The fall musical has come around yet again ladies and gentlemen. This season’s show is Flight of the Lawnchair Man, the story of one man’s journey into the skies. That man is Jerry Gorman, played by high school senior Lowell Glovsky. Jerry works as a lowly employee at Walmart and is desperate to escape the confines of his life. He seeks to do this by flying away on nothing more than a lawnchair strapped to a giant mass of balloons. Before take-off though, Jerry must deal with other obstacles besides how to get the lawnchair off the ground. His mother, his boss, and longtime idol all stand in the way. Robyn Levy plays mother Gorman, Ben Wohlfarth plays Mr. Frankel (his boss), and Sylvia Lorenzini plays his girlfriend Gracie. Jerry’s longtime friend and idol Big Jack Preston is played by Seth Lifland and his girlfriend/stewardess is played by Cato Crumbley. The rest of the cast play various townspeople and supporting ensemble parts.
The cast started work on the piece on the first day of school, September 8th, and has been working every week since, including weekends. This show marks a departure from the last piece done by the Wayland High School Drama Program, Ballad of a High School. That piece was an original in which students wrote about and created their own fictional characters. Like any traditional musical, this piece adheres to a script but allows for the actors and director, Mr. Weingartner, to craft new staging and set ideas.
The show opens on November 12th and runs on November 13th and 14th with 2 shows on the last day. Each show starts at 7:30 PM and another one 2 PM. There is an intermission at each performance. Tickets are $8 for students, $15 for adults, and free for WPS teachers. You may reserve tickets online.
Contributed by Mary Ann Wohlfarth
