Twinsburg High School Drama Club transports audience to Hollywood

The Twinsburg High School Drama Club will transport audiences into the heart of the 1920s film scene with its theatrical production of Once in a Lifetime on Friday, March 13, and Saturday, March 14 at 7 p.m. at the high school. Tickets are $7 per adult and $5 per student and senior citizen.  A special free preview show will be held on Thursday, March 12, at 3:30 p.m.  

Penned by famous playwrights Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman in 1930, Once in a Lifetime is ridiculous in the best way.  This satirical comedy takes place in the 1920s, the decade during which talking pictures were born.  It is a revolutionary development, but for Jerry Hyland, May Daniels, and George Lewis, it is also an opportunity.  The three are members of a failing vaudeville troupe who decide to give up the theater in order to take advantage of the changing film industry by opening a school for actors in the new “talkies.”  Their adventure takes them to an exaggerated version of Hollywood, which is just as complicated as it is glamorous, a place where nothing goes according to plan, but still the show goes on. 

Though the THS Drama Club never performed Once in a Lifetime prior, it has a special connection to the club and director and drama adviser Erin Bennett. “In the spring of 2018, we featured Act One,a biographical play about the playwright, Moss Hart. The students not only performed a stellar production of a recent Broadway show, but about Hart and Kaufman’s collaboration on this very show,” Bennett said. The THS Drama Club is an extracurricular organization with over 60 members.  The 2019-2020 student officers are: President Matthew Senvisky ‘20, Vice President Joshua Aponte ‘21, Secretary Makiyah Harris ‘21, Treasurer April Dale ‘20, Public Relations Dakota Gordon ‘22 and Eleanor Kneisel ‘22, and Historian Sam Gielink ‘22.