Thursday, 7 July
Cultural Centre, 8:00 p.m.
JURKOWITZ CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION AT THE GRANADA THEATRE,
SANTA BARBARA – SAD / USA
Premiere
DR DELUSION’S MAGICAL TALENT CIRCUS
Directed by: The students and Clay Bodine
Music Direction by: Fernanda Douglas, Nik Pearson and John Douglas
Music and Lyrics by: Nik Pearson, Fernanda Douglas and Aoife Quinn
Choreography by: Natalia Perea, Claire Patterson, Jessica-Rae Faass and Aoife Quinn
Production: Laura Inks, Director of Education for the Granada Theatre
Duration: 60 min
Age: 7+
Cast: DOO WOP GIRLS – Cameron Platt (Laguna Blanca High School), Mia Burridge (San Marcos High School, DR. DELUSION – Jordan Lemond (Santa Barbara High School), RITA – Fernanda Douglas (Dos Pueblos High School), ARNOLDO – Clayton Barry (Santa Barbara High School), COWBOY BILL – Cole Peterson (Dos Pueblos High School), ERIN THE IRISH DANCER – Aoife Quinn (Santa Barbara High School, CONCHITA, SPANISH DANCER – Natalia Perea (San Marcos High School), LOLANI, TAHITIAN DANCER – Jessica-Rae Faass (Dos Pueblos High School, DYMONIQUE, HIP HOP DANCER – Claire Patterson (Santa Barbara High School), POLLY – Allison Lewis
(Santa Barbara High School), MENDY – Emilio Madrid-Kuser (Santa Barbara High School)
Dr. Delusion is a Magician and the owner of a circus of talented misfits. There’s Arnoldo the hapless strongman, Cowboy Bill and his Round the World Dancers, Rita his tap dancing assistant, Polly the Swedish Songbird and Mendy the Clown. When Mendy fails to keep track of his props, keeps bumping into other performers and finally fluffs his plate spinning act, Dr. Delusion banishes him from the circus. Taking his revenge on the company the clown discovers a magic spell to take away the power of speech in Dr. Delusion’s magic book. He casts it on his fellow performers and renders the circus speechless. To make matters worse, he kidnaps Polly and carries her off to Clowntown where he keeps her in a cage to sing to him alone. In desperation, the Circus performers find an antidote to the spell and travel the world to find magic ingredients to restore their voices and rescue Polly. Dr. Delusion’s Magical Talent Circus was conceived and is performed by a group of 13 talented student actors, dancers and musicians aged 15 -18 from four different high schools in Santa Barbara, California. The musical theatre production is part of a cultural exchange program sponsored by the Santa Barbara Sister Cities Program, the Santa Barbara Foundation, the SJL Foundation, the Jurkowitz Center at the Granada Theatre and other generous supporters.
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