The Dispatch
Three Lexington teenagers are reveling in being back with an in-person theater production, although how the public will view their work will not be a live performance.
Kinsey Calderone and sisters Lyndon and Hadley Briggs got together with castmates last week to film a production of the musical Edges, through the Acting Out program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.
The filmed musical will be shown to the public June 3-5 in an outdoor setting on the UNCSA backyard lawn at 8:45 p.m. Written by Tony-winning Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ( Dear Evan Hansen, La-La Land, Dogfight ), “Edges” is a song cycle about coming of age, growth and self-discovery.
A year after COVID-19 shut them down, spring productions are back at many local high schools. Theater departments are coming up with creative ways to stay within COVID-19 restrictions, with