Behind the Scenes with FVCT : A Video Preview of "13"

Click here for a video preview of the upcoming performance of "13" at Mt. Everett Regional School.

Free Concert at Music Mountain - May 22

FVCT presents the musical "13" in the Berkshires: June 4 - 6

The Falls Village Children's Theater (FVCT), the five-year-old northwestern Connecticut not-for-profit troupe, is expanding to the Berkshires, where it will present the Broadway musical "13" at the Consolati Performing Arts Center at Mt. Everett Regional High School in Sheffield, MA, on June 4 - 6.

A musical about contemporary adolescence, "13" is the story of Evan Goldman of New York City whose parents get divorced, and he must move with his mother to Appleton, Indiana, where he will have his bar mitzvah away from his family and friends. Evan's new best friend in Appleton, the nice girl next door, knows that her hometown is, as she sings, "The Lamest Place in the World." A classic fish-out-of-water story, Evan's songs include "Being A Geek" and "A Little More Homework." When it debuted three years ago in Los Angeles, Variety said, "If the prospect of watching an all-teen company enact an all-teen musical accompanied by an all-teen band makes you cringe: Chill, dude, "13" is sheer bliss...Librettist Dan Elish's simple narrative about middle-school outsiders tiptoeing their way through a minefield of cliques and gossip is the framework for a celebration of the kind of teen spirit that soars rather than smells."

Featuring a cast of 18 experienced actors from the tri-state area who range in age from 12 - 17 under the direction of former Broadway dancer Lanny Mitchell, "13" is a funny, buoyant look at a young man's culture shock in his own country on the eve of his becoming a man in the Jewish faith. It is a poignant, exuberant and universal tale about trying to find one's place in the world. A five-piece high-school band will perform the score.

Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for students (the show is rated "PG"), and they are available at Tune Street in Great Barrington, MA, the Canaan Apothecary in Canaan, CT, the Falls Village Citgo or online at FVCT.org.
The show is a fundraiser for the not-for-profit FVCT.

Falls Village Children's Theater presents "13"
Consolati Performing Arts Center at Mt. Everett Regional School
June 4 at 7 p.m.
June 5 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
June 6 at 2 p.m.