Miss Nelson Is Missing - A Children's Play Coming Soon
Author: mt43news staff reporter
Miss Nelson Is Missing - A Children's Play Coming Soon
MT43 News Staff Reporter
Auditions for “Miss Nelson is Missing,” a children’s play, have finished and Broadwater County children are hard at work learning their lines and their marks on the stage for a spectacular theater production coming to The Lodge of Townsend Sunday, August 17. Be sure to mark your calendars – the shows will be back-to-back that day.
Amanda Hazlett, owner of two daycare centers and an all-around busy lady, is directing the play with the capable support of stage and costume director, Carla Amundson. Seven students and two adults will inhabit parts for the children and teachers. A special dedication with a short ceremony will follow.
The play is sponsored by Broadwater Community Theater, a sizeable group of enthusiastic drama folks who really love theater, dancing and all things art. Members are President LaRinda Spencer, Vice President Tina Homann, Secretary Destani Spencer and Treasurer John Hahn. Others who cheer them on in addition to Hazlett and Amundson, are Jim Domino, Candice O’Hara, Vivian Boaz, Ann Hall, Nancy Marks, Birdi Kribbs and Pat Plantenberg.
Previous very successful plays produced by the group are "Aladdin"," Fairy Tales Go to Court" and "Treasure Island", among others.
Broadwater Community Theater received its nonprofit status in 2023, having transitioned from the Ryland KM Foote Memorial Foundation, also known as The Fun for Life program for children in Broadwater County. Fun For Life had offered theater, music and art programs for students since 1996. BCT now works closely with the Science, Technology, Outdoors, Knowledge and Entrepreneurship (STOKE) after-school program.
Miss Nelson can’t control her crazy classroom because she’s just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute Viola Swamp! With the Big Test approaching, the kids suddenly realize how much they miss Miss Nelson, and they’ll do anything – including hiring a private eye to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back.
Play adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher.
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Image 1 Caption: Arabella McDaniel and Urijah Duede ride the flying carpet in Aladdin Jr., the Play at the Lodge in August of 2022.
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