By: Jacob Kessler
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
jacob@thevillagereporter.com
The Joy Musical Theatre presented “The Sound of Music” this past weekend. The musical event took place on Thursday, March 14th and Friday, March 15th at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, March 16th at 2:00 p.m., with the performances taking place at the Christ Community Church in Ridgeville. With seating for 500, some of the nights were still sold out.
The Joy Musical Theatre is part of the local Homeschool Co-op. Musical cast members are made up of homeschooled students from the local area.
Productions have been growing year over year for each of their last seven productions. The co-op itself has been around for over 30 years now.
The group’s first musical back in 2016 was Seussical Jr. Productions were scaled back completely for COVID, with productions following that being non-full-sized productions.
This is the first full-sized production since COVID. Auditions began back in August of 2023, with students then meeting every Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. since then.
For this year’s show, 35 students made up the cast, with additional students making up the set crew.
Each of these students put in a tremendous amount of work for this musical and it showed. Set props and design were absolutely wonderful and the singing and acting were fantastic.
In many ways, it was as though the show was being put on by a much larger institution. Congratulations to each and everyone involved in this year’s musical.
