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Manchester, Ohio —
Students at Manchester High School are working hard in preparation for their upcoming fall play “The Butler Did It,” which will come to life in the high school gymnasium this Saturday and Sunday.
“It's a murder-mystery comedy where no one is who they say they are, and everybody has the potential to be the murderer,” faculty member and co-director Justin Elder said. “Everyone has motives.”
The cast features 11 students who've been practicing three times a week since late September, even sometimes on Saturdays. In the final week, students practiced every day to fine-tune their roles before taking the stage.
The show will begin with a half-hour one-act play called “Some of My Best Friends are Smiths.”
The one-act will be the same play for Saturday and Sunday but with two different casts for each one.
“We did the one act because [we] wanted to give more opportunity for students,” Elder said. “’The Butler Did It’ had a very small cast, so we added ‘Some of My Best Friends are Smiths,’ which made significantly more work, but it was good because more students got an opportunity to be involved in theater arts.”
This will be the third play at MHS for senior Paige Burris, who stars as “Miss Maple,” an elegant house lady who invites the characters over for a weekend at the Ravenswood Manor.
“My character, Miss Maple, invites all these detective mystery writers to her house for a charade, and she's invited them because she wants to figure out whose books she wants to put on her shelves at her new bookstore,” Burris said.
Senior Frankie Anderson stars in his fifth play at MHS as Chandler Marlowe, the hard-nosed writer who spends his time feverishly jotting down notes trying to find an answer to the mystery that occurs.
This will also be the third year for stage-crew seniors Jacob Brady and Samantha Kolar.
“All the students volunteered time to build sets and to paint,” Elder said. “Being a smaller school, a lot of students donate props.”
Performances are at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $5 for reserved seating, $4 for general admission and $3 for students.
There will also be a chicken dinner with mashed potatoes, green beans and desert before the performance Sunday at 1 p.m. Dinner prices are $16 and $12 for seniors.
For more information, call 330-882-3291.
Students at Manchester High School are working hard in preparation for their upcoming fall play “The Butler Did It,” which will come to life in the high school gymnasium this Saturday and Sunday.
“It's a murder-mystery comedy where no one is who they say they are, and everybody has the potential to be the murderer,” faculty member and co-director Justin Elder said. “Everyone has motives.”
The cast features 11 students who've been practicing three times a week since late September, even sometimes on Saturdays. In the final week, students practiced every day to fine-tune their roles before taking the stage.
The show will begin with a half-hour one-act play called “Some of My Best Friends are Smiths.”
The one-act will be the same play for Saturday and Sunday but with two different casts for each one.
“We did the one act because [we] wanted to give more opportunity for students,” Elder said. “’The Butler Did It’ had a very small cast, so we added ‘Some of My Best Friends are Smiths,’ which made significantly more work, but it was good because more students got an opportunity to be involved in theater arts.”
This will be the third play at MHS for senior Paige Burris, who stars as “Miss Maple,” an elegant house lady who invites the characters over for a weekend at the Ravenswood Manor.
“My character, Miss Maple, invites all these detective mystery writers to her house for a charade, and she's invited them because she wants to figure out whose books she wants to put on her shelves at her new bookstore,” Burris said.
Senior Frankie Anderson stars in his fifth play at MHS as Chandler Marlowe, the hard-nosed writer who spends his time feverishly jotting down notes trying to find an answer to the mystery that occurs.
This will also be the third year for stage-crew seniors Jacob Brady and Samantha Kolar.
“All the students volunteered time to build sets and to paint,” Elder said. “Being a smaller school, a lot of students donate props.”
Performances are at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $5 for reserved seating, $4 for general admission and $3 for students.
There will also be a chicken dinner with mashed potatoes, green beans and desert before the performance Sunday at 1 p.m. Dinner prices are $16 and $12 for seniors.
For more information, call 330-882-3291.
