Audition for the Middle School Play: Peter and the Starcatcher

10/4/2022

Join us in the Wiener Theater for auditions for Peter and the Starcatcher! Hutchison girls Grades 5-8 can audition on February 14, from 3:30-5:30 pm, and February 15, from 2:15-5:00 pm. To prepare for auditions, the theater department will offer The Courageous Actor Audition Workshop on Monday, February 13 from 3:15-4:15 pm to help girls build skills and confidence for auditioning for a play. For more information email the director, Jay Rapp, at jrapp@hutchisonschool.org.

Peter and the Starcatcher is a play based on the 2004 novel Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, adapted for the stage by Rick Elice. The play provides a backstory for the characters of Peter Pan, Mrs Darling, Tinker Bell and Hook, and serves as a prequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy.

From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair and the bonds of friendship, duty, and love. A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training, who realizes that the ship’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.

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