It’s been a while, but the Perryville Silver Daggers Club will make its long awaited return.
Perryville will host a production later this month when they perform its rendition of “Beauty and the Beast.”
The play will be performed from April 22-24 at the Perry Park Center at 7 p.m. each night. Saturday will also have a matinee at 2 p .m. Tickets are $10 each and can be bought at the Park Center from 5:30 p.m. to close each night the week of the show. They can also be bought at the door on the nights of the show, while supplies last.
The play will be the first major production with a full cast that the Perryville drama club will perform since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Play director Jennifer Birk-Cook said that the students recorded short films last year, which only had about five students each to encourage social distancing. She felt “Beauty and the Beast was a perfect fit for the current times.
“With the terrible year that everyone has had, I felt like we needed something magical,” Birk-Cook said. “I hope that this production will brighten everyone’s spirits.”
The Perryville drama club normally has a bigger cast and Birk-Cook believes that may come in handy for this production. She has double cast some of the major roles in the play to preserve that the show goes on. Maddy Green and Delainy Napier both learned the part of Belle, while Sam Camarillo and Will Pfaff have learned the lines of Gaston. Cogsworth, Lumiere, Babette, and Mrs. Potts, and wardrobe also have been double cast
“We do that if we have a large group of kids and not enough parts, but the main reason I did it this year was because of the virus and in case some of the kids had to go into quarantine we wouldn’t lose the whole show.”
