Warren Consolidated School Of
Performing Arts

This season, WCSPA will break the mold and start the year with a Level 2,3,4 musical comedy that is certain to put our upper levels to the test that will see an eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box. Please join us as we open our season with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bea. Presented November 20th-22nd in the Jonathan Gillespie Studio Theatre.

Level One will first take the stage as they’ve always done for over 30 years. In early December they will carry on the time honored tradition at WCSPA of performing the words of the greatest playwright in the English Language. No other that William Shakespeare himself. For two consecutive nights the Jon Gillespie Theatre will echo with monologues, scenes and sonnets as we journey back 400 years to merry old England, for our annual Shakespeare Night on December 4th-5th.

In keeping with our season’s theme, for the first time in a generation, our students will stretch their abilities as well as their bodies as music fills the house of the PAC for our freshly conceived Dancin’ Fool: A WCSPA Dance Concert. With dance and choreography from staff and students, mixed with some killer costumes and incredible lighting effects, this will be show like nothing else this season.

In March, Level One will perform for the first time on the WCSPA mainstage. Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost – home of the most infamous villains who ever lived – the teenaged children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil have never ventured off the island… until now. When the four troublemakers are sent to attend prep school alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good? This musical will show us just how far the apple falls from the tree and if the old adage, “like father, like son” holds any weight at all. Now, this isn’t some Disney feel-good show, but this is a Disney show. Come see how far we fall, when Disney’s The Decendents lands on the stage of the Performing Arts Center on March 20th and 21st.

To close our season, WCSPA will take on one of the most memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time. Widely regarded as among the best scores ever written, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is transported to modern-day New York City as two young, idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs. Their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice is one of the most innovative, heart-wrenching and relevant musical dramas of our time: West Side Story. May 15th, 16th, and 17th, 2026.
So until we meet again, on behalf of the staff, we thank all of you for all you’ve done.

Please rest up and enjoy your summer, because we’ve got a huge year ahead of us.

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