We inquired about a possible musical production at Scales Mound High School this fall, because they put on Just Another High School Musical two years ago. However, the staff at the school informed us this morning that there wouldn’t be a musical during the 2012-13 school year.
HOWEVER … The school will perform Aunt Maggity’s Dark and Stormy Night by Edith Weiss as a fall play on Nov. 9 and 10.
Ms Weiss has also written the popular children’s plays, The Seven Nasty Princesses and Snow White and the Three Slobs. Here’s a synopsis of the play, written by the playwright:
There are laughs a-plenty and personalities galore in this light-hearted romp of a mystery that has a little bit of everything! Aunt Maggity, a horror novelist who lives up on an isolated mountain top, keeps black widows in the bathroom, stuffed cobras on her writing desk and a heartbreaking secret just under the surface. When her four estranged nieces—Lavinia the C.E.O.; Lola and Chloe, the NY fashion designers; and Francine, the amateur boxer—descend on her home for the reading of their parents’ will, everyone’s lives become topsy-turvy. On top of that, a rodeo clown who’s hiding something shows up in need of a place to stay for the night. Finally, Aunt Maggity appears along with Humphries, her faithful servant and friend, pushing her in her wheelchair as she rides the brake. “Feel the burn, Humphries!” she orders him as he wheels her from room to room. As if all the relationships and secrets weren’t enough, more mystery enters the scene when one of the nieces disappears and Dreardon, the butler, is pushed down the mountain. This play has it all—from creepy spiders, suspense and comedic chaos comes a sense of familial love, forgiveness and what just might be the first happy ending in Aunt Maggity’s career.
