Marquette Theater Company (MTC) will be performing the play “Peter and the Starcatcher,” the origin story of Peter Pan and Neverland, this fall.
This is different from previous years because MTC typically performs a musical in the fall and a play in the spring. However, due to a variety of scheduling conflicts and changes, like moving finals before Winter Break, the play and the musical have swapped.
Rebecca Blindauer, MTC sponsor, said she isn’t sure if this change will remain in place for next year. However, she said this will be a positive change that would be good to keep.
“I think a musical generally requires a lot more from everyone just because there’s singing and dancing and acting and all of the pieces coming together,” Blindauer said. “It might be nice to not have to jump right into that at the beginning of the year.”
The play will run Thursday, Nov. 21, to Sunday, Nov. 24,
Carl Taraporevala, senior, has been a part of every MTC production since his freshman year. Taraporevala will be playing Peter in “Peter and the Starcatcher.”
Taraporevala said he hopes to bring the cast and crew together to create a better production for everyone involved.
“The help that I’ve gotten from the upperclassmen, I want to give that to the lowerclassmen as well as keep growing and keep doing better every production,” Taraporevala said.
Bennett Meier, freshman, was cast to play Teddy in “Peter and the Starcatcher.”
While this is his first production with MTC, Meier was a part of all of Selvidge Theater Company’s productions.
“I’m really excited for the set. I’m really excited to see how it turns out and how it’s different from middle school,” Meier said.