WEYBURN - The Weyburn Comp’s Senior Musical group have been hard at work rehearsing and will be performing “Popstars – The 90s” musical at the Cugnet Centre this week.
The first performance of “Popstars” was on Tuesday afternoon, and the remainder will be evening productions and a matinee dessert theatre on Sunday afternoon.
The musical will be held on Nov. 20, 21 and 22 at 7 p.m., and Nov. 24 at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $20 for adults, seniors and students are $15, and children five and under can get in for free with an adult ticket. Tickets for the dessert theatre are $25 each, and all tickets can be purchased at the Weyburn Comp School’s main office.
The story is set in a school in the 1990's where Mark is head over heels in love with his girlfriend, Shannon Van de Witt. Mark is played by Jonas Burdan, and Shannon is played by Harper Williams.
When Shannon learns that pop-band impresario Simon Austin (Logan Caddick) is the surprise judge at the State Talent Show, she dumps him for her chance at showbiz stardom.
Mark rapidly goes from high school hero to high school zero. His garage band buddies rally around him and soon a plan for revenge is hatched to change their grunge band to a boy-band and snatch the Talent Show title from Shannon’s Candy Girls, who include Tina (Jyllian Payak) and Steffi (Brinlee Klapak).
There’s just one small problem... the boys can’t dance. Mark enlists the help of the ultra-talented new girl, Ella (Kailynn McFadden) to help with their boy band make over and sparks soon fly.
Other cast members include Max Kilback as Patrick; Jayden Stang as Shane; Alex Paszkiewicz as Vinne; Cara Johnson as Charlie; Keira Mahnke as Carrie; Ella Leko as the host; Lily Moffat as the school principal; Ivan Zaika as the coach; Markuss Skujins as Pete; Beth Hamel as Amber Shue, and as a personal assistant.
The musical is packed with pop smash hits from the hyper-coloured 1990's by artists such as The Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, N*SYNC, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, MC Hammer and many more.
The musical director is Brayden Jensen, and the pit orchestra includes Jeff Lunde, Isaiah Perdis, Niomi Mile, Haroun Mathew and Davin Cascagnette.
