---

The Riverhead Middle School Middle Masques Drama Club was proud to present its winter musical production:

....................[ See Photos ]....................    View  Program Booklet

 .......... View Riverhead Local Photos ..........

If you know of anything of interest for Riverhead, please contact:
Peter Blasl // 631-678-7803
or
John Neely // 631-288-5865

Beauty and the Beast

Held at the Riverhead Middle School Cafetorium at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 21st and Friday, January 22nd.  A special community matinee performance was scheduled for Saturday, January 23rd at 2:00 p.m.

     The musical production featured the talents of over 50 student actors, singers, dancers, musicians, and crew members.  The show is wonderfully entertaining and rich in important themes for people of all ages. 

Tickets were available in advance for $6.00 or $8.00 at the door.  For additional information of future shows, please contact Mrs. Skura or Mr. Tholl at (631) 369-6767.

---

BLUE MASQUES - Riverhead High School Blue Masques presents "All I Really Need to Know I Learned By Being in a Bad Play" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream or the Night They Missed the Forest for the Trees," Dec. 11,12 @ 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 13, 1 p.m. in the school's Charles Cardona Auditorium.   Advance $6; at door $8; seniors $6.    Ph#: 631-369-6750.

---

                     Story Plot    courtesy - Wikipedia

The story starts in 1815, in Toulon. The peasant Jean Valjean has just been released from imprisonment in the Bagne of Toulon after nineteen years: five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family, and fourteen more for numerous escape attempts. Upon being released, he is required to carry a yellow passport that marks him as a convict, despite having already paid his debt to society by serving his time in jail. Rejected by innkeepers, who do not want to take in a convict, Valjean sleeps on the street. This makes him even more angry and bitter. However, the benevolent Bishop Myriel, the Bishop of Digne, takes him in and gives him shelter. In the middle of the night, he steals the bishop’s silverware and runs. He is caught, but the bishop rescues him by claiming that the silverware was a gift and at that point gives him his two silver candlesticks as well, chastising him to the police for leaving in such a rush that he forgot these most valuable pieces. The bishop then "reminds" him of the promise, which Valjean has no recollection of making, to use the silver to make an honest man of himself. As Valjean broods over these words, he steals a child's silver coin purely out of habit. He chases the boy away (Petit Gervais) but soon after, he realizes what he has done^{[dubious – discuss]}, and decides to follow the bishop's advice. He searches the city for the child whose money he accidentally stole. At the same time, his theft is reported to the authorities, who now look for him as a repeat offender. If Valjean is caught, he will be forced to spend the rest of his life in prison, so he hides from the police.

Six years later, Valjean, having assumed the pseudonym Monsieur Madeleine to avoid capture, has become a wealthy factory owner and is appointed mayor of his adopted town of Montreuil-sur-Mer. While walking down the street one day, he sees a man named Fauchelevent pinned down under his cart, caught by the wheels. When no one volunteers to lift the cart, he decides to rescue Fauchelevent himself. He crawls underneath the cart and manages to lift it, freeing him. The town's police inspector Javert, who was an adjutant guard at the Bagne of Toulon during Valjean's imprisonment, becomes suspicious of the mayor after witnessing his heroics. He knows the ex-convict Jean Valjean is also capable of such strength.

.....and the story continues.  Visit Wikipedia for more information. click here

             
Fall, 2008 Blue Masques Musical: Pippin 

Spring, 2009 Blue Masques Musical: Les Miserables

Learn More

Our students had only 2 + months to rehearse Les Miserables.  Job well done and your Riverhead Community supports you.