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The Montezuma-Cortez High School Drama Department\u2019s spring musical is a classic show with a contemporary twist, director Nicholaus Sandner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce Upon A Mattress\u201d debuts March 10 at 7 p.m. at the M-CHS Auditorium. Other showtimes are March 11, 17 and 18 at 7 p.m., and matinee shows on March 11 and 18 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n
The musical tells the fairy tale \u201cThe Princess and the Pea,\u201d with a comedic and playful vibe, Sandner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a classic musical, so it\u2019s been on our radar for a while,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Sierra Mosher plays Queen Aggravain, who rules a fictional medieval kingdom and is overprotective of her son, Prince Dauntless, played by freshman Dakota Kantner. The Queen doesn\u2019t want her son to get married, so she subjects princesses who seek Dauntless\u2019 hand in marriage to unfair tests, Mosher said.<\/p>\n
Princess Winnifred, played by Michelle Hoy, is an unconventional princess from the swamps, Hoy said. Winnifred and Dauntless fall in love, and Winnifred passes the Queen\u2019s tests.<\/p>\n
Hoy said the show is a big change from last year\u2019s musical, \u201cBig Fish.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s goofy, and there\u2019s nothing too dramatic,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s lots of fun and a good family show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mosher said the music for the show was fun and to sing and learn. Hoy said her favorite song is \u201cShy,\u201d in which Winnifred sings about how shy she is, but she acts bold and aggressive.<\/p>\n
Kantner said the show is fun to act in and funny to watch. The musical numbers are energetic, and the crew has worked hard on the decorations, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe set is the biggest we\u2019ve done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Sandner said the show fits well for the group of students he has this year.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one of the first shows he\u2019s done at M-CHS in a medieval setting, he said. The crew has put lots of effort into creating the costumes and the castle set.<\/p>\n
He wanted to do something more playful after the dramatic \u201cBig Fish\u201d last year, he said. He hopes people are entertained by the show, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope they\u2019ll be humming the songs when they leave,\u201d Sandner said.<\/p>\n
M-CHS music teacher Marla Sitton is directing the pit orchestra for the show. She said the music was somewhat tricky to learn, but it has been a fun show to rehearse.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a really fun musical, and we\u2019re really excited for opening night,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
What: \u201cOnce Upon A Mattress\u201d at the M-CHS Ralph Vavak Auditorium. Musical opens March 10 in Cortez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,60,216],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67946"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Showtimes: The play debuts March 10 at 7 p.m. Other showtimes are March 11, 17 and 18 at 7 p.m., and matinee shows on March 11 and 18 at 2 p.m.
\n Tickets: $8 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. Kids age 5 and under are free.
\n Details: For more information and to reserve tickets, visit
\n www.mchsdrama.org<\/a>
\n .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"