“Lights, camera, action” is at the forefront for the young thespians known as the Hays Legacy Players, who have been dedicatedly working the last three months for their upcoming performances of the teen edition of “Chicago.”
The students will take the stage Dec. 7-8 and 12-15 in the Burdine C. Johnson Theatre at Hays High School. According to the Hays Legacy Players website, the musical production’s description reads, “In roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap ... until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another ‘Merry Murderess,’ Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the ‘American Dream’: fame, fortune and acquittal.”
“We've been working on it for three months. By the time it goes up, we will have put in three months of every day after school, Monday through Thursday. We have a wonderful crew, technical crew, that are doing the lights and the sound,” explained theatre director Lory Stewart. “We have brand-new microphones that we bought with a grant from the Burdine Johnson Foundation, so we're really excited about that and lights and sound.”
