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Musical 'Honk' in Sherburne

Wed, Aug 10, 2011

Eighteen area young people aged 9 through 14 will perform Honk! Junior, the culminating event of the Sherburne Music Theater Society’s Musical Summer Camp.

Michael and Donna Moren bring a wealth of performing arts expertise as camp directors. Camp counselors Hannah Dorsey and Kayla
Landis assist with music and staging.

Honk! Junior is a contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story, The Ugly Duckling. The story is hilarious,
touching, and delivers an important message.

Starting on Aug. 1, every weekday afternoon campers have been busy acting, singing and dancing. They will soon begin constructing and painting sets, and assembling costumes and props.

The story centers on unusual-looking Ugly (played by Angel Sheely), who hatches from an extremely large egg, and is teased by his siblings (played by Candelaria Barrera-Mejia, Katie Lessly, Antonia Mody, and Nicole Turner) and barnyard-mates, especially the turkey (Tyler Shenkle). His mother Ida (Rose Porta) loves him dearly, while his father Drake (Griffin Shenkel) is less accepting. Ida’s friends, Maureen (Sophie Shiner), Henrietta (Molly Osborne) and Grace (Adeline Trass) make disparaging comments.

The stage is set for the conniving cat (Madeline Voss) to lure Ugly into his den. Maggie Pie (Kayleigh Wentworth) from “America’s
Most Feathered” does a feature story on the disappearance. In his quest to return home, Ugly encounters a flock of helpful geese led by Graylag (Maggie French) and his wife Dot (Rebecca Turner), and an encouraging a bullfrog (Amberlie Sherwood) with her froglets. He then meets the bird of his dreams, Penny (Gillian Mulder), along with her family (father is played by Jacob Camiel, mother is played by Kaylee Griffin, brother Berwick is played by Tyler Shenkel).

Honk will be performed Aug. 19 at 6:30 pm at the Gaines Park in Sherburne. 

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