Three Lynn students to perform in Stoneham Theatre Summer Festival

STONEHAM – Three Lynn students will be taking the stage at Stoneham Theatre during the young company Summer Festival 2014. Stoneham Theatre’s young company offers year-round theatrical training and performance opportunities for students in grades 1-12.The Summer Festival is the culmination of five weeks of preparation by the students and their professional directors, music directors, choreographers, stage managers and design team. The young company Summer Festival includes six fully staged productions: Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr., Children of Eden and Xanadu run from Aug. 7-10, 2014 and are performed by students in grades 4-9. Monty Python’s Spamalot, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Mary Zimmerman’s Argonautika run from Aug. 14-17, 2014 and are performed by students in grades 10-12 and recent high school graduates.Shelby Geaney (Storyteller) and Angelina Ward Schorr (Storyteller) will appear in ?Children of Eden’. Inspired by the Genesis Stories, this joyful musical explores the fraught and funny relationships between parents and children and the patterns passed – intentionally or not – between generations.Molly Geaney (Calliope) will appear in Xanadu, a musical based on the popular movie where a magical Greek muse descends from the heavens of Mt. Olympus to 1980s Venice Beach, Calif., on a quest to inspire a struggling artist. But when they fall in love, her jealous sisters wreak havoc on the pair’s roller-disco dreams.