COOL CATS HAVING A BALL.Byline: - Daily News LANCASTER - Eighty-five actors - most of them middle school and high school students - are dancing around stage as singing cats in a production of ``Cats'' sponsored by the West Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Education Foundation. Put on by the local nonprofit Acme Acting Company, the musical was performed for more than 6,000 schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school in daytime shows this week, and it will open to the public tonight at Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. . Public shows will be at 7 p.m. today, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the theater, 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. One of the the longest-running shows in Broadway history, ``Cats'' is based on poet T.S. Eliot's ``Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.'' The musical ran for 21 years in London and 18 years on Broadway. Acme's cat costumes were created by hand-painting spandex body suits and adding furry heads, mitts, anklets n. pl. 1. socks that reach just above the ankle. Noun 1. anklets - a sock that reaches just above the ankle bobbysock, bobbysocks, anklet and tails, said Bev Mewborne, who produced the show and whose husband, Mark, directed. ``We didn't copy the Broadway show. We looked at how they did it, and we figured out how to do it,'' she said. ``The effect is stunning.'' Tickets are $10 for children age 12 and younger, $14 for students and seniors age 62 and older, and $16 for general admission. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only) As Rum Tum Tugger, the spoiled, fickle pet, Michael Wells, center, sings to other feline critters in a local production of ``Cats.'' (2 -- color in AV edition only) In the Acme Acting Company's local production of ``Cats,'' Stan Ulvin as Old Deuteronomy Old Deuteronomy elderly cat whose comfort is seen to by the entire village. [Br. Lit.: T. S. Eliot Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats in Drabble, 714] See : Cats , center, presides at a ball before naming the cat to be reborn in a new life. (3 -- color in AV edition only) Eighty-five actors - most of them middle school and high school students - fill the stage in the local production of ``Cats.'' Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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