Our lovely Newville Elementary Cafetorium is known for its delicious lunches low number of ejector seats and wonderful stage plays We’ve done productions of The Wizard Is Odd the story of a girl from Kentucky who finds herself in a
magical land after spinning too quickly and Hello Doily the story of a matchmaker who pairs lonely people with the best yarn for making decorative doilies And who can forget Les Miserable a play about somebody named Les who serves food talks constantly and is just really miserable to be around I’m Gertie your guide Some kids love to be in the spotlight Others prefer to be behind the scenes but it takes a whole team to pull a production together This fall we were going to do Hamilton but whoa those scripts were pricey and the only version we could afford Hamiltonedeaf was just painful to
listen to So the school decided on the public domain classic Hansel and Gretel where nothing strange ever happens just like in the Cafetorium Today’s adventure stars shy Margot Delgado who never wanted to be in the spotlight But sometimes the Cafetorium has other ideas Margot never raised her hand Not to ask for help Not to answer a teacher’s question Not even to ask to go to the bathroom Margot had been at Newville Elementary for a whole month but the only time she had spoken was on
