Write a commentThe Oswego Children's Theater will be hosting a chicken BBQ as a fundraiser to support their upcoming production of “A Thousand Cranes”.
The BBQ will take place on Saturday March 16, at Lighthouse Lanes, in Oswego., with dinners costing $12. for ½ a chicken along with beans , salt potatoes, and a dessert.
The proceeds of the BBQ will be used to aid the teen ensemble of the Oswego Children's Theater as they travel to the Auburn campus of Cayuga Community College to participate in the Micheal J. Harms Youth Theater Festival by presenting the one act drama for adjudication.
Oswego Children's Theater has participated in the festival for several years winning many awards along the way.
This Years production, “A Thousand Cranes”, by Katheryn Schultz Miller, tells the story of Sadako Saski a 12 year old Japanese Girl who after surviving the atomic bomb dropped at Hiroshima, finds she has radiation sickness, several years after the event.
The cast of five includes Sydney Osbourne, as Sadako, Lannie Osbourne, as Kenji, Alexa Bell, as Mother, Scott Swindells-Lepage, as Father, and Carolynne Benedetto, as Grandmother.
The show will utilize various Japanese styles in the production including traditional Kabuki theater and Noh drama techniques.
The production is directed by Lyndsie Lee Jones assisted by Kelly and Wayne Mosher, and is presented by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing,
The show will be presented locally in late March at the Mc Crobie Building in Oswego and April; 6th at the Micheal J. Harms Theater Festival held at the Auburn campus of Cayuga Community College.
For more information concerning the BBQ or the show call 315-342 5265
