Spring 2020 Musical
May 29-31*
Director: Lindsey Campbell
Music Director: Amy Coates
Choreographer: Eliana Reece
Stage Manager: Melissa Weaver
*This musical was originally the LISD Tour Musical for Spring 2020, with April 10-12 in-house performance dates. Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the tour was cancelled and the in-house show was rescheduled. Significant changes were made to usual show protocol to ensure that the “show could go on”, which included re-casting several roles, performers wearing masks on-stage, and live-streaming performances to audiences for the first time in ACT history.
Cast
About the Show
Everybody loves the international bestseller and award-winning book, The Rainbow Fish, with its wonderful message of friendship and belonging. Now the magical, colorful world of the deep blue sea will be brought to life on stage! This large-cast musical features a variety of charming school and sea-creature characters who admire the famous Rainbow Fish, the most beautiful fish in all the ocean. When Rainbow Fish refuses to share his (or her!) vibrant, shimmering scales (played by separate actors who become a chorus for solo songs), the whole ocean seems to turn against the vain creature. Unhappy that no one adores him anymore, the Rainbow Fish seeks out the wise Octopus. Octopus helps the young fish learn that it’s far better to be admired for being kind than for being beautiful.
With a bubbly, energetic score and a script that invites wonderful creativity and flexibility, the universal message at the heart of this one-of-a-kind musical becomes much more than just a simple children’s story.
Book, music and lyrics by Austin Zumbro. Adapted from the book by Marcus Pfister, Translated into English by J. Alison James, with illustrations by Marcus Pfister. Published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.