JERSEY: Seussical coming to JCHS stage
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By Steven Spencer
Steven Spencer/Jersey County Journal
The Cat in the Hat, Horton, the Grinch and more will take the stage next week at JCHS for the spring musical Seussical.
The Jersey Community High School theater department has been hard at work and is excited to announce their upcoming spring musical Seussical with performances from Thursday, March 14, until Sunday, March 17.
Steven Spencer/Jersey County Journal
The JCHS Theater Department will be performing their spring musical Seussical next week with the first show at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 14.
With the set ready and costumes prepared, the cast and crew began dress rehearsals last week in preparation for the two-hour musical that combines a few of the classic Dr. Seuss stories.
“It’s kind of a conglomerate of his most popular stories,” Brett Beauchamp said. “The Cat in the Hat is sort of the narrator of the whole show, the main plot is really Horton finding the Whos and putting them on the clover, and everybody in the jungle thinks he’s a lunatic and they’re doing everything they can to disrupt that. At the same time though, they use the other Horton story where he ends up having to sit on the egg of a bird. So it’s those two stories, with the Cat in the Hat weaved in, the Grinch makes an appearance, a lot of the famous Seuss characters.”
The crew, with the help of the construction class, put together an incredible set that looks straight out of a Dr. Seuss book only on a much larger scale.
“It is one of the best sets that our team has ever put together,” Beauchamp said. “We got an amazing crew.”
With 25 performers on stage, about 15 crew members backstage and about 20 musicians for one of their biggest orchestras, Beauchamp said the entire crew has been working incredibly hard for their upcoming show.
“We’ve really been reeling from the pandemic, “ Beauchamp said. “The last few years we’ve been very young. This is, I would say, the most difficult show we’ve done since the pandemic. I’ve been very happy with the shows we’ve done post-pandemic. The kids have done well, but after they really got it with Charlie Brown we wanted to up the ante this year.”
Performances of Seussical will begin at 7 p.m. each night from Thursday, March 14, to Saturday, March 16, with a 2 p.m. performance on Sunday, March 17.
“Once the show starts it never stops. There’s no scene changes or stopping,” Beauchamp said. “It’s like a marathon sprint.”
