GROWING STAGE PRESENTS SHOW AIMED AT TEENS

Yikes! The Growing Stage, New Jersey’s premiere theater for children has cooked up more spooky doings for the teens at Halloween. The Studio Presentation Series is a new format aimed at older set that will have casts of community artists. Each will have a brief, limited run with the opportunity of returning to a future Main Stage season as a full production.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADBy Lori Allen Ohm
Based on George Romero and John Russo’s original film

WHEN: Friday, October 29, and Saturday, October 30, at 7:30 PM
WHERE: the Historic Palace Theater on Route 183 in Netcong
TICKETS: All tickets are $12.00 and audience members are encouraged to attend in costume.  For additional information please call 973.347.4946 or visit their website at www.growingstage.com. 

The Growing Stage will celebrate the Halloween weekend with a frighteningly funny adaptation of Night of the Living Dead aimed at young people 12 and older. Performed in a staged, radio-style format, the production is under the direction of TGS Teaching Artist, Danny Campos.

Fall-out from a satellite probe shot to Venus returns to Earth, carrying a mysterious radiation that transforms the unburied dead into flesh-eating zombies. Seven people trapped in an isolated farmhouse, held hostage by the ravenous ghouls, begin to turn on each other as the dead encroach. The production is a fun-filled blend of surprises,  laced with touches of black humor, with a couple of dance numbers thrown into the mix enveloping the audience into the action and ends with a shocking theatrical ending.

Featured in the cast of twenty-eight, including sixteen Zombies, are Liz Scarpone of Flanders as Joey, Steven Nitka of Long Valley playing the role of Bill Bardo; Leon Hill and Jillian Petrie of Hackettstown portraying the roles of Harry and Judy; and Britni Orcott of Boonton playing Helen. 

“Night of the Living Dead is to modern horror what Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is to the modern theatre.” —Erie Times