Middle School students will stage "Lazy Daze Inn" Jan. 13 and 14.
By: Linda Seida
WEST AMWELL "The Lazy Daze Inn," a theatrical production by eighth-graders at South Hunterdon Regional High School, will be staged tonight (Thursday) and Friday night at the school on Mount Airy-Harbourton Road.
Tickets, or "rooms" at the inn, are $3 each. The price of admission will be reduced to $2 with the donation of a canned food item for the local food pantry.
The production is the work of seven students in the school’s gifted and talented class. Three of the students also have taken on roles in the show. The remaining four each direct a scene each.
The gifted-and-talented students were responsible for choosing the play and holding auditions. They became involved in every aspect of the production, according to their director, seventh-grade English teacher Susan Laird.
"They’re having a blast, and they love bossing the kids around," Ms. Laird said with a laugh.
The play is a full-length comedy, 90 minutes long in two acts, guaranteed to help shake off the midwinter blues. The plot revolves around former classmates reunited at a dilapidated old hotel.
"There’s a whole cast of characters," Ms. Laird said, including a ghost, a rock star and an alien.
A ghost and an alien should not be a cause for alarm. The play’s advertising fliers announce, tongue in cheek, "Don’t worry about your protection; our security has got you covered!"
The gifted-and-talented class includes Tim Wolock, Alex Baran, Corrine Hart, Wyatt Riggs, Julie Burd, Kate Gulick-Tuers and Andrew Weinstein. Tim will perform the role of the clerk, Alex will play the boss, and Corrine is Daisy Jane McCoy.
The ensemble cast also includes Chelsea Cavalier as Mary Lou Hatfield, Alysha Bellamy as Trixie Golden, Dan Marley as Billy Bod, Jaime Tillet as Shania Reba Rhymes, Gabe Stevens as Cord Minor, Katelyn Cifelli as Minnie Bucks, Sarah Irgang as Lottie Bucks, Lauren Hartpence as Isabelle Claire Nooz, Adam Hogland as Nathanial Willson Rogers III, Jack Denis as Michael Travis Space and Hannah Brady and Carrie Sherratt-Bado as Dee Prest.
Approximately 80 students from Lambertville Public School and about a dozen from Stockton Elementary School will attend a performance this afternoon.
Show times for parents and the public are 7 p.m. today (Thursday) and Friday. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
For more information, call 397-2060.

