by Ziming Liu ’18<\/strong><\/p>\n The Department of Performing Arts at Sem presents three major events every year. After <\/span>Urinetown the Musical<\/span><\/i>\u00a0during the fall term and Winter Workshops during the winter, Sem players performed the annual spring play on the last weekend of April. This year\u2019s play included two evening shows on Friday (4\/27) and Saturday (4\/28) with a matinee on Sunday (4\/29). <\/span>The Mousetrap<\/span><\/i> by Agatha Christie, directed by Mrs. Ellen O\u2019Brien Sherry, was selected to be put on the stage of Buckingham Performing Arts Center. The stage play first opened in London\u2019s West End in 1952 and is currently still running, which makes it the longest continuously running play in the world. So far, the play has been performed for more than 27,000 times.<\/span><\/p>\n The newlyweds Giles (Portrayed by Levi Sunday-Lefkowitz \u201818) \u00a0and Mollie Ralston (Portrayed by Ellie Rosentel \u201818) open their guesthouse (Monkswell Manor) up for business for the first day while a disastrous snow storm hits on the English countryside on which they are located. They find themselves trapped with six distinctive guests, and one of them is a murderer. The classic murder mystery and comedy was brought alive by the cast of 8 Sem students. <\/span><\/p>\n Mrs. Sherry, in the process of deciding what this year\u2019s play was going to be, said that, \u201cAt some point, every actor will try his or her hand at an Agatha Christie character. As director of this year\u2019s spring show, I thought why not start them young and stage one of her murder mysteries?\u201d She also gave the audience the first clue before the opening night, \u201cSuspect everyone!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wyoming Seminary’s Spring Play by Ziming Liu ’18 The Department of Performing Arts at Sem presents three major events every year. After Urinetown the Musical\u00a0during the fall term and Winter Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}