Fremont High School presents Night at the Wax Museum by Craig Sodaro. The school's drama department invites the community to this mad-cap comedy adventure, where the magic of history comes alive... literally!
School is out for summer, but six unlucky students who don't know much about history must retake the class in summer school. Their first-year teacher, Heather Fairchild, has arranged for them to help her two aunts set up a new wax museum as a class project. The students' eyes glaze over with boredom, but a twinkle appears in the wax figures' eyes when a mysterious incantation from the back of Cleopatra's bracelet brings them to life.
King Henry VIII is smitten with Cleopatra, which makes his queen, Anne Boleyn, furious. If she can just avoid losing her head, John Adams is there to serve as her divorce attorney. Then Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Blackbeard, and a bevy of lady pirates arrive, and everybody is out for one thing: treasure. A valuable one is supposedly hidden somewhere in the museum, and a wild goose chase begins, with a greedy museum landlord and her bumbling son joining the mad search. Meanwhile, Lizzie Borden lurks in the shadows, though the aunts say they never had a wax figure of her. Treasure-hungry outlaws, pirates, and royalty will mount the greatest siege since Vicksburg.
Performances will take place in the FHS Auditorium on:
Thursday, November 12, at 7 PM
Friday, November 13, at 7 PM
Sunday, November 15, at 3 PM
Tickets cost $12 for adults and $8 for students.
The production is directed by Betsy J Fowler, with Rebecca Baum serving as assistant director. It is produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Denver, Colorado.