Event

Captain Louie

RED CAST performs Thursday evening and Saturday at 10 AM
ORANGE CAST performs Friday evening and Saturday at 2 PM
(All cast members are in both casts--the designation simply refers to casting for that performance)

MadCAP's All School Musical for 2014-2015 is "Captain Louie". This beautiful show with music by Stephen Schwartz (of "Wicked" and "Pippin" fame, among others!) is sure to delight. MadCAP is unique in many ways, but of particular note is MadCAP's employment of youth in all backstage, technical, and support roles in addition to using exclusively young actors on stage. (please see the audition page for technical roles as well as how to become involved on stage)

Captain Louie is the story of a young boy on Halloween night who escapes into his own imagination as a means of coping with the loneliness he feels when he moves to a new neighborhood. Of its initial production, The New York Times said Captain Louie captures "the sound and rhythm of music that runs through childhood fantasies with a book that conveys the communicative magic of the original story."

The show has been adapted for the stage by Anthony Stein, and is based on The Trip by Caldecott Award winner Ezra Jack Keats who authored and illustrated 24 children's classics, including the Caldecott Award winning The Snowy Day and the Caldecott Honor Book, Goggles.

Captain Louie enjoyed a short but successful run at the Little Shubert Theatre Off-Broadway, Oct. 28 -- Nov. 13th, 2005. It also played at the York Theatre in the spring of 2005 and was seen in a reading at the New York Music Theatre Festival in October, 2004. It was previously produced (as The Trip) at the Kennedy Center's Imagination Celebration.