The 2017 GVTween production of Snow White.
Greenbrier Valley Theatre (GVT) continues its Youth Education Program Showcases as the GVTweens, GVTeens and GVTeen Conservatory students take the stage with four excellent and entertaining productions.
The GVTweens took the stage May 1 with The Jungle Book, and GVTeens I and II will present Bedtime Stories (As Told By Our Father) (Who Messed Them Up) and Check Please May 8 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Both GVTeen plays will be performed together to make an uninterrupted, hour-long show. The GVTeen Conservatory will perform Our Town on May 15 and 16 at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for children/seniors (60+). For tickets or more information, call GVT’s Box Office at 304-645-3838 or visit www.gvtheatre.org.
“Our students have been putting in so much work to perfect their showcases and to offer the highest-quality children’s theatre possible. They have been demonstrating growth not only from their first day of classes, but from their first showcase rehearsals,” Teaching Artist Lukas Hagley said.
The GVTeens I class will perform amusing adaptations of your favorite fairy tales with Bedtime Stories (As Told by Our Father) (Who Messed Them Up), by Ed Monk. Classics like The Princess and the Pea and Rumpelstiltskin, performed by the ensemble cast, get an interesting twist sure to keep you laughing.
GVTeens II will keep you smiling with hilarious stories of dating-gone-wrong in Check Please. These stories, by Jonathan Reed, center around a collection of eccentric personalities looking for romance.
Both GVTeens plays will be performed together to make an uninterrupted, hour-long show.
Thornton Wilder’s most famous work, Our Town, will be performed by the GVTeen Conservatory. This subtle and heart-warming story is a look at simple, small-town life in the early 1900s, and the importance of appreciating the seemingly mundane.
“GVT’s Youth Education staff is so proud of their work thus far, and is incredibly excited for the community to see the final results!” Hagley said.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the WV Division of Culture & History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the WV Commission on the Arts.
