CHS Drama Club Production

CHS Drama Club presents Prom Night Fright on Friday, March 14th and Saturday, March 15th in the K-8 Gymnasium. The show starts at 7:00 with the doors opening at 6:30. Tickets are $11 for adults and $8 for students and senior citizens. They may also be purchased online, in person in the high school office, or at the door.

About the Show

By Craig Sodaro

The kids have decided to hold their prom at the Candlewick Inn, an abandoned resort recently bought by the class president's father. It's a great idea except for one thing - it's haunted by the ghosts of a gangster and his moll. Big Charlie Bigsby and Frankie have called the Candlewick home for sixty years. But now their heavenly caseworker has told them they have to move out. They need to help some mortals somehow in order to redeem themselves or "the Boss" isn't going to look favorably on them. 

Enter the prom committee with problems of its own. Julie, one of the more popular girls at school, has been receiving anonymous - but very romantic - notes from (she thinks) the class nerd, Stanley. And in spite of herself, she finds she's falling for the guy because of his honesty and sensitivity. But the notes are part of a nasty plot by Julie's rival, Veronica, who wants to get her old boyfriend, Dillon, back before the prom. To make matters worse, warnings begin turning up that suggest having the prom isn't such a good idea and that something terrible will happen at the prom. And these notes are decidedly human in origin. 

Frankie, the ghostly moll, helps inspire Stanley to pursue Julie, even if he hasn't written the notes. But then just when it seems Julie and Stanley's love might actually blossom, a love-starved janitor, jilted by the prom sponsor twenty years earlier, now wants to marry the teacher - even if it has to be at gunpoint. And that's easy enough since he's got a gun. Holding the entire prom hostage, the janitor is ruining everything. 

But, in steps Big Charlie. The fear of losing Frankie, who has already done her good deed, is enough to make him take care of the janitor and seal his own eternal fate.