Cast members, front row (from left): Serenity Bownik, Ashlee Johnson, Connor Houston. Middle row: Jack Hanson, Samantha Kummrow, Ava Fraser. Back row: Joseph Wolf, Thomas Duggan, Tristen Larson, Wesley Stamm.
Acting stage crew members, front row (from left): Trevor Andrews, Joanne Brockton, Giana Meyer. Back row: Mason Butzow, Haley Kummrow, McKenzee Fredricksen-Stephens, Kylee Christ.
Mound Westonka High School Theatre has been hard at work rehearsing the spring play, “The Play That Goes Wrong.” Casting took place before winter break in December, and the newly cast students began rehearsals the first week in January.
Co-written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, “The Play That Goes Wrong” is a riotous comedy about the theatre. The play introduces the Cornley Drama Society, who are attempting to put on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong does, as the accident-prone thespians battle on against all odds to get to their final curtain call.
“Break a leg!” takes on a whole new meaning for a woefully misguided troupe of players at the Cornley University Society’s opening night performance of “The Murder at Haversham Manor.” An unconscious leading lady, a corpse who can’t play dead, a ruffled detective, and a word-mangling butler (among others), must battle against technical gaffes, forgotten lines, and sabotaged scenery in a quest to arrive all in one piece at the final curtain call. Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, all mayhem—this 1920s whodunit is disastrously delightful.
The cast includes eight ensemble members playing actors from the Cornley Drama Society who are playing characters in the story of “The Murder at Haversham Manner.”
Cast List
Annie: Cornley Drama Society’s Stage Manager - junior Ava Fraser
Trevor: Cornley Drama Society’s Light and Sound Board Operator - junior Thomas Duggan
Chris: Head of Cornley Drama Society and playing Inspector Carter - junior Jack Hanson
Jonathan: playing Charles Haversham - sophomore Tristen Larson
Robert: playing Thomas Colleymore - senior Connor Houston
Dennis: playing Perkins, the Butler - junior Joseph Wolf
Max: playing Cecil Haversham and Arther the Gardner - junior Wesley Stamm
Sandra: playing Florence Colleymore - senior Serenity Bownik
Cornley Drama Society Stage Crew: eighth grader Kylee Christ; ninth grader and Giana Meyer; sophomores Trevor Andrews and Joanne Brockton; juniors Mason Butzow and McKenzee Fredricksen-Stephens; and senior Haley Kummrow.
The show is stage managed by senior Ashlee Johnson with assistance from senior Samantha Kummrow. Jamie Harms is director and costume designer, with assistance from Josh Barnd as assistant director and set designer, and Joe Lawrence as acting and comedy coach.
Tickets for the performance, which runs March 2-5, will be available starting Monday, Feb. 13, at www.westonkapac.com.
