Every now and again, you put on a production that grows and grows and eventually eats and/or destroys everything in its path. What starts out as a sweet little confection of a musical grows into a seething stomping behemoth intent on world domination.
That production is called “Seussical”.
Now, I’ll let you in on a little secret…..”Seussical” did not win a Pulitzer Prize. It did not win any Tony’s. It was on Broadway for like 5 minutes and then quickly disappeared onto the community theatre circuit, where it has achieved a great deal of success. It’s a show that if done badly, can be really bad. But if you put all your creative effort into it, assemble a great team and work every last artistic angle of every living breathing thing associated with the show, then it can be really really good.
So that’s what we decided to do. And what came out of all the hard work, was something spectacular—an absolutely stunning visual treat, loaded with incomparable talent, designed beautifully and with a huge heart.
What started out as just another show, became a community event of sorts. It seems everyone knew someone who had seen “Seussical”. Almost 3,000 audience members later, a library performance, a book drive, a poetry contest, story time with the characters in various elementary schools, a huge Dr. Seuss character party and a special performance for the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind, “Seussical” was finally one for the record books.
And we loved every minute of it…Well almost every minute.
And one pic from the SCSDB show, with the Interpreter on the Left.
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