Stage 1: A blog about a brand new musical

Hi, I’m David Payton, the Executive Director of Kaleidoscope Theatre. I have recently finished creating a new musical based upon the novel, 'Friends Are Thicker Than Water', written by my brother, Donald Payton. Both the book and the play are about high school life at Saint Raphael Academy, Pawtucket, RI during the year,1955, when Don was Vice President of his class and Captain of the football team which was undefeated, untied and unscored upon. In addition, Don's main character, Mike Ryan and Mike's best friend, Ralph McGreavey, have real life mis-adventures that lend themselves perfectly to the very recognizable main characters in "SAINTS the Musical". 

Kaleidoscope Theatre has provided time to me to spend the last two years creating this musical comedy based upon RI experiences such as caddying at the Pawtucket Country Club, visits to Narragansett Beach, the ever popular Variety Show; which was presented at Saints each and every year, the annual Thanksgiving Football game and many, more hilarious moments of youth and nostalgia during the Fabulous Fifties. The musical, which had a read thru last December, is now set to go into its second phase of development, a Reader’s Theatre presentation at Saint Raphael Academy in June of 2015.

We have assembled an amazing group of extremely talented professionals. Co-Directors; Sandy Cerel and Anne Colannino, Musical Director; Lila Kane, Internationally Acclaimed Choreographer; William Evans, Set/Llghting Design and Saint Raphael Alum; Rob Ferland and Sound Engineer; Adam Ramsey will team up to bring to life all the adventures, hopes and dreams of teens in the 1950’s!

Auditions are March 28^th and 29^th at Saint Raphael Academy. For audition information please call (401) 942-3637.  I will continue to write this blog, sharing the exciting adventure we are about to embark upon and in my next entry I will let you know how the audition went!  Stay tuned….