OUR CLASSES
Registration is open for our 2025 Winter/Spring Session!
For ages 5-14
$260.00 per person
Book by Thomas Meehan
Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Music by Charles Strouse
Presented on Broadway by Mike Nichols
Originally Produced by
Irwin Meyer, Stephen R. Friedman, Lewis Allen
Alvin Nederlander Associates, Inc.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Icarus Productions
Based on "Little Orphan Annie"
By Permission of Tribune Content Agency, LLC
The irrepressible comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world's best-loved, Award-winning musicals.
Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony Award-winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie KIDS features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure.
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
WEDNESDAYS from 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
This class meets on the following Wednesdays:
January: 22, 29
February: 5, 12, 19, 26
March: 5, 12, 19, 26
April: 2, 9, 23, 30 - There is no CAST on 4/16
Dress Rehearsal: April 30th
Performance Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
OR
SATURDAYS from 9:00 am - 10:30 am
This class meets on the following Saturdays:
January: 25
February: 1, 8, 15, 22
March: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
April: 5, 12, 26 - There is no CAST on 4/19
Dress Rehearsal: May 3rd
Performance Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
All rehearsals are held at CAST.
All performances are held at Manchester High School.
For ages 9-18
$290.00 per person
Music by Zina Goldrich
Book and Lyrics by Marcy Heisler
Thirteen-year-old problem solver, Edwina, dishes out advice with the help of her friends and a little song and dance.
Dear Edwina JR. is a heartwarming musical about the joys of growing up, from the creators of Junie B. Jones, The Musical. Written in a “show-within-a-show” format, Dear Edwina JR. is the perfect “girl power” musical for a new generation.
Dear Edwina JR. follows the adventures of plucky advice-giver-extraordinaire, Edwina Spoonapple, as she directs the neighborhood kids in a series of buoyant production numbers for the latest edition of her weekly "Advice-a-Palooza.” Edwina and her friends share wisdom on everything from trying new foods to making new friends, through clever, catchy and poignant songs.
MONDAYS from 5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
This class meets on the following Mondays:
January: 27
February: 3, 10, 24 - There is no CAST on 2/17
March: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
April: 5, 12, 26 - There is no CAST on 4/19
May: 5, 12
Dress Rehearsal is May 12th
Performance Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
OR
SATURDAYS from 10:45 am - 12:30 pm
This class meets on the following Saturdays:
January: 25
February: 1, 8, 15, 22
March: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
April: 5, 12, 26 - There is no CAST on 4/19
May: 3, 10
Dress Rehearsal is May 10th
Performance Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
All rehearsals are held at CAST.
All performances are held at Manchester High School.
If you have any questions, please contact the CAST office at info@casttheatre.org or 860.649.5062.
*It is best to e-mail us for a quicker response. E-mails received over the weekend will be answered early the following week if not over the weekend.
ANNIE KIDS and DEAR EDWINA, JR. are presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIshows.com
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Each of the above classes meets once a week at the time listed. Children always come to the class day and time they registered for. They do not come twice a week. Each class has its own performance at the end of the session.
**Non-Musical information is coming October 1st!
If you have any questions and/or would like to be added to our email list,
please contact us at info@casttheatre.org or 860.649.5062
MAGIC TREE HOUSE: THE KINGHT AT DAWN KIDS and LIONEL BARTS OLIVER! JR. are presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com