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Local Mendham Talent to Star in The Secret Garden
Hexagon Players present this magical musical for family audiences in a hauntingly NEW production featuring outstanding local talent.
Chris Simon, age 13, of Mendham, will star as Lieutenant Wright in The Secret Garden. Chris is returning to Hexagon Players for his second production, having recently appeared in Billy Elliot (Big Davey). Previous theater credits include Dr. Dolittle, Jr. (General Bellowes), Pirates of Penzance (Pirate), Hairspray (IQ), Peter Pan, Jr. (Fox), and Kid’s Cabaret: I Won’t Grow Up (Ensemble).
Hexagon Players' Fall 2016 production of The Secret Garden will be an all new staging with spectacular Asian-inspired choreography, amazing stage illusions, fanciful puppetry, dazzling period costumes, and a staging that is both hauntingly suspenseful and whimsically magical; this is one family-friendly production that is sure to leave an indelible imprint on all who experience it. Performances from November 11 through November 19 for a limited 7-show engagement at Grace Lutheran Church, 65 Main Street, Mendham.
Using 4-D Audience Immersion Technology developed exclusively for Hexagon Players, journey with Mary Lennox to the Moors of England in a multi-sensory experience like nothing you've ever seen, heard, smelled, or felt before! This hauntingly, magical production, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s book, music by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, and directed by Patrick Frances Mahn, with Musical Direction by Darlene Yannetta.
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Performances are Fri, Nov 11 at 7:30pm, Sat, Nov 12 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm, Sun, Nov 13 at 2:00, Fri, Nov 18 at 7:30pm and Sat Nov 19 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm. Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased online at www.HexagonPlayers.wixsite.com... or HexagonPlayers.com.
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The Hexagon Players is a local community theater in Mendham which has produced 80 plays over the last 30 years. Their 2016 Spring Production of Billy Elliot, garnered 11 NJACT Perry Award Nominations, wining for Outstanding Youth Actor (James Parker Fullmore). Previous award-winning shows include, Annie, which was nominated for nine NJACT Perry Awards, winning for Outstanding Young Actress, (Lauren Dennis), Drop Dead, nominated for seven NJACT Perry Awards, winning for Outstanding Ensemble Actor in a Play (Paul Bettys), and Seussical, nominated for four NJACT Perry Awards.
