STAGES THEATRE COMPANY | The Day You Begin and Spookley
Kick off the school year with live theatre: THE DAY YOU BEGIN and SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN! Celebrate 40 years of Stages Theatre with one or more of our exciting productions based on beautiful, imaginative and inspiring books and stories! Each production is built with young people in mind.
It’s show time! Join us at Stages Theatre Company for one or more of our exciting productions and introduce your students to the magical world of theatre. Not only will your students be enthralled with the beautiful imagery and charming stories, but all the elements of theatre will be introduced: character, plot, language, sound and spectacle.
This fall, entertain and educate your groups with two beautifully crafted productions.
THE DAY YOU BEGIN
September 29-October 22, 2023
In Collaboration with Threads Dance Project.
Recommended for All Ages
Make this the day you begin! • It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you, but somehow you do it. With the start of school and new beginnings looming, National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson’s heartwarming musical celebrates the courage it takes to make new friends, hear new stories, and see your own magic in the world. Based on the Book by Jacqueline Woodson. Illustrated by Rafael Lopez.
WEBSITE: https://www.stagestheatre.org/day-you-begin
SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN
October 6-29, 2023
Recommended for All Ages
Be our pick of the patch! • Spookley, who is teased for being the only square pumpkin on Holiday Hill Farm, doesn’t believe a square pumpkin could ever win ‘Pick of the Patch’. But when a storm hits, he is the only one who can save the day! With the help of his friends, Spookley learns what makes him different is what makes him special.
WEBSITE: https://www.stagestheatre.org/spookley
Also ahead this season:
DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR.
November 17-December 27, 2023
Recommended for All Ages
Be our guest this holiday season! • A wintry evening changes two lives forever. Through love, and with the help of an enchanted collection of characters, they discover that true beauty comes from within. Based on the animated movie, this Tony award winning Broadway musical celebrates the importance of family. Share this timeless tale with the ones you love this holiday season!
WEBSITE: https://www.stagestheatre.org/disneys-beauty-and-the-beast
DRAGONS LOVE TACOS: THE MUSICAL
January 26-February 25, 2024 (All Ages)
Beat the winter blues and join our taco party! • Stages Theatre Company brings you a world premiere new musical adaptation of the wildly popular, laugh out loud funny, Dragons Love Tacos. Join us for the party of the year, because after all, the only thing Dragons love more than parties, or tacos, is TACO PARTIES!!
WEBSITE: https://www.stagestheatre.org/dragons-love-tacos
THE NAME JAR
March 22-April 14, 2024 (Ages 5 and up)
A Co-Production with Theater Mu.
Celebrate the meaning behind your name! • World premiere! Unhei has moved from Korea to America with her family and has started a new school. When the kids struggle with her name, she wonders if she should choose a new one to fit in. Her classmates decide to help out by filling a glass jar with names for her to pick from, but will any of them fit? The Name Jar is a celebration of culture, family, and what’s in a name.
WEBSITE: https://www.stagestheatre.org/name-jar
ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL JR.
April 19-May 19, 2024 (Ages 5 and up)
Nobody but me is going to change my story! • Rebellion is near in Matilda JR., a gleefully witty ode to the anarchy of childhood and the power of imagination! With the help of the students at her new school, Matilda’s about to teach some grown-ups that ‘even if you’re little you can do a lot’. Matilda JR. celebrates the power of young people to change their own stories.
WEBSITE: https://www.stagestheatre.org/matilda
DISNEY’S FINDING NEMO JR.
June 21-August 4, 2024 (All Ages)
Explore the big blue world this summer! • Disney’s Finding Nemo JR. is a celebration of true friendship, bravery, and the love between father and son! Nemo and Marlin remind us to ‘Just Keep Swimming’ in the epic adventure through the ocean. This 60-minute musical adaptation features new music by award-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Frozen). The treasured 2003 Pixar movie Finding Nemo comes to Stages Theatre Company’s mainstage this summer!
WEBSITE: https://www.stagestheatre.org/disneys-finding-nemo
THE DANDELION SEED
August 7-25, 2024 (Ages 0-5)
Bring your little one to explore a new theatrical adventure! • Theatre for the Very Young began its life at Stages Theatre 10 years ago with The Dandelion Seed and we’re celebrating how far we’ve come by bringing it back! One tiny dandelion seed is happy in its cozy home until a wind carries it away. It worries that it won’t be able to find its place in such a big, scary world but the seed finds that everything is more beautiful than it could have imagined. Perhaps change isn’t so bad after all.
WEBSITE: https://www.stagestheatre.org/dandelion-seed
Stages Theatre Company’s
2023-2024 Theatre Season
A Season to Celebrate
• The Day You Begin – Sept. 29 – Oct. 22, 2023
• Spookley the Square Pumpkin – Oct. 6 – 29, 2023
• Disney’s Beauty and the Beast JR. – Nov. 17 – Dec. 27, 2023
• Dragons Love Tacos: The Musical – Jan. 26 – Feb. 25, 2024
• The Name Jar – Mar. 22 – Apr. 14, 2024
• Roald Dahl’s Matilda – The Musical JR. – Apr. 19 – May 19, 2024
• Disney’s Finding Nemo JR. – June 21 – Aug. 4, 2024
• The Dandelion Seed – Aug. 7 – 25, 2024
Due to the interactive structure of our Theatre for the Very Young performance, group tickets are NOT available for The Dandelion Seed.
