FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY, Black Diamond Productions in San Marcos and Wimberley, April 26 - May 4

Meet Freckleface Strawberry!


The Black Diamond Cabaret Theatre Childrens’ Rep Ensemble proudly presents

Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical

directed and produced by Lee Colee’ Studios/Talent Agency

Opening at The Price Center in San Marcos on April 26th
and Wimberley's VFW Hall on May 4th.

Make plans to see the delightful family musical production about a little freckle faced girl who hates her freckles! All of her school friends tease her to her dismay and life is miserable being “different.” The lessons she learns from her rap happy school teacher, her loving mom, a lonely ballerina , a boy crazy school mate and her buddies on the playground eventually brings her to the realization that she is “perfect,” just as she is! And she is astonished that her friends have wanted to be like everyone else with their own insecurities and worries about imperfection.

Cast members are Genevieve Hodge as Freckleface Strawberry, Dylan Blunk as Danny, Samantha Sullivan as Emily, Revelle Dundon as Ballet Girl, Logan Dundon as Jake, Cassie Martin as Teacher, Isabelle Hodge as Mom, Dakota Fernandez as Fredo, Ian Crain as Harry, Hannah Mulestein as Francine and Hope-Caroline Behrhorst as Jane.

A high energy feel good show with memorable characters all played by children will touch your heart, charm you with its message and have you dancing out of the theatre at its conclusion! Written by actress Julianne Moore and based on her experiences as a child with red hair and freckles it was conceived for the stage by Rose Caiola. The libretto and lyrics were written by Gary Kupper.

The Childrens’ Rep Ensemble is a recent addition to the Black Diamond Cabaret Theatre and is available for booking at various venues such as birthday parties, fundraisers, church events, school assemblies and as special entertainment where ever children and families come together.

Genevieve Hodge, Isabelle Hodge (photo: Lee Colee Atnip)

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Anything Goes, Lee Colee's Broadway Bound Theatre Camp at Wimberley Playhouse, June 17 - 26

The 'Broadway Bound' theatre boot camps run in Wimberley each summer by Lee Colée have become so popular that for the just-completed production of Cole Porter's 1934 musical comedy Anything Goes, she was instructing and directing a cast of 39 young persons ranging in age from 8 to 18. The turnout was so strong that she took the initiative of organizing the players into different configurations for "odd" performance dates (with the older players in the principal roles) and for "even" performance dates (with the younger members taking the leads). I attended a performance of the "even" cast, which had an extraordinary feel, very similar to that of Alan Parker's Buggsy Malone, the 1976 film in which a star cast of children including Jodie Foster and Michael Jackson did a gangster musical.

Cole Porter put a gangster or two on board the cruise ship U.S.S. American, but they were harmless or inept. The story is straight out of the Depression-era dreams of glamor and glitter, as earnest and underpaid Billy seeks to court heiress Hope Harcourt, prying her from the surveillance of her mother and from the attentions of her stuffy English presumptive fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakleigh. Mix in a missionary bishop back from China with a trio of Chinese converts, assorted pretty girls, woman evangelist-turned-nightclub-singer Reno Sweeney, and a whole lot of white-clad sailors, and you can keep the decks full of silliness and celebration.

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