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Princeton High School drama students stage ‘Dracula’ and ‘Cheating Death’ · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Princeton High School drama students staged Dracula and Cheating Death. Written by
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  Michael Urbanac This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlit. Princeton High School drama students will pair a
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  Vampire Classic with a comedy about Death losing her list in a
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  two-play program at the Sally Skinner Auditorium. The first performance is scheduled
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  for 7 p.m. Friday, October 30, with a 2 p.m. Sunday, November
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  1st matinee also planned, according to the school's drama department. Tickets cost
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  7 for adults at the door with open seating. Princeton High School
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  students get in free with their student IDs. Crane Johnson's Dracula, adapted
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  from Bram Stoker's novel, follows Dr. Seward, Aidan Robinson, and Mrs. Harker,
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  Mia Slewis as the try to save Lucy, Hannah Claiborne, from a
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  mysterious illness that began after she visited their neighbor, Count Dracula, Alex
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  Killen. They turn for help to Professor Van Helsing, Trisha Kloping, and
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  the young servant Abigail, Millie Artiaga, while the patient Renfield, Andrew Stocking,
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  warns The of the coming danger. Cameron Klitgard's cheating death is set
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  in a mental hospital where a group session is about to start.
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  Turt. Death, Anna Boton, arrives for one of the patients but has
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  forgotten her list and asks the group to help identify her victim.
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  The patients, played by Grace Nesbitt, Victor Dewey, Ileana Carlson, Tessa Thornton,
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  Matthew Yepsen, and Louise Stuber, refuse to go along. Joan Simpson, the
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  school's Director of Drama, is directing with student director Melanie Zimmerman. George
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  Kutzer and Ileana Jones are stage managers. The news release had the
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  wrong dates listed as October 3rd. The dates have been updated to
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  October 30th through November 1st.