‘Spook House’ Opens This Week at Alden High School
Spook House has gained a lot of attention…for its impressive spooky set designs, stunning original costume work, a hilarious script and impressive technical elements.
The entire cast of Alden High School’s ‘Spook House’ including monsters, human characters, and dancers.
November 8, 2015
Alden High School is very excited this week to open the curtain on Spook House! Spook House is a hilarious “creepy comedy” written by Billy St. John about ten misunderstood monsters that all live in the same house, protected from the outside world. However, when Tax Assessor and descendant of the vampire slayer Abraham Van Helsing VI (Max Gucinski) and monster movie producer Monica Myers (Mallory Ronan) try to take their property away to build a movie studio, the monsters and direct descendant of Henry Frankenstein, Victoria Stein (Paige Rzepka) along with her boyfriend, Roger Davis (Carl Farrell), decide to throw a party in order to raise the money to save the house. Things get even more complicated when a bank robber, Bert (Dustyn Grunthaner), his “moll”, Molly (Hanna Kozma), and two cops, Officer Percy Dalton (Tim Hinsken) and Sergeant Martha Jones (Alex Burdett) get mixed up in the hullabaloo.
Spook House has gained a lot of attention on social media, in the halls at AHS, and in the community for its impressive spooky set designs, stunning original costume work, a hilarious script and impressive technical elements.
Mr. Matt Masci (Co-Director) has said that “this show isn’t well-known and we like that. It allows us to take this incredibly funny show and deliver the story to an audience who doesn’t have a preconceived idea of what it should be”.
Mr. Masci went on to say that Mrs. Amy Froebel (Costume Director) has worked tirelessly on creating monsters completely from scratch and that his good friend Bill Holdsworth (Special FX Makeup Volunteer) has worked with a student team to really take those characters to another level of professionalism.
Mr. Masci credited volunteer builder Tom Northem saying he “has truly outdone himself with this show” in bringing the creative set design vision to life and that it is one of the “most detailed sets we’ve ever created together”.
Mrs. Jill Farrell (Co-Director) has been working incredibly hard at staging this show and developing the monster characters while Mrs. Lori Gramza (Volunteer Choreographer) has been teaching them how to dance at their monster party.
Dress rehearsals have come to an end and the technical team and crew are putting on the final touches. This show boasts impressive technical elements under the guidance of Trevor Lezynski (Stage Manager), Alex Bielawa (Asst. Stage Manager), Emily Beres (Scenery Design Manager & Makeup) and Max Northem (Lead Technician) who have led Stage Crew to this incredible final result in the hope that the community will come out in strong numbers to support their performance.
Spook House opens Thursday at 7pm and will also be performed at Alden High School Friday November 13th at 7pm and Saturday November 14th at 2pm and 7pm. Tickets are $10 at the door for general admission and $8 for students and Senior Citizens. Doors will open 30 minutes before the performance and you won’t want to miss the new 5-minute warning pre-show! Check out the ‘Wilson R. Conrad Auditorium’ Facebook page for more information.
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Lexi Tredinnick • Nov 24, 2015 at 1:53 pm
The play Spook House was in my opinion was one of the best high school plays I’ve ever seen. The characters were great and it was really funny. Everyone I talked to who saw the play loved it and some even went multiple times to the shows. Great job to the cast and crew.
Zach Long • Nov 24, 2015 at 1:52 pm
This was a great play. Everyone was amazing in it. I think it was absolutely hilarious. The set looked amazing.
Jack Wittwer • Nov 23, 2015 at 12:55 pm
This year’s play in my opinion blew away last year’s in its wonderful acting and really funny storyline. The sets were also amazing in their detail and very realistic.
Blake Richardson • Nov 20, 2015 at 11:18 am
This years 2015 Spook House was amazing. This play was the most funniest play I have ever seen!, the cast did so well in this play! I also think the special effects were right on point!! I don’t think we will have a play as funny as this again!!
Ashley Jett • Nov 20, 2015 at 11:16 am
Spook house was awesome and hilarious from what I saw. I couldn’t stay for the whole thing,but I’m really happy that I got to be a part of some of it. No, I wasn’t on stage, I was with the A.V. club filming it for the DVDs (which you can still buy if you talk to Mrs. Blar or an A.V. member. They’re $7.00 each).
Gianna • Nov 20, 2015 at 11:13 am
This play looked great! The props, costumes and characters were amazing! The makeup that was done on some of the characters looked so good! All the time that was put into this getting prepared was great. Good job to the cast and crew.
Andrew Sigurdson • Nov 20, 2015 at 11:13 am
The special effects make-up was cool and it looked great on stage! I had a great time watching the show. I hope the same level of special effects are used in all shows for now on! Great job to everyone who worked so hard to put on such a great production!
Bradley Kibler • Nov 20, 2015 at 11:12 am
Spook House was a great production. I really enjoyed how enthusiastic everyone was about it and put in all of the effort they had into it. The crew did great with all of the affects including music and lighting too. The play was a great success and I can’t wait for the next one.
Blake Fox • Nov 20, 2015 at 11:11 am
I saw the spook house show. I thought it was funny when the boy friend looked at her relatives. I didn’t like the part when the tax people came out. I like mostly how the cast played their parts.
Raymond Boucher • Nov 20, 2015 at 11:11 am
This show was absolutely phenomenal. You could clearly tell everyone involved put a ton of time and effort into it. It definitely lived up to the hype and I’m extremely excited to see how the musical turns out now.
Meghan Nicosia • Nov 20, 2015 at 11:09 am
Wish I would have gone to see the show. I was going to go with a friend, but things came up. So I didn’t go, but I did hear that it was a great show. The preview was great, so I bet It was great to watch the whole show. Spook House went without a scare.
Mrs. Rutan • Nov 10, 2015 at 7:30 am
The preparation, time and effort that is going into Spook House is extraordinary! I love the behind the scenes time-lapse video on applying the make-up! Best of luck (break a leg) to the cast and crew who have worked so hard on this performance. I can’t wait to see it!