It takes a village— a village of 50 Frenchmen even— to assemble a production as massive as Disney’s Beauty & The Beast. And the little town— yes, that quiet village— with Belle, Gaston, all the enchanted objects? It’s set its sights on Small Town Stars Theatre Company and there it is! Disney’s Beauty & The Beast like you’ve never imagined it before, complete with flying shoes* and dancing peppermints all for young audiences,
Small Town Stars Theatre Company, based at the Carroll Arts Center of Westminster MD, skillfully and confidently walks a fine, fine line in its short but hilariously fun run of Avenue Q (Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx, music & lyrics; book by Jeff Whitty). STS’s production, under the direction of Sean Olsson, effortlessly navigates mature themes of sexuality, racism, internet pornography, all in the oeuvre of network children’s educational programming, complete with custom-made puppets the Jim Henson Company would be proud to associate with.
Why be one thing when you can be everything else? Not a Smart? Not a Brave? Not a Snake? Well, don’t worry, there’s still the Puffs! They’ll take you! They take everyone. They’re no one’s favorite house and they fail… a lot. But it’s okay. They’re Puffs. (HI!) Small Town Stars Theatre is getting its first show of the 2021 season underway in the new Panther Performing Arts Center (formerly North Carroll High School) this summer.