Local Kids Transport Audiences ‘Back to the 80s’ With Radical Play

The entire cast practicing their curtain call at Thursday’s dress rehearsal. Photos by Jeff Wick
An aerobics dance scene.
Nerds: Jaycee Zapalac, Emma Koeth, Eliott Cone.
Video gamers Jackson Elliott, Mattie Muzny and Holden Mikulin.
Jakob Cone, Emma Haynie, Maddox Wick and Penn Wick.
Levi Haynie, Charlie Samples and Lennox Samples during a talking car scene.
The play’s version of The Golden Girls: Audrey Haynie, Amy Christen, Clara Kinney, Zoe Janda.
Anabella DelaRosa and Kylie Parsons.
The cast does a “Thriller” dance during the play.
Sarita Kinsey, left, and Anabella DelaRosa, right, with one of the Pacers (the play’s version of The Gremlins).
Local Kids Transport Audiences ‘Back to the 80s’ With Radical Play
Undercover cops: Jaycee Zapalac and Mallie Toombs. Military officials Hadleigh Banks and Maddox Wick with Penn Wick, an alien.
Sarita Kinsey and Hannah Garza.
Apparition Apprehenders, the play’s take on the Ghostbusters.

More than 60 area kids combined for a three-night run of “Back to the 80s” last week, the annual Fayette County Community Theatre’s kids summer play. The show was directed by recent LHS grad Hayden Splawn with assistance from another LHS grad, Bryssa Rios and adult supervisor Melissa Weltner. The kids practiced three nights a week for the past six weeks to prepare for the show. Here are the…

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