Welcome to second night of "Reach for the Stars", the Fall 2024 Mainstage 1 production!

featuring

• • CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE EDUCATIONAL KIND
  • U-F-RUH ROH 
  • NOTOPIA 

Synopsis:

Close Encounters of the Educational Kind
It’s not just another day at school! All the students have so much homework to do to keep up with their studies.  Thankfully, they are watched over by the Goddesses and Gods of Education as well as some trickster aliens and everyone has their ideas of how to help the students out.  The Education deities want to come down to earth and do the students’ homework for them–that way they know everything will be correct and all the students will get an A+.  The aliens, on the other hand, want to lead the students in a revolt to take over the school!  It’s all up to the students to decide their own fate.  Whose idea will win out?

U-F-Ruh Roh
On the planet Doggo dogs run everything. Today it is The Pet Gala and the who’s who of Doggo will be walking the Grass Carpet to celebrate The Crystal Treat. ThePaw-parazzi is all set up to take photos, when oh no! A UFO crash lands on the Grass Carpet. A group of astronauts has come to steal The Crystal Treat to power their UFO. The astronauts don’t care about beauty standards - they just want to get home.

Notopia
Notopia is NOT Utopia! The gnomes are always angry and the sprites are always happy, and neither group can feel any other emotions. The wizards and the knights rule the land, controlling the emotions of the sprites and gnomes by giving them magic water. By removing the ability to feel suspicion, curiosity, and desire, the wizards and knights can oppress the gnome and sprites forever! When BRÜ, the gnome, invents an ICone (Iphone of the woods), secrets become revealed, and the gnomes and sprites find a path forward to get their emotions back!