‘The Little Prince’ comes to St. Charles East Feb. 2-4
St. Charles East High School theater department is putting on “The Little Prince” this weekend. The musical by composer Rick Cummins and playwright/lyricist John Scoullar is based on the classic book by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Performances will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2; 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, at the Norris Cultural Arts Center, 1040 Dunham Road in St. Charles.
“The Little Prince” may have returned to his own tiny planet to tend his Rose and look after his Sheep, but for a short enchanted time he returns to us and comes alive on stage.
This play tells the story of a world-weary and disenchanted Aviator whose sputtering plane strands him in the Sahara Desert, and a mysterious, regal “little man” who appears and asks him to “Please, sir, draw me a sheep.”
During their two weeks together in the desert, the Little Prince tells the Aviator about his adventures through the galaxy, how he met the Lamplighter and the Businessman and the Geographer, and about his strained relationship with a very special flower on his own tiny planet.
“The Little Prince” talks to everyone he meets: a garden of roses, the Snake and a Fox who wishes to be tamed. From each he gains a unique insight which he shares with the Aviator: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.” “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
At length, both the little man and the Aviator must go home — each with a new understanding of how to laugh, cry and love again.
Tickets are $7, $5 for students, or free for senior citizens.
Tickets are sold at the door or online at trst.in/2HYfR6. The box office opens one hour prior to showtime.
It is produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois.