32 Framingham Students Part of 6 Shows at Weston Drama Workshop in July

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WESTON – Weston Drama Workshop, a nonprofit youth theater organization in its 60th anniversary season, will stage six productions this month at Regis College, featuring participants entering Grade 5 through age 23.

All six casts have been hard at work rehearsing for these productions since early June, and will perform at the Regis Fine Arts Center between July 17 and July 30.

With more than 30 performances in the span of a jam-packed three weeks, Weston Drama Workshop continues its long-standing tradition of providing the MetroWest community and beyond with quality youth theater.

Thirty-two Framingham residents will appear onstage this summer.

WDW’s younger ensemble – participants in the morning program and the afternoon program – will perform two productions: Tuck Everlasting, a musical based on the novel by Natalie Babbitt and directed by Aidan O’Hara, and Gooney Bird Greene and Her True Life Adventures, a Theater for Young Audiences play based on the book by Lois Lowry and directed by Callie Llewellyn, a Framingham High alumni.

Among the young actors performing in these two productions are Framingham residents Framingham residents Emma Botelho, Sophia Doucet, Sonia Fanous, Ruby Howard, Jerry Schneider, and Julia
Spalding.

The program’s older ensemble, ages 14-23, will perform two main stage musicals and two black box plays. Audiences will travel back to the age of Shakespeare in Something Rotten!, directed by Framingham High School Drama Director Chris Brindley; dive into the world of the Frankenstein family in Young Frankenstein, adapted from the famous Mel Brooks movie and directed by Skylar Grossman; witness a 1920s Broadway controversy intertwined with Jewish culture in Indecent, written by
Paula Vogel and directed by Stephanie Manning; and explore the boundaries of illusion and reality in Luigi Pirandello’s masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, directed by Tristan Burke, another Framingham High alumni.

Among the performers starring in these four productions are Framingham residents Monty Caruso, Hadley Connor, Max Connor, Kian Debenham, Anna Dervishian, Alaidis Hernandez, Achilles Hicks, Brock Hoey, Nyosha Homicil, Elwyn Jacobs, Amelia Klippenstein, Aubrey Klippenstein. Corinne Leeming, Caitlyn
Luria, Antonio Mele, Michelle Moran, Christina Mula, Olivia Palmer, Emily Spalding, Julia Spalding, Elizabeth St Louis, Cassandra Till, Rachel Varley, Tessa Varley, Jocelyn Wadland, Talia Wesson, and Lucy Wood.

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Tickets are available at westondramaworkshop.org/tickets, and questions can be directed to the box office at 781-768-7070. All performances are held at Regis College’s air-conditioned Fine Arts Center.
 
The performance schedule is as follows:
 
Tuck Everlasting: Saturday, July 23 at 10:30am; Monday, July 25 at 7:00pm; Tuesday, July 26 at 7:00pm; Thursday, July 28 at 10:30am; Saturday, July 30 at
10:30am.

Gooney Bird Greene and Her True Life Adventures: Sunday, July 17 at 10:30am; Friday, July 22 at 5:00pm; Sunday, July 24 at 10:30am; Tuesday, July 26 at 10:30am; Wednesday, July 27 at 5:00pm.

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Something Rotten: Friday, July 22 at 8:00pm; Saturday, July 23 at 2:00pm; Sunday, July 24 at 7:00pm; Thursday, July 28 at 8:00pm; Saturday, July 30 at 8:00pm.

Young Frankenstein: Thursday, July 21 at 8:00pm; Saturday, July 23 at 8:00pm; Sunday, July 24 at 2:00pm; Friday, July 29 at 8:00pm; Saturday, July 30 at 2:00pm.

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Indecent: Friday, July 22 at 7:00pm; Saturday, July 23 at 2:30pm; Sunday, July 24 at 2:00pm; Wednesday, July 27 at 9:00pm; Thursday, July 28 at 7:00pm; Saturday, July 30 at 5:30pm.

Six Characters in Search of an Author: Thursday, July 21 at 7:00pm; Saturday, July 23 at 7:30pm; Sunday, July 24 at 7:00pm; Tuesday, July 26 at 7:30pm; Friday, July 29 at 7:00pm; Saturday, July 30 at 1:00pm.

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