The engaged choreographer, however, gets injured. In order to impress the school's new principal, the drama club holds a dance showcase the same day they first assemble in the new school year. Episodes Įpisodes were released on the Nick app and a week before they were broadcast on Nickelodeon.
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Episodes of the series premiered on the Nick app and a week before they were broadcast on Nickelodeon, starting with the first episode which premiered on the Nick app and on March 13, 2021, and on Nickelodeon on March 20, 2021. Pilot Bunch as Colin, Mack's lab partner in chemistry on whom she may have a crushĭrama Club consists of ten half-hour episodes.Marcus Folmar as Coach Cobbler, the football coach who forces Bench to join Drama Club as an elective.Ithmar Enriquez as Principal Gibbins, the new Tookus Middle School principal who has come back to get revenge on Drama Club for destroying his dreams of becoming an actor.Reyn Doi as Kurtis, Drama Club's self-absorbed lighting designer.Neska Rose as Gertie, Drama Club's laconic makeup artist.John Milhiser as Clyde Sniffet, Drama Club's laid-back faculty advisor.Artyon Celestine as Skip, an enthusiastic member of the Drama Club, with a single line in the musical production, who is excited by Bench's addition to the Club.Chase Vacnin as Bench, a football player who is brought into Drama Club because he is a classically trained dancer.Kensington Tallman as Bianca, a social influencer who has become the Drama Club's female lead.Lili Brennan as Darcy, the stage manager, and Mack's best friend and cheerleader in the Drama Club.Nathan Janak as Oliver, the "star actor" in Drama Club.Telci Huynh as Mack, a former actor in the Drama Club who has transitioned to directing the student production.The Tookus Middle School Drama Club has Mack as the new student director, who is excited to take on the school's original new musical, "Minnesota", but after their choreographer suffers an injury, Mack and the kids realized that they need help from a football player. The Fortune Teller (Victor Herbert Renaissance Pro.Drama Club is an American comedy mockumentary created by Monica Sherer and Madeline Whitby that aired on Nickelodeon from March 20 to May 22, 2021.The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout Theatre Company).She Loves Me (Roundabout Theatre Company).(Manhattan Theatre Club, NY City Center Stage 1, 131 W. “Prodigal Son” is the sort of play that stays with you. Loquasto’s miniature rendering of the school building is an especially picturesque touch. The ace creative team includes Santo Loquasto (scenic design), Jennifer Von Mayrhauser (costume design), Natasha Katz (lighting design), and Fitz Patton (sound design), resulting in a thoroughly first-class production. As it happens, my cousin’s relations are among those portrayed in the play, and has marveled at the great accuracy of the characterizations.
Shanley has directed the play himself, so one presumes authenticity.
And a climactic face-off between young Jim at his most pugnacious and Schmitt, pushed to the limits of his tolerance, generates plenty of sparks. I would even single it out as the finest sequence of the evening. The intermission-less play is leisurely paced but builds in tension as it goes along with Jim’s graduation perilously in doubt.Ī long, quiet dinner scene between the headmaster and his wife – as they discuss the theft and mysterious reappearance of some LPs - is especially nuanced, and delicately played and written.
And Leonard is solid as Jim’s unswerving champion, a particularly tricky role as it turns out. McGarry skillfully conveys the frustration of a man who’s taken a chance on someone against his better judgment trying to hold steady despite Jim’s often confrontational behavior, while Boras is wonderfully sympathetic as his gentle wife, clearly wounded by a past occurrence, the poignant facts of which are not revealed till late in the play. (Of course, Shanley has written it that way.) Chalamet makes a perfect anti-hero, belligerent and ever provocative but likably vulnerable despite everything. Transplanted from the rough streets of the Bronx to the elite New Hampshire Catholic school, young John – here called Jim Quinn (Timothée Chalamet) tries the patience of the school’s headmaster Carl Schmitt (Chris McGarry) and the other students (though we only hear about them), including his roommate Austin (David Potters).īut an empathetic teacher (Robert Sean Leonard) and the headmaster’s soft-spoken wife (Annika Boras) become the boy’s champions even as John/Jim continues to be his own worst enemy, alienating nearly everyone around him. This quietly affecting autobiographical drama about John Patrick Shanley’s prep school experience in the late 1960s is, I think, one of the playwright's very best.
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