ALBION: Middle School to present 'Witches, Britches, Rings and Things'

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November 20, 2008

Anonymous The Journal-Register Thu Nov 20, 2008, 02:30 AM EST

Taking audience members back to their childhoods, Albion Middle School will present the show “Witches, Britches, Rings and Things.” Taking audience members back to their childhoods, Albion Middle School will present the show “Witches, Britches, Rings and Things.” The production, which is a patchwork of fairy tales and folk tales, follows the fictional tale of narrator Ethel Appleton, a retired witch who receives a quilt as a retirement gift. The quilt shows pictures of several children’s stories that cause Appleton to reminisce.

“I find it to be an endearing story,” said the shows director Carrie Kozody. “It will remind adults of the bed-time stories they were told.”

Kozody said that they were wanting to do a children’s story, and this show is based on fairy tales and fables. “Sleeping Beauty,” “Rumpelstiltskin” and “Three Billy Goats Gruff” are some of the stories that are part of this show.

Seventh-grader Martha Smith will play Appleton. She said that the most challenging part of her role is sitting down through most of the production. However, she thinks the audience will enjoy the setting for her house and her cat companion.

Eighth-grader Joyce LaLonde will be taking on the role of Rumpelstiltskin.

“I’ve always loved dancing,” LaLonde said. “I discovered that I like acting, too. It’s a lot of fun.”

For LaLonde, playing a boy was challenging at first, but she said that they get a lot of help.

“Hopefully they’ll laugh a couple times,” she said of the audience. “Everyone here does a good job.”

Allen Sanford, who is also in the eighth grade, will be playing the troll from “Three Billy Goats Gruff.” He said that he enjoys his part because he gets to make crazy voices and act funny. Sanford became interested in acting when he was in the sixth grade.

“I tried out and enjoyed it,” Sanford said. “I’ve done it ever since.”

Fellow classmate Ali O’Hearn is looking forward to being part of this show and playing Princess Aurora.

“All the stories you’ve heard since you were little and you’re playing them,” O’Hearn said.

There are 23 seventh- and eighth-graders who are part of the cast and 10 in the crew. Assistant director Kevin Feder joins Kozody, along with Kate Fischer, Brian Kozody, Karen Vanderlaan and Sarah Johnson on the production staff.

This is the 14th production for Kozody, who is an Albion alumna. She said that she did theater in high school and college and when the opportunity presented itself, she took it.

“They’re doing an excellent job,” Kozody said. “It’s challenging for middle school students to portray themselves bigger then life and they are doing a nice job of that.”

“Witches, Britches, Rings and Things” will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and noon and 7 p.m. Saturday in the Middle School Auditorium. Tickets are $2 for students and seniors and $3 for adults.

Contact reporter Rikki Cason at 798-1400, ext. 8227.

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