Teutopolis (Ill.) High School is expected to perform the musical Kilroy Was Here on Oct. 19, 20, and 21, 2012, in the Teutopolis Grade School auditorium.
Source: newsletter found at http://www.schoolsnapshots.org/inbound/teutopolis.nl.102012.pdf
FOIA response says the school raised $2,000 from 1 musical in the 2009-10 school year.
Salute the brave men and women serving in the military with this patriotic comedy. We guarantee there won’t be a dry eye in the house after the stirring “Together We Must Stand” and a tribute to all branches of the military. Still, Kilroy is a comedy, and the setting is a U.S.O. Club (The Serviceman’s Home Away from Home”) in Brooklyn in 1942. Ships leaving the nearby Navy yard are being sunk by enemy U-boats. Allied intelligence suspects the club is unknowingly harboring Axis spies. Enter Private Joe Kilroy, a young soldier who draws a curious cartoon face everywhere he goes (and is this causing trouble!). He’s the only one who knows where the next Allied convoy will converge. The enemy agents are stopping at nothing to learn his secret. The action builds to an exciting finale during a wild radio broadcast.
Kilroy Was Here includes songs like “Don’t Say No To The U.S.O.,” “Slap That Jukebox,” “Jitterbug Saturday Night,” and “Rat-a-tat-tat That Rivet,” with classic Andrews Sisters style harmony.
Teutopolis High School students involved in this production include Celeste Deters, Maria Esker, Molly Niemerg, Kaitlyn Funneman, Cathleen Bierman, Katie Thoele, Julia Greuel, Elena Breer, Anne Runde, Katelyn Esker, Rachel Westendorf, Maria Lueken, Abby Schumacher, Danielle Bergfeld, Callie Westendorf, Elizabeth Flach, Richard Wente, Trent Goeckner, Paul Schumacher, Sydney Ladendecker, Jacob Esker, Noah Blievernicht, Audrey Hoene, Michael Westendorf, Ben Feldhake, Kate Campbell, Taylor Waldhoff, Jessica Probst, Dylan Sanders, Michaela Vahling, Brock Brumleve, and Molly Smith.
Kilroy Was Here is directed by Teresa Thies, Gordon Zuber, and Kevin Niemerg.
