This year the John Carroll School has ‘Catch Me If You Can’ as the fall musical. This play is based on a real life man named Frank Abagnale Jr. In the spring JC will be preforming ‘Sister Act.’
In the show, Abagnale goes around pretending to be involved in many different professions and forges checks pursued by an agent named Carl. This play is set in the 1960s and starts in France.
For students to get a better understanding of the play, they could watch the movie of the same name. The movie was released in 2002 and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.
JC held auditions for this show on September 5 and 6. Junior Evan Christy and senior Christian Thompson got the lead roles of Frank and Carl.
Performing Arts Director Julie Parrish said, “We usually split the audition into two days.”
The first day is for underclassmen; this is so that the underclassmen are not as stressed. The second is for upperclassmen. They then hold callbacks if needed. These are extra auditions where actors will perform specific lines and songs to see who will fit the role best.
Stage Manager Kate McCracken oversees the play’s preparations. She communicates schedules, attends every rehearsal, finds a backstage crew, helps make outlines and blueprints, and creates the cue sheets. When the actual performance is happening, Kate is in charge of calling cues and running the show from backstage while using her headset.
Kate’s favorite part of putting a play on is “watching the play come together.” She loves watching each character become unique to the person performing. She likes “seeing them become their roles and find their confidence.”
Mrs. Parrish and Show Director Larry Hensley oversee the play, also. They decided to do these two plays based off what they think the students could perform successfully.
Mrs. Parrish said that she and Mr. Hensley each make a list of shows and then decide by picking the shows they each have in common.
Mrs. Parrish is most looking forward to the style of music they will be performing, especially because the orchestra will be performing on the stage.
For the spring musical, the JC Theater Department will be performing Sister Act.
This is a musical about an inspiring singer in Philadelphia named Deloris Van Cartier. Deloris witnesses a murder and must be put into protective custody at a convent. Auditions for this play will take place later this school year.
Sister Act was made famous from a movie in the early 1990s that stars Whoopi Goldberg.