LIVE ON STAGE: James and the Giant Peach

Name: LIVE ON STAGE: James and the Giant Peach
Start: 2025-04-11T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-11T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 1821 NW 21st Ave, Ocala, FL 34475-4868, United States

Schedule

Fri Apr 11 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1821 NW 21st Ave, Ocala, FL 34475-4868, United States | Ocala, FL

Everything's peachy this spring! The Academy at Ocala Civic Theatre's youth production of JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH comes alive from April 11-13.
A narrator (Alex Barlow) tells the tale of young James Trotter (Leif Bouker), who is left an orphan after his mother (Jordyn Tingler) and father (Grace Taylor) are swallowed by an escaped rhinoceros. Poor James has a sad and unhappy life with his two cruel aunts, Aunt Sponge (Liam Ortiz) and Aunt Spiker (Leighton Lightbody) – until a Little Old Man (Summer Pineau) gives him a bag of magical “little green things.” But when James accidentally drops the bag in his yard, the magic gets into the roots of an old tree – and suddenly, a peach on it starts growing bigger and bigger, until it’s big enough for James to climb inside.
Inside the giant peach, James discovers a quirky gang of insects: the Old Green Grasshopper (Cadence Czarny), the Centipede (Caeryn Golden), the Spider (Layla Torres Perez), the Ladybug (River Head), the Earthworm (Thomas Hill), and the Glow-Worm (Kinsley Bowman). The peach falls off the tree and rolls into the ocean, where it begins a journey of delicious dangers and delights as James and his new friends set sail from England on an amazing adventure. Aided by seagulls, the magical peach takes flight and is sighted by the crew of a ship – the captain (Amelia Edsall), the first officer (Grace Otero), and the second officer (Yovanni Borrego) – who think they surely must be dreaming. But it’s no dream when James and friends fly through the clouds and find themselves across the Atlantic – in New York City!
Richard R. George’s creative dramatization of the beloved tale by Roald Dahl is full of fantasy, whimsical imagination, and colorful characters. Come take a bite!
There will be three public performances at the Mary Sue Rich Community Center at Reed Place (1821 NW 21st Avenue):
• Friday, April 11 at 7 p.m.
• Saturday, April 12 at 7 p.m.
• Sunday, April 13 at 2 p.m.
The show is directed by Dani Moreno-Fuentes and performed by a cast of students ages 11-17. Stage manager is Cheyenne Dever. Junior stage manager is Collin Blakley. Set designer is Nikki Bonfiglio. Costume designer is Stephen Menard. Lighting designer is Cheyenne Dever. Sound designer is Jazmine Whipple.
Tickets are on sale now at $18 for adults and $12 for ages 18 and younger. The show is rated G. Run time is one hour, no intermission.
SPONSORED BY: ACT 4 - Ocala Civic Theatre