Westchester Lutheran
Middle School Presents Captain Louie
for Spring Musical -
This year for the Spring
Musical Middle School is presenting a special new work.
Captain Louie is a family musical with music and lyrics from
the composer of the immensely popular musical Wicked,
Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Godspell).
Captain Louie is the story of a young boy on Halloween
night who escapes into his own imagination as a means of coping with
the loneliness he feels when he moves to a new neighborhood. Through
his journey he learns that there are new friends to be made right
outside his front door.
Of its initial production, The New York Times said Captain Louie
captures "the sound and rhythm of music that runs through childhood
fantasies with a book that conveys the communicative magic of the
original story."
The show has been adapted for the stage by Anthony Stein, and is
based on The Trip by Caldecott Award winner Ezra Jack
Keats who authored and illustrated 24 children's classics, including
the Caldecott Award winning The Snowy Day and the Caldecott
Honor Book, Goggles.
Captain Louie
enjoyed a short but successful run at the Little
Shubert Theatre Off-Broadway, Oct. 28 -- Nov. 13th, 2005. It also
played at the York Theatre in the spring of 2005 and was seen in a
reading at the New York Music Theatre Festival in October, 2004. It
was previously produced (as The Trip) at the Kennedy
Center's Imagination Celebration.
