98: Attend a High School Play

There are so many things to do and see in Lindenhurst, and every other Wednesday Lindenhurst Patch will highlight one idea or activity you could check out right here in your hometown.

We’ll start at and count them down. Number 100 was . Number 99 was .

Here’s number 98:
Attend a High School Play

Sure, we could hop a train into Manhattan and see a show on the Great White Way. We could even see Lindy alumni on Broadway now that is starring in Lombardi.

But you really don’t have to travel far to see stars. They’re right in our very own backyard, at the high school, at the middle school and even at the elementary schools. There’s a plethora of talent gracing the stage in our schools.

For example, in the past few months alone, the Dance Ensemble took the stage for , the put on a production of and some of the ’s best elementary school musicians got together for the at the LHS

Now, this weekend, the LHS will premiere its annual drama, and this year it will be a production of Arsenic and Old Lace.

The LHS Thespian Troupe’s rendition of the classic 1939 play and 1944 movie will run April 29 to April 30, starting at 8 p.m. each night at the LHS auditorium.

Tickets are $10 each, and can be purchased at the high school during regular school hours or at the Box Office, if available, according to the Thespian Troupe.

For more details call 631-867-3700. In the meantime, here’s some background on the play from the Troupe:

Arsenic and Old Lace is a wildly popular comedy written in 1939 by Joseph Kesseling. It’s become know best by the 1944 film starring Cary Grant (The Philadelphia Story, An Affair to Remember) and directed by Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington).

The story follows the Brooklyn-native Brewster sisters. They are two of the sweetest ladies society has to offer, as evidenced by there continual charity: They give money to those in need, raise their nephew who believes that he’s President Theodore Roosevelt and give free room and board to those that cannot afford to go anywhere else.

However, they do have one, teeny, tiny flaw in their character....They poison old men and bury the bodies in the basement.

Other than that, they are really quite harmless! The fun part of this play is the journey on which Mortimer, their younger and very sane nephew, takes the audience. Try to stay sane amidst the kooky and eccentric characters we meet, but if at any point the logic of the Brewster sisters starts to sounds reasonable, it’d be best to just walk out of the theater.

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