Dear St. Lukers,
If you haven’t walked into Founder’s Hall this week, you might want to find a reason just to peek in...because you might not recognize it! You would think we’d all be used to these transformations, but each time I am more amazed at the worlds our Scenic Team and Theatre at St. Luke’s creates within our walls.
And this world is one that, while it doesn’t look like Founder’s Hall – it looks awfully familiar. We see a motel, an I-4 overpass, billboards, theme parks, fireworks. And within it, a story that was written over 200 years ago, but somehow drops right into our own backyard almost too perfectly.
Almost too perfectly, because it shows children in poverty, children who are homeless, children who are neglected and abused. The Victorian reality, and unfortunately, our reality as well. It is why we’ve chosen to share this year’s summer musical, Oliver!, the classic Dickens story of a child who is the victim of systems of poverty and oppression in his time, through a modern lens, to highlight the Oliver Twists all around us here in modern-day Central Florida.
I hope you already have your tickets – if not, you can get them by clicking here – so you can support our cast, and go deeper with our vision of Restoring Hope, ending childhood hunger and homelessness in Central Florida, on stage and off. Trust me, this isn’t your grandparents’ production of Oliver! It will...
