER 2023
