The Story of Saving Grimridge

 On Saturday August 6th, my theater summer theater group, 'Shining Stars Theater', put on    a great performance of an original play called 'The Story of Saving Grimridge'. The play had a cast of kids that aged 8 - 12. It was a great play.

Shining Stars Theater

The play followed a little girl named Lily (Bethany Stoddart) and her journey after she meets a gypsy (Alyssa Griglio) after not believing in any 'Happily Ever After'. She soon finds herself in the kingdom of Grimridge, where she discovers that it has been taken over by Lady Minerva (Emily Proctor) and that Prince Dylan (Dominic Tomasi) is captured. Minerva and her bodyguards (Ali Kindred and Meghann Butchart) have taken over Grimridge to make it awful. After meeting some people like Glow the Firefly (Kennedy Klauza), Aqua the Mermaid (Riley Klauza), and Kayla the Elf (Arianna Sawyer) Lily decides to take down Lady Minerva and so she does making Grimridge happy again, with Lady Minerva good again.

Lady Minerva, Bunny, & Spinz

The play took a lot of hard work, it all started when we all met on an overcast day in the park with about thirteen children. After what seemed like ten people quitting, crazy casting, and insane dancing in the hallway everything was find and it was official. We were Shining Stars Theater. If it was hard for a bunch of kids to go on stage you couldn't tell. We all had the talent and hard work pays off, there's no doubt about that.

Glow - "Like a Princess?"

 To begin with, we had about twelve people in our theater group, each with their own special talent, after a few weeks of July went by we had someone call it a quits and we were left with a main role sitting alone. After everything was sorted out and that part was someone else's we had another quitter, who left us hanging. Because of this we had to take out a scene and give away yet two more parts to make this play work. It was amazing how this show actually got done, but it was amazing in every single way. I only wish so many people could love theater like I do, because it's just so fun. I would never actually want to be an actress that does real movies, but I will always have theater.

"They all lived Happily Ever After!"

The tracks for this play were super fun.  Starting and opening with Mrs. Cobblestone (Meghann Butchart), Granny (Riley Klauza), Betsy (Kennedy Klauza),  and Lily (Bethany Stoddart) singing "Happily Ever After" from 'Once Upon a Mattress' was super fun as Bethany sighed her way through the song angry at her family members. It showed you where the play began and it was a great beginning and ending with 'Imagine' by John Lennon was a great ending. 

Happily Ever After, Do You Believe in Magic?, Under The Sea, R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Bad, When You're Alone, Fireflies, Breaking Free, Imagine, Firework. Shining Stars Theater is amazing. I hopefully being doing this again next year!

Go Shining Stars!