Liberty Performing Arts to present ‘All Shook Up’
Liberty Performing Arts will present its fall musical “All Shook Up” next month in the David E. Panebaker High School Auditorium.
The musical comedy is set in a conservative 1950s American town where a guitar-playing greaser named Chad (Jacob Kelly) arrives, disrupting the residents’ repressed lives and sparking various love affairs, often involving Shakespearean-inspired mistaken identity and secret desires. As the town’s restrictive Mamie Eisenhower Decency Act tries to suppress the new spirit of music and romance, Chad finds himself in a love triangle with the local mechanic, Natalie (Shea-Leigh Kristiansen), while also falling for the sophisticated museum owner, Sandra (Lia Guillerme) The musical uses Elvis Presley hits to explore themes of love, freedom and self-discovery, loosely inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
The actors include students from the middle and high school. Featured in the performance are Eli Desrochers as Jim Haller, Cassandra Porter as Sylvia, Gabriella Sheridan as Lorraine, Sebastian Yupanqui as Dennis, Kelsey Hopkins as Mayor Matilda Hyde, Tyler Juron as Dean Hyde, Christopher DiBartolo as Sheriff Earl, James Letohic as Deputy Jasper and Riley Santiago as Henrietta. In the ensemble are Liliana Crespo, Lena Lagattuta, Brooke Golzak, McKinzie Paterson, Sarai Miranda, Riley Santiago, Luna Hulse, Lilly Kehrley, Denali Owens, Raegan Wagner, Riley Church-Bradley, Dia D’Agata, Sophie Zayes, Katarina Card, Aaliyssa Rodriguez, Mikaella Assiotou, Lya Camille, Aryiah Cottman, Kristjana Geirsdottir, Victoria Henry and Ryan Perry.
The show will be performed at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, and 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. Tickets, at $10 each, are on sale now at https://www.ticketsource.com/liberty-performing-arts.
For more information, email director Emily McConnell at emcconnell@libertyk12.org.