According to Rick Riordan, “The Lightning Thief is a light-hearted fantasy about a modern 12-year-old boy who learns that his true father is Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.”
The Lightning Thief is a production made up entirely of the students in our advanced leveled Musical Theatre III course. This show was entirely rehearsed in class - meaning the students had a total of about 48 hours to rehearse this monster (no pun intended) of a show. For perspective, most high school musical theatre productions rehearse between 15-25 hours each week for a few months.
We had 48 hours…These students have risen to the occasion with kindness, grace, and drive.
This gave our students the absolutely thrilling opportunity to experience the nature of putting up a full-length musical production in an extremely limited amount of time - which is something that they will experience in the professional industry.
The students in the production have also gotten to experience what it is like to participate in a production where we do not have a costumer making/renting costumes for them. About 90% of the costume pieces in this show have been made by the students or pulled from their own closets.
We hope you enjoy this story!
2023/04/06 - 2023/04/08
Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts
350 South 400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Free parking available at venue.