All-State Play Produced at Maine West
Illinois state play preparations take place at Maine West.
Most Illinois high school students spent Labor Day weekend outside of school, but 71 theater students and musicians from across the state drilled, painted, sang, danced and played instruments at Maine West High School. The students were preparing for the 2011 Illinois All-State Play, which will run Jan. 6 - 8 as a part of the Illinois High School Theatre Festival at the University of Illinois. Maine West is the host of all five of the three-day rehearsals. The scheduled performance of Into the Woods, a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, has generated all the activity and sacrifice. The festival, first held in 1976, is the largest of its kind, a non-competitive high school theater festival attracting more than 4,000 students…
