By:
Jarrod Schoenecker, editor@montgomerymnnews.com
Thespians depicting roles of various fairytales were thrown into the pit this past weekend in Tri-City United High School’s spring play, “Dragon’s Lair.”
Four “Dragons,” representative of the Sharks on the popular television show “Shark Tank,” decided the fate of various fairytale characters and their ideas and products related to make them money. Those who didn’t make the cut were thrown into a pit with the Dragon.
The school opened up a section of the stage on the front orchestra pit and padded the top of the stair platform so their unfit fairytale entrepreneurs could be thrown into the pit!
Students also created some little...
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Big Bad Wolf Logan Schmitz (left) has a more friendly approach to his housed pig acquaintances — Lyla Krocak, Anna Devine, and Hayden Dietz — other than blowing their house down, such as wanting a cup of sugar.
Caden Wolfe, announcer, introduces the premise of the play at the opening of the first act of “Dragon’s Lair” at Tri-City United High School.
Cailyn Meadows (left) plays Little Red Riding Hood with a twist that Gingerbread Man Leo Ruiz explains to the Dragons in hopes of them buying into her idea rather than being thrown into the pit with the dragon!
Cailyn Meadows as Goldilocks in TCU’s spring play Dragon’s Lair
Acting as somewhat of an emcee to the show, Jaylin Kline, Gretel (left), and Maddox Budin, Hansel, provide segue throughout the show.