As nice as it might be to be a character in a play, it isn’t easy. Sometimes things get off on the wrong foot right away. It’s never a good sign when your story starts off with a shipwreck. Sometimes you end up on some strange island with a twisted, old wizard. Opal is quite a bit more lucky than that. She gets shipwrecked and finds herself in an Oregon lumber camp. Granted, this isn’t a terribly comfortable place for an aristocratic girl who had been orphaned by the shipwreck, but at least she doesn’t have to deal with Caliban. And there’s singing. Music too.
Acacia Theatre brings the aristocrat’s story to life in the musical Opal this summer. Acacia brings the story to the spacious stage of Concordia University Wisconsin’s Todd Wehr Auditorium. Based on the writings of real-life Opal Whiteley, the musical was crafted for the stage by Robert Lindsey-Nassif. Opal adventures in and out of her imagination in a rugged landscape of Oregon in the early 20th century, transforming the lives of those around her including a blind girl, a shy lumberjack and her adoptive mother.
Acacia’s production of Opal runs July 10-19 at Concordia University Wisconsin. For more information, visitacaciatheatre.com.
