on stage

PALS performers showcase their dance and drama skills in productions throughout the Boston area.

Our choristers have opportunities to perform in staged operas with organizations such as the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, and Cantata Singers. In February of 2009, 75 PALS children collaborated with the Cantata Singers to produce the Benjamin Britten opera Noyes Fludde. In February 2010, PALS 8th grader Aidan Gent played the lead role of “Miles” in the BLO production of Turn of the Screw.

November 5-16, members of PALS are performing in Boston Lyric Opera's production of Tosca. In spring 2011, we will collaborate with the BLO once again in Benjamin Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream, and with the Boston Early Music Festival in Niobe.

The PALS musical theater program has earned a reputation for excellence over the past 20 years. Each spring, PALS thrills audiences with two fully staged musicals. Last season, Junior PALS performed Richard Adler’s The Pajama Game and Senior PALS produced How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser.”

Over the last two decades, PALS has produced over forty musicals, including both original theater pieces and favorites such as The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Carousel, and 1776. Groups of PALS artists also participate in alternative productions such as operas, jazz cabarets, and straight plays.

In June 2009, Senior PALS produced a riveting minimalist production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. The forest literally came to life as a talented group of narrators doubled as expressive flora and fauna.

Our youngest singers brought down the house with their performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera The Golden Vanity, in which two ships vie for gold on the Lowland sea. PALS Prep opened the show with a vicious “Pirate Cabaret.”

Finally, an energetic ensemble from both Junior and Senior PALS presented a hilarious rendition of Mary Rodgers’ Once Upon A Mattress.