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Flint Hill School Kiss Me, Kate

By • May 3rd, 2009 • Category: Cappies

It was “just another op’ning” this weekend at Flint Hill School. And what an opening! Romance, mobsters, and a dancing donkey were just part of the charm of the school’s recent production of Kiss Me, Kate. Kiss Me, Kate, written by Cole Porter, is styled as a play within a play. Inspired by William Shakespeare’s […]



Robinson Secondary School Fiddler on the Roof

By • May 3rd, 2009 • Category: Cappies

Close your eyes. Imagine you are looking down on the little village of Anatevka. There is singing, dancing, matchmaking, and toasting L’chaim! But this is not something one has to dream up. All of this came to life on the stage at Robinson Secondary School, with a charming performance of Fiddler on the Roof.



George C. Marshall High School Company

By • Apr 27th, 2009 • Category: Cappies

George C. Marshall ambitiously, and successfully, took on a challenging and powerful production in Stephen Sondheim’s Company. Originally performed on Broadway in 1970, where it garnered six Tony awards, it also won a Tony in 2006 for best revival of a musical.



Homeschool Teens N Theatre A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By • Apr 27th, 2009 • Category: Cappies

The Homeschool Teens N Theatre production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream lit up Ballston Common Mall’s Comedy Spot with a bright spectrum of colors and an equally colorful cast of characters.



Seton High School Boomtown

By • Apr 20th, 2009 • Category: Cappies

There are cowboy heads hangin’ low and cowboy tears drippin’ in the drinks at the Gold Nugget Saloon. Are they mourning a failed gamble? A sickly herd? Certainly, thwarted hopes for a railroad wouldn’t be the first thing that jumps to mind – yet in Boomtown, staged with spunk and style at Seton High School, […]



Woodbridge Senior High School Zombie Prom

By • Apr 20th, 2009 • Category: Cappies

Just about now, millions of teenagers are shopping for dresses, renting tuxedos, and undergoing the incredibly stressful process of planning the perfect prom night. But imagine the dilemma one girl faces as she tries to decide whether or not to attend her senior prom – not because her parents don’t approve of her boyfriend, but […]



C.D. Hylton High School Cinderella

By • Apr 20th, 2009 • Category: Cappies

You know it’s a fairy tale when a man chooses a wife based on her shoe size, and they still manage to live happily ever after. But, as Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother sings, “Impossible things are happening every day,” and C.D. Hylton High School’s spunky production of Cinderella embraced the colorful possibilities of a world where […]



H-B Woodlawn Secondary School The Heidi Chronicles

By • Apr 6th, 2009 • Category: Cappies

The social revolution of the Sixties, the birth of feminism, and one woman’s quest for identity- each combined to form a complex picture of women’s place in society in The Heidi Chronicles, poignantly performed by H-B Woodlawn Secondary School.



Manassas Park High School And They Dance Real Slow In Jackson

By • Mar 30th, 2009 • Category: Cappies

It’s late. The soft grass of the Jackson, Indiana is swaying silently in the midnight wind. Drunk and out on the porch, a beleaguered American father confesses in his drunken stupor, “My little girl, she is twenty four now and she’s never taken a step. Can’t work her to walking; can’t pray her to walking. […]



Briar Woods High School Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

By • Mar 30th, 2009 • Category: Cappies

Scrumptious sweets, cascades of candy, a whole river of chocolate – Little Charlie Bucket is in for the trip of a lifetime! Sugar-rushed energy and extravagant visual delights made Briar Woods High School’s production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a delectable treat.