Nineteen Northwestern Oklahoma State University students will take to the Herod Hall Auditorium stage Nov. 17-19 for the annual children’s production, “Fairy Tale Bits and Bytes” by Christopher Gieschen.
Nearly 1,800 elementary students from surrounding schools will be attending four shows just for them Thursday and Friday, Nov. 17-18, with a show open to the public on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 2 p.m. Admission is $1.25.
Kimberly Weast, professor of theatre and chair of the Department of Fine Arts, is the director.
According to Samuel French, Inc., play publishers, the production is about an evil computer virus named Virus who has invaded a disk containing beloved children’s stories, fairy tales and nursery rhymes. The virus causes all of the story characters to become mish-mashed together. Byte and Bit are computer chips who try to set things right and defeat the evil virus before he infects other computers.
Twelve of the 19 Northwestern students serving as the cast and crew in this production are fulfilling class requirements for Weast’s Principles of Acting class.
The cast for the play, along with the characters portrayed, includes:
Shaden Foremen as Bit, Laverne freshman, speech/theatre; Nicholas Cochran as Byte, Cherokee freshman, undecided; Crosby Dunbar as the Witch, Owasso freshman, vocal performance; Taylor Morris as the Queen, Lancaster, California, senior, mass communication; Madison Williams as Red Riding Hood, Enid freshman, speech/theatre; Katherine Blair as Goldilocks, Waynoka freshman, vocal music; Cordell Hawkins as Virus, Woodward freshman, computer science.
Also, Zach Sparks as Wolf 1, Owasso freshman, undecided; Megan Webb as Wolf 2, Alva freshman, pre-medicine; Laney King as Bear, Kingston freshman, undecided; Bethany Pierce as Pig, Branson, Colorado freshman, nursing; Earl Bell as Rabbit, Alva freshman, computer science; Chloe Nutley as Crabby, Elk City freshman, mathematics education; Cierra Sorrells as Smiley, Norman freshman, speech/theatre; Amanda Metcalf as Goofy, Enid sophomore, instrumental music; Nicholas Wygle as Jack Beanstalk, Noble sophomore, biology; Shaq Williams as Jack Nimble, Davenport, Florida, sophomore, criminal justice; Max Kaye as Jack Horner, Omaha, Nebraska sophomore, undecided; Chance Mayhall as Jack Hill, Ponca City junior, music.
To learn more about this production or Northwestern’s theatre program, contact Weast at (580) 327-8462 or kkweast@nwosu.edu.