2026 Family Theatre: Musical! The Bard is Back

SJCT's 2026 Family Theatre: Musical! The Bard is Back Story, Music, & Lyrics by Stephen Murray Directed by Kelly Harrison November 19th - 22nd, 2026 Thursday at 7:00pm - Pay-What-You-Can! Friday at 7:00pm Saturday at 7:00pm Sunday at 2pm The students of Hilltop High are excited! They're going to put on a musical of "Romeo and Juliet." However, the director, Miss Peggy Donahue, pressed into service by a principal eager to please his superindendent, is horrified. Twenty years before, when she was a student at Hilltop, she starred in a disastrous production of Shakespeare's "Scottish Play," and she believes the curse lingers on. Sure enough, everthing that can go wrong, does. The set for the balcony scene collapses, Juliet breaks her leg, her replacement develops laryngitis, and the semi-deaf costumer arrives with cowboy outfits - she thought the show was called "Rodeo and Lariat." Add a hysterical playwright, a stage mom from hell, and a mysterious cult of techies who sing a love anthem to duct tape, and you've got one merry mayhem of a madcap musical, quicker than you can say, "Macbeth" - oops!